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There is provided a display including: a pixel array part configured to include pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, each of the pixel circuits having a drive transistor, a holding capacitor, an electro-optical element, a sampling transistor, and an initialization transistor, a drive current based on information held in the holding capacitor being produced by the drive transistor and being applied to the electro-optical element for light emission of the electro-optical element; and a controller configured to include a write scanner, a horizontal driver, and an initialization scanner.

An object of the present invention is to provide a lighting device configured to suppress uneven brightness. A backlight unit 12 according to the present invention includes LEDs 17 as light sources, a chassis 14 housing the LEDs 17 and including an opening 14b through which light from the LEDs 17 exits, an optical member 15 arranged to cover the opening 14b and face the LEDs 17, and a reflection sheet 19 arranged in the chassis 14 to face the optical member 15. A surface in the chassis 14 facing the optical member 15 includes a light source arrangement area LA in which the LEDs 17 are arranged and a light source non-arrangement area LN in which no LED 17 is arranged. The light source arrangement area LA corresponds to a low light reflectance area LRA having relatively low light reflectance, and the light source non-arrangement area LN corresponds to a high light reflectance area HRA having relatively high light reflectance.

Disclosed is a dark field illumination apparatus which is capable of performing a dark field illumination which exhibits a sufficient brightness and a sufficiently suppressed unevenness in brightness. The apparatus comprises a shaping system for shaping a light beam from a light source into approximately parallel beam having a ring- shaped section; a fly-eye optical device for forming a plurality of light source images in the vicinity of its exit plane based on the approximately parallel beam, the light source images being arranged circularly; and a light collection optical system for collecting light beams from the light source images and superposing them on an object plane.

Disclosed is an illumination device that is capable of suppressing uneven brightness. The illumination device is equipped with LEDs (17), a chassis (14) that houses the LEDs (17), and a light-reflecting sheet (22) for the chassis that is disposed on the inner surface of the chassis (14) and is capable of reflecting the light from the LEDs (17); and is characterized in that the light-reflecting sheet (22) for the chassis has a sheet bottom section (31) extending along the surface of a base plate (14a) and a sheet oblique section (32) extending from the edge of the sheet bottom section (31), in that the sheet oblique section (32) slants in relation to the sheet bottom section (31) toward the light emission side of a backlight device (12), and in that the optical reflectivity of a boundary section (F2), which is the region along the border line (L) between the sheet bottom section (31) and the sheet oblique section (32) and includes said border line (L), on the surface of the LED (17) side of the light-reflecting sheet (22) for the chassis is set higher than the optical reflectivity of separate-side neighboring sections (F1, F3) that neighbor on sides of the boundary section (F2) separated from the border line (L).

A planar illumination device is provided that enhances the efficiency of use of light and its brightness while suppressing uneven brightness, that reduces an increase in the manufacturing cost and that can reduce the thickness of the planar illumination device. In this backlight device (planar illumination device) (20), in the light emitting surface (23b) of a light guide body (23), a plurality of prisms (23e) that gradually reduce an angle of incidence of light with respect to the back surface (23c) of the light guide body are provided, and, in the back surface (24a) of a low refractive index layer (24), a plurality of prisms (24b) that have the function of forwardly and totally reflecting light from LEDs (21) in an interface between the back surface of the low refractive index layer and an air layer are formed.

A method of fabricating an organic EL display apparatus includes: obtaining a representative current (I)-voltage (V) characteristic of a display panel including pixels each having an organic EL device and a driving transistor; dividing the display panel into a plurality of divided regions, and calculating a light-emitting efficiency and an offset luminance value for each of the divided regions calculated by an I-luminance (L) characteristic of the divided region; measuring luminance of light emitted from each of the pixels and calculating an L-V characteristic of each of the pixels; calculating an L-V characteristic of each divided region by dividing each current value of the representative I-V characteristic by light-emitting efficiency, and by adding an offset luminance value; and calculating a correction parameter for each pixel such that the L-V characteristic of each pixel is corrected to the L-V characteristic of the divided region including the pixel.

A touch panel includes a ring-like shaped light-transmissive portion. A ring-shaped diffusion surface is formed on the bottom surface of a light guide element. The ring-like shape includes a second region provided at a location corresponding to two light sources adjacent to a first region corresponding to one light source. A distance from a location of the ring-shaped light-transmissive portion to a periphery of the ring close to the light source is greater in the second region than in the first region. Light emitted from the light source and incident to the light guide element is diffusion-reflected on the diffusion surface and a part of the diffusion-reflected light illuminates the light-transmissive portion.

A micro lens array sheet includes a sheet type base and a plurality of micro lenses arranged on the base. The surface of each micro lens includes a convex part and a peripheral edge part. The convex part has a spherical or elliptical surface. The peripheral edge part is formed between the convex part and the base and curved in a concave shape. Since the surface of the peripheral edge part is curved in a concave shape, the flat part can be narrower than a conventional micro lens array sheet. Therefore, luminance unevenness attributable to the flat part can be suppressed.

A power source line 1 and a scanning line 3 are arranged on different wiring layers so as to be orthogonal to each other. In the wiring layer on which the scanning line 3 is arranged, a bypass line 111 is arranged on at least a part of a portion obtained by removing a planar position of the scanning line 3 from a planar position of the power source line 1. Contacts 121 and 122 establish electric connection between the power source line 1 and the bypass line 111. As described above, the bypass line 111 is connected to the power source line 1 in parallel, leading to decrease in resistance of the power source line 1 and suppression of unevenness in brightness at a display screen. Moreover, an additional manufacturing step for providing the bypass line 111 is unnecessary. Further, an aperture ratio is not reduced even when the bypass line 111 is provided. When the bypass line 111 is made wider than the power source line 1, a pixel circuit can be prevented from operating erroneously due to external light.

A display apparatus includes: a display panel; a gate driver that provides, to a plurality of scanning lines, scanning pulse signals for controlling pixel switches to be ON in a selection period corresponding to a pulse width thereof; a data driver that provides gradation voltage signals to a plurality of data lines; and a display controller that provides a modulated clock signal having a frequency that changes at a predetermined rate in one frame period. The gate driver sequentially provides the scanning pulse signals each having a pulse width reflecting to a clock cycle of the modulated clock signal in a predetermined order corresponding to distances from the data driver to the plurality of scanning lines. The data driver provides the gradation voltage signals in the order of providing the scanning pulse signals for every data period corresponding to the clock cycle of the modulated clock signal.

An illumination device 10 includes a diffusion plate 13 for diffusing light emitted from light sources 17, which diffusion plate 13 is fixed on first partition walls 11 and provided on upper sides of light source blocks 18. The arrangement makes it possible to provide a high-quality illumination device and a high-quality liquid crystal display device in each of which unevenness in luminance and color is restrained so that a luminance distribution becomes constant.

Provided is a display device that can sufficiently secure a period for threshold value detection with a simple configuration and that can inhibit occurrence of luminance non-uniformity. The display device includes a plurality of pixel circuits; a gate driver circuit connected to a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of control lines; and a power control circuit connected to a plurality of power lines through a common power line. Each pixel circuit includes an organic EL element, a plurality of TFTs, and a capacitor. During each frame period, after initialization and threshold value detection are collectively performed on a plurality of rows, writing and light emission are performed sequentially on a row-by-row basis. Here, in a preceding frame (first frame) of two consecutive frame periods, writing is performed in order from the first row to the nth row (ascending order). In a subsequent frame (second frame) of the two frame periods, writing is performed in order from the nth row to the first row (descending order).

An electrooptical apparatus includes a light emission element array in which a plurality of light emission elements are arranged, and a barrier rib which surrounds the light emission element array.

