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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display panel capable of preventing air from flowing into an image display part of the liquid crystal display panel, when external pressure is generated in or after assembling the liquid crystal display panel, or when the assembled panel is tested in a condition of high temperature and high humidity. SOLUTION: The liquid crystal display panel includes at least one organic film 502, 504 formed on a first substrate 501:;a seal pattern 506 formed on a the organic film 502, 504; a second substrate 508 attached to the first substrate 501 by the seal pattern 506; and a support member 507 added to the seal pattern 506, wherein the support member 507 are distributed at 550 or fewer, at least for one position per 1 mm×1 mm size of the sealing pattern. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an organic light emitting element which has an excellent operational life, enables high-temperature operational stability to be obtained, and reduces the increase in a driving voltage. SOLUTION: The organic light emitting element, including (i) an anode, (ii) a hole transporting layer containing a mixture of porphyrin and a hole transporting material, (iii) a mixed area containing a mixture of (1) the hole transporting material and (2) an electron transporting material and optionally containing an organic light emitting material, and (iv) a cathode, further includes (v) an electron transporting area intervened between the mixed area and the cathode, and optionally includes (vi) at least one of optional heat protecting elements coated on one of the anode and the cathode. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thin film transistor, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display element which can obtain a gate insulating film with a high dielectric constant by stacking a first gate insulating film of sol-gel type with a high dielectric constant and a second gate insulating film made of amorphous silicon or a polymeric organic substance with a relatively low dielectric constant, so that the gate insulating film having a double layer is formed. SOLUTION: The method of manufacturing the thin film transistor includes the steps of: forming a gate electrode on a substrate; forming a semiconductor layer which is insulated from the gate electrode and partially overlaps the gate electrode; forming a first gate insulating film and a second gate insulating film in this order between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer, the first gate insulating film containing a sol compound of silicon alkoxide and metal alkoxide, the second gate insulating film containing a different substance; and forming source/drain electrodes on both sides of the semiconductor layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an organic light emitting diode display device for changing a gamma reference voltage step by step in accordance with video brightness of a current frame, and to provide a driving method of the device. SOLUTION: The device includes: a brightness detector 121 that calculates the maximum brightness value of each pixel using input video data of a current frame; an adder 122 that adds all maximum brightness values of each pixel which are detected by the brightness detector 121; an average value calculator 123 that calculates the average brightness value of a current frame using the added value of maximum brightness values which are added by the adder 122; a gamma weight calculator 124 that calculates a gamma reference voltage weight which is set to correspond to the calculated average brightness value among predetermined gamma reference voltage weights; and a gamma reference voltage generator that changes a gamma reference voltage step by step in accordance with a gamma reference voltage weight which is calculated by the gamma weight calculator 124. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent decrease in a life span of an organic light emitting diode device and to prevent degradation in uniformity of an image in a low luminance range. SOLUTION: The method comprises steps of: analyzing a digital data corresponding to an input image of a screen to analyze an accumulated density distribution for each grayscale range of the image to be displayed on the screen; modulating the digital data of the input image to lower a tilt of a gamma curve corresponding to a preliminarily set high grayscale range among gamma curves of the input image if the data belonging to the high grayscale range is determined as dominant according to the analyzed result; modulating the digital data of the input image to raise a tilt of a gamma curve corresponding to a specific grayscale range among gamma curves of the input image if the data belonging to the preliminarily set specific grayscale range lower than the high grayscale range is determined as dominant according to the analyzed result of the accumulated density distribution for each grayscale range; and converting the digital data having the controlled grayscale in the high grayscale range and the specific grayscale range into an analog signal to display it on an organic light emitting diode display panel. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reference voltage generating circuit suitable for generation of a reference voltage, the circuit showing a short transition period between at least two levels and stably maintaining the transition level. SOLUTION: The reference voltage generating circuit includes: a main pumping section selectively performing fast positive and negative pumping for rapidly increasing or decreasing an output voltage on the output node; a sub-pumping section selectively performing slow positive and negative pumping for slowly increasing or decreasing an output voltage on the output node; an input section inputting a level designating signal alternately and periodically designating a first reference level and a second reference level lower than the first level; and a switch control section alternately comparing an output voltage with the first and second reference levels in response to the level designating signal, and selecting one of the positive and negative pumping in the main pumping section and the positive and negative pumping in the sub pumping section. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thin film transistor whose manufacturing process is simplified by forming the polysilicon channel layer of the thin film transistor making use of liquid silicon, and to provide its fabrication method. SOLUTION: This thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulation film formed on the gate electrode, source and drain electrodes formed on the gate insulation film, a doping layer formed on the whole surface of the source and drain electrodes, and a polysilicon channel layer formed on the gate insulation film and the doping layer between the source and drain electrodes. The doping layer is formed in the region that overlaps with the channel layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve image quality by improving charge retention characteristics of a TFT liquid-crystal display. SOLUTION: A thin-film transistor is provided with a source electrode 13 having a pair of electrode branches; a drain electrode 14 whose electrode branch is arranged in parallel and oppositely to a pair of the electrode branches of the source electrode between a pair of the electrode branches of the source electrode; and a semiconductor layer 12 that is formed only in a channel region 12b, where a pair of the electrode branches of the source electrode and the electrode branch of the drain electrode are arranged in parallel and oppositely to each other, as a semiconductor layer formed in the channel region between the source electrode and the drain electrode. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize a voltage drop by a driving voltage supply line and an adverse effect by a threshold voltage change of a thin film transistor to uniform display brightness. SOLUTION: An organic light-emitting diode display device includes: a TFT M1 which is maintained at an off-state in a first period and then supplies a reference voltage to a first node in a second period by a first scan signal; a TFT M2 which supplies a data voltage to the first node by a second scan signal in the first period and then is maintained at an off-state in the second period; and a TFT M3 which adjusts a current to an OLED by the voltage of a second node; a TFT M4 which supplies a reference current to the second node by a second scan signal in the first period and is then maintained at an off-state in the second period; a TFT M5 which forms a current path between the second node and a third node by the second scan signal in the first period and is then maintained at an off-state in the second period; and a TFT M6 which cuts off the current flowing to the OLED via the third node in the first period and then forms a current path between the third node and the OLED by one of the first scan signal and second scan signal in the second period. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a color filter substrate for liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method of the color filter substrate for liquid crystal display device capable of easily forming a black matrix and a black matrix barrier. SOLUTION: The color filter substrate for liquid crystal display device comprises a black matrix which is formed on a transparent insulating substrate and demarcates a pixel region, a black matrix barrier formed of a transparent photosensitive material on the black matrix and a color filter which is formed on the pixel region. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT