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Liquid crystal display device and driving method therefor
Assignee: Japan Display Inc
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Filing: 1991-08-07
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Granted: 1996-10-01
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Expires: 2011-08-07
Abstract
Abstract A liquid crystal active matrix display device includes a first substrate having a thin film transistor formed thereon. A light-screening film 1 is located on the first substrate in a manner to be overlapped with an ITO. The display device includes a second substrate having a color filter and a light-screening film 2 formed thereon. The second substrate is opposed to the first substrate. The light-screening film 2 extends from the uncontrollable area by a certain value depending on a voltage from the external, resulting in improving a numerical aperture.
Inventors
- 👤 Masaaki Kitajima
- 👤 Makoto Tsumura
- 👤 Yoshiro Mikami
- 👤 Katsuyuki Funahata
- 👤 Yoshiharu Nagae
- 👤 Yoko Wakui
- 👤 Ryuichi Saito
- 👤 Makoto Matsui
- 👤 Fumiaki Nemoto
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 18:18
CPC Classifications
G; G02; G02F; G02F1/00; G02F1/01; G02F1/13; G02F1/133; G02F1/1333; G02F1/1335; G02F1/133509; G02F1/133512; G02F1/136; G02F1/1362; G02F1/136213
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 35
Claim 1
Independent Claim
116 words
A liquid crystal display device for displaying an image comprising: a first substrate including a thin film transistor, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to said thin film transistor, a second substrate including a transparent common electrode, a liquid crystal which is sealed between said first and second substrates, a first opaque body of a stripe-shape extending in a longer direction of said pixel electrode formed on said first substrate, a second opaque body having opening portion arranged in a matrix manner formed on said second substrate, and wherein said first opaque body and said second opaque body are disposed to overlap with each other.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
116 words
A liquid crystal display device for displaying an image comprising: a first substrate including a thin film transistor, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to said thin film transistor, a second substrate including a transparent common electrode, a liquid crystal which is sealed between said first and second substrates, a first opaque body of a stripe-shape extending in a longer direction of said pixel electrode formed on said first substrate, a second opaque body having opening portion arranged in a matrix manner formed on said second substrate, and wherein said first opaque body and said second opaque body are disposed to overlap with each other.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
53 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein a storage capacitance line is located on said first substrate between adjacent scan lines for controlling said thin film transistor and said first opaque body is electrically separated from said storage capacitance line and said scan line and overlapped with a pixel electrode.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
75 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 2, wherein a peripheral length of a capacitance portion of a storage capacitance element composed between said storage capacitance line and a common electrode formed on the second substrate is set to be 1.33 or less times as large as a value obtained by dividing an area of said capacitance portion by a size of a diagonal length of the area having said pixel electrodes located thereon.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
37 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 3, wherein the capacitance portion of said storage capacitance element is composed of an overlapped portion of two electrodes opposed to each other and having different widths and lengths.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
68 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 3, wherein said signal lines are located in a vertical direction, in parallel, and at regular intervals, said scan lines are located in a horizontal direction substantially perpendicular to said signal lines, in parallel, and at regular intervals, and said common electrodes are located in substantially parallel to said scan lines and in an alternate direction with said scan lines.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
76 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 3, wherein a vertical width of said storage capacitance element is a value obtained by dividing the area of the capacitance portion of said storage capacitance element by a horizontal width of said common electrode and the connecting portion between said common electrode and said storage capacitance element is located on a substantially center in the vertical direction of the vertical end portion of said storage capacitance element.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
76 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 3, wherein a vertical width of the portion where no light is transmitted in the portion having said thin film transistor formed thereon is substantially equivalent to a vertical width of a light-screening portion of said storage capacitance element, said thin film transistor portion not serving as a display portion is separated from said storage capacitance element, and the separation interval is substantially identical for each pixel electrode.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
55 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 3, wherein a vertical end portion opposed to the common electrode composing one pixel electrode of said storage capacitance element composes parallel lines and a horizontal end portion opposed to the transparent pixel electrode forming the other electrode of said storage capacitance element also composes parallel lines.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
24 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 3, wherein said storage capacitance element is located on a substantially center of the pixel electrode.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
43 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein a storage capacitance line is located on said first substrate between adjacent scan lines for controlling said thin film transistor and part of said storage capacitance line is overlapped with a pixel electrode.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
46 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein a corner area of the opening portion of the second opaque body formed on the second substrate is directed in an oblique manner or is formed to have a light-screening portion with two or more corners.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
35 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the projection of said first opaque body onto the second substrate is overlapped with said second opaque body on an edge of said pixel electrodes.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
38 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the width of the second opaque body is larger than an alignment margin of the first substrate and the second substrate in manufacturing the liquid crystal display device.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
28 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein either one of said first opaque body and second opaque body is divided into two or more portions.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
28 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein said first opaque body is disposed along an edge of said opening portions of said second opaque body.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
30 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein said first opaque body is disposed so that a part of said first opaque body overlaps with said pixel electrodes.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
46 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 16, wherein said opening portions of said second opaque body are disposed so that at least a part of said opening portions is positioned inside of an overlapped region of said first opaque body and said pixel electrodes.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
71 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 17, further comprising: a light source disposed at an opposite side of said first substrate with respect to said second substrate, wherein an edge of the opening portion of said second opaque body is positioned spaced from an edge of said overlapped region by at least a predetermined distance to prevent a light beam from said light source from reaching the opening portion.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
33 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein said opening portions of said second opaque body have opposite edges expanding outwardly to form convex-shaped portions at positions opposing to each other.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
27 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 19, wherein said first opaque body is disposed along said convex-shaped portions of the edge of said opening portions.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
24 words
A liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second opaque body has said opening portions smaller than said pixel electrodes.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
54 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, comprising a pair of first constituent bodies constituting said first opaque body and disposed corresponding to opening portions of second constituent bodies constituting said second opaque body, wherein widths of said opening portions are shorter than a distance between said pair of first constituent bodies.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
68 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising a back light, wherein a width of the second opaque body is smaller than a distance which an incident light incident obliquely on said liquid crystal display device from said backlight propagates in parallel with a surface of said first substrate or a surface of said second substrate when said incident light passes through said liquid crystal.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
138 words
An information processing apparatus including an information input means for inputting information, an information processing means for processing said information, and a display means for displaying said information, said display means including a first substrate having a thin film transistor, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to said thin film transistor, a second substrate including a transparent common electrode, and a liquid crystal sealed between said first substrate and said second substrate, a first opaque body of a stripe-shape extending in a longer direction of said pixel electrodes formed on said first substrate, a second opaque body having opening portions arranged in a matrix manner formed on the second substrate, and wherein said first opaque body and said second opaque body are disposed to overlap each other.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
138 words
An information processing apparatus including an information input means for inputting information, an information processing means for processing said information, and a display means for displaying said information, said display means including a first substrate having a thin film transistor, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to said thin film transistor, a second substrate including a transparent common electrode, and a liquid crystal sealed between said first substrate and said second substrate, a first opaque body of a stripe-shape extending in a longer direction of said pixel electrodes formed on said first substrate, a second opaque body having opening portions arranged in a matrix manner formed on the second substrate, and wherein said first opaque body and said second opaque body are disposed to overlap each other.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
125 words
A projective type display using a liquid crystal display device as a light shutter, said liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate including a thin film transistor, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to said thin film transistor, a second substrate including a transparent common electrode, and a liquid crystal sealed between said first and second substrates, a first opaque body of a stripe-shape extending in a longer direction of said pixel electrodes formed on said first substrate, a second opaque body having opening portions located in a matrix manner formed on said second substrate, and wherein said first opaque body and said second opaque body are disposed to overlap with each other.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
125 words
A projective type display using a liquid crystal display device as a light shutter, said liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate including a thin film transistor, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to said thin film transistor, a second substrate including a transparent common electrode, and a liquid crystal sealed between said first and second substrates, a first opaque body of a stripe-shape extending in a longer direction of said pixel electrodes formed on said first substrate, a second opaque body having opening portions located in a matrix manner formed on said second substrate, and wherein said first opaque body and said second opaque body are disposed to overlap with each other.
