Abstract: Disclosed is a thin film transistor array panel including: a substrate; a gate line provided on the substrate and extending in a first direction; a data line extending in a second direction; a first light blocking member provided on the gate line and the data line and overlapping the gate line; and a second light blocking member overlapping the data line, wherein the first and second light blocking members respectively include a flat portion and an inclined portion having different average thicknesses in a third direction that is vertical to the first direction and second direction, the inclined portion has a slanted side at an external portion of the flat portion, and a width of the inclined portion of the first light blocking member in the second direction is less than half the width of the second light blocking member in the first direction.

Abstract: A curved display device includes a display substrate which is curved in a first direction in a plan view and includes a display area including a plurality of pixels configured to display an image, and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the display area, an opposite substrate which faces the display substrate, the opposite substrate coupled to the display substrate and curved in the first direction along the display substrate, a grayscale control layer interposed between the display substrate and the opposite substrate, and a coupling member which is disposed in the peripheral area, interposed between the display substrate and the opposite substrate, and configured to couple the display substrate to the opposite substrate, and includes a first sealing portion which extends in the first direction and includes a light blocking material.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array substrate includes gate and data lines, a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode, a polarizing plate, and a contact line. The gate line is positioned on a base substrate, and disposed in a first direction. The data line is disposed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The thin film transistor is connected to the gate and data lines. The pixel electrode is connected to the thin film transistor. The polarizing plate is positioned between the base substrate and the thin film transistor, and has a first metal pattern overlapping the thin film transistor on a plane, a second metal pattern overlapping the pixel electrode on a plane, and a third metal pattern overlapping the data line on a plane. The contact line is positioned over the data line, and connects the data line and the third metal pattern to each other.

Abstract: A display substrate includes a base substrate comprising a plurality of sub-pixels, a first switching element disposed on the base substrate and electrically connected to a gate line extending in a first direction and a data line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a color filter layer disposed on the switching element and comprising a red color filter, a green color filter, a blue color filter and a white color filter alternately disposed on the plurality of sub-pixels, respectively, a column spacer disposed on the color filter and comprising the same material as that of the white color filter, an insulation layer disposed on the color filter and the column spacer and a pixel electrode disposed on the insulation layer.

Abstract: A curved display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a first color pixel area, a second color pixel area, a third color pixel area, and a fourth color pixel area disposed on the first substrate or the second substrate, in which the first substrate and the second substrate each includes a center portion and an edge portion surrounding the center portion, the first, second, and third color pixel areas include a red filter, a green filter, and a blue filter, respectively, the fourth color pixel area include a white filter, and the fourth color pixel area is disposed at the edge portion of the first or second substrate, and is smaller than each of the first, second, and third color pixel areas.

Abstract: A curved liquid crystal display includes: a first region including a first color pixel area, a second color pixel area, a third color pixel area, and a white pixel area; and a second region excluding the first region, the second region including the first color pixel area, the second color pixel area, and the third color pixel area. The curved liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate and a second substrate that are bent, and a liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate including first to fourth color pixel areas, first to fourth thin film transistors disposed on the first substrate, and first to fourth pixel electrodes connected to the first to fourth thin film transistors. Each of the first to fourth pixel electrodes includes a cross stem portion including a horizontal stem portion and a vertical stem portion crossing the horizontal stem portion, and minute branch portions extending from the cross stem portion at a predetermined angle with respect to a horizontal direction. A third angle of the minute branch portions of the third pixel electrode is greater than each of first and second angles of the minute branch portions of the respective first and second pixel electrodes. Each of the first and second angles is greater than a fourth angle of the minute branch portions of the fourth pixel electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes: a liquid crystal panel; a backlight unit for supplying light to the liquid crystal panel; and a wavelength-converting reflector disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the backlight unit. Light reflected from the wavelength-converting reflector has a shorter wavelength as a reflection angle increases.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes: a curved liquid crystal panel; and a driving device for displaying an image by operating the curved liquid crystal panel, wherein a luminance curve for a gray level for generating a gray-level voltage to be applied by the driving device to a first color pixel disposed in an edge portion of the curved liquid crystal panel is disposed below a luminance curve for a gray level for generating a gray-level voltage to be applied to the first color pixel disposed in a remaining portion of the curved liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a plurality of color filters positioned at a plurality of color pixels and representing different colors; and a transparent layer positioned at a white pixel and including a green colorant and a blue colorant, wherein white color coordinates represented by the white pixel are substantially equal to white color coordinates represented together by the plurality of color pixels.

Abstract: A method of driving a display device includes: receiving first frame data and second frame data for successive display on the display device; generating third frame data, the third frame data having values between corresponding values of the first frame data and the second frame data; displaying an image corresponding to the first frame data on the display device; after the displaying an image corresponding to the first frame data, displaying an image corresponding to the third frame data on the display device after the first displaying; and after the displaying an image corresponding to the third frame data, displaying an image corresponding to the second frame data on the display device.

Abstract: A display device includes a red pixel, a blue pixel, a green pixel, and a white pixel; a plurality of gate lines and data lines; and a plurality of storage electrode lines. Each of the red pixel, the blue pixel, and the green pixel includes two subpixel electrodes connected to a same gate line and a same data line and charged with different voltages. Every subpixel electrode included in the white pixel and connected to a same gate line and a same data line have a same voltage.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a display device including red pixels, blue pixels, green pixels, and white pixels, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of data lines, wherein the red pixels, the blue pixels, and the green pixels are disposed to longitudinally extend in a vertical direction, and the white pixels are disposed to longitudinally extend in a horizontal direction below or above the red pixels, the blue pixels, and the green pixels.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device, including a lower polarizing plate configured to have a transmission axis in a first direction, a liquid crystal layer on the lower polarizing plate, an upper polarizing plate on the liquid crystal layer, the upper polarizing plate including a first polarizing plate and a second polarizing plate, the first polarizing plate having a transmission axis in the first direction, the second polarizing plate having a transmission axis in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and color filters including a white filter and a colored filter, the white filter overlapping with the first polarizing plate, and the color filter overlapping with the second polarizing plate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including: a first display panel defining a plurality of pixel areas; a second display panel facing the first display panel; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first display panel and the second display panel; and a plurality of color filters disposed in the respective pixel areas, wherein four different color filters are respectively disposed in four adjacent pixel areas, and each of the four color filters includes first and second protrusions formed at first and second edges of the corresponding pixel area and first and second chamfered portions at third and fourth edges thereof.

Abstract: A curved display device includes a first substrate, a pixels and a second substrate. The first substrate is curved along a first direction and includes a pixel area through which light is transmitted and a non-pixel area which blocks light transmission therethrough. The pixel is disposed in the pixel area. The second substrate is curved along the first direction, and is opposite to and coupled to the first substrate. First trenches are defined in at least one substrate among the first and second substrates and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and more particularly, a liquid crystal display panel including white pixels and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of color filters positioned on the first substrate and representing different colors from each other, in which at least two of the plurality of color filters overlap with each other on the first substrate to form an overlapping portion, and the overlapping portion forms a first spacer; a transparent filter positioned on the first substrate and positioned in a transmitting area of a white pixel; and a second spacer including the same material as the transparent filter.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present invention are directed to a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a first color pixel area, a second color pixel area, a third color pixel area, and a white pixel area on any one of the first substrate and the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. A first color filter is disposed in each of the first color pixel area and the white pixel area, and each of the first, second, third, and white pixel areas includes a plurality of domains, each two adjacent domains having a boundary between them, and the first color filter is disposed at at least one of the boundaries between the domains in the white pixel area.

Abstract: A display substrate includes a first switching element electrically connected to a gate line extending in a first direction and a data line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, an organic layer disposed on the first switching element, a shielding electrode disposed on the organic layer and overlapping the data line, a pixel electrode disposed on the same layer as the shielding electrode and a light-blocking pattern disposed on the shielding electrode and adjacent to a corner of the pixel electrode

Abstract: A method of driving a display panel comprises applying a first set of pixel voltages including a positive pixel voltage (+) and a negative pixel voltage (?) to subpixels of a display panel in an N-th frame, applying a second set of pixel voltages having polarities opposite to polarities of the first set of the pixel voltages to the subpixels of the display panel in an (N+1)-th frame and applying compensating values which are varied for respective data lines of the display panel. N is a natural number. A corresponding display panel is also disclosed.