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A improved liquid crystal display device including two substrates each having transparent electrode thereon disposed in parallel while keeping a predetermined gap by means of pillar-shaped spacers and a liquid crystal held between said first and second substrates is proposed. In the liquid crystal display device, density or volume of the number of the pillar-shaped spacers provided in the off-display area is higher than those of a density of the number of said pillar-shaped spacers provided in the display area. This change is made continuously or stepwise along areas. The spacers are preferably disposed so that a contact area between the spacer and a rubbing cloth during the rubbing process is minimized, or so that an orientation defective area caused starting from the spacer does not extend into the pixel area, or so that a plurality of spacers are disposed along a flow of liquid crystal from filling port into the gap between the first and second substrate.

In a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus, the gate driving circuit comprises a plurality of stages. At least one of the stages comprises a pull-up section responsive to a first node signal; a pull-down section responsive to a second input signal; a discharging section discharging the first node signal in response to the second input signal; a first holding section responsive to the first clock signal, maintaining the first node signal at the off-voltage; and a second holding section responsive to the second clock signal, maintaining the first node signal at the off-voltage. The second holding section has a greater transistor width-to-length ratio than the first holding section. Therefore, an abnormal gate-on signal is less likely to occur, reducing driving defects of the display apparatus.

The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display including: a lower electrode including a unit pixel electrode; an upper electrode including an upper unit electrode facing the unit pixel electrode; and a liquid crystal layer between the lower electrode and the upper electrode and including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules aligned approximately perpendicular to the surfaces of the lower electrode and the upper electrode in the absence of an electric field, wherein the unit pixel electrode includes a stem forming a boundary between a plurality of sub-regions and a plurality of minute branches extending in different directions in two different sub-regions, the upper unit electrode includes an opening facing the stem and extending parallel to the stem, any alignment aid to pretilt the liquid crystal molecules is absent, and a length of the minute branches is equal to or less than about 53 μm.

In a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus, the gate driving circuit comprises a plurality of stages. At least one of the stages comprises a pull-up section responsive to a first node signal; a pull-down section responsive to a second input signal; a discharging section discharging the first node signal in response to the second input signal; a first holding section responsive to the first clock signal, maintaining the first node signal at the off-voltage; and a second holding section responsive to the second clock signal, maintaining the first node signal at the off-voltage. The second holding section has a greater transistor width-to-length ratio than the first holding section. Therefore, an abnormal gate-on signal is less likely to occur, reducing driving defects of the display apparatus.

A liquid crystal display includes a pair of substrates including at least one transparent substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the substrates, a plurality of electrodes formed on at least one of the substrates to apply an electric field to the liquid crystal layer, a plurality of active elements connected to the electrodes, an alignment layer formed on the surface of each of the substrates in contact with the liquid crystal layer, and an optical means formed on at least one of the substrates to change the optical characteristics in accordance with the alignment condition of the particles of the liquid crystal layer. The taper angle at the ends of the electrodes is larger than 45 degrees but less than 90 degrees.

A display device including: a substrate including a display area in which pixels are positioned and a peripheral area around the display area; a common electrode and a pixel electrode that are positioned on the display area and overlapping with each other, with a first insulating layer disposed therebetween; a common voltage line positioned on or below the common electrode and contacting the common electrode; an edge common voltage line connected with the common voltage line and formed along an edge of the display area; and a first common voltage transfer line contacting the edge common voltage line in the peripheral area and configured to transfer a common voltage to the common voltage line.

A display substrate includes a plurality of gate wirings, a plurality of source wirings, a plurality of pixel portions, an electrical short pad part and a short element. The electrical short pad part is formed in a peripheral area surrounding the display area and formed from at least one of the gate metallic layer and the source metallic layer to receive a common voltage. The short element makes contact with the electrical short pad part and has electric conductivity. The electrical short pad part includes a first metallic layer and a second metallic layer in sequence, and the second metallic layer has greater ionization energy than the first metallic layer. The electrical short pad part is exposed onto the surface of the display substrate. Accordingly, an extra cover electrode for preventing the electrical short pad part from corrosion may be omitted, so that static electricity is prevented from being applied into the display substrate.

In an active matrix type liquid crystal display device in which a common electrode and a second pixel electrode have portions opposing each other, and an electric field parallel to substrates is formed between the two electrodes, Y direction extending portions of the common electrode are provided above data lines via a second interlayer insulation film. Slits are opened in the Y direction extending portions of the common electrode along the data lines. Portions of a black matrix which are set to a common electric potential with the common electrode are provided on an opposing substrate at positions opposing the slits.

A pixel array, a driving method thereof and a flat panel display using the same are provided. The pixel array includes a first, a second, a third, and a fourth scan lines. A plurality of pixels is disposed between the first and the second scan lines. A plurality of pixels is disposed between the third and the fourth scan lines. In a first frame period, a gate driving circuit sequentially provides a driving signal to the first, the second, the fourth and the third scan lines. In a second frame period, the gate driving circuit sequentially provides the driving signal to the second, the first, the third and the fourth scan lines.

