204results about How to "Increase the area ratio" patented technology

In each picture element region, a first electrode provided on one side of the first substrate that is closer to the liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of sub-electrodes, whereby the liquid crystal layer forms a liquid crystal domain taking a radially-inclined orientation above each sub-electrode by an inclined electric field produced around the sub-electrode. The second substrate includes a stepped portion including an upper tier located in the reflection region, a lower tier located in the transmission region and a side surface connecting the upper tier and the lower tier to each other, the side surface of the stepped portion being located in the reflection region and covered by the second electrode. The plurality of sub-electrodes are arranged in a line in a column direction D2, and picture elements that are adjacent to each other in a row direction D1 are driven with voltages of opposite polarities in each frame.

A high-performance optical device is provided. An optical device includes a first transmitting portion that is disposed at the center of a predetermined area in a first substrate, a light-receiving portion that receives light passing through the first transmitting portion, N light-emitting portions (N is an integer of 2 or more) that are disposed around the first transmitting portion in the predetermined area, and a control circuit that controls the light-emitting portions. The control circuit is functionally divided into N control portions, namely, first to N-th control portions. The N control portions are disposed in areas overlapping the N light-emitting portions, respectively, when viewed from above. The optical device can reduce noise light and achieve a high S/N ratio, and also the sensitivity of the optical device can be improved.

A liquid crystal display device, including: a first substrate; a second substrate; opposing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a reflection film formed on one side of the second substrate that is closer to the liquid crystal layer; and a color filter formed on the reflection film, wherein: a plurality of pixel regions are arranged in a matrix pattern, each of the pixel regions including a reflection region where light coming from the first substrate side is reflected by the reflection film back to the first substrate side, and a transmission region where light coming from the second substrate side is transmitted to the first substrate side; and the color filter includes an opening in the reflection region.

A navigation apparatus for displaying a map that includes building symbols representing buildings. The navigation apparatus includes a map-drawing unit that draws the map of an area from map data on shapes and positions of the building symbols at a selected map scale and a displaying unit that displays the drawn map. In the navigation apparatus in a nighttime-map displaying mode, the map-drawing unit draws the entirety of each building symbol in a bright color to generate the map when the map scale exceeds a predetermined threshold and draws part of the building symbol in a bright color to generate the map when the map scale does not exceed the predetermined threshold.

The method for promoting the size reduction, the performance improvement and the reliability improvement of a semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor is provided. In a semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor, a part of an uppermost wiring is used as a lower electrode of a pressure detecting unit. A part of a silicon oxide film formed on the lower electrode is a cavity. On a tungsten silicide film formed on the silicon oxide film, a silicon nitride film is formed. The silicon nitride film has a function to fill a hole or holes and suppress immersion of moisture from outside to the semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor. A laminated film of the silicon nitride film and the tungsten silicide film forms a diaphragm of the pressure sensor.

A fly's-eye lens sheet having a light-shielding layer includes a fly's-eye lens sheet body provided with fly's-eye lenses on one principal surface thereof, the light-shielding layer provided on the other principal surface of the fly's-eye lens sheet body, and a photosensitive adhesive layer disposed between the fly's-eye lens sheet body and the light-shielding layer, the photosensitive adhesive layer having adhesive and non-adhesive patterns, wherein the light-shielding layer includes a light-shielding portion disposed on the adhesive pattern and transmitting portions disposed on the non-adhesive pattern for transmitting light transmitted through the fly's-eye lenses, the transmitting portions are located at positions corresponding to light-collecting parts of the fly's-eye lenses, and the light-shielding portion contains carbon particles, the content of the carbon particles being 45% to 65% by weight.

The invention provides a manufacturing method for touch panel edge wire routing, a control panel with the edge wire routing and a touch display device. The manufacturing method comprises the following steps of (a) forming a photosensitive conductive paste layer on an edge area of a substrate with a transparent conductive layer, enabling the photosensitive conductive paste layer to be at least in partial overlapping with the transparent conductive layer, (b) exposing the photosensitive conductive paste layer by using a mask, and (c) carrying out developing on the exposed photosensitive conductive paste layer to form a patterning edge wire routing unit on the edge area of the substrate. The manufacturing method is beneficial to improving the precision of a wire route under the situation that the wire width of the edge wire routing is narrowed, and can enable the wire route to have good surface smoothness.

