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A liquid crystal display apparatus comprises a liquid crystal display unit including a pair of substrates, at least one of which is transparent, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the pair of substrates, a plurality of electrodes for applying an electric field to at least one of the pair of substrates, and a plurality of active elements connected to the plurality of electrodes; a lighting device including a plurality of light sources; and a control unit for controlling ON / OFF of at least one light source for each of regions, into which the lighting device is divided, based on a display response of said liquid crystal display unit.

An image display system capable of viewing an electronic image and an external sight simultaneously, or selectively is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of image display units including a controller for outputting image signals and at least one display unit capable of enabling switching operation with a predetermined operation mode of a plurality of operation modes including a mode for indicating the image signals from the controller; an external control device for outputting mode control signals which address the operation mode of the display unit; the controller of the respective image display units being provided with an external control terminal for receiving the mode control signals and an output terminal for outputting the mode control signals supplied to the external control terminal; the outputs of different controllers are connected to the external control terminals thereof in turn so as to couple the plurality of controllers to the external control device in series, the remained control terminals are connected to the external control device, and the operation modes of whole display units are collectively and forcibly and / or individually controlled through the respective controllers on the basis of the mode control signals from the external control unit.

An image projection apparatus according to the present invention includes a light source for outputting laser light and a mirror section for reflecting and projecting the laser light having been output from the light source, and displays an image with at least a portion of the projected laser light. The image projection apparatus includes a detection section for detecting at least a portion of the laser light returning from a projection direction of the laser light, and a calculation section for determining an image displayable region based on the detected light. The mirror section reflects at least a portion of the laser light returning from the projection direction of the laser light so as to be led into the detection section.

An organic EL element includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes which are arranged on the substrate in a matrix configuration, a wall-like insulating layer which is formed on the substrate, organic light emitting layers which are formed on the first electrodes, respectively, an auxiliary electrode which is formed on top of the wall-like insulating layer and a second electrode which is formed to cover the surfaces of the wall-like insulating layer, the auxiliary electrode and the light emitting layers and electrically connected to the auxiliary electrode. The second electrode is transparent to light from the light emitting layers.

An image display system for viewing an electronic image and an external sight simultaneously, which includes image display units which have an individual controller for outputting image signals to a display unit. The display unit enables a switching operation with a predetermined operation mode from a plurality of operation modes, including a mode for indicating the image signals output from the individual controller. An external control device outputs mode control signals which address the operation mode of the display unit and are received by an external control terminal. A mode exchanging switch specifies a condition of the mode control signal. A detection unit detects whether the external control terminal is connected to a connector capable of outputting a mode control signal. The individual controllers are connected to the external control terminals in turn so as to couple the controllers to the external control device in series. The operation modes can be collectively and forcibly controlled by the individual controllers on the basis of mode control signals received by the external control unit.

A head-mounted display system comprises: a display device freely detachable and attachable on a user's head; a direction detector for detecting the orientation of the user's head in at least the horizontal direction, the direction detector being disposed on the display device; an image generator for generating an image in accordance with the orientation of the user's head detected by the direction detector; a displacement-calculating unit for calculating displacement, the displacement being the difference between directional data of the current orientation of the user's head detected by the direction detector and directional data of the orientation of the user's head detected a predetermined amount of time ago; and an image processor for sending an image generated in the image generator to the display device after shifting the image in at least the horizontal direction in accordance with the displacement calculated by the displacement-calculating unit.

Disclosed herein is a color filter substrate embedded with a touch sensor, including: a transparent substrate; a metal mesh electrode formed on the transparent substrate; and a black matrix layer formed on the metal mesh electrode to correspond to a shape of the metal mesh electrode and having at least one opening area formed therein. According to the present invention, the metal mesh electrode and the black matrix are overlapped to be matched with each other, thereby making it possible to solve a moire phenomenon.

