Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel having liquid crystal pixels, and a backlight which illuminates the display panel. In particular, this liquid crystal display device further includes a light source driving unit which turns on and off the backlight at a predetermined duty ratio every frame period for update of a video signal, and a panel driving unit which allows each of the liquid crystal pixels to hold a variable pixel voltage that depends on the video signal for a gradation display period longer than a turn-on period of the backlight and which allows each of the liquid crystal pixels to hold a fixed pixel voltage that does not depend on this video signal for a non-gradation display period shorter than a turn-off period of the backlight.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes crystal pixels, and a drive controller which makes the liquid crystal pixels hold a pixel voltage corresponding to a video signal for a first period and a non-video signal for a second period, and cyclically repeats the first and second periods, wherein the drive controller has a setting unit to set a value corresponding to the length of the second period, and a range changing unit to change a voltage range of a pixel voltage corresponding to the video signal corresponding to the value set, and the range changing unit changes a pixel voltage of a high luminance side and enlarges a pixel voltage range as a ratio of the second period to the first period is increased corresponding to the value, and changes a pixel voltage of a high luminance side and narrows a pixel voltage range as the ratio is decreased.

Abstract: The OCB mode liquid crystal display device applies a black display voltage V(Tr) with temperature characteristic requirements expressed by: V(T)=<Vs(T), and V(Tr??T)=V(T)=<Vs(Tr), where T represents a panel temperature of the liquid crystal panel, Tr represents a sensed temperature, ?T represents a temperature difference between the panel temperature and the sensed temperature, and Vs(T) represents an optimal black display voltage.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of liquid crystal pixels PX equipped with an OCB liquid crystal layer between a pair of substrates, color filters CF including red, green, and blue color layers allocated so as to overlap on the plurality of liquid crystal pixels, and a polarizing plate PL arranged at least at a viewing side in opposite to the liquid crystal pixels, wherein the blue color layer has a contrast that is greater than that of the green color layer.

Abstract: It is possible to eliminate the blue tone in the black color display in the OCB liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display cell (110) includes an opposing substrate (130) having an opposing electrode (Ecom), an array substrate (120) having pixel electrodes of the respective colors (dpixR, dpixG, dpixB), a liquid crystal layer (140) arranged in a bend-arrangement and sandwiched between the opposing substrate (130) and the array substrate (120), and red, green, and blue filter layers (CF(R), CF(G), CF(B)) arranged on one of the substrates. The maximum voltage is applied when performing black color display on the display screen. At least the maximum voltage of the pixel electrode for blue color dpixB applied to the opposing electrode (Ecom) is made different from the maximum voltage of the pixel electrodes of the other colors applied to the opposing electrode (Ecom).

Abstract: In an embodiment of the invention for an OCB (Optically Compensated Bend)-mode liquid-crystal display (LCD) device, retardation and/or a predetermined voltage range, from which a voltage applied to pixels in a viewing area is selected, is set for the each pixel or for the pixels in each region of the viewing area such that: the luminance on each pixel monotonously increases or decreases with increase of voltage in the predetermined voltage range; the luminance in central portion of the viewing area becomes minimum at black displaying.

Abstract: In an OCB liquid crystal display device, a gradation voltage of a video signal is set to be lower than a black display optimum voltage, and a reverse transition prevention voltage is set to be higher than the black display optimum voltage and to be lower than a maximum applied voltage, and as the gradation voltage of the video signal becomes low, the reverse transition prevention voltage is set to be high.

Abstract: [PROBLEMS] To reduce the blue tone in the black display of the OCB liquid crystal display device. [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] A liquid crystal display cell (11) includes: an opposing substrate (130) having an opposing electrode (Ecom); an array substrate (120) having a pixel electrode Dpix for each color; a liquid crystal layer (140) arranged in a bend arrangement located between the opposing substrate (120) and the array substrate (120); and red, green, and blue filter layers arranged on one of the substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having pixels, a light source which illuminates the display panel, and a control unit which controls the display panel and the light source. The control unit includes an insertion unit which causes the pixel to store a first voltage corresponding to a video signal in a first period within one frame period and to store a second voltage corresponding to a non-video signal in a second period that follows the first period, and a driving unit which enables the light source at least in a period corresponding to the first period in which the first voltage is held in the pixel, and disables the light source in a period corresponding to the second period in which the second voltage is held in the pixel, and is configured to set the first and second voltages at different independent values.

