Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Sakai Display Products Corporation

Masahiro Matsuda

Hidetoshi Nakagawa

Takaharu Yamada

Takuya Ohishi

Masahiro Yoshida

Toshihide Tsubata

Yoshihisa Takahashi

Kazutoshi Kida

Masanori Takeuchi

Naofumi Kondo

Ryohki Itoh

Nobuyoshi Nagashima

Toshifumi Yagi

Kazushige Miyamoto

Akihiro Shohraku

Hiroto Akiyama

Tomofumi Kubota

Masaki Okazaki

Yoshio Hirakata

Haruhisa Suzuki

A display panel includes a substrate, a gate metal layer formed on a substrate, an insulating layer that covers the gate metal layer, and a source metal layer formed on the insulating layer. In a driving circuit region, the gate metal layer includes a first electrode and a second electrode separated from each other in a first direction and close to each other. The first electrode is positioned nearer than the second electrode to an active region and has a first side on a side facing the second electrode. The second electrode includes an ESD sacrificial portion. The ESD sacrificial portion includes a first part extending in the first direction and a second part facing the first side and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the second part not overlapping a source metal of the source metal layer.

Display panel

The liquid crystal display panel includes: storage capacitors respectively provided for a plurality of pixels on a substrate; a plurality of storage capacitor linesarrayed in a column direction and each connected to corresponding ones of the storage capacitors, each storage capacitor linebelonging to one of N groups (where N is an integer equal to or greater than 2), such that every Nstorage capacitor linebelongs to an identical group; a plurality of branch linesarrayed in a row direction, each branch linebeing connected to more than one of the plurality of storage capacitor linesthat belong to an identical group; a plurality of trunk linestoat a column-direction edge of the substrate, each supplying an identical signal to a number of storage capacitor linesthat belong to one of the N groups via one or more of the plurality of branch lines; and a plurality of signal sending sectionseach being coupled to associated trunk lines among the plurality of trunk linesto. The associated trunk lines coupled to each of the plurality of signal sending sectionsinclude a plurality of subsections in each of which mutually different trunk lines are arrayed in the column direction; in each of the plurality of subsections, two or more of the plurality of branch linesthat are connected to storage capacitor linesbelonging to respectively different groups are connected to corresponding trunk lines, the two or more branch linesconstituting a unit that corresponds to the respective subsection; and for each of the plurality of signal sending sections, the plural units of the two or more branch linesthat are coupled thereto are respectively connected to storage capacitor linesbelonging to different sets of groups.

Liquid crystal display panel

A communication device includes a communication portion and a controller that determines whether or not a communication terminal from which the communication portion has received a connection request is a specified communication terminal. The controller makes a connection with the specified communication terminal based on the determination result of whether or not the communication terminal from which the communication portion has received the connection request is the specified communication terminal and transmits connection permission/refusal setting information to the specified communication terminal with which the controller has made a connection to allow a user to provide a connection permission/refusal setting of a communication terminal other than the specified communication terminal.

Communication device, communication terminal, and communication method

A method of manufacturing an array substrateaccording to the present invention includes a line forming step, and line forming step includes following performances. A plurality of source linesare formed on a glass substrate GS so as to extend from a first region Aon the glass substrate GS to a second region Athat is adjacent to the first region on an outer side thereof. A plurality of source driver side check linesA are formed on the glass substrate GS so as to extend from the second region Ato a third region that is adjacent to the first region Aon an outer side thereof and adjacent to the second region A. A plurality of first line connection portionsare formed in the second region Aand the first line connection portionsconnect the source linesand the first source driver side check linesA. A capacity stem lineand a common lineare formed to extend from the first region Ato the third region A. A second source driver side check lineB and a second line connection portionthat connects each of the capacity stem lineand the common lineand the source driver side check lineB are formed in the third region A

Method of manufacturing element substrate

A liquid crystal display device () according to the present invention includes a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix, n number of the pixels (n is an even number of 4 or greater) being included in a color display pixel (CP). The liquid crystal display device includes an active matrix substrate () including a plurality of scanning lines () extending in a row direction and a plurality of signal lines () extending in a column direction; and a signal line driving circuit () that supplies, as a display signal, a gray scale voltage of a positive or negative polarity to each of the plurality of signal lines. The plurality of signal lines include a first type of signal line () which does not intersect another signal line, and a second type of signal line () which intersects a signal line adjacent thereto outside a display area in the state where an insulating film () is interposed therebetween. The active matrix substrate further includes a correction line () which is provided in the vicinity of an intersection region (IR) where the second type of signal line intersects the adjacent signal line, is electrically separated from the plurality of signal lines, and is at a floating potential.

Liquid crystal display device and display defect correction method

When a user issues a bookmark setup instruction, bookmark information, which includes identification information for a reproduction point whereat video and audio data for currently reproduced content are recorded, identification information for the pertinent content and position information indicating the current reproduction point are generated and stored in a storage unit. And when a user issues a bookmark display instruction, the bookmark information is read from the storage unit and a list of bookmarks is displayed. When one of the bookmarks on the list is selected and its reproduction is instructed, a command is transmitted to a reproduction apparatus, indicated in bookmark information that corresponds to the selected bookmark, to reproduce content, indicated in the bookmark information, beginning at a reproduction point designated in the bookmark information.

