Fujitsu Corporation

Sony Corporation

Toshiaki Yoshihara

Tetsuya Makino

Hironori Shiroto

Yoshinori Kiyota

Keiichi Betsui

Shinji Tadaki

Akihiro Mochizuki

Shigeo Kasahara

Masaki Nose

Junji Tomita

Yoshihisa Kurosaki

Yasuo Yamagishi

Masayuki Iwasaki

Fumiyo Onda

Tsuneo Watanuki

Hisashi Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Yamada

Hirokazu Aritake

Yasushi Hara

Tomohisa Shingai

Keiichi Murakami

Hideyuki Motoyama

Motoi Kimura

Makoto Fukuda

Koichi Yokoyama

Tsutomu Kurihara

Masashi Watanabe

Takuto Kato

Masayuki Nose

Tohru Itoh

A liquid crystal display device including: a liquid crystal display element that includes a liquid crystal layer, and an upper substrate and a lower substrate opposed to each other via the liquid crystal layer, a plurality of liquid crystal display elements being stacked; wherein a condensing direction of a reflected light by directional control in at least one of the liquid crystal display elements is different from a condensing direction of a reflected light by directional control in at least one of another liquid crystal display elements.

Liquid crystal display device

In a liquid crystal display device that uses a liquid crystal material having spontaneous polarization and is actively driven by a TFT, a voltage corresponding to image data is applied twice by driving the TFT of each pixel electrode on a line by line basis of a liquid crystal panel, during writing in one frame. During erasure in one frame, voltage application to liquid crystal by batch selection of all the pixel electrodes is performed three times. With this three times of voltage application, it is possible to achieve a black display state in each pixel and make the stored charge amount at the liquid crystal in each pixel substantially zero.

Driving method of liquid crystal display device and liquid crystal display device

A liquid crystal display device displays an image by stacking a plurality of liquid crystal panels, and by controlling a light transmittance with voltage application to liquid crystal of each panel, wherein during execution of voltage application to the liquid crystal of one of the panels, a voltage to the liquid crystal of the other panel serves as a non-display voltage. No image is displayed simultaneously on the two or more stacked liquid crystal panels. In the liquid crystal panel to which no voltage is applied and on which no image is displayed, the longitudinal axial direction of liquid crystal molecules coincides with the polarizing axial direction of polarizers, or is orthogonal to the polarizing axial direction; therefore, no influence is exerted on the overall double refraction, and the overall voltage-transmitted light intensity characteristic corresponds to the sum of the voltage-transmitted light intensity characteristics of the respective panels.

Liquid crystal display device and display method

A display element comprises: a pair of substrates disposed opposite to each other; a liquid crystal enclosed between the pair of substrates; a wall structure which is formed to surround a pixel region and which is in contact with both of the pair of substrates; and an opening section which is an opening provided in a part of the wall structure to allow the liquid crustal to flow out of the pixel region.

Display element, electronic paper using the element, and electronic terminal using the element

A liquid crystal panel includes a glass substrate with pixel electrodes that are arranged in a matrix shape, TFTs that are connected to the pixel electrodes, and a glass substrate with an opposing electrode and color filters that are arranged in a matrix shape. A liquid crystal layer is formed in a space between the glass substrates by filling a ferroelectric liquid crystal into the space. When writing display data, and when deleting display data that has been written, a voltage, not including 0V, that becomes a voltage potential, or in other words, a voltage that is greater than a threshold voltage at which the optical characteristic of the filled ferroelectric liquid crystal changes is applied between the opposing electrode and pixel electrodes. An image is displayed over all gradation numbers, including the low-gradation side, and the display characteristic is improved.

Drive method for liquid crystal display device and liquid crystal display device

The present invention provides a display element capable of allowing a user to recognize the content of an image in a short time during screen rewriting, a method of driving the same, and an electronic paper including the same. At the time of image display, B and R pixels() to() and() to() in i-th rows of B and R display unitsandand G pixels(&#x2212;i,) to(&#x2212;i,) in a (&#x2212;i)-th row of a G display unitare driven substantially at the same time.

Display element, method of driving the same, and electronic paper including the same

A laser driving device includes a storage unit that stores signal patterns for recording-waveform control representing level information of each divided driving signal to drive a laser device on a space and a mark based on the divided driving signals. Also, it includes a pulse generator that generates the reference pulse and the switching pulse based on a first transmission signal and a second transmission signal. The first transmission signal contains timing information for acquiring a reference pulse that represents a timing of repetitively switching between the space and the mark. The second transmission signal contains timing information for acquiring a switch pulse that represents a timing of switching the signals. Among level information for each of the signals in the storage, reference level information is read together with the reference pulse. Other level information after the reference level information is sequentially read for each switching pulse.