Abstract: A display control circuit which controls a display panel on which a plurality of pixels having an optical control layer between a pair of substrates are allocated in a substantial matrix form, the circuit includes a temperature detecting unit which detects a temperature relating to a temperature of the display panel, and a display panel drive unit which periodically outputs to the each pixel a gradation signal that corresponds to a video image signal, wherein the display panel drive unit has a setting unit which sets a gradation signal corresponding to the video image signal in response to a temperature of the display panel, the temperature having been detected by the temperature detecting unit and an overdrive output unit which, in response to a change of gradation of the video image signal, outputs another gradation signal instead of the gradation signal in at least a one-cycle period after the change.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, which includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer held between the substrates, illumination means for illuminating the panel, and a control unit which controls the panel and the illumination means. The panel includes a plurality of display pixels arrayed in a matrix manner. The control unit includes non-video signal insertion means for cyclically writing a video signal and a non-video signal as pixel voltages in each of the pixels, synchronizing means for synchronizing a turn-on timing or a turn-off timing of the illumination means with a timing at which the video signal or the non-video signal is written in the pixels, and phase control means for changing a turn-on period and the turn-on timing of the illumination means.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display cell (110) includes: an opposing substrate (130) having an opposing electrode (Ecom); an array substrate (120) having a pixel electrode Dpix for each color; a liquid crystal layer (140) arranged in a bend arrangement located between the opposing substrate (120) and the array substrate (120); and red, green, and blue filter layers (CF(R), CF(G), CF(B)) arranged on one of the substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, which performs color display by sequentially displaying different color images in a time division manner and mixing the color images, includes a liquid crystal display panel in which a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of substrates, color light sources of a plurality of colors, and a controller circuit which controls each of the color light sources and the liquid crystal display panel. The controller circuit controls a time opening ratio and an emission light luminance of one of the color light sources, which emits light of a color with which coloring occurs in transmissive light emerging from the liquid crystal display panel at a time of black display, thereby reducing the coloring of the transmissive light and maintaining a white balance.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises an OCB-mode liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal layer in which the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules is transitioned in advance from a splay alignment to a bend alignment, and a display control section which applies a liquid crystal drive voltage to the liquid crystal layer according to a video signal. The display control section is configured to detect the application environment of the liquid crystal display panel and determine a minimum value of the liquid crystal drive voltage based on a phase-transition threshold voltage which causes energy of the splay alignment and energy of the bend alignment to be balanced with each other in the detected application environment.

Abstract: Optical compensation elements include first phase plates and second phase plates, which have retardation in a thickness direction. When a value ?n/?n? is set by normalizing a retardation amount ?n·d relating to light of each of wavelengths by a retardation amount ?n?·d relating to light of a predetermined wavelength ?, a normalized value ?n/?n? in the first phase plate is less than a normalized value ?n/?n? in a liquid crystal layer, and a normalized value ?n/?n? in the second phase plate is greater than the normalized value ?n/?n? in the liquid crystal layer, with respect to light of wavelengths other than the predetermined wavelength.

Abstract: Optical compensation elements include first phase plates and second phase plates, which have retardation in a front-plane direction. When a value ?n/?n? is set by normalizing a retardation amount ?n·d relating to light of each of wavelengths by a retardation amount ?n?·d relating to light of a predetermined wavelength ?, a normalized value ?n/?n? in the first phase plate is greater than a normalized value ?n/?n? in a liquid crystal layer, and a normalized value ?n/?n? in the second phase plate is less than the normalized value ?n/?n? in the liquid crystal layer, with respect to light of wavelengths other than the predetermined wavelength.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to the invention includes a liquid crystal display element (100) having a liquid crystal layer (4) containing liquid crystal molecules oriented so as to assume a bend alignment when an image display is being made, and at least one retardation plate for compensating for a retardation of the liquid crystal layer, wherein the display is made by varying the retardation of the liquid crystal layer in accordance with video signals inputted from outside to vary the transmittance of the liquid crystal display element to light for display, characterized in that: the liquid crystal display element (100) includes a plurality of red pixels for displaying a red color, a plurality of green pixels for displaying a green color, and a plurality of blue pixels for displaying a blue color; and a thickness (53B) of the liquid crystal layer (4) associated with the blue pixels is larger than a thickness (53R,53G) of the liquid crystal layer associated with the red pixels and/or the green pixels.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to the invention includes a liquid crystal display element (100) having a liquid crystal layer (4) containing liquid crystal molecules oriented so as to assume a bend alignment when an image display is being made, and at least one retardation plate for compensating for a retardation of the liquid crystal layer, wherein the display is made by varying the retardation of the liquid crystal layer in accordance with video signals inputted from outside to vary the transmittance of the liquid crystal display element to light for display, characterized in that: the liquid crystal display element (100) includes a plurality of red pixels for displaying a red color, a plurality of green pixels for displaying a green color, and a plurality of blue pixels for displaying a blue color; and a thickness (53B) of the liquid crystal layer (4) associated with the blue pixels is larger than a thickness (53R, 53G) of the liquid crystal layer associated with the red pixels and/or the green pixels.

Abstract: An OCB mode liquid crystal display in which liquid crystal molecules are bend-aligned, wherein a uniaxial phase plate having a positive optical anisotropy is so disposed that the major axis is not perpendicular to the direction of orthogonal projection of the liquid crystal molecules onto the substrate and preferably generally parallel to the direction of the polarization axis of a polarizer, thereby achieving a high contrast in a very wide viewing angle.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to the invention includes a liquid crystal display element (100) having a liquid crystal layer (4) containing liquid crystal molecules oriented so as to assume a bend alignment when an image display is being made, and at least one retardation plate for compensating for a retardation of the liquid crystal layer, wherein the display is made by varying the retardation of the liquid crystal layer in accordance with video signals inputted from outside to vary the transmittance of the liquid crystal display element to light for display, characterized in that: the liquid crystal display element (100) includes a plurality of red pixels for displaying a red color, a plurality of green pixels for displaying a green color, and a plurality of blue pixels for displaying a blue color; and a thickness (53B) of the liquid crystal layer (4) associated with the blue pixels is larger than a thickness (53R, 53G) of the liquid crystal layer associated with the red pixels and/or the green pixels.