A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a frame behind the display panel, a light assembly positioned between the display panel and the frame and providing the display panel with light, and a substrate mounted with the light assembly and positioned in front of the frame. The frame includes a flat portion forming a flat surface and a trench forming a stepped portion together with the flat portion. The substrate is positioned on the trench.

A touch sensor integrated type display device includes: a display panel including: pixels connected to data lines and gate lines and division-driven into a plurality of panel blocks, and a plurality of touch sensors connected to the pixels, a display driving circuit providing data of an input image to the pixels in multiple display periods divided from one frame period, and a touch sensing circuit driving the touch sensors and sensing a touch input in a touch sensing period allocated between the display periods of the frame period, adjacent panel blocks being division-driven in the display periods that are separated from each other with the touch sensing period, in which the touch sensors are driven, interposed therebetween, the display driving circuit including a shift register: shifting a gate pulse in accordance with a shift clock timing, and sequentially supplying the gate pulse to the gate lines.

An optical device including a housing; an optical element contained in the housing; and a cover that seals an opening of the housing. The cover includes a frame member having an opening that serves as a window section, and a window section glass plate bonded to the frame member and seals the opening of the frame member. The frame member has a thickness which is greater than that of the window section glass plate, an upper surface of the frame member protrudes past an upper surface of the window section glass plate, a lower surface of the frame member protrudes past a lower surface of the window section glass plate.

Disclosed are a spatial light modulator and a display device, where 2*2 adjacent pixel electrodes are a pixel group, through-holes corresponding to the respective pixel electrodes are located proximate to the center of the pixel group, and a photo spacer is located at the center of the pixel group, so that the photo spacer can overlap with the through-holes, or the photo spacer can be arranged in close proximity to the through-holes. If the photo spacer overlaps with the through-holes, then a black matrix layer covering the photo spacer, and a black matrix layer covering the surrounding of the photo spacer may cover at least a part of the through-holes; and if the photo spacer is arranged in close proximity to the through-holes, then the black matrix layer covering the surrounding of the photo spacer may cover at least a part of the through-holes.

A method of manufacturing, with high mass productivity, liquid crystal display devices having highly reliable thin film transistors with excellent electric characteristics is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having an inverted staggered thin film transistor, the inverted staggered thin film transistor is formed as follows: a gate insulating film is formed over a gate electrode; a microcrystalline semiconductor film which functions as a channel formation region is formed over the gate insulating film; a buffer layer is formed over the microcrystalline semiconductor film; a pair of source and drain regions are formed over the buffer layer; and a pair of source and drain electrodes are formed in contact with the source and drain regions so as to expose a part of the source and drain regions.

Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device which can be used in a variety of situations and applications. The liquid crystal display device comprises: a first substrate comprising a first display region, a second display region, and a third display region wherein the first display region, the second display region, and the third display region are continuously formed; a second substrate having a form which fits the first substrate; and a liquid crystal interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second display region is interposed between the first display region and the second display region. The second display region is curved, and the first display region and the second display region are substantially flat.

Disclosed is a display apparatus which facilitates minimized thickness by innovatively removing a case and some portions of a set cover, which have been regarded as indispensable structures for the display apparatus, and simultaneously facilitates good aesthetic exterior appearance of the display apparatus by a novel design. The display apparatus comprises a set cover exposed externally to have a storage space; a support cover placed onto the storage space and formed to have a supporting space; a backlight unit received in the supporting space; a guide frame connected to the support cover while being supported by the support cover, and received in the storage space; and a liquid crystal display panel placed onto the guide frame, wherein the liquid crystal display panel displays images by adjusting transmittance of light emitted from the backlight unit.

A technique is provided that reduces dullness of a potential provided to a line such as gate line on an active-matrix substrate to enable driving the line at high speed and, at the same time, reduces the size of the picture frame region. On an active-matrix substrate (20a) are provided gate lines (13G) and source lines. On the active-matrix substrate (20a) are further provided: gate drivers (11) each including a plurality of switching elements, at least one of which is located in a pixel region, for supplying a scan signal to a gate line (13G); and lines (15L1) each for supplying a control signal to the associated gate driver (11). A control signal is supplied by a display control circuit (4) located outside the display region to the gate drivers (11) via the lines (15L1). In response to a control signal supplied, each gate driver (11) drives the gate line (13G) to which it is connected.

The present application discloses a switchable device, comprising a switching layer and a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, where the switching layer is positioned between the first and the second conductive layer, and where at least one of the first and the second conductive layers comprises a plurality of isolating sections and a plurality of conductive sections, where the isolating sections and the conductive sections alternate over the area of the conductive layer, and where the switching state of the switchable device is controlled by touch motions.

A method for manufacturing an array substrate is provided. The array substrate, by providing a black matrix and a color resist layer on the array substrate and providing the color resist layer on the TFT layer, prevents bad influences on the color resist layer caused by a high temperature TFT process so as to provide a liquid crystal panel with improved displaying quality. The method includes, firstly, forming a black matrix on a substrate, and secondly, implementing a TFT manufacture process on the black matrix, and then forming a color resist layer after the TFT manufacture process. Accordingly, forming both the black matrix and the color resist layer on the array substrate can be achieved, where the color resist layer is formed after the TFT manufacture process to prevent bad phenomenon caused by the high temperature of the TFT process.