A liquid crystal device includes a positive potential connection line as a first connection line layer to which a first potential lower than a common potential is applied, between a pixel area and a seal member in the plan view, and a peripheral electrode as a second connection line layer that is provided between the positive potential connection line and a liquid crystal layer, is provided to overlap with at least a part of the positive potential connection line in the plan view, and to which a second potential higher than the common potential is applied.

A display apparatus includes a display panel and a mold frame. The display panel includes a display area, a peripheral area surrounding the display area, an alignment mark on the peripheral area, and a cover element overlapping the alignment mark to cover the alignment mark. The mold frame has a frame shape configured to receive the display panel. The mold frame includes a panel guide protrusion protruding from an inner surface of the mold frame, and the panel guide protrusion is adjacent to the alignment mark.

In a thin-film transistor (TFT) substrate, a gate insulating layer is disposed on a gate electrode electrically connected to a gate line. A semiconductor layer is disposed on the gate insulating layer. A source electrode is electrically connected to a data line that intersects the gate line. A drain electrode faces the source electrode and defines a channel area of a semiconductor layer. An organic layer is disposed on the data line and has a first opening exposing the channel area. An inorganic insulating layer is disposed on the organic layer. A pixel electrode is disposed on the inorganic insulating layer and electrically connected to the drain electrode. The inorganic insulating layer covers the first opening, and thickness of the inorganic insulating layer is substantially uniform.

In a liquid crystal display device of the active matrix type using in-plane switching (IPS), with at least four transmission regions being formed within a single pixel area surrounded by neighboring gate wiring lines and neighboring drain wiring lines disposed in a direction transverse to the drain wiring lines, a multilayer structure formed of two layers of conductive films with an insulating film sandwiched therebetween is provided at a pixel electrode extending from either one of the neighboring gate wiring lines toward the interior of the pixel and causes one of these two-layer conductive films (i.e. lower pixel electrode placed on the substrate side) is configured to bend or “crank” into a hook-like shape at a central portion of the pixel areas while letting its planar shape be adjacent to one of the neighboring drain lines at the half of the pixel area and also letting it be adjacent to the other of the neighboring drain lines at the other half, thereby widening the viewing angle of an image to be visually displayed on the liquid crystal display device and also brightening the image.

A method for displaying a multi-viewpoint image is capable of reducing display defects, and a display apparatus to perform the method includes a display part and a driving control part. The driving control part provides the display part with a plurality of multi-viewpoint images signals. The driving control part sequentially provides the display part with a first viewpoint image to a last viewpoint image and provides the display part with a compensation viewpoint image signal that replaces the last viewpoint image signal of a frame.

The invention provides a driving circuit, a driving method thereof and a display device. The driving circuit comprises a current source module which is respectively connected with a to-be-driven element and a first data line and is used for receiving a first data signal through the first data line and controlling the magnitude of driving current provided for the to-be-driven element according to the first data signal; a time control module which is respectively connected with the current source module, a second data line and a pulse signal end, and is used for receiving a second data signal through the second data line, receiving a periodic pulse signal through the pulse signal end, and controlling the duration of providing driving current for the element to be driven by the current source module in each driving period according to the second data signal and the periodic pulse signal. According to the invention, the display defect caused by a light-emitting device of which the characteristic easily drifts with the current density can be reduced, and the display performance of a related display product is improved.

Disclosed are a display device and a driving method thereof. The display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of data lines; a first gate driver and a second gate driver which each transmit a gate signal to the gate lines and are at edge regions of the display panel; and a data driver which transmit data voltages to the data lines. The pixels include a plurality of first color pixels which display a first color and are connected to the first gate driver, a plurality of second color pixels which display a second color and are connected to the second gate driver, and a plurality of third color pixels which display a third color and comprise at least a pixel connected to the first gate driver and at least a pixel connected to the second gate driver.

Smectic liquid crystal is dropped by a dropping method in which a plurality of droplets of smectic liquid crystal are dropped to an alignment film so that the droplets are aligned in a line which is parallel to a rubbing direction of the alignment film which is formed in a region surrounded by a seal pattern of a sealant having an opening over a substrate. Excess liquid crystal is drained away from the seal pattern of a sealant through the opening of the seal pattern.

In order to manufacture a highly reliable and compact TFT, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device for forming a gate electrode, a source wiring and a drain wiring with high reliability, and a semiconductor device. In the method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, a semiconductor film is formed over a substrate having an insulated surface, a gate insulating film is formed over the semiconductor film, a gate electrode is formed over the gate insulating film, and a nitride film is formed over the surface of the gate electrode by nitriding the surface of the gate electrode by using high-density plasma.

