The invention performs an accurate testing in order to determine the presence or absence of a defect in a wiring and electrodes in an electro-optical device. A test method is provided for testing an electro-optical device that includes a capacitor arranged at an intersection of each scanning line and each data line. A test switching element connected between the data line and a reading signal-line is turned on after storing a charge responsive to a data signal in the capacitor so that the voltag...

The invention provides an image supplying circuit which can inspect for display defects before mounting a data-line driver IC. An image-signal supplying circuit can include wiring for connecting data lines and connection terminals of a data line driver IC, image-signal lines, transfer gates for connecting or disconnecting the wiring and the image-signal lines based on a control signal, control lines, a pull-down resistor connected to the control line, and a pull-up resistor connected to the cont...

The invention provides an electrooptic device and an electronic apparatus, in which the electrical characteristics of many thin-film switching elements formed in a substrate to support an electrooptic material can be accurately inspected. The invention also provides a method for making the electrooptic device. In a TFT array substrate of a liquid crystal device, an inspection TFT is formed in one of dummy pixels disposed at the periphery of a pixel region. A pixel electrode connected to a drain ...

To provide an electro-optical device and an electronic apparatus that have less parasitic capacitance between wiring lines resulted from the crossing wiring lines and operates at a high speed. The electro-optical device includes a first main signal wiring line which is arranged to correspond to a unit circuit and which transmits a predetermined signal; a first sub signal wiring line whose width is narrower than that of the first main signal wiring line; a second main signal wiring line arranged ...

The present invention provides an electro-optical panel that is capable of effectively exhibiting the features of the construction in which two transistor elements are used per pixel, and an electronic device using the electro-optical panel. A pixel includes a P-channel thin-film transitor (TFT) in which the gate electrode is connected to a scanning line, and an N-channel TFT in which the gate electrode is connected to a scanning line. When the P-channel TFT and the N-channel TFT are turned on, ...

To reduce a circuit area of a data line driving circuit. The data line driving circuit includes a plurality of circuit blocks. A circuit block has shift register unit circuits, logical operation unit circuits and a control unit circuit. The control unit circuit specifies the operation period of the corresponding circuit block on the basis of the input and output signals of the shift register unit circuits and supplies a clock signal and an inverted clock signal to the shift register unit circuit...

To secure a wide mounting area on liquid crystal device and the like to miniaturize the overall size of the device in a highly precise manner. The electro-optical device comprises a substrate; a plurality of pixel units which are disposed in an image display region on the substrate and are driven by drive signals; a plurality of terminals which are arranged in one polygon-shaped region that is located in a portion along one side of the image display region in a peripheral region thereof located ...

Aspects of the invention provide a driving circuit of an electro-optical panel that can include a plurality of power lines, a signal line, a driving device, and a protective circuit. The driving device can drive the electro-optical panel based on powers supplied from a power-supply circuit through the plurality of power lines and various signals input through the signal line. The protective circuit is provided between at least two power lines among the plurality of power lines, to which powers o...

A data line driving circuit 200 has a shift resistor unit 210 in which respective shift resistor unit circuits Ua1 to Uan+2 are in cascade connection with each other, and an output signal control unit 220 comprising respective operational unit circuits Ub1 to Ubn+1. A NAND circuit 514 controls an enabling period of a negative sampling signal based on an output signal from a NAND circuit 511 in an subsequent-stage operational unit circuit.

The invention miniaturizes a liquid crystal panel and thus provides a lightweight panel. A TFT provided so as to correspond to intersections of data lines and scanning lines. A dummy pixel area does not contribute to image display, while an effective pixel area contributes to image display. An identification pattern represents a sequence of scanning lines. By forming the identification pattern in the dummy pixel area, the data lines and a scanning line driving circuit can be provided closer to e...