Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Displays, Ltd.

Masaki Mega

Yoshiaki Nakayoshi

Tsutomu Furuhashi

Shigeyuki Nishitani

Naruhiko Kasai

Toshio Tanaka

Hiroyuki Mano

Masaaki Kitajima

Toshio Futami

Kohji Takahashi

Ken Sasaki

Shinzo Matsumoto

Hiroshi Kurihara

Takashi Tsunehiro

Satoshi Kawamura

Toshiyuki Iseki

Pixel regions are formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of respective substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner with liquid crystal therebetween, wherein each pixel region includes pixel electrodes having bent portions and counter electrodes which are arranged at positions where the pixel electrodes are shifted in parallel, the pixel electrode and the counter electrode are respectively constituted of two electrodes which are overlapped to each other as an upper layer and a lower layer by way of an insulation film, and to the lower-layer side electrode of at least one electrode out of the pixel electrode and the counter electrode, projections which further project from crests of convex-portion sides of the bent portions and extend toward another electrode side are provided.

Liquid crystal display with zigzag shaped pixel and counter electrodes with notch formed in concave portion of pixel and counter electrodes

Liquid crystal display device

A liquid crystal halftone display system including a tone generator which, for pixels having P tones of K tones (1&lE;P&lE;K), alternately outputs first N-bit tone display data and second N-bit tone display data in successive frames at one of a first phase and a second phase. Within a block of pixels, the tone generator alternately inverts the phase of the N-bit tone display data at successive first pixels having different ones of the P tones within the block of pixels beginning at a left side of the block of pixels, and alternately inverts the phase of the N-bit tone display data at successive pixels having a same one of the P tones within the block of pixels beginning at the left side of the block of pixels.

Liquid-crystal halftone display system

A liquid-crystal display system includes a data driver, a scan driver, a liquid-crystal panel, a line memory (204 in FIG. 2) in which input display data (101) for representing any of display-ON, display-OFF and halftone every pixel are stored for, at least, one line, and a halftone pattern generator (200) by which liquid-crystal display data (106) to be applied to the data driver are generated using the contents of the line memory and the input display data. The halftone pattern generator generates ON data in response to the input display data representing the display-ON of the pixel; it generates OFF data in response to the input display data representing the display-OFF of the pixel; and it generates the ON data and the OFF data alternately in successive frames as halftone data in response to the input display data representing the halftone display of the pixel, and it also compares the input display data of a pertinent line and those of a preceding line every line so as to invert a phase of changing-over the ON data and the OFF data in accordance with a result of the comparison. Since the number of ON pixels (or pixels for either of first and second data) for the halftone display is substantially equalized every frame, flickering can be reduced irrespective of display patterns.

A disk control unit for writing data on or reading the same from a disk in a disk apparatus in response to an instruction from a host computer. The disk control unit has a plurality of command buffers for storing a group of operation information and operation length information corresponding to individual fields in the disk format of the disk apparatus. Prior to processing the length information is set in a counter and then is counted decrementally with progress of the processing steps, whereby an operation end signal is produced to control an address generator for the command buffers. The disk control unit also has a pointer register for storing a jump point address in response to indication of the operation information and outputting the stored address in response to indication of the other operation information to change the address of the address generator. The disk control unit further has a plurality of ID field registers for indiscriminately storing the ID field registers forindiscriminately storing the ID field address marks and the ID information in the disk format of the disk apparatus.

Disk drive control unit having sets of operating command and operation

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Masaki Mega