Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.

Nippon Hoso' Kyokai

Nozomu Harada

Yukio Endo

Okio Yoshida

Yoshiyuki Matsunaga

Hiroki Nakamura

Yoshihiro Watanabe

Yoshitaka Egawa

Yoshitaka Yamada

Hidenori Shibata

Michiya Kobayashi

Sohei Manabe

Masato Kemmochi

Haruo Okano

Kazuki Taira

Takashi Nakamura

Yuzo Hisatake

Youichi Masuda

Tsutomu Sakamoto

Mamoru Iesaka

Seiji Murakami

Yasuaki Nishida

Nobuhisa Kubota

Yutaka Saitoh

Hajime Sato

Hiroshi Ito

Yoshiro Aoki

Akihiko Furukawa

Motosuke Miyoshi

Kiyofumi Ochii

Yoshinori Honguh

Masataka Shiratsuchi

Katsuya Okumura

Chiaki Tanuma

Ikuko Inoue

Makoto Sekine

Shigeyuki Hayakawa

Yasuhisa Oana

Tadashi Shibata

Akira Taya

Koji Izawa

Yuji Ide

Yoshinori Higuchi

Katsunori Yokoyama

Masanori Sakamoto

Tadashi Mitsui

Yoshiaki Komatsubara

Keisuke Ogi

Shinji Uya

Shou Tsunekawa

Shigeo Yoshikawa

Mineo Iwasawa

Yoshiki Iino

Hiroshi Ohtake

Yoshiaki Hayashimoto

Toshikazu Adachi

Kazushi Miyake

Shinji Osawa

Masahide Abe

Shuichiro Ishizawa

It is an object of the present invention to provide a display apparatus which can be miniaturized and is operated stably even at high resolution. The display apparatus according to the present invention includes a pixel array unit, a signal line driving circuit, and a scanning line driving circuit, each of which is formed by using a polysilicon TFT on a glass substrate, a control circuit, and a graphic controller IC. Since the graphic controller IC rearranges digital pixel data DATA in the inside, it is unnecessary to provide a gate array. Since the cycle of a clock signal CLK is twice as much as that of the digital pixel data DATA, the clock signal CLK having a frequency at which the polysilicon TFT normally operates can be supplied to the signal line driving circuit. Further, since the edge of the clock signal CLK is deviated from the changing position of the digital pixel data DATA and they are outputted, the signal line driving circuit can effectively capture the digital pixel data DATA.

Display apparatus, image control semiconductor device, and method for driving display apparatus

A front surface of the opposite electrode of a liquid crystal display panel is formed in a curved shape. The relation between the reflecting surface of the pixel electrode and the curved surface of the opposite substrate is defined so that a leaving direction of the light that is reflected by the first face of the opposite substrate is different from a leaving direction of light that is emitted from the first face of the opposite substrate after having been reflected by the pixel electrodes through the liquid crystal layer. Thus, undesired light on the front surface of the opposite substrate is separated from light that is displayed. Consequently, an image free of dazzling and deterioration of contrast ratio due to undesired reflected light can be obtained with a high contrast ratio. In a display apparatus containing the reflection type liquid crystal display, an incident surface to a dichroic prism is an inclined surface including a curved surface, not a surface that is perpendicular to the optical axis. Thus, signal light that is reflected on each reflection type liquid crystal display panel and that is displayed can be separated from undesired light that is reflected on the surface of the dichroic prism. Thus, an image with a high quality, and a high contrast ratio can be displayed.

Reflection type liquid crystal display device and display apparatus therewith

Reflecting type liquid crystal display device

An object of the present invention is to provide a display device which can realize a magnified image. A display device comprises a display panel having a predetermined effective display region PS, a display screen, and a magnifying optical system including a first inverting optical system constituted by a first lens array in which a plurality of first lenses corresponding to the display panel are arrayed and a second inverting optical system constituted by a second lens array in which a plurality of second lenses corresponding to the first lenses are arrayed. The magnifying optical system constitutes a plurality of channels for forming on the display screen a magnified erect image for a display image on the display panel through the corresponding first and second lenses. The magnifying optical system is constructed so as to form on the display screen an image of an image point on the display panel through at least three of the channels.

Display device

Reflection LCD with a counter substrate having a plurality of curved

A display device comprises a display panel, a scanning circuit section for supplying a scanning signal to scanning lines of the display panel, and a scanning control circuit section for supplying an n-bit (n: 2 or more positive integer) input numeral signal and an inverted replica of the input numeral signal to the scanning circuit section. In the display device, a scanning circuit section comprises an input connection line group having sets of input connection lines for receiving bits of the input numeral signal and bits of the inverted replica of the input numeral signal, a plurality of logic circuit sections, less in number than the scanning lines, for responding to combinations of the input numeral signal and its inverted replica, and an output distributing unit for assigning an output from one logic circuit section to at least two scanning lines. It is, therefore, possible to suppress an increase in the number of connection lines and of the logic circuit sections involving a high definition of a display device and hence to manufacture a display device in a high yield.

