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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1996
Kinya Inoue, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Shinichi Higuchi, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Shinji Hirano, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Kouichi Ogino, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Yoshihisa Endo, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Mikio Matsumoto, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A liquid crystal display device with a tablet reduced in apparatus thickness and enhanced in display visibility. The liquid crystal display device mainly composed of a liquid crystal display upper glass plate, a liquid crystal, and a liquid crystal display lower glass plate is connected with a tablet on the upper glass plate, the tablet being mainly composed of a film having a first transparent electrode. A second transparent electrode arranged on the upper glass plate is made function as both an electrostatic capacity detecting electrode and a display electrode. Namely, display is made by the second transparent electrode and a third transparent electrode and a coordinate on the tablet is detected by the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode.