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The present invention relates to a touch panel comprising a structure body comprising: a substrate; a conducting pattern that is provided on at least one surface of the substrate; and a light absorption pattern provided on at least one surface of the conducting pattern and provided on at least a portion of regions corresponding to the conducting pattern, and a method for manufacturing the same.

A liquid crystal display device and a dimming controlling method thereof are disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a drive circuit supplying a data pulse and a gate pulse to the liquid crystal display panel, a backlight unit divided into a plurality of block including light sources, and irradiating lights of which luminescence is controlled by the blocks, respectively, a controller analyzing an input video data by the block unit, generating a block dimming value based on a result of the analyzing, repeating a low pass filtering to the block dimming value to generate a local dimming value, applying a predeterminded global dimming value to an average of the local dimming value to generate a dimming signal, and a backlight driver generating a PWM signal for controlling a luminescence of the light sources by the blocks respectively according to the dimming signal to drive the light sources by the blocks respectively.

A backlight unit capable of improving contrast properties by implementing a local dimming method while making the backlight unit slim, and a liquid crystal display using the same are provided. The backlight unit includes a first light guide plate array including a plurality of first light guide plates arranged in parallel in a first direction to define a first light guide channels; a second light guide plate array including a plurality of second light guide plates arranged in parallel in a second direction intersected with the first direction to a second light guide channels; a first light array arranged near at least one end of the first light guide plate array to illuminate light to the at least one end of the first light guide plate array; and a second light array arranged near at least one end of the second light guide plate array to illuminate light to the at least one end of the second light guide plate array.

Disclosed is a method of driving a plasma display panel enabling to improve an overall contrast characteristic of the plasma display panel by reducing a voltage difference between scan and sustain electrodes Y and Z to decrease an emission amount of light generated by a discharge between the scan and sustain electrodes Y and Z. The present invention includes a first step of applying a reset pulse to the scan electrode to form predetermined wall charges on the electrodes for a set-up period and a second step of applying a pulse of a predetermined level to the sustain electrode to reduce a voltage difference between the scan and sustain electrodes while the reset pulse is applied.

When a peak wavelength of light emerging from a light-emitting layer is λp(k) (k=1, 2, . . . , m in an order from a smallest wavelength), the peak wavelength λp(k) is less than a value ne(k)P(k) that is obtained by multiplying an extraordinary-ray refractive index ne(k) of a selective reflection layer that forms each selective reflection region by a helical pitch P(k), and is greater than a value no(k)P(k) that is obtained by multiplying an ordinary-ray refractive index no(k) by the helical pitch P(k). A relationship, ne(k−1)P(k−1)<no(k)P(k), is established between the selective reflection layers that form the selective reflection regions.

A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same, more particularly to, a plasma display apparatus considering the gray level values of sub-fields and a method of driving the same are provided. The plasma display apparatus controls the magnitudes of reset pulses or the widths of scan pulses in units of sub-fields thereby improving contrast, preventing driving margins from deteriorating, stabilizing discharges and improving. brightness.

The plastic polarized lens (10) of the present invention contains a polarized film (12) and layers (resin layers) (14a and 14b) comprising a thiourethane-based resin stacked over both surfaces of the polarized film (12), and the polarized film contains an organic coloring compound represented by the following general formula (1).

An image display device that displays an image by modulating a light from a light source according to display image data, includes: a first light modulation element that modulates a light emitted from the light source; and a second light modulation element that is disposed on an optical path in series with the first light modulation element and modulates a light exiting from the first light modulation element, wherein the first light modulation element and the second light modulation element are disposed in such a manner that a bright-field direction of an optical image of the first light modulation element and a bright-field direction of the second light modulation element almost coincide with each other.

A black matrix layer 14 is formed on a counter substrate 13 along the direction where a scanning line 2 extends, so that it continuously covers the upper parts of a common electrode line 3a, the scanning line 2, a space between the common electrode line 3a and the scanning line 2, a TFT 5, a space between the scanning line 2 and a common electrode line 3b, and the common electrode line 3b, and in the portion opposed to the signal line, the black matrix layer is eliminated.

Disclosed is an in-plane switching liquid crystal display. The in-plane switching liquid crystal display uses at least one A-plate and adjusts the optical axis direction and the retardation value of the A-plate, thereby improving the contrast characteristic at a front and at a predetermined inclination angle of the in-plane switching liquid crystal display while minimizing a color shift according to viewing angles in the black state.

The present invention relates to a display device with a birefringent lens system having cylindrical lenses, extending in a main direction. The polarisation of light modulated by a LC layer is twisted by a rotator layer (25′) in order to be perpendicular or parallel with this main direction. A birefringent compensation layer (26) is used to remove any ellipticity introduced by the rotator layer (25′). This provides improved contrast when the display device is used e.g. in a switchable 2D/3D display.

A liquid crystal display device comprises an optically diffusively reflecting layer arranged to maximize utilization of incident light. The reflecting layer contains a thin metallic film with projections (14a) each having an unsymmetrical cross section to centralise reflected light in a specific azimuth direction (y). The range of viewing angles (θ_x-z, θ_y-z) into which a substantial portion of the incident light is reflected is broader in the specific azimuth direction (y) than in another direction (x). The director (5d) of liquid crystal molecules initiallly lies in a plane (y-z) parallel to the specific azimuth direction (y) to achieve retardation self-compensation.

A liquid crystal device includes: a circuit substrate; a counter substrate disposed so as to be opposed to the circuit substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the circuit substrate and the counter substrate, the liquid crystal layer showing vertical alignment as an initial alignment state; a first alignment layer manufactured on a side of the counter substrate using a coating process, the side facing the liquid crystal layer, the first alignment layer having a vertical alignment function; and a second alignment layer manufactured on a side of the circuit substrate using a vacuum process, the side facing the liquid crystal layer, the second alignment layer generating a pretilt.

Provided is a liquid crystal display device of which the display property of semiconductor LCD can be improved, and thinning down of thickness and cost lowering of LCD can be achieved. In a reflection area, the side of color filter opposite the liquid crystal layer (300) of glass substrate (200) is coated with an UV curable liquid crystal (240) and then subjected to an UV irradiation for curing. Since the UV curable liquid crystal (240) performs as a differential phase shifter, unlike the prior art, laminating the differential phase shifter onto the glass substrate or TFT glass substrate on the color filter side is not needed. In addition, because the UV curable liquid crystal (240) is easy to be patterned, the pattern formation can be selectively made only on the reflection area.

A liquid crystal device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate that is disposed facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer that is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate and is composed of a liquid crystal exhibiting, in an initial alignment state thereof, a vertical alignment and having negative dielectric anisotropy; a light shielding film that is formed on a side of the liquid crystal layer on the first substrate and that corresponds to a non-display region and defining a display region; a pixel electrode that is disposed, on the first substrate, from the display region with a periphery projecting on the light shielding film; a vertical alignment film that is disposed, on the pixel electrode, only in the display region or from the display region with a periphery projecting in the non-display region; and a horizontal alignment film that is disposed, in an area without the vertical alignment film above the light shielding film, with a periphery projecting on the pixel electrode.

The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel and method thereof. The method for driving the PDP according to the present invention includes the steps of: setting a sustain period where a specific voltage is maintained for a predetermined time period between first and second periods whose voltage varies, in the ramp waveform, and supplying the ramp waveform to electrodes. The apparatus for driving the PDP according to the present invention includes an initialization driving circuit for generating a ramp waveform including a sustain period where a specific voltage is maintained for a predetermined time period between first and second periods whose voltage varies and supplying the ramp waveform to electrodes.