Laser driving device and optical apparatus

A display device has a display panel having a first substrate in which a plurality of first electrodes are disposed in parallel, a second substrate in which a plurality of second electrodes crossing the first electrodes are disposed in parallel, and a material layer which is disposed between the first and second substrates and reflects, transmits or absorbs light with a predetermined wavelength according to a write state; first and second drive circuits which drive the first and second electrodes respectively; and a drive control circuit which performs drive control for the first and second drive circuits. When refreshing a display image, the first or second drive circuit, while applying a reset pulse to a plurality of adjacent electrode group of first or second electrodes, scans the electrode group so as to reset the pixels, and the drive control circuit controls to change the direction of scanning.

Display device

A liquid crystal display element includes a G display unit, serving as a first display unit, R and B display units and, serving as second and third display units, that are laminated on the G display unit and have display regions arranged so as to correspond to a display region of the G display unit, and a display control unit that performs a reset process of changing the display region to the same display state on the G display unit and then starts the reset process of the R and B display units.

Display element, electronic paper including the same, electronic terminal apparatus including the same, display system including the same, and method of processing image in display element

The invention relates to a liquid crystal display element, a method of manufacturing the element, and electronic paper having the element. The invention provides a liquid crystal element in which a change in a state of display attributable to an external force can be suppressed, a method of manufacturing the element, and electronic paper having the element. One blue pixel region is surrounded by four wall structures and four polymer layers without any discontinuity. The wall structures are formed on a bottom substrate and are in contact with a top substrate. The polymer layers are formed by injecting a cholesteric liquid crystal and polymeric substances (monomers or oligomers) which are materials different from both of the cholesteric liquid crystal and the wall structures between the top and bottom substrates and polymerizing the polymeric substances.

Liquid crystal display element, method of manufacturing the element, and electronic paper having the element

A method of filling a multilayered cell with media. In the method, a multilayered cell having at least two layers, i.e., a first and second layer, is filled with media. The method comprises forming in the first layer a first medium injection region for filling the first layer with a first medium, forming in the second layer a second medium injection region for filling the second layer with a second medium, the second medium injection region corresponding to a region different from the first medium injection region, superposing the first and second layers, forming within the first medium injection region a first through-hole extending through the multilayered cell in the layer-thickness direction, forming within the second medium injection region a second through-hole extending through the multilayered cell in the layer-thickness direction, and injecting the first and second media into the first and second through-holes, respectively, to fill the first and second layers with the first and second media. Thus, a multilayered cell can be easily produced in a shorter time while attaining a reduction in deterioration during production.

Multilayered cell, electronic terminal, and method of filling multilayered cell with media

The invention relates to a display element, an element drive method, and an information display system having the element, and has an object to provide a display element capable of stably acting even if a received electric power reduces, a method for driving the element, and an information display system having the element. The system comprises: a display section having laminated display layers; a wireless transmitting/receiving section for receiving electric waves containing the display data of the display layers; a driving voltage generating circuit for generating drive voltages to drive the display layers from the electric waves received; and a control section for simultaneously driving the display layers of the number which is determined on the basis of the receiving situations of the electric waves.

Display element, method for driving the same, and information display system including the same

Liquid crystal display device having spontaneous polarization

In a liquid crystal display device that carries out image display using multiple liquid crystal panels stacked, the average change in the direction of the optical axis due to the response of liquid crystal molecules with respect to the applied voltage, that is, the change in the direction of the long axis of the liquid crystal molecules with respect to the applied voltage, is made different among the liquid crystal panels. The desired brightness is attained at the overlaid portion of the liquid crystal panels.

A liquid crystal material is used in which the maximum angle of the optical axis change by liquid crystal molecule when a voltage of one polarity is applied is larger than 45 degrees and a condition of |2Ps&#xb7;A|&#x3e;|5(V)Clc&#xb7;A| is satisfied where Ps (nC/cm) is the magnitude of the spontaneous polarization per unit area, A (cm) is the electrode area of the pixel and Clc (nF/cm) is the liquid crystal capacity per unit area. The transmittance in the liquid crystal part is increased and excellent display can be performed without the provision of a storage capacitor. Consequently, the storage capacitor is unnecessary, so that the aperture ratio of the liquid crystal panel can be increased.

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Toshiaki Yoshihara