Display apparatus and electrophoretic display apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKiyoshi Nakamura, Soichi Moriya
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Abstract
A display apparatus includes a substrate; a display area including a plurality of pixels provided on the substrate; a switching element provided for each of the pixels, the switching element including a first semiconductor layer formed of a first organic semiconductor; and a humidity sensor provided on the substrate and outside the display area. The humidity sensor includes, as a humidity sensitive layer, a second semiconductor layer formed of a second organic semiconductor having a correlation in terms of electric characteristics with the first organic semiconductor.
Claims7
A display apparatus comprising:
- a substrate;
- a display area including a plurality of pixels provided on the substrate;
- a switching element provided for each of the pixels, the switching element including a first semiconductor layer formed of a first organic semiconductor;
- and
- a humidity sensor provided on the substrate and outside the display area, the humidity sensor including, as a humidity sensitive layer, a second semiconductor layer formed of a second organic semiconductor having a correlation in terms of electric characteristics with the first organic semiconductor,
- wherein the first organic semiconductor and the second organic semiconductor are of the same type.
A display apparatus comprising:
- a substrate;
- a display area including a plurality of pixels provided on the substrate;
- a switching element provided for each of the pixels, the switching element including a first semiconductor layer formed of a first organic semiconductor;
- and
- a humidity sensor provided on the substrate and outside the display area, the humidity sensor including, as a humidity sensitive layer, a second semiconductor layer formed of a second organic semiconductor having a correlation in terms of electric characteristics with the first organic semiconductor,
- wherein the humidity sensor further includes a pair of electrodes each having a comb-shaped portion in plan view;
- and the comb-shaped portions sandwich the second semiconductor layer with teeth of the comb-shaped portions interlocking one another.
A display apparatus comprising:
- a substrate;
- a display area including a plurality of pixels provided on the substrate;
- a switching element provided for each of the pixels, the switching element including a first semiconductor layer formed of a first organic semiconductor;
- and
- a humidity sensor provided on the substrate and outside the display area, the humidity sensor including, as a humidity sensitive layer, a second semiconductor layer formed of a second organic semiconductor having a correlation in terms of electric characteristics with the first organic semiconductor,
- wherein the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer are identical in shape.
A display apparatus comprising:
- a substrate;
- a display area including a plurality of pixels provided on the substrate;
- a switching element provided for each of the pixels, the switching element including a first semiconductor layer formed of a first organic semiconductor;
- a humidity sensor provided on the substrate and outside the display area, the humidity sensor including, as a humidity sensitive layer, a second semiconductor layer formed of a second organic semiconductor having a correlation in terms of electric characteristics with the first organic semiconductor;
- a pixel electrode provided on the substrate for each of the plurality of pixels and connected to the switching element;
- and
- a control unit configured to determine electric characteristics of the second semiconductor layer to provide a determination result and to control a voltage to be applied to the pixel electrode on the basis of the determination result.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.