Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems inventions 09/08

20080231765 - Electro-optical device: The disclosure is directed to an electro-optical device. In one example, a plurality of pixels each has a pixel pitch and a light transmissible region. A light shielding unit is configured to restrict the light transmissible region of each of the pixels to a region a size of 1/M (M... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080231766 - Projector: A projector includes: an optical modulator including a liquid crystal cell, a first optical element formed of an optical material having positive uniaxiality, a second optical element formed of an optical material having positive uniaxiality, a third optical element that includes at least one optical film formed of an optical... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080231767 - Cell type parallax-barrier and stereoscopic image display apparatus using the same: The present invention discloses a parallax-barrier comprising a Liquid-Crystal layer (LC layer) including pixels arranged in cell type matrix structure to form a barrier of horizontal or vertical direction according to a predetermined control method, a controller for controlling said pixels of said LC layer in order to form a... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080231768 - Photoelectric sensor, information recording method, and information recording system: The present invention relates to an information recording system comprising an information recording medium and a photoelectric sensor capable of recording light information on the information recording medium in the form of visible information or electrostatic information, and to an information recording method wherein light information is recorded on an... Agent: Morgan And Finnegan 345 Park Avenue

20080231769 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of first and second pixel cells supplied with data of the opposite polarities to display a picture, and... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080231770 - Liquid crystal display: A thin film transistor array substrate including an insulating substrate, a first metallic pattern formed on the insulating substrate, and an insulating film provided on the first metallic pattern. A semiconductor pattern is provided on the insulating film, and a second metallic pattern is provided on the semiconductor pattern. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080231771 - Light-emitting diode and method for manufacturing the same: An LED which includes a substrate, at least one light-emitting element mounted on, and electrically connected to, the substrate, and a sealing member mounted to the substrate so as to seal the light-emitting element. The sealing member contains an inorganic material having a high contrast ratio and a high reflectivity... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080231772 - Flat panel display and fabrication method thereof: A flat panel display is provided. The flat panel includes at least one light emitting device having a light emitting semiconductor device and a lens. The lens includes two reflective surfaces which are disposed at both sides with respect to a central axis of the lens. Refractive surfaces connect with... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080231773 - Surface light source which selectively irradiates two linearly polarized light beams in polarized states different from each other and liquid crystal display apparatus using the same: A surface light source includes a light source which selectively irradiates two polarized light beams in polarized states different from each other, a light guide plate which includes a transparent plate having two plate surfaces facing each other and end faces surrounding the plate surfaces, and irradiates the two polarized... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080231774 - Lighting device and display device provided with the same: To provide a flat lighting device used for a liquid crystal display device and the like that can be made thin and lightweight and produced at low cost, the lighting device of the present invention includes a plurality of surface light emitting plates which are two-dimensionally arranged. Each of the... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq. Adams & Wilks

20080231775 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device capable of reducing a time delay in lighting of the liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, at least one fluorescent lamps disposed below the liquid crystal panel, formed as a cylindrical shape having a central axis and supplying light to the liquid... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080231776 - Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display having the same: A backlight assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed adjacent to the first substrate and electrically connected to the first substrate, one or more light sources respectively disposed on the first and second substrates, a power-supply unit that is electrically connected to the first... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080231778 - Color filter and black matrix thereof: A color filter and a black matrix thereof are provided. The black matrix disposed on the substrate comprises a frame that defines a pixel area for accommodating color filter inks when performing the ink-jet process, and a spacer disposed in each of the pixels for preventing inks from overflowing to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080231779 - Display substrate and display apparatus having the same: A display substrate includes a pixel layer, a color filter layer and a pixel electrode. The pixel layer includes a first storage electrode, a second storage electrode and a third storage electrode respectively associated with a red pixel, a green pixel and a blue pixel. At least one of the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080231777 - Liquid crystal apparatus, color filter substrate, and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal apparatus includes a pair of substrates. The pair of substrates includes a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, and a two-dimensional array of pixel regions each including a transmissive display region and a reflective display region, the transmissive display regions of different pixel regions having areas different from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080231780 - Low-absorptive diffuser sheet and film stacks for direct-lit backlighting: There is provided an optical plate. The optical plate includes a supporting substrate and an optical diffuser film. The optical diffuser film has a density of light scattering particles to provide light diffusion. The optical diffuser film has a surface facing the supporting substrate, wherein a first portion of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080231781 - Transflective liquid crystal display: A transflective display includes pixels each including a first electrode, a second electrode, a liquid crystal layer associated with the first and second electrodes, and a conductive reflective layer between the liquid crystal layer and the second electrode to reflect ambient light. The conductive reflective layer is insulated from the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080231782 - Pixel structure and manufacturing method thereof: A pixel structure disposed on a substrate includes a gate, a patterned dielectric layer, a patterned semiconductor layer, a patterned metal layer, an overcoat layer and a transparent pixel electrode. The patterned dielectric layer and the gate covered thereby are disposed on the substrate. The patterned semiconductor layer on the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080231783 - Reflective-transmissive type liquid crystal display device and method for fabricating the same: A reflective-transmissive type liquid crystal display device and a method for fabricating the reflective-transmissive type liquid crystal display device are provided. The reflective-transmissive type liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode having a transparent electrode for displaying information in a dark place where light is insufficiently provided, a reflective... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080231784 - Liquid-crystal display device: A liquid-crystal display device comprising a liquid-crystal cell with plural domains and a transparent film comprising at least two domains that differ in in-plane retardation (Re) and/or thickness-direction retardation (Rth) for a visible light wavelength λ nm is disclosed. The domains of the transparent film and the domains of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080231785 - Liquid crystal alignment film composition, liquid crystal device and display apparatus: wherein L represents —O— or —S—, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 may be identical or different and represent a hydrocarbon group having four or more carbon atoms, R6 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having four or more carbon atoms, R7 represents —SiR8R9R10 or —P(═O)(OH)2, and R8, R9 and R10... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080231786 - Method of fabricating alignment layer for liquid crystal display device: A method of fabricating an alignment layer for a liquid crystal display device includes forming an alignment material layer on a substrate by coating an alignment material, irradiating UV rays onto the alignment material layer and pre-baking the alignment material layer; and post-baking the alignment material layer.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080231787 - Liquid crystal device: An object of the invention is to provide a liquid crystal device that uses a smectic liquid crystal and that can produce a uniform display. The liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates, a smectic liquid crystal provided between the pair of substrates, an injection hole for injecting therethrough... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080231788 - Liquid crystal optical modulation element and optical head device:

20080231789 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes an electro-optical panel including a first substrate and a second substrate which interpose an electro-optical material therebetween, a transparent conductive film disposed on an outer surface of the first substrate or the second substrate, and a base member having an electrode electrically connected to the transparent... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080231790 - Active matrix type display device: An active matrix type display device is disclosed, to reduce a fabrication cost, which comprises first to third gate lines arranged at one direction; first and second data lines arranged orthogonally to the first to third gate lines; a first pixel cell connected to the first gate line and the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080231791 - Touch panel: The material utilization efficiency of FPC's is improved, to provide a low cost touch panel. A touch panel 100 is constituted by: a rectangular transparent panel 104; and a plurality of light emitting elements 8a and a plurality of light receiving elements 8b provided at the peripheral portions of the... Agent: Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080231792 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device has a pair of substrates disposed in opposition to one another with a liquid crystal interposed therebetween, active elements formed on one of the pair of substrates, an organic film layer formed to cover the active elements, a light-shielding film formed on another of the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080231793 - Methods for manufacturing polarizers, polarizing plates and laminated optical films, and polarizers, polarizing plates, laminated optical films, and image displays: A method for manufacturing a polarizer of the invention, wherein the polarizer comprises a film that comprises: a matrix made of an optically-transparent resin containing a dichroic absorbing material; and minute domains that are made of an energy ray-curable birefringent material having liquid crystalline properties and are aligned and dispersed... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080225187 - Polarization switching liquid crystal element and image display apparatus having the same: The present invention provides a polarization switching liquid crystal element 1 having TN liquid crystal 7 retained between two transparent substrates 2a and 2b for transmitting at least visible polarized light with the polarized light transmission axis selectively rotated by 90 degrees when a voltage is selectively applied to the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080225188 - Liquid crystal projector, and liquid crystal panel and liquid cooling apparatus thereof: A liquid crystal projector, a liquid crystal panel, and a liquid cooling apparatus, for obtaining a picture without disturbance due to a liquid coolant passing through a transparent surface of the liquid crystal panel, with achieving cooling effectively with an aid of a liquid cooling cycle, wherein lights from a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080225189 - Transflective liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display panel module: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a first pixel of an LCD panel is driven via a first scan line to a first pixel voltage during a first scan period and to a second pixel voltage during a second scan period. Also, a second pixel is driven... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080225190 - Semiconductor structure and fabricating method thereof for liquid crystal display device: A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure with a multi-layer storage capacitor is provided. A substrate having an active element area and a storage capacitor area is provided. By sequentially fabricating a semiconductor layer, a first inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer, a gate and a first electrode, a source and a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080225191 - Display device: A display device which can reduce easily the brightness unevenness produced by the insufficient writing of TFT, wherein, the display device having: a display panel which, over a surface of an insulating substrate, includes plural scanning signal lines; plural picture signal lines; plural TFTs; plural pixel electrodes coupled to sources... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080225192 - Pixel structure of lcd and fabrication method thereof: Five photomasks are used in fabricating the pixel structure of an LCD. In this pixel structure, a metal light-shielding layer is formed under the thin film transistor to reduce photocurrent. Furthermore, a metal conductive wire is used to increase the storage capacity of the storage capacitor.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080225193 - Electro-optical device, method for manufacturing electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: A method for manufacturing an electro-optical device including an element substrate which includes a plurality of pixels including pixel electrodes and which is connected to a circuit board includes providing a UV-curable molding member on the element substrate such that the molding member extends from the element substrate to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225195 - Display device and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention allows decreasing the uneven image quality in a liquid crystal display device. The display device in accordance with the present invention includes plural scan signal lines, plural video signal lines, plural TFTs placed in a matrix structure, and plural pixel electrodes, when the width of the scan... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080225194 - Liquid crystal device: A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposite each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, wherein the first substrate includes a signal line, a switching element electrically connected to the signal line, a first electrode electrically connected to the switching element, a wiring... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080225196 - Liquid crystal display device and method for fabricating the same: A liquid crystal display device and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of gate lines and data lines defining pixel regions on a substrate, thin-film transistors formed at intersections of the gate lines and the data lines, pixel electrodes formed... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080225197 - Backlight device and display apparatus: A backlight device includes a light source; supporting means having four edges arranged in a frame-like manner; at least one optical sheet supported by the supporting means and allowing light emitted from the light source to pass therethrough and be incident on a back surface of a liquid crystal panel,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080225198 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a liquid crystal display panel, and a backlight arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight includes a plurality of rod-shaped light sources, electrode fittings for holding the rod-shaped light sources, and side wall plates... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080225199 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel, a frame, an elastic spacer arranged on a peripheral portion of the display panel in parallel to the edge of the display panel, the elastic spacer being arranged between the display panel and the frame. A hardness of the elastic spacer varies along... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080225200 - Optical member, surface light unit, and liquid crystal display: An optical member that will be incorporated in a surface light source unit and that is scarcely deformed while it is used as a component of the surface light source unit. The optical member comprises optical sheets layered on each other. The optical sheets at least includes: an outermost optical... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080225201 - Surface emitting device, liquid crystal display, and optical sheet combination: A surface emitting device includes a light emitter, a polarizer having a transmission axis along which light emerging from the light emitter is transmitted, and an optical sheet combination disposed between the light emitter and the polarizer and composed of a plurality of optical sheets. Each of the plurality of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080225202 - Optical sheet and liquid crystal display device having the same: Disclosed is an optical sheet and an LCD device comprising the optical sheet. The optical sheet comprises a base film; and a prism part disposed on one surface of the base film, and comprising a plurality of peaks and a plurality of valleys; wherein the prism part comprises a plurality... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225203 - Backlight unit and liquid crystal display module including the same: A backlight unit comprises a reflecting plate, a light guide plate disposed over the reflecting plate, and a plurality of optic films disposed over the light guide plate. The backlight unit further comprises a lamp horizontally spaced apart from the light guide plate, and a reflecting film corresponding to an... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080225205 - Display with focussed illumination: A liquid crystal display with focused illumination is described. In an example, a light-source emitting a plurality of discrete colors is focused onto a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of pixels and each pixel has regions corresponding to the colors emitted by the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080225204 - Liquid crystal display module: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display module which can prevent the generation of display irregularities. The liquid crystal display module includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight device arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight device is constituted of a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080225206 - Display: A display by an active matrix drive in which plural pixels are controlled independently from one another, wherein each of the pixels includes at least two sub-pixels, the sub-pixels emit light of the same color as each other by application of current, and one sub-pixel of the sub-pixels has a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225207 - Optical sheet and liquid crystal display using the same: An embodiment of this document relates to an optical sheet and a liquid crystal display using the same. An optical sheet in accordance with an aspect of this document may comprise a base film, and a plurality of projections including at least one of lenticular lens or micro lens, positioned... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225209 - Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a liquid crystal device, including: which makes it possible to dispose a spacer for setting a distance between substrates, to prevent deterioration of display quality by eliminating thickness non-uniformity of an alignment layer due to the presence of a retardation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080225211 - Liquid crystal display device: The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a vertically aligned liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrate. The device has a plurality of pixels each including a first electrode formed on the first substrate, a second electrode... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080225210 - Optical compensation film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device: An optical compensation film including: a support; an alignment film layer including a polymer having a radical polymerizable group; and an optical anisotropic layer including a liquid crystal compound, laminated in this order, wherein a content of a polymerization initiator capable of reacting with the radical polymerizable group and/or a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080225208 - Display device: A pair of polarizers having different polarization efficiencies is employed for a display device. With such a pair of polarizers, the brightness may increase without deteriorating the contrast.