Display device and driving method

Display device and its driving method

A liquid crystal display device of low power consumption is disclosed, which is suitable for use with a portable data processing apparatus, in particular. The liquid crystal display device, comprises: a switch element array substrate (301) having a plurality of data lines (1) and a plurality of scanning lines (2) both arranged being intersected to each other in a matrix form so as to form matrix intersection points; a plurality of pixel electrodes (3) each arranged for each matrix intersection point; and a plurality of first switching elements (6, 7) each arranged for each matrix intersection point and each turned on or off by the scanning line, for applying write voltage supplied from the data line to the pixel electrode, respectively when turned on; a counter substrate (314) having a plurality of counter electrodes (12) each arranged being opposed to each pixel electrode with a gap between the two; a liquid crystal layer (13) sandwiched between the switching element array substrate and the counter substrate; a plurality of memory elements (100) each interposed between the corresponding first switching element and the corresponding pixel electrode, for holding the write voltage supplied through the data line as data, when the first switching element is turned on; a plurality of display control lines (8, 10) each arranged in correspondence to each scanning line; and a plurality of second switching elements (9, 11) each arranged for each matrix intersection point, for controlling connection between the pixel electrode and the display control line on the basis of output of the memory element.

Liquid crystal display device

A pixel electrode is disposed with an inclination angle to a base member on a front side (namely, an opposite substrate side) of a liquid crystal display panel. The relation between the reflecting surface of the pixel electrode and the main surface of the base member on the front side of the liquid crystal display panel is defined so that the difference between the reflecting angle of light that is entered as incident light and reflected on the surface of the base member and the leaving angle of light emitted as display light via the liquid crystal display panel exceeds the collection angle of the display apparatus. Thus, undesired light on the main surface of the base member of the display surface is separated from light that is displayed. Consequently, an image free of dazzling and deterioration of contrast ratio due to undesired reflected light can be obtained with a high contrast ratio. In a display apparatus containing the reflection type liquid crystal display, an incident surface to a dichroic prism is an inclined surface, not a surface that is perpendicular to the optical axis. Thus, signal light that is reflected on each reflection type liquid crystal display panel and that is displayed can be separated from undesired light that is reflected on the surface of the dichroic prism. Thus, an image with a high quality, and a high contrast ratio can be displayed.

Reflection type liquid crystal display having inclined pixel electrodes

A display apparatus includes a light source, a modulating device for modulating light emitted from the light source, a modulating device driving unit for driving the modulating device, a first aperture stop unit arranged between the light source and the modulating device to limit a bundle of rays to be incident on the modulating device from the light source, the first aperture stop unit having an aperture with a variable size, a display screen onto which exit light from the modulating device is projected, a projection optical system for projecting the exit light from the modulating device onto the display screen, a second aperture stop unit arranged between the modulating device and the projection optical system to limit a bundle of rays to be incident on the projection optical system from the modulating device, the second aperture stop unit having an aperture with a variable size, a photosensor for detecting the display luminance on the display screen, and an aperture control unit for controlling the size of the aperture of at least one of the first and second aperture stop units on the basis of a display luminance signal from the photosensor.

Display apparatus

Display apparatus with a variable aperture stop means on each side of

According to this invention, there is provided a charged particle detection device including a semiconductor substrate, an insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate, an electrode formed on the insulating film, a member for forming a potential well, which is constituted by a depletion layer, near a surface of the semiconductor substrate under the electrode, a member for sweeping, into the semiconductor substrate, charges which are generated in the semiconductor substrate by charged particles incident from the electrode and are stored in the potential well, and a member for detecting signal charges generated by the charged particles swept into the semiconductor substrate.

Charged particle detection device and charged particle radiation

A solid state image sensor has a photosensing region formed on a substrate. The photosensing region has a plurality of photocells for receiving an incident image. The photosensing region is capable of changing image sampling modes by relatively shifting image sampling points for the incident image. In the photosensing region, a plurality of first transfer elements are formed and the first transfer elements receive the signal charges from adjoining photocells and transfer them out. Further, a temporary storage region is formed on the substrate having a plurality of second transfer elements therein for each of the first transfer elements. Each of the second transfer elements has a capacity to accommodate all of the signal charges of a corresponding first transfer elements which are read out from the photocells at the same time. A plurality of gate elements are respectively formed between each of the first transfer elements and their corresponding plurality of second transfer elements. Each gate elements changes transfer direction from one of the first transfer elements between at least two of the second transfer elements based on the sampling mode for the incident image. Third transfer elements are formed adjacent to the temporary storage region. The third transfer elements repeat a readout cycle of receiving the signal charges from a plurality of second transfer elements and then transferring them out.

Solid state image sensors for reproducing high definition images

A solid state image sensing device comprises an image sensor for outputting optical images as signal charges, a charge transfer section for transferring signal charges, a first reading section for non-destructively reading transferred signal charges as a plurality of first output signal components, a detecting section for detecting the difference between the first output signal components, a second reading section for adding the signal charges corresponding to the first output signal components which correspond to the difference signal and reading the added signal charges as a second output signal component, an adding section for inserting at least one signal component corresponding to the second output signal component to one or more first output signal components which are canceled due to charge-transfer for addition of signal charges and generating an output signal including a third output signal component, and a level lowering section for lowering the signal levels of the second and third output signal components according to the number of addition stages.

Solid state image sensing device output

A solid-state image sensor comprises signal charge storage diodes formed in a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of signal charge read-out sections formed adjacent to the signal charge storage diodes on the semiconductor substrate, a plurality of signal charge transfer sections formed close to the signal charge read-out sections on the semiconductor substrate, pixel electrodes electrically coupled to the signal charge storage diodes, and a plurality of bias-charge injecting gates and bias-charge injecting diodes, which are provided adjacent to the signal charge transfer sections to inject bias charges into the signal charge storage diodes via the signal charge read-out sections.

Solid-state image sensor employing a gate and diode for bias charge

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Nozomu Harada