Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroyuki Yokomizo

Hideo Mori

Masanori Takahashi

Kenji Niibori

Seiji Ohsawa

Mitsuo Iwayama

Hiroshi Takabayashi

Makoto Uehara

Akira Tsuboyama

Kazunori Katakura

Takashi Yamamoto

Yoshihiro Onitsuka

Hisao Tajima

Yasushi Shioya

Toshiaki Itazawa

Shigeki Yabu

Shigeru Noda

Hidetarou Tsuchiya

A display apparatus and an assembly of a driving circuit for the display apparatus having a display device, a film carrier with a lead to transfer a signal for driving the display device, and a bus board to supply a signal to the lead. A dummy lead is provided along the outside of each of an input side outer lead and an output side outer lead of the film carrier. A predetermined voltage is applied to the dummy leads. The predetermined voltage value is set to a value so as not to stationarily cause a DC bias for the voltage of the outer lead on the outside.

Display apparatus and assembly of its driving circuit

A display apparatus includes a display panel having a matrix structure formed by a scan electrode group and a data electrode group, a scan electrode drive unit for operating the scan electrode group, a data electrode drive unit for operating the data electrode group, and a switching unit for switching on/off the electrical connection between a drive voltage generating unit for supplying drive voltage to the drive unit and a power supply source for supplying power to the drive voltage generating unit. Also included is a detection unit for detecting that the switching unit has been switched off, and a control unit for controlling the scan electrode drive unit and data electrode drive unit to apply a display drive signal for causing the display panel to display a desired image according to image information when the switching unit is switched on and to apply, to the scan electrode group and the data electrode group, non-pixel portion control voltage signals for controlling the optical state of liquid crystal in non-pixel portions which are regions except for intersection portions between the scan electrode group and the data electrode group immediately after or after the switching unit has been switched off.

Display apparatus

There is disclosed a liquid crystal display comprising a liquid crystal panel having a pair of boards each formed with an electrode and arranged opposedly, and a liquid crystal disposed between said boards, a heater provided near or adjacent said panel, means for detecting the temperature of said panel, and a control circuit for controlling the amount of heat generated by said heater in accordance with a comparison result between an output of said detecting means and a first set temperature for use when said liquid crystal panel is in a service state, or a second set temperature for use when said liquid crystal panel is in a non-service state.

Liquid crystal display and heater control circuit for use with said

A liquid crystal display apparatus is constituted by: a housing; a liquid crystal panel comprising a liquid crystal disposed between a pair of substrates each provided with electrodes, the liquid crystal panel being affixed to the housing; and a backlight for illuminating the liquid crystal panel, detachably affixed to the housing. A light-transmissive plate, such as a diffusion plate, allowing transmission of light from the backlight is further disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the backlight so as to define an almost closed first space in cooperation with the liquid crystal panel, whereby the first space retaina its almost closed state even when the backlight is detached from the housing.

Liquid crystal display apparatus in which a non-transmissive elastic

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Atsugi, Japan

Hiroyuki Yokomizo