Claim 29
Dependent Claim
208 words
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate including a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of signal lines intersecting said scan lines, a thin film transistor formed at each intersecting portion of said scan lines and said signal lines, said thin film transistor being connected to corresponding ones of said scan lines and said signal lines, and a pixel electrode connected to said thin film transistor, a second substrate including a transparent common electrode, a liquid crystal sealed between said first and said second substrates, and a light source positioned at an opposite side of said first substrate with respect to said second substrate, a first opaque body of a stripe-shaped layout formed on said first substrate so that a part of said first opaque body overlaps with said pixel electrode, a second opaque body having opening portions located in a matrix manner formed on said second substrate so that said opening portions are positioned inside of an overlapped region of said first opaque body and said pixel electrode, and an edge of said opening portions is positioned spaced from an edge of the overlapped region by at least a predetermined distance to prevent a light beam from said light source from reaching the opening portion.
Claim 30
Dependent Claim
208 words
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate including a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of signal lines intersecting said scan lines, a thin film transistor formed at each intersecting portion of said scan lines and said signal lines, said thin film transistor being connected to corresponding ones of said scan lines and said signal lines, and a pixel electrode connected to said thin film transistor, a second substrate including a transparent common electrode, a liquid crystal sealed between said first and said second substrates, and a light source positioned at an opposite side of said first substrate with respect to said second substrate, a first opaque body of a stripe-shaped layout formed on said first substrate so that a part of said first opaque body overlaps with said pixel electrode, a second opaque body having opening portions located in a matrix manner formed on said second substrate so that said opening portions are positioned inside of an overlapped region of said first opaque body and said pixel electrode, and an edge of said opening portions is positioned spaced from an edge of the overlapped region by at least a predetermined distance to prevent a light beam from said light source from reaching the opening portion.
Claim 31
Dependent Claim
110 words
A liquid crystal display device including pixel electrodes controlled by active elements being located in a matrix manner, comprising: a first substrate having said active elements formed thereon, a second substrate opposed to said first substrate, a first opaque body of a stripe shape formed on said first substrate on an area other than an area on which said active elements are formed, a second opaque body having opening portions located in a matrix manner, and formed on said second substrate, wherein a projection of said first opaque body onto the second substrate is overlapped with said second opaque body in the vicinity of an edge of said pixel electrodes.
Claim 32
Dependent Claim
110 words
A liquid crystal display device including pixel electrodes controlled by active elements being located in a matrix manner, comprising: a first substrate having said active elements formed thereon, a second substrate opposed to said first substrate, a first opaque body of a stripe shape formed on said first substrate on an area other than an area on which said active elements are formed, a second opaque body having opening portions located in a matrix manner, and formed on said second substrate, wherein a projection of said first opaque body onto the second substrate is overlapped with said second opaque body in the vicinity of an edge of said pixel electrodes.
Claim 33
Dependent Claim
29 words
A liquid crystal display device according to claim 27, wherein either one of said first opaque body and said second opaque body is divided into two or more portions.
Claim 34
Dependent Claim
136 words
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate including at least a thin film transistor, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to said thin film transistor, a first opaque body of stripe shape for screening light applied from a backlight source formed on an area other than an area on which said thin film transistor is formed, a second substrate including at least a color filter and a transparent electrode, a liquid crystal sealed between both of said substrates, and a second opaque body having opening portions located in a matrix manner on the second substrate, wherein a projection of said first opaque body onto the second substrate is overlapped with said second opaque body in the of an edge of the pixel electrodes.
Claim 35
Dependent Claim
136 words
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate including at least a thin film transistor, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to said thin film transistor, a first opaque body of stripe shape for screening light applied from a backlight source formed on an area other than an area on which said thin film transistor is formed, a second substrate including at least a color filter and a transparent electrode, a liquid crystal sealed between both of said substrates, and a second opaque body having opening portions located in a matrix manner on the second substrate, wherein a projection of said first opaque body onto the second substrate is overlapped with said second opaque body in the of an edge of the pixel electrodes.
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