Provided are a backlight unit and a light absorbing material-containing film which contains quantum dots or the like and is capable of suppressing in-plane luminance unevenness and chromaticity unevenness; and a backlight unit. The light absorbing material-containing film includes a light absorbing material-containing layer with a resin layer in which one or more concave portions discretely disposed are formed and a plurality of light absorption regions containing light absorbing bodies and disposed in the concave portions formed in the resin layer; a first substrate film laminated on one main surface of the light absorbing material-containing layer; and a second substrate film laminated on the other main surface of the light absorbing material-containing layer, where the light absorption region contains at least one phosphor that serves as the light absorbing body, and a binder.

The present invention resides in an image display apparatus for displaying an image on the basis of image data; the image display apparatus comprising light emitting unit having a plurality of light sources for performing light emission that can be independently controlled respectively; setting unit which sets light emission control blocks for controlling one light source or the plurality of light sources with a common brightness; brightness determining unit which determines the light emission brightness of each of the light emission control blocks on the basis of the image data; and control unit which controls the light emission of the light emitting unit for each of the light emission control blocks in accordance with the light emission brightness determined by the determining unit; wherein the setting unit sets a size of the light emission control block of the light emitting unit depending on an amount of motion of the image.

A method of fabricating an organic EL display apparatus includes: obtaining a representative current (I)-voltage (V) characteristic of a display panel including pixels each having an organic EL device and a driving transistor; dividing the display panel into a plurality of divided regions, and calculating a light-emitting efficiency and a light-emission starting current value for each of the divided regions calculated by a luminance (L)-I characteristic of the divided region; measuring luminance of light emitted from each of the pixels and calculating an L-V characteristic of each of the pixels; calculating an I-V characteristic of each pixel by dividing each luminance value of the L-V characteristic calculated for the pixel by light-emitting efficiency, and by adding a light-emission starting current value; and calculating a correction parameter for each pixel such that the I-V characteristic of each pixel is corrected to the representative I-V characteristic.

The objective ofthe invention is to proivde a light diffusion sheet for overlaying, which can suppress uneven brightness due to shapes of bar-shaped prism portions projecting from a prism sheet on a back surface side, and can suppress flicker due to interference of a pixel distance of a liquid crystal panel. A light diffusion sheet for overlaying is to be provided on a front face side of a prism sheet in a backlight unit of a liquid crystal display device, and has a substrate layer and a light diffusion layer overlaid on a front face side of the substrate layer, in which the light diffusion layer contains a resin matrix and resin beads dispersed in the resin matrix, wherein: a mode diameter in a volume-weighted particle size distribution of the resin beads is no less than 2.5 [mu]m and no greater than 5.5 [mu]m; a density of the resin beads per unit area is no less than 9,000 beads/mm2 and no greater than 24,000 beads/mm2; and an average thickness of the light diffusion layer is no less than 2 [mu]m and no greater than 9 [mu]m. Preferably, the coefficient of variation of particle size of volume-weighted particle size distribution of the resin beads is no less than 42%.

The present invention relates to a light guide film for a backlight unit of an ultrathin liquid crystal display device, the light guide film allowing rays of light entering from an end face to exit from a front face side, and including a hard layer (17, 18) having a pencil hardness of at least HB, the hard layer (17, 18) containing a polycarbonate as a principal component, and at least one face of the hard layer being exposed, and the entire light guide film (12) having an average thickness of no less than 100 μm and no greater than 600 μm.

A driver device is provided for an organic EL passive matrix device that achieves reduction in power consumption and suppression of uneven luminance at a low cost. The driver device includes a column driver, a first row driver, a second row driver, a memory, and a power supply/control signal input. An anode of each organic EL element of the organic EL passive matrix device is connected to an output of the column driver, and cathodes in a row are connected together to an input of the row driver. In the driver device, the column driver is disposed in the vicinity of one peripheral side of the IC, and each of the row drivers is disposed in the vicinity of one of the two peripheral sides adjacent to the peripheral side at which the column driver is disposed. These three drivers are packaged on a single integrated chip (IC) chip.