Smectic liquid crystal is dropped by a dropping method in which a plurality of droplets of smectic liquid crystal are dropped to an alignment film so that the droplets are aligned in a line which is parallel to a rubbing direction of the alignment film which is formed in a region surrounded by a seal pattern of a sealant having an opening over a substrate. Excess liquid crystal is drained away from the seal pattern of a sealant through the opening of the seal pattern.

An object is to reduce crosstalk between consecutive frame periods. The writing period of image signals to each pixel and the lighting period of light sources corresponding to the image signals in one frame period are rearranged so that the lighting period of the light sources corresponding to the image signals does not overlap with a previous frame period and the next frame period, and the image signals are written and the light sources corresponding to the image signals are on. Specifically, a display region is divided into a plurality of regions, and each of the plurality of regions is divided for rows in a first half and rows in a latter half. The image signals written to the rows in the latter half are written in the previous frame period, and the light sources corresponding to the image signals are on in the frame period.

A display apparatus includes a first interpolator configured to generate first correction data for a first polarity corresponding to an input data using a first look up table which stores correction data for the first polarity compensating for a luminance difference between the first polarity and a second polarity opposite to the first polarity of a data voltage for the sub pixel, a first delay compensator configured to apply a correction value to the first correction data for the first polarity and generate second correction data for the first polarity, the correction value compensating for an RC delay based on a pixel position corresponding to the input data.

The widths of those portions of a semiconductor layer 5 and a drain line 6a overlapping with it which cross an edge line of a gate electrode 2 are made smaller than the channel width of a thin-film transistor. With this measure, the overlap area of the gate electrode 2 and a drain electrode 6 is reduced. As a result, a variation of the above overlap area due to alignment errors in a photolithography apparatus used in patterning the gate lines 2, the drain electrodes 6, and source electrodes 7 can be reduced and the frequency of occurrence of display defects can be decreased.

The invention provides a composite glass structure used for a liquid crystal display. A functional layer of the composite glass structure comprises a single-face anti-reflection glass layer (2), a linear polaroid (3), a first lambda phase delay piece (4) and a second lambda phase delay piece (5); one face of the linear polaroid (3) is connected with the single-face anti-reflection glass layer (2), the other face of the linear polaroid (3) is connected with the first lambda phase delay piece (4), one face of the second lambda phase delay piece (5) is attached to the upper surface of a liquid crystal panel (1), and the other face of the second lambda phase delay piece (5) is attached to the other face of the first lambda phase delay piece (4). By means of the composite glass structure used for the liquid crystal display, work links and the manufacturing procedures are reduced while the anti-reflection performance, the electromagnetic shielding performance and heating performance of the liquid crystal display are guaranteed, and meanwhile chroma mura of the liquid crystal display and other display defects are avoided.

Disclosed are an exposure mask capable of improving uniformity of a resist film thickness of a half film thickness part and reducing a display defect to increase a manufacturing yield, a method of manufacturing a TFT substrate using the exposure mask and a liquid crystal display comprising the TFT substrate manufactured by the method and having no display defect. The exposure mask includes a light-shielding pattern on a transparent substrate in which a gray-tone area is provided to at least a part of the light-shielding pattern, the gray-tone area having an oblong light-shielding pattern having a width of a submarginal resolution of an exposure apparatus and sandwiched between oblong slit-type transmissive patterns having a width of the submarginal resolution, and a light-shielding rate of the gray-tone area is gradually reduced toward a center of the oblong light-shielding pattern from longitudinal ends thereof.

In a method of manufacturing a display panel, a first alignment member is formed on a first substrate. Liquid crystal is sealed between the first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate. Then, an electric field is applied to the liquid crystal to align the liquid crystal. Ultraviolet light is irradiated onto the first alignment member to form a second alignment member while applying the electric field to the liquid crystal.

A main object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device having high impact resistance and good display properties. In the present invention, the above-described object is attained by providing a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal panel, a transparent substrate having rigidity, and a fusion bonding layer comprising a thermoplastic resin, characterized in that the transparent substrate is bonded to a viewing-side surface of the liquid crystal display panel with the fusion bonding layer interposed therebetween.

A liquid crystal display includes a pair of substrates including at least one transparent substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the substrates, a plurality of electrodes formed on at least one of the substrates to apply an electric field to the liquid crystal layer, a plurality of active elements connected to the electrodes, an alignment layer formed on the surface of each of the substrates in contact with the liquid crystal layer, and an optical means formed on at least one of the substrates to change the optical characteristics in accordance with the alignment condition of the particles of the liquid crystal layer. The taper angle at the ends of the electrodes is larger than 45 degrees but less than 90 degrees.

A display apparatus includes a display panel and a mold frame. The display panel includes a display area, a peripheral area surrounding the display area, an alignment mark on the peripheral area, and a cover element overlapping the alignment mark to cover the alignment mark. The mold frame has a frame shape configured to receive the display panel. The mold frame includes a panel guide protrusion protruding from an inner surface of the mold frame, and the panel guide protrusion is adjacent to the alignment mark.