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080225213 - Color filters of liquid crystal display and method for fabricating the same: A liquid crystal display includes: a color filter substrate; and a plurality of pixels formed in a matrix form on the color filter substrate, each pixel including a first red sub-pixel, a first green sub-pixel, a first blue sub-pixel, a pair of second red sub-pixel and third green sub-pixel, a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080225212 - Pixel designs for multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display: An MVA display includes a plurality of repeats between a first substrate and a second substrate, each of which includes at least one full color pixel, and a drive circuit for driving the plurality of repeats. Each full color pixel includes at least one color dot for each of red,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080225214 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and fabrication method for liquid crystal display apparatus: A difference in brightness between a portion, at which fiber overlaps, and any other portion of a plastic substrate in which a fiber cloth is contained is eliminated by setting the axis of the fiber and the optical axis of a polarizing plate so as to be coaxial with each... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080225215 - Display device and method of manufacturing the same: A display device and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed, to prevent a parasitic capacitance caused by a metal substrate. The display device comprises a metal substrate including a pixel array provided with a plurality of storage lines to supply a storage voltage, and a supplying line connected... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080225216 - Active matrix circuit substrate and display device: An active matrix circuit substrate includes: a substrate having an avoidance portion provided in a predetermined region; a plurality of pixel electrodes provided on the substrate; a driving circuit that is provided on the substrate and drives the a plurality of pixel electrodes; a plurality of wiring lines which are... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225217 - Electric field driving device and electronic apparatus: An electric field driving device, in which a plurality of pixels, each of which is formed of two or more sub-pixels that respectively correspond to different colors from one another, are arranged in a matrix in a pixel region on a substrate, includes pixel electrodes, a common electrode, an insulating... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080225218 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving thereof: The liquid crystal display device includes a first insulation substrate, a gate line which is disposed on the first insulation substrate and extends substantially in a first direction, first and second data lines which are insulated from the gate line, extend substantially in a second direction and intersect the gate... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080225219 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device that is used in a small portable device includes a driver circuit which is freely mounted because the mounting area is small. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element and the liquid crystal driver circuit. The liquid crystal driver circuit is... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080225220 - Liquid crystal display and manufacturing method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a terminal substrate, an opposed substrate, a seal member and a protective wall. The terminal substrate includes: a display area which displays an image, a terminal which inputs an external signal to a wiring in the display area, and a connection conductor which electrically connects... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225221 - Liquid crystal display panel: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel which exhibits excellent durability by protecting portions of a substrate which are liable to be most easily cracked or chipped. In a liquid crystal display panel arranging a sealing material between a TFT substrate and a CF substrate, and holding a... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080225222 - Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device forms a seal pattern having a liquid crystal inlet seal pattern across a cutting-plane line above a mother substrate where a plurality of panels are arranged in matrix with the cutting-plane line interposed therebetween, and cuts the mother substrate at the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225223 - Liquid crystal display device: There is provided a liquid crystal display device in which light leaks near spacers are prevented. The liquid crystal display device controls the optical transmissivity of a liquid crystal layer interposed between substrates disposed in opposition to each other, by means of an electric field generated in the layer-thickness direction... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20080225224 - Adhesive-film exfoliating device and manufacturing method of liquid crystal display panel using the device: An adhesive-film exfoliating device includes first and second guide tables 5, 6 having flat mount surfaces 5a, 6a for mounting a liquid crystal display panel 2 having glass plates 3 and polarizing plates 4, a take-up roller 7 on the backside of the tables 5, 6 and a slit 8... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080218644 - Projection display device: A projection display device comprises: a light source; liquid crystal panels disposed corresponding to R light, G light and B light; a light guiding optical system for guiding R light, G light and B light among light from the light source to respective corresponding liquid crystal panels; a dichroic prism... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080218645 - Liquid crystal display: A display includes pixel circuits, each pixel circuit including a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, and a liquid crystal layer doped with a chiral material. The first electric is electrically coupled to a first reference voltage. The second electrode receives a pixel voltage corresponding to a gray... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080218648 - Liquid crystal device, method of driving liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, liquid crystal which is in between the first and the second substrate, and a detection electrode provided on a side of the first substrate, opposite to a side of the liquid crystal. The second substrate includes pixel electrodes connected... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080218647 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixel cells formed at every regions defined by a plurality of data lines and gate lines; a gate built-in circuit, built-in the liquid crystal panel, for supplying gate-on voltages to the gate lines; a driving integrated... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080218646 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A pixel 3 includes a pixel electrode 31 and opposed electrodes 32 for generating electric fields between a pair of substrates in directions substantially parallel to the substrates and also includes two regions S1 and S2 defined by the pixel electrode 31 and the opposed electrodes 32. The electric fields... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080218649 - Active array substrate for a liquid crystal display: An active array substrate for an LCD is disclosed. The active array substrate uses one end of the second scan line to electrically connect to the first scan line and electrically insulates the remaining second scan line from the first scan line. Accordingly, the second scan lines can be shielded... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080218651 - Electro-optical device and substrate for electro-optical device: An electro-optical device includes: a holding capacitor provided in each pixel; a holding capacitance line connected to the holding capacitor; and an electric potential applying portion that applies an electric potential to the holding capacitance line. Both ends of the holding capacitance line are connected to the electric potential applying... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080218650 - Liquid crystal device, method of driving liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, liquid crystal, a detection electrode, a liquid crystal capacitor, a storage capacitor, a switching element, a selection circuit, a signal supplying circuit, and an electric potential control circuit. The first substrate is opposed to the second substrate. The liquid... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080218652 - Liquid crystal display device: In the liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal display panel has liquid crystal cells which are defined by a gate line and a data line and which are arranged in a matrix type. An electrostatic discharge protection circuit is mounted on the liquid crystal display panel and is connected... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080218653 - Array substrate, display panel having the same and a method thereof: An array substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixel portions and a gate driving section. The base substrate includes a display area, a boundary area surrounding the display area and a light-blocking area surrounding the boundary area. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080218654 - Substrate having pattern, color filter, liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing color filter: A color filter and a method of manufacturing a color filter is provided, wherein fluctuation of chromaticity of a color pattern for every opening can be controlled and the color filter has little color shading. One embodiment of the present invention is a substrate having a pattern comprising a transparent... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080218655 - Liquid crystal display and tablet computer having the same: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display and a tablet computer having the same. According to the present invention, there is provided a liquid crystal display, comprising: a liquid crystal display panel for displaying an image; a driving circuit unit connected to the liquid crystal display panel and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080218657 - Display device and mobile terminal having the same: Provided are a display device and a mobile terminal having the same. The display device comprises a transmissive liquid crystal panel, a first backlight unit on a rear side of the transmissive liquid crystal panel, a second backlight unit on a front side of the transmissive liquid crystal panel, and... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080218658 - Light source device and liquid crystal display: A light source device capable of realizing a color display having the high light-use efficiency with a simple configuration is provided. Provided is a light source device including a prism sheet disposed to face a plane to be irradiated, and to bend an incident light to a direction substantially orthogonal... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080218656 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes an upper panel comprising an alignment layer, the alignment layer attached on an inner surface of the upper panel and a polarizer attached on an outer surface of the upper panel, a lower panel including a first surface and an opposite second surface, the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080218659 - White surface light source and liquid crystal display: A white surface light source comprising a light diffuser plate and a light source provided on the back side of the light diffuser plate, wherein the light source comprises at lease one LED element which emits lights including a red color, and the light diffuser plate comprises a transparent material... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080218661 - Liquid crystal display having flexible printed circuit sandwiched between liquid crystal panel and light guide plate thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel and a backlight module parallel to the liquid crystal panel. The backlight module includes a light guide plate, a light source and a flexible printed circuit. The light guide plate includes a light incident surface. The light source is provided adjacent... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080218660 - Liquid crystal display module: In a liquid crystal display module of edge light system, a periphery of a liquid crystal panel, a light guide plate and a reflective sheet are laid one upon another and surrounded by a case, and a lamp and a reflecting plate are disposed between an incidence surface of the... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080218662 - Led backlight device and lcd device: A backlight device includes a first substrate, and an LED thin-film layered structure (epitaxially grown inorganic material layers) fixed to a surface of the first substrate. An anode electrode and a cathode electrode are formed on the LED thin-film layered structure. An anode driver IC and a cathode driver IC... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080218663 - Fluorescent tube driving method and apparatus: A fluorescent tube driving method for driving a fluorescent tube on the basis of an alternating current driving signal generated by an inverter circuit that uses a direct current power supply produced by directly rectifying the voltage of a commercial power supply includes the steps of: detecting an input voltage... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080218664 - Fluorescent lamp and imaging device usign the same: In conventional fluorescent lamps and imaging devices using the same, there have been challenges that lighting efficiency should be enhanced and variation in emission colors should be reduced. The present invention has solved these challenges by providing a novel fluorescent lamp. The phosphor layers of the fluorescent lamp is composed... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080218666 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device containing: a liquid crystal cell; a backlight; a first polarizing plate disposed between the liquid crystal cell and the backlight and having a polarizer and at least two protective films disposed so as to sandwich the polarizer; and a second polarizing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080218665 - Polarizing element, polarizing element manufacturing method, liquid crystal device, and projection display: A polarizing element manufacturing method includes (a) forming a plurality of fine metal wires by forming a metal film on a substrate and patterning the metal film, (b) applying, onto a base material, a glass precursor solution for forming a protective layer for protecting the fine metal wires, (c) placing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080218667 - Liquid crystal display device capable of making boundary of display area and picture frame area unremarkable: In the liquid crystal display device, the overcoat layer enters the area where a color filter layer is not formed. The opposing substrate when the overcoat layer is formed is thin. This makes the difference between the cell-gap length in the display area and the cell-gap length in the picture... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080218668 - Liquid crystal display device capable of preventing reflectance and white balance value from shifting: In the liquid crystal display device, a transparent area is formed in a part of the color filter layer which opposes the reflective electrode. A part of the transparent area opposes a part of the structure formed to make liquid crystal molecules incline. The structure and the transparent area are... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080218669 - Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus: The invention provides a liquid crystal device including: a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer having a negative dielectric anisotropy; a pixel electrode; a counter electrode, the counter electrode being opposed to the pixel electrode; a vertical alignment film that aligns liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080218670 - Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device of semi-transmissive reflective type includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposed to each other, a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, a pixel region having a reflection display region and a transmission display region, a first electrode having a plurality of strip electrode portions electrically... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080218671 - Transparent protective film, optical compensation film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device: To provides a transparent protective film, an optical compensation film, a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal display device in which the variation of Rth in response to variations in humidity of the environment in which they are used is sufficiently small. The protective film in accordance with the present... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080218672 - Liquid crystal display device: A novel liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device comprises a first polarizing film, a first retardation area with an Re of 70 to 330 nm and a value of Nz of not less than 0 to less than 0.5 and a slow axis perpendicular to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080218673 - Display apparatus and method for manufacturing substrate for display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area of an approximate rectangle, and at least one film pattern which is formed over the substrate and extends to outside of the display area. A perimeter of the at least one film pattern has a shape of a smooth curved... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080218674 - Liquid crystal display panel: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel including an active device array substrate, an opposite substrate and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The active device array substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixel units. The scan lines, the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080218675 - Liquid crystal display panel having dielectric spacers: An exemplary liquid crystal display panel (1) includes an upper substrate (111) and a lower substrate (121) parallel to each other, a liquid crystal layer (10) sandwiched between the upper and the lower substrates, and data lines (13) and driving lines (14) formed at the lower substrate. The data lines... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080218676 - Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method of the same: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first insulating substrate having a first alignment film formed thereon; a second substrate which faces the first substrate having a second alignment film formed thereon; and a liquid crystal layer in a vertically aligned mode disposed between the first alignment film and the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080218677 - Liquid crystal display device and fabrication method therefor: The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate 1110a, a second substrate 1110b placed to face the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer 1120 interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal display device has a plurality of pixels each including a first electrode... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080218678 - Liquid crystal display device: A power supply wiring which is disposed on an array substrate and supplies a predetermined potential to a counter-electrode, includes a power supply pad which is included in a third electrically conductive layer, a first wiring which is included in a first electrically conductive layer and is electrically connected to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080218679 - Display device and manufacturing method thereof: A display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel facing the first display panel, and a plurality of spacers maintaining a distance between the first display panel and the second display panel. Each of the spacers includes column spacers, ball spacers, and an adhesive.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080218680 - High extinction ratio liquid crystal optical switch: An optical switch for performing high extinction ratio switching of an optical signal includes a beam polarizing element and one or more optical elements. The optical elements are configured to direct an optical signal along a first or second optical path based on the polarization state of the optical signal... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080211974 - Liquid crystal device and projector: A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates facing each other, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates. One of the pair of substrates includes data lines and scanning lines that intersect each other, pixels arranged in a matrix, at least one first electrode, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080211975 - Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device includes a substrate, an opposing substrate disposed so as to face the substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrate and the opposing substrate, and a plurality of spacers disposed between the substrate and the opposing substrate and having different aspect ratios from each other.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080211977 - Configurable multi-view display device: A configurable multi-view display device (100) is disclosed. The multi-view display device (100) comprises: a structure (104) of light modulating elements (105-108) being located in a first plane, which are arranged to provide respective light beams to; optical directory means (110) being located in a second plane which is substantially... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080211976 - Electronic imaging device and driving method therefor: An electronic imaging device includes a display unit and a barrier layer. The display unit includes scan lines for transferring select signals, data lines for transferring data signals corresponding to first and second images formed according to one or more input signals, and pixels connected with the scan and data... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080211978 - Controlling shape and direction of light: A device (201) for controlling shape and direction of light, comprises a first transparent planar substrate (203) and a second transparent planar substrate (205), the substrates being configured for arrangement essentially perpendicular to incident light beams (211), a liquid crystal layer (209) arranged between the first and second substrate, a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080211979 - Voltage boosting power supply circuit for monitoring charging voltage with predetermined voltage to detect boosted voltage, and boosted voltage control method: A power supply circuit of the present invention includes a voltage boosting capacitor, a first switch, a second switch, an addition comparison circuit, and a control circuit. The first switch charges the voltage boosting capacitor by applying a first voltage thereto. The second switch connects a second voltage serially to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080211980 - Display substrate and display apparatus having the same: A display substrate includes a gate line, a gate insulating layer, a data line, a thin-film transistor (TFT), a storage line, a passivation layer, a color filter layer, a pixel electrode, a first light-blocking layer and a second light-blocking layer. The storage line includes the same material as the gate... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080211982 - Array substrate for a liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same: d

20080211981 - Display device: The present invention relates to a technique for preventing the occurrence of a contact defect or exfoliation caused by a Mo oxide layer that is produced on a surface of a conductive layer when a coating type insulating film is applied onto a conductive layer made of a Mo or... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080211983 - Pixel control device and display apparatus utilizing said pixel control device: A pixel control device and a display apparatus utilizing said pixel control device are provided. The pixel control device is electrically connected to a sub-pixel area to provide a first voltage level, a second voltage level, and a third voltage level to the sub-pixel area, so that liquid crystals can... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080211985 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel PNL including a pair of mutually opposed substrates, a display section which is composed of a plurality of matrix-arrayed display pixels, and a peripheral region surrounding the display section, a driving circuit, which drives the display pixels, a controller... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080211984 - Liquid crystal display device and plasma display device: An image display device designed to improve shock resistance and to eliminate external image reflection and blurring. In an liquid crystal display device are disposed a backlight, a polarizing plate on the backlight side and a liquid crystal panel held by two glass substrates and having electrodes, a liquid crystal... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080211986 - Lamp socket, backlight assembly equipped with the same, and liquid crystal display equipped with the backlight assembly: A liquid crystal display equipped with a backlight assembly having a lamp socket comprising, a lamp lead seating portion on which a lamp lead is seated, and a contact terminal fastened to the lamp lead seating portion to fix the lamp lead.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080211987 - Lighting device, backlight unit, and printed circuit board thereof: A backlight unit including a circuit board mounted with light emitting diodes and formed with connecting pads electrically connected with the light emitting diodes, a driver installed on one surface of the circuit board and configured to drive the light emitting diodes, a connector coupled to the connecting pads of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080211988 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can enhance the reliability of electrical connection between electrodes and metal fittings even when the irregularities exist with respect to radii of rod-shaped light sources arranged in the inside of a backlight. A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080211989 - Backlight assembly and display apparatus having the same: A backlight assembly includes: a light emitting unit having a plurality of unit LEDs formed in a matrix, each of the unit LEDs having a red LED, a green LED, and a blue LED; a plurality of bottom reflectors disposed under the respective unit LEDs; and a plurality of side... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080211990 - Surface light source device and display apparatus: A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided which has two or more options in selection of the range of viewing angles. A surface light source device according to the invention has a main surface from which light is emitted, and includes a plurality of light guide plates corresponding to a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080211991 - High contrast liquid crystal displays: An LCD can include a Compact Collimating Reflector (CCR), is configured to be located downstream in a light path from an LCD light source, where the CCR is configured to reflect light from the LCD light source to provide collimated light downstream from the CCR. A light diffusion film is... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080211992 - Diode substrate of lcd: A liquid crystal display (LCD) has a novel diode substrate. With the substrate, heat is well dissipated. The substrate can be easily manufactured. And, thus, the cost for the LCD is reduced.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080211993 - Led backlight device and lcd device: An LED backlight device includes a substrate having an optical transparency and an LED thin-film layered structure fixed to a first surface of the substrate. The LED thin-film layered structure is formed of epitaxially grown inorganic material layers as a P-N junction device. An anode electrode and a cathode electrode... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080211994 - Liquid crystal display module having electrode pairs in partitioned light emitting spaces, respectively: A liquid crystal display module includes: a liquid crystal display panel, a surface light-emitting lamp irradiating light to the liquid crystal display panel by a surface light-emission, and a power source supplying an electric power to the surface light-emitting lamp. The surface light-emitting lamp includes a frame having a light-emitting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080211995 - Display apparatus using microlens: Provided is a display apparatus using a micromirror or an image display device. The display apparatus is designed to eliminate dark regions, usually formed by pixel partitions or black matrixes, display a high-quality image by increasing light usage efficiency, and improve the power consumption. A display apparatus using a microlens... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20080211996 - Optical film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device: A novel optical film is disclosed. The optical film comprises an optically anisotropic layer comprising oriented optical elements, wherein the optical elements are oriented in the optically anisotropic layer with an order parameter, which expresses the degree of orientation of said optical elements, varying in the direction of film thickness.