Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Other

Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Tsuyoshi Uemura

Kenji Nakao

Shozo Fujiwara

Yoshinori Kobayashi

Yoshihiro Gohara

Mitsuaki Oshima

Hirofumi Kubota

Masao Yamamoto

Naohide Wakita

Seiji Nishiyama

Kazuo Inoue

Shoichi Ishihara

Yoshinori Tanaka

Shinya Kosako

Katsuji Hattori

Noriko Naito

Junichi Kobayashi

Hiroshi Satani

Keisuke Tsuda

Satoshi Okutani

Hiroyuki Ohnishi

Kazufumi Ogawa

Takaiki Nomura

Junji Nakajima

Hideaki Mochizuki

Tadashi Otake

Takako Takebe

Kazuhiro Johten

Naotada Okada

Daiichi Suzuki

Sadayoshi Hotta

Mika Nakamura

Isao Ota

Junichi Tonotani

Naomi Kaneko

Yukio Numata

Noriko Ohba

Hiroyuki Onishi

Mitsutaka Okita

Keiji Suzuki

Katsuhiko Kumagawa

Masakazu Uekita

Claus Escher

Hirofumi Wakemoto

Tadahiko Yokota

Gerhard Illian

Mikiko Matsuo

Junko Asayama

Mikio Murakami

Yoneharu Takubo

Kazunori Komori

Muneharu Akiyoshi

Shingo Fujita

Yasunori Kuratomi

Yoshio Iwai

Naoko Mikami

Dietmar Jungbauer

Takao Sakurai

Tooru Tamura

Hisanori Sugiura

Tetsuya Satou

Seiji Kawaguchi

Kazuya Nagao

Makoto Murata

Akifumi Ogiwara

Hideki Ookawa

Shinnya Kosako

Heinz-Joachim Rieger

Satoshi Kimura

A liquid crystal display comprises: a liquid crystal layer capable of bend orientation; a display screen on which an image is displayed by light transmitted through a bend-oriented liquid crystal layer; and liquid crystal voltage application means for applying a liquid crystal voltage to the liquid crystal layer according to luminance information for each field of image information composed of serial fields, the liquid crystal voltage being applied to cause transmittance of the light to change, thereby sequentially displaying the image corresponding to the fields of the image information, and when the luminance information changes between current and subsequent fields, the liquid crystal voltage application means applies the liquid crystal voltage which changes so as to have a value according to the luminance information by the time the liquid crystal voltage is applied for the subsequent field.

OCB liquid crystal display with active matrix and supplemental capacitors and driving method for the same

An organic EL display includes an organic EL element including a pair of electrodes and an emitting layer interposed therebetween and having an optical resonator structure, and a coloring layer facing the organic EL element. A wavelength &#x3bb;of a light component with the maximum intensity that the organic EL element emits in a normal direction is shorter than a wavelength at which the coloring layer exhibits the maximum transmittance.

Organic EL display

A data processing apparatus has a first processing unit for processing an input data, a second processing unit responsive to the data processed by the first processing unit for executing a processing dependent on the data and producing a display data, and a display unit having a display drive unit and a display device for displaying the display data. The second processing unit is selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the second processing unit. The display drive unit is also selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the display unit. The display device has a memory function that maintains its display image even when supply of a display drive signal from the display drive unit is stopped, so that a latest image before inactivation of the second processing unit and/or the display drive unit for power consumption reduction is visible by an operator during the inactivated and low power consumption state of the apparatus.

Data processing apparatus

An optical device includes a first waveguide layer in which multiple-beam interference occurs, a second waveguide layer which includes a back surface facing the first waveguide layer and a front surface as a light output surface, and a diffraction grating which is arranged on a back side of the second waveguide layer and faces the first waveguide layer, wherein a grating constant of the diffraction grating is defined such that a first-order diffracted light emerges from the second waveguide layer, the first-order diffracted light being generated when a light component having a highest intensity of light which propagates in an in-plane direction while causing multiple reflection in the first waveguide layer enters the diffraction grating.

Optical device and organic EL display

An organic EL display includes an insulating layer with light-transmission property, an organic EL element located on a back side of the insulating layer, a diffraction grating located on the back side of the insulating layer, and an optical film disposed on a front side of the insulating layer and including optically isotropic first portions and optically anisotropic second portions, the first and second portions forming boundaries inclined with respect to a main surface of the optical film.

An optical device includes a first waveguide layer in which multiple-beam interference occurs, a second wavelength layer which includes a back surface facing the first waveguide layer and a front surface as a light output surface, and an outcoupling layer which is disposed on a back side of the second waveguide layer and faces the first wave guide layer, wherein the outcoupling layer includes a first portion as a layer with light transmission property and second portions which are dispersed in the first portion and differ in optical property from the first portion, and wherein an array of the second portions forms a triangular lattice.

A liquid crystal display element having pretilt angles and anchoring energies with respect to liquid crystal molecules that differ between a pair of opposed substrates, a liquid crystal display element having pretilt angles and anchoring energies with respect to liquid crystal molecules that vary at a same substrate, and an optically anisotropic film having a plurality of optically different regions is provided. Thus, a liquid crystal display element that has improved display characteristics, response, and the like can be obtained. Methods of producing such liquid crystal display elements and such an optically anisotropic film are provided. The production methods are simply carried out utilizing the irradiation of polarized light. Thus, the present invention is of great value to industry.

Liquid crystal display element, optically anisotropic film, and production methods of the same

The present invention provides a method of forming a transparent conductive film at a low temperature that is suitable for use with a synthetic resin substrate. According to the production method of a substrate with an electrode of the present invention, an oxide conductive film composed of an amorphous material or mainly composed of an amorphous material is formed on a substrate at a temperature equal to or less than the crystallization temperature of the film, and subsequently, the formed oxide conductive film is crystallized by heating. The oxide conductive film is processed into the shape of an electrode either before or after crystallization, according to necessity.

Substrate with an electrode and method of producing the same

There are disclosed methods for driving liquid crystal display apparatuses for certainly completing in a short time to performing a transition of liquid crystal molecules to a displayable alignment in liquid crystal display apparatuses such that an initial alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is different from the displayable alignment, typically an optically compensated bend mode liquid crystal display apparatus. A voltage is applied to a liquid crystal layer until display area in the liquid crystal layer is transformed to the displayable alignment. After the completion of the transition, a backlight is switched on to sift to a display-driving mode. In order to complete the transition in a short time, voltage pulse under the conditions (such as a frequency and a voltage value) determined in accordance with a temperature of a liquid crystal panel is applied to the liquid crystal layer.

Liquid crystal display apparatus and method for driving the same

A light-emitting element having at least a light-emitting region arranged between a pair of electrodes is provided, in which the light-emitting region contains either (A) a light-emitting material, a compound capable of sustaining the charge transport, and a heavy metal as a mixture, or (B) a compound that is capable of sustaining the charge transport and that includes both of a portion for contributing to the charge transport and a portion for contributing to the light emission within the compound, and a heavy metal as a mixture. A method for producing the light-emitting element, and a display device in which a plurality of the light-emitting elements are used, are provided also. With the light-emitting element of the present invention, it is possible to provide an organic thin film electroluminescent element that has a high emission efficiency, whose materials are easy to synthesize as compared with a heavy metal complex-doped element that has been studied widely in recent years, that has a small concentration quenching, and that is stable and uniform. Therefore, the light-emitting element of the present invention is applicable as a light source for use in a flat-panel-type self-luminous display device and for other various purposes such as communication and illumination.

Luminous element and method for preparation thereof

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