Video apparatus

A display panel substrate in which parasitic capacitances are provided to data signal lines and any short which occurs between the data signal line and a conductor film can be corrected, and a display panel having the substrate. A plurality of strip conductorsoverlap with drawing linesarranged to transmit data signals to data signal lineswith an insulating filmsandwiched therebetween, and the plurality of strip conductorsare electrically connected by connecting portionsandhaving portions which do not overlap with the drawing lines.

Display panel substrate, a display panel having the substrate, a method of producing the substrate, and a method of producing the display panel

A liquid crystal panel () includes an active matrix substrate on which a transistor (), a pixel electrode (), signal lines () and backup wirings () for recovering a defect in the signal line are formed; a color filter substrate on which a common electrode (counter electrode) is formed; and a liquid crystal material provided between the active matrix substrate and the color filter substrate. The backup wirings () are (electrically) connected to the common electrode on the color filter substrate, through (i) a protection circuit () for discharging an undesired electric charge that occurs in the backup wirings () and (ii) a sealing adhesive (). With this configuration, it becomes possible to reduce problems (for instance, unexpected short-circuiting of the backup wiring and the signal line) caused by the undesired electric charge that occurs in the backup wirings.

Liquid crystal panel, liquid crystal display apparatus and television receiver

A substrate for a display panel in which insulation breakdown of an insulating film can be prevented, a display panel having the substrate, a production process of the substrate and a production process of the display panel. The substrate includes an inspection linefor transferring a signal for inspection which includes a first sectionincluding a portion overlapping with and/or intersecting an input linedrawn from a data signal line in a display region III between which an insulating filmis sandwiched and a second sectionwhich includes a portion other than the portion overlapping with and/or intersecting the input linewhich are formed to be electrically independent from each other and are arranged to be electrically connected by a conductor, wherein a difference between areas of the first sectionand the input lineis reduced.

Substrate for a display panel, a display panel having the substrate, a production process of the substrate, and a production process of the display panel

A video recorder connected to an external device such as a printer or a personal computer. The video recorder comprises a tuner for receiving a television program and program information corresponding to the television program, a recording medium for recording the television program and the program information received by the tuner, a remote controller, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor generates a label image based on the television program selected by the user with the remote controller, the program information corresponding to the television program, and the data which the user has input in the video recorder. And then the microprocessor sends the generated label image to the external device such as the printer.

Video recorder and printing system including video recorder

A program product stored on a recordable medium for linking operations between multiple connected devices connected to each other via a network is provided. The program product includes: program code for setting a state of a linked device for execution of linked operations between the connected devices, a state change (occurrence of an event) at an external device that is a condition for execution of the linked operations, and an operation to be executed by the linked device upon the occurrence of the event; program code for storing the settings; program code for sending a request for registration of necessity to notify the linked device of occurrence of an event; program code for determining whether an operation to be executed by the linked device that corresponds to a current state of the linked device and to the notified event is stored or not; and program code for executing the operation.

Program product and connected device for linking operations between multiple connected devices

The title of a program with a recording duration longest among all recording durations is recorded as the program title of a relevant program file. Thereby, even when a user has performed an operation to record a program on a hard disk recorder by a method other than a timer recording, the program title of a program that is most likely to be a program a user really desires to record can be recorded as the program title of a program file created by the recording. Accordingly, a DTV or a STB can display on its display appropriate program titles in a program file list at the time of playback of a previously recorded program.

Hard disk recorder

A memory in a controller device stores a current function information list, which is a list of function information of each target device currently connected to an IEEE 1394 serial bus network, and also stores a past function information list which is a list of function information of each target device having been connected to the network in the past. When the controller device gets a GUID from a target device after bus reset, the controller device searches for a record of the target device corresponding to the gotten GUID from the records in the current function information list and the past function information list prior to the bus reset. As a consequence, if the controller device finds a record of the target device corresponding to the gotten GUID, the controller device copies such record in the current function information list or the past function information list prior to the bus reset, and stores the copied record in a current function information list made after the bus reset.

Controller device to be connected to an IEEE 1394 serial bus network

If it becomes necessary to add, to a past device information list (past list), a record of device information of a target removed from a network, and if the number of records in the past list is already at its maximum so that it is impossible to store any more records in the past list, a microprocessor of a controller decides the priority of the removed target, based on device information of the removed target and on information of the kind of controller as stored in a configuration ROM in the controller. From records stored in the past list, the microprocessor searches for a record having a priority lower than the priority of the removed target, one by one in order from the first record therein. If the microprocessor finds a record having such a lower priority, the microprocessor deletes from the past list such record having been first found, and adds to the past list a record of the device information regarding the removed target. If the microprocessor fails to find such a record, the microprocessor searches for a record, which has the same priority as the priority of the removed target, from the records in the past list one by one in order from the first record therein. The microprocessor deletes from the past list such a record as having been first found, and adds to the past list a record of the device information regarding the removed target.

Controller to be connected to a network via an IEEE 1394 serial bus

An active-matrix substrate includes first and second trunk lines which are arranged so as to be spaced apart from, but adjacent to, each other and are supplied with signals electrically independently. First and second groups of lines include portions that are substantially parallel to each other. A first group of connecting pads for the first trunk line is located near the second trunk line such that each line of the first group is electrically connected to the first trunk line at an associated one of the connecting pads belonging to the first group near the second trunk line. A second group of connecting pads for the second trunk line is provided near the first trunk line such that each line of the second group is electrically connected to the second trunk line at an associated one of the connecting pads of the second group near the first trunk line.

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Masahiro Matsuda