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080211998 - Pixel electrode structure for a liquid crystal display with a high aperture ratio: A pixel electrode structure for a liquid crystal display with a high aperture ratio increases the aperture ratio and eliminates Mura phenomenon. Any two adjacent pixel electrodes are disconnected to each other. Each pixel electrode comprises a first-lengthwise periphery that overlaps a first-adjacent data line to form a first overlapping... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080211997 - Polarizing plates and liquid crystal displays comprising the same: A polarizing plate is provided. The polarizing plate includes a polarizing film, a first protective film and a second protective film respectively disposed on both sides of the polarizing film, and a polyimide optical compensation film having thickness direction retardation (Rth) or both, in-plane retardation (R0) and thickness direction retardation... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080212000 - Colour active matrix displays: A method of manufacturing a colour active matrix display device comprises forming islands over a rigid carrier substrate, forming a plastic substrate over the rigid carrier substrate, forming an array of pixel circuits over the plastic substrate and forming a display layer over the array of pixel circuits. The rigid... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212001 - Transflective liiquid crystal display device with no retardation layer on the transmissive regions, manufacturing method thereof and electronic apparatus: An upper polarizing plate is provided on the outer surface of an upper substrate, and a lower polarizing plate is provided on the outer surface of a lower substrate. Also, a retardation layer having a phase shift of a quarter wavelength, and a protective layer are provided in turn only... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080211999 - Transflective liquid crystal display device: A transflective display device has a color filter portion for each pixel which includes portions of two different thicknesses. In one implementation, both thicknesses are used for the reflective part of the pixel, and the relative thicknesses as well as the proportion of different thickness layers can be controlled to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080212002 - Method of manufacturing optical compensation sheet and the optical compensation sheet: t

20080212003 - Liquid crystal display device:

20080212004 - Liquid crystal device and method for manufacturing the same: There is provided a liquid crystal device including a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal being held between the first substrate and the second substrate, a base layer having alternating linear grooves and linear protrusions on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, and... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080212005 - Antiglare film: An antiglare film is disclosed comprising a transparent substrate and an antiglare layer including a binder matrix and a particle, wherein center line average roughness Ra of a surface of an antiglare film which surface is on an antiglare layer side among both sides of an antiglare film is 0.06-0.17... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080212006 - Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. A display operation is performed by changing an alignment state of the liquid crystal layer from a splay alignment to a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080212008 - Array panel for liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same: An array panel for a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a gate line and a gate electrode on the substrate, wherein the gate line is connected to the gate electrode, a gate insulating layer on the gate line and the gate electrode, an active layer on the gate... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080212007 - Electro-optic lenses employing resistive electrodes: Provided is an electro-optic device comprising: a liquid crystal layer between a pair of opposing transparent substrates; a resistive patterned electrode set positioned between the liquid crystal layer and the inward-facing surface of the first transparent substrate; and a conductive layer between the liquid crystal layer and the inward-facing surface... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20080212009 - Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof: In a liquid crystal display panel of a type having common electrodes, one solidly formed for each pixel, over the main face of an insulating substrate and a comb-shaped pixel electrode over the common electrodes via an insulating film, the patterning of the common electrodes is accurately accomplished without using... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080212010 - Display device and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can easily prevent the generation of longitudinal smear. The display device includes a display panel having a plurality of scanning signal lines, a plurality of video signal lines, a plurality of thin film transistors and a plurality of pixel electrodes... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080212011 - Display device having a board for a connector for inputting of video data and a board for mounting a display control circuit and manufacturing method thereof: In a display device forming a board for mounting a connector which allows inputting of video data thereon and a board for mounting a display control circuit to be connected to the connector thereon on a surface of a display module opposite to an observation side, the board for mounting... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080212012 - Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof: To provide a liquid crystal display device in which a seal width at a cutting portion of substrates is small and defects caused at the time of cutting the substrates can be reduced. There is provided a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display panel having: a first... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080212013 - Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a thin film transistor, a data line, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode, a second substrate, and liquid crystal sandwiched between the first and second substrates, wherein an image signal is applied to the thin film transistor through the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080212014 - Full color lcd and manufacturing thereof: Disclosed is a full color liquid crystal display, including a lower substrate and an upper substrate facing each other, partition spacers uniformly arranged between the lower substrate and the upper substrate to form a plurality of spaces while maintaining a cell gap between the lower substrate and the upper substrate,... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20080212015 - Method for manufacturing liquid crystal display panel: An exemplary method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel (20) includes: providing a first and a second substrates (21, 22), each substrate including a display region (212, 222), a periphery region (214, 224) surrounding the display region, and a sealant adhesive region (215, 225) located between the display... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.