An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device which allows a desirable storage capacitor to be ensured in a pixel without decreasing the aperture ratio in response to changes in frame frequency. In a liquid crystal display device including a pixel transistor and two capacitive elements using an oxide semiconductor material in each pixel, one of the capacitive elements comprises a light-transmitting material to improve the aperture ratio of the pixel. Furthermore, through the use of characteristics of the light-transmitting capacitive element, the size of the storage capacitor in the pixel is varied by adjusting the voltage value of a capacitance value in response to the frame frequency varied depending on images displayed.

An organic EL element includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes which are arranged on the substrate in a matrix configuration, a wall-like insulating layer which is formed on the substrate, organic light emitting layers which are formed on the first electrodes, respectively, an auxiliary electrode which is formed on top of the wall-like insulating layer and a second electrode which is formed to cover the surfaces of the wall-like insulating layer, the auxiliary electrode and the light emitting layers and electrically connected to the auxiliary electrode. The second electrode is transparent to light from the light emitting layers.

An active matrix electrophoretic display is driven. In a reset period Tr a reset voltage is applied to each pixel electrode. Next, in a writing period an applied voltage is applied to each of said pixel electrode during a time period corresponding to a gradation value designated by an image data. Next, a common voltage is applied to each of said pixel electrode, so that electric charge accumulated in each capacitor is taken away and no electric field is applied to each dispersal system, thereby a displayed image is held.

A self-luminescent display device includes a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels including a self-luminescent pixel is arranged, an external light sensor which measures an external light intensity, a temperature sensor which measures an environmental temperature, an image correcting unit which corrects image data input to the image correcting unit on the basis of statistical data of the image data, a light adjusting unit which produces a light adjusting signal on the basis of a measurement signal of the external light sensor, a temperature control unit which produces a temperature correcting signal on the basis of a measurement signal of the temperature sensor, and a display control unit which produces a brightness correcting signal for correcting light emitting brightness of the pixels in the pixel unit on the basis of the light adjusting signal and the temperature correcting signal. The light emitting brightness of the pixels in the pixel unit is adjusted on the basis of the image data corrected by the image correcting unit and the brightness correcting signal.

The present invention realizes a bright image display by enhancing a numerical aperture of pixels. At least a portion of a pixel electrode is overlapped to a thin film transistor by way of a first insulation film, the pixel electrode is connected to an output electrode of the thin film transistor via a contact hole which is formed in the first insulation film, the counter electrode is arranged above the pixel electrode by way of a second insulation film in a state that the counter electrode is overlapped to the pixel electrode, the counter electrode is formed at a position avoiding the contact hole formed in the first insulation film as viewed in a plan view, and at least a portion of the counter electrode is overlapped to the thin film transistor.

The present invention realizes a bright image display by enhancing a numerical aperture of pixels. At least a portion of a pixel electrode is overlapped to a thin film transistor by way of a first insulation film, the pixel electrode is connected to an output electrode of the thin film transistor via a contact hole which is formed in the first insulation film, the counter electrode is arranged above the pixel electrode by way of a second insulation film in a state that the counter electrode is overlapped to the pixel electrode, the counter electrode is formed at a position avoiding the contact hole formed in the first insulation film as viewed in a plan view, and at least a portion of the counter electrode is overlapped to the thin film transistor.

A plane source of light (back light) of the type of emitting light from both surfaces featuring a good light utilization efficiency and without permitting the external light to transmit through a display device even when it is combined with display panels of the transmission type. Light is introduced from a point source of light into a light guide plate. Many deflecting patterns of a triangular shape in cross section are formed in a recessed manner in a surface (pattern surface) on the side opposite to a light-leaving surface of the light guide plate. A prism sheet forming a plurality of arcuate prisms is arranged on a position facing the pattern surface of the light guide plate. Light propagating through the light guide plate is totally reflected by the deflecting pattern and goes out from the light-leaving surface nearly perpendicularly thereto. Light propagating through the light guide plate transmits through the deflecting patterns, goes out aslant, and is bent by the prisms into a direction nearly perpendicular to the pattern surface as it transmits through the prism sheet.

An optical apparatus is disclosed by which, even if heat is generated with optical elements in a diffraction grating-optical modulation apparatus, lights emitted from the optical elements is less likely to suffer from displacement therebetween. The optical apparatus includes an optical element, a mounting substrate, a support member, and a cooling / heat radiating member. The support member is attached to a first face of the mounting substrate while the optical element is attached to a second face of the mounting substrate. The cooling / heat radiating member is attached to the support member. The optical element and the support member are thermally connected to each other by a heat transmission element provided in the inside of the mounting substrate. The support member is made of a material having a thermal conductivity of 230 W / m·K or more.

A liquid crystal display apparatus that uses a backlight for display includes a video signal time compression circuit for compressing a video signal in the time axis direction and outputting the time-compressed video signal, an LCD controller for driving a liquid crystal panel based on the time-compressed video signal, and a source driver and a gate driver. The liquid crystal display apparatus also includes a motion detection circuit for detecting the amount of motion of a display image based on the video signal, a PWM modulation pulse generation circuit for generating modulation pulses different in frequency according to the detection result from the motion detection circuit, and an inverter for lighting up the backlight based on the modulation pulses, to thereby enable reduction of image contour blurring in a moving image and reduction of flicker in a still image.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional virtual display method of a real-space three-dimensional geographic entity. The three-dimensional virtual display method comprises the following steps: by starting from special requirements of real-space three-dimensional projection on a data format, preprocessing a huge amount of three-dimensional data of the three-dimensionally displayed geographic entity to remove redundant data and obtain effective three-dimensional entity data; performing three-dimensional modeling on an irregular terrain according to the geographic entity data to obtain views from multiple angles in three-dimensional display, and processing and optimizing the views in combination with a real-space three-dimensional display technology; and according to a real-space three-dimensional display imaging principle, analyzing a dynamic three-dimensional entity imaging principle, establishing a three-dimensional projection system in a real space, and projecting the established three-dimensional terrain model in the real space according to a certain proportion, thus achieving three-dimensional simulative display of three-dimensional geographic information. By the three-dimensional virtual display method, the three-dimensional geographic information is displayed more vividly, so that a person can feel a three-dimensional real effect of the three-dimensional geographic information in the real space more intuitively.

An image correction apparatus, an image correction method and a transformation map making method are disclosed. The apparatus includes an imaging device, a memory section, a corrected image creation section and a display device. The imaging device has an optical axis inclined upward or downward with respect to a ground surface, and captures an image. The corrected image creation section transforms the captured image into a corrected image in accordance with a transformation map stored in the memory section, thereby making a correction on inclination of a display object with respect to a vertical direction. The display device displays the corrected image.

The picture mode controller for flat panel and flat panel display device including the same includes an input unit to input a first timing signal indicating transmission sections for pixel data, and a second timing signal indicating a transmission time of each pixel data, a pseudo timing signal generating unit to generate a first pseudo timing signal to be used as the first timing signal, a first selecting unit to selectively output the first timing signal and the first pseudo timing signal to allow one of a video picture mode and a black picture mode to be designated, and a selection control unit to control a selecting operation of the first selecting unit based on whether the first timing signal is input from the input unit and whether a period of the second timing signal changes.

An image display apparatus which enables observation of a clear image at a wide field angle with substantially no reduction in the brightness of the observation image, and which is extremely small in size and fight in weight and hence unlikely to cause the observer to be fatigued. The image display apparatus includes an image display device and an ocular optical system for projecting an image formed by the image display device and for leading the projected image to an observer's eyeball. The ocular optical system (3) has three surfaces, and a space formed by the three surfaces is filled with a medium having a refractive index larger than 1. The three surfaces include, in the order in which light rays pass in backward ray tracing from the observer's eyeball (1) to the image display device (4), a first surface (5) which functions as both a refracting surface and an internally reflecting surface, a second surface (6) which is a reflecting surface facing the first surface (5) and decentered or tilted with respect to an observer's visual axis (2), and a third surface (7) which is a refracting surface closest to the image display device (4), so that reflection takes place three times in the path from the observer's eyeball (1) to the image display device (4).

A liquid crystal display including a backlight and a filter, the backlight including a light-emitting device having a light-emitting element emitting blue light, and a green phosphor and a red phosphor absorbing a part of primary light emitted from the light-emitting element and emitting first secondary light and second secondary light, respectively, the green phosphor being a β-type SiAlON phosphor containing Eu and Al dissolved in a crystal of a nitride or an oxynitride having a β-type Si3N4 crystal structure, and the filter including filters for colors of red (R), green (G), blue (B) and yellow (Y), respectively, arranged in a plane for subpixels provided in each pixel of the liquid crystal display, which attains excellent color reproducibility (NTSC ratio) and high luminance, can be provided.

A method of producing a polarizing plate of the present invention comprises the steps of: bonding a protective film to at least one side of a polarizing film that is produced through at least uniaxial stretching and has an absorption axis in the uniaxial stretching direction, and removing by cutting at least one of the edges of the polarizing film that are substantially parallel to the direction of the absorption axis before the bonding the protective film. The method widen the effective width of the polarizing plate, and a large size polarizing plate was obtained.

An image display device prevents display abnormality due to the corrosion and / or disappearance of the testing electrodes and / or and the conductive film for leading lines with a simple structure. Leading lines, which are in the wiring terminal section, electrically connect internal wiring lines to a driver IC. Each of the leading line has a mounting electrode and a testing electrode. A patterned first conductive film, which is separate from the testing electrode, connects electrically the mounting electrode to the corresponding internal wiring line in the display section. A patterned connecting conductive film is formed on an insulative film to contact with the mounting and testing electrodes, thereby making electrical interconnection between the mounting and testing electrodes. The connecting conductive film is made of a material (e.g., ITO) whose corrosion resistance is greater than a material (e.g., Cr) for the testing electrode.

An active matrix electrophoretic display is driven. In a reset period Tr a reset voltage is applied to each pixel electrode. Next, in a writing period an applied voltage is applied to each of said pixel electrode during a time period corresponding to a gradation value designated by an image data. Next, a common voltage is applied to each of said pixel electrode, so that electric charge accumulated in each capacitor is taken away and no electric field is applied to each dispersal system, thereby a displayed image is held.

According to the invention, the optical film is processed into circular shape as stated above. Thus, optical members with high versatility can be produced without being affected by the optical film-specific optical axis, and optical members that allows easy inventory control can be provided with no reduction in production efficiency. And a method of processing a long size optical film into a circular shape, subsequently processing the optical film processed into the circular shape into an arbitrary shape, also allows a fine tuning of its optical axis even after it is produced from the long size optical film, therefore, optical members with a high degree of flexibility in design and with high versatility can be provided.

A plane source of light (back light) of the type of emitting light from both surfaces featuring a good light utilization efficiency and without permitting the external light to transmit through a display device even when it is combined with display panels of the transmission type. Light is introduced from a point source of light into a light guide plate. Many deflecting patterns of a triangular shape in cross section are formed in a recessed manner in a surface (pattern surface) on the side opposite to a light-leaving surface of the light guide plate. A prism sheet forming a plurality of arcuate prisms is arranged on a position facing the pattern surface of the light guide plate. Light propagating through the light guide plate is totally reflected by the deflecting pattern and goes out from the light-leaving surface nearly perpendicularly thereto. Light propagating through the light guide plate transmits through the deflecting patterns, goes out aslant, and is bent by the prisms into a direction nearly perpendicular to the pattern surface as it transmits through the prism sheet.