A stretchable structure of an absorbent article includes a stretchable region and a non-stretchable region. A laminate of a first sheet layer, second sheet layer, and elastic film between the first and second sheet layers extends over the stretchable and non-stretchable regions. The first and second sheet layers are bonded to each other at a large number of dot-like joints via through holes formed in the elastic film stretched along the surfaces of the first and second sheet layers in a stretchable direction. The dot-like joints are arrayed at intervals in the stretchable direction and a direction perpendicular to the stretchable direction. An end of the stretchable region adjacent to the non-stretchable region is a buffer stretchable section. The area rate of dot-like joints in the buffer stretchable section is larger than the area rate of dot-like joints in the main section not including the buffer stretchable section.

A display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a first thin film transistor (“TFT”) disposed on the first substrate, a second TFT disposed on the first substrate, a first color filter disposed on the first TFT and a periphery thereof, a second color filter disposed on the second TFT and a periphery thereof and representing a different color from the first color filter, and a light blocking member disposed on the first and second color filters where the light blocking member includes a first spacer disposed on the first TFT and the first color filter, a second spacer disposed on the second TFT and the second color filter, a main light blocking portion disposed in peripheries of the first and second spacers, and a furrow disposed between the second spacer and the main light blocking portion.

To reduce disturbances in display of images due to static electricity without deteriorating optical properties in a display. The display includes a conductive pattern provided on the upper surface of the substrate, a protection layer provided on the upper surface of the substrate to cover the conductive pattern, and a conductive layer provided on the protection layer. The sheet resistance of the conductive pattern is not more than 8Ω/square. A ratio of the total sum of areas of portions of the plurality of sub-pixels that overlap the conductive pattern in a plan view to the total sum of the areas of the plurality of sub-pixels is 1 to 22%. A sheet resistance of the conductive layer is higher than the sheet resistance of the conductive pattern.

The invention aims to reduce, in performing autofocusing on an autofocus target region determined within a face region obtained by face detection, the risk of misfocusing attributable to a background image included in the autofocus target region. To this end, a face detecting unit firstly performs face detection to determine a face region including a human face image. Then, an AF target region determination unit determines an AF target region within the face region. In this event, the AF target region determination unit can change the area ratio of the AF target region to the face region. Thereafter, based on contrast of a region, corresponding to the AF target region determined by the AF target region determination unit, of captured image data, an AF evaluation value calculation unit, a controller and a lens driving unit adjust a location where a subject image is formed by a shooting optical system.

This invention is to increase a floor area ratio of a freezing chamber and a utilization rate of heat transfer. A refrigerator is disclosed, which includes a cabinet having a storage space, a mullion provided in the cabinet to divide the storage space into a freezing chamber and a refrigerator chamber, the mullion having a cold airflow passage provided therein that is communicated with the freezing chamber and the refrigerator chamber, a double suction centrifugal blower provided in a middle space of the mullion and sucking air from the freezing chamber and the refrigerator chamber and exhausting to the cold airflow passage, an evaporator provided in the cold airflow passage for exchanging heat with the air exhausted from the double suction centrifugal blower, a top outlet and a bottom outlet exhausting air being passed through the evaporator to the freezing chamber and the refrigerator chamber.

The invention discloses a porous glass plate and structures adopting the porous glass plate, which adopt the technical scheme that: the porous glass plate is provided with pores, the pores are perforated in a thickness direction and are in regular or irregular distribution in a plane direction, the opening ratio is more than or equal to 0.5 percent and is less than or equal to 60 percent, and thepores are circular or in any shape; and the structures adopting the porous glass plate comprise building and structure windows adopting the porous glass plate, vehicle windows adopting the porous glass plate, enclosures adopting the porous glass plate, sound barriers adopting the porous glass plate, totally enclosed structures of traffic passages adopting the porous glass plate, and paravents adopting the porous glass plate. The porous glass plate has the advantages of having air permeability and being favorable for the ventilation, having the sound-absorbing effect of a perforated plate and amicroperforated plate and certain sound insulation effect, having the effects of keeping out the wind and reducing the wind pressure, and having the rainproof and antitheft effects. The porous glassplate is applicable to windows or glass curtain walls of buildings and structures, vehicle windows, enclosures, sound barriers, enclosed structures of traffic passages and paravents.