Citizen Watch Company, Ltd.

Citizen Holdings Company, Ltd.

Eiichi Tajima

Masaaki Matsunaga

Yoshio Iinuma

Shigeyuki Takahashi

Kiyoshi Kamiya

Isao Ochi

Teruaki Takahashi

Toshihide Hirohara

Naotake Ando

In displaying a price label, the price can be displayed at low resolution without any problem, but a bar code requires a high resolution display. In view of this, the invention provides an electrode structure for a display apparatus that can suppress increases in cost and power consumption while preventing image quality degradation, even when a low-resolution display area and a high-resolution display area are mixed on the same display. A liquid crystal panelhas a main display sectionand a sub-display section. In the main display section, pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern. In the sub display section, rectangle-shaped pixels are arranged in a single row, and the pixel pitch in the sub display sectionis m/n of that in the main display section(n and m are integers).

Display apparatus

A super-resolution optical panel is fabricated such that a first circular transparent electrode ( ) is installed in the central region of a first substrate ( ), an alignment layer is formed on the first circular transparent electrode ( ), an alignment treatment is applied in the direction of the arrow A to the alignment layer, a second circular transparent electrode ( ) is installed on a second substrate ( ), an alignment layer is formed on the second circular transparent electrode ( ), an alignment treatment is applied in a direction of an arrow B parallel with and opposite to a direction of an arrow A to the entire surface of the alignment layer, the alignment layer except a circular region at the center thereof is subsequently covered with a resist, an alignment treatment is applied in a direction of an arrow C orthogonal to the direction of the arrow B only to the circular region at the center, the resist is subsequently removed, and twisted nematic liquid crystal is filled between the first substrate ( ) and the second substrate ( ), thereby forming a twisted alignment region ( ) and a parallel alignment region ( ).

Method for producing ultrahigh resolution optical device panel

In an antiferroelectric liquid crystal panel, in which a plurality of strip-shaped first and second transparent electrodes are formed on a pair of first and second substrates, the substrates are opposedly disposed so that the transparent electrodes intersect with each other at right angles, and the antiferroelectric liquid crystal is filled in a gap thereinbetween, at least at the positions corresponding to intersecting portions of the gaps between a plurality of first transparent electrodes and the gaps between a plurality of second transparent electrodes. Spacers are fixed on the first substrate and made of insulating material, a first alignment layer is formed to cover at least the first transparent electrodes on the first substrate, and a second alignment layer is formed to cover the second transparent electrodes on the second substrate.

Antiferroelectric liquid crystal panel

There are provided a circular transparent electrode provided on a first substrate at the center thereof, a plurality of annular transparent electrodes which are disposed outside the circular transparent electrode concentrically and narrowed in width and interval as they are directed outward, extension electrodes which extend crosswise outward from the center to an external terminal electrode, and an alignment layer on these electrodes. There are also provided a transparent electrode on an entire surface of a second substrate, and an alignment layer on the transparent electrode, wherein the first and second alignment layers are subjected to a parallel aligning treatment. The first substrate and the second substrate are bonded to each other while keeping a given internal by gap members disposed outside the annular transparent electrodes, and a nematic liquid crystal is sealed in a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Variable focal length lens panel and fabricating the same

An IC chip is connected to terminal portions of conductive films on a lower substrate of a liquid crystal display panel by face down bonding. The IC chip and conductive films are coated with resin to protect the IC chip and films.

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Iruma, Japan

Eiichi Tajima