Abstract: One or more embodiments of a display substrate include a base substrate and a pixel electrode. The base substrate has a pixel area defined thereon. The pixel electrode includes a low pixel electrode formed in the pixel area to receive a first voltage, a high pixel electrode spaced apart from the low pixel electrode along a first direction to receive a second voltage that is higher than the first voltage, and a liquid crystal molecule control part formed on at least one of the low and high pixel electrodes so as to control liquid crystal molecules disposed at an area corresponding to a boundary of the low and high pixel electrodes. The liquid crystal molecules disposed at a domain corresponding to a boundary between the low and high pixel electrodes may be controlled, so that the generation of stains or afterimages may be prevented at a boundary of domain areas.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a blocking layer disposed on the first substrate adjacent to an outer edge of the first substrate. The second substrate includes first and second areas. The first area faces the first substrate. The outer edge of the first substrate is aligned with a boundary between the first area and the second area of the second substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is presented. The liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a pixel electrode formed on the first substrate; a first alignment layer formed on the pixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a common electrode formed on the second substrate; a second alignment layer formed on the common electrode; a liquid crystal layer formed between the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer; and a light absorption layer formed between the first substrate and the first alignment layer, or the second substrate and the second alignment layer, wherein the light absorption layer absorbs light having a UV wavelength between about 280 nm and about 450 nm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device having an image-emitting panel and an image dividing sheet. The image-emitting panel includes a light-blocking layer, a lower substrate, an upper substrate and an electro-optic layer. The lower substrate includes pixel electrodes into which a first image signal and a second image signal having different viewing angles are applied in a spatial dividing method. The electro-optic layer reflects a circularly polarized light towards the upper substrate. The image dividing sheet includes a first optical element and a second optical element. The first optical element converts the circularly polarized light into a first light corresponding to the first image signal. The second optical element converts the circularly polarized light into a second light corresponding to the second image signal.

Abstract: A method of forming an alignment layer includes; providing a substrate having a base substrate and a photosensitive polymer layer disposed on the base substrate, the base substrate including a plurality of unit pixel areas, each of which is divided into a plurality of sub-pixel areas, photoaligning the photosensitive polymer layer by irradiating first light to a first exposure area of a first unit pixel area, the first light being inclined at a first angle with respect to the substrate in a first direction, and substantially simultaneously photoaligning the photosensitive polymer layer by irradiating second light to a second exposure area of a second unit pixel area at substantially the same time as the first light is irradiated to the first exposure area, the second light being inclined at a second angle with respect to the substrate in a second direction.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display that comprises: a first substrate; a common electrode formed on the first substrate; a second substrate corresponding to the first substrate; a pixel electrode formed on the second substrate; partitions formed between the common electrode and the pixel electrode; red, green, and blue cholesteric liquid crystals formed in regions separated by the partitions; and sealing lines formed on the outer peripheries of the partitions and having three liquid crystal injection holes.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display including a cholesteric liquid crystal and having a first insulation substrate and a second insulation substrate that face each other, the method comprising: forming an organic layer on the first insulation substrate or the second insulation substrate; pressing a mold onto the organic layer; hardening the organic layer; and removing the mold so as to form a cell gap formation pattern in the organic layer, the cell gap formation pattern including first, second, and third portions each having different thicknesses.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines, a plurality of switching elements connected to the gate lines and the data lines, a plurality of storage electrodes, a plurality of storage electrode lines connected to the storage electrodes, a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the switching elements and overlapping the storage electrodes, a gate driver generating gate signals having a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage to apply to the gate lines, a data driver generating data voltages corresponding to externally applied image signals to apply to the data lines, and a storage electrode driver generating storage electrode signals having a reference voltage, a high voltage larger than the reference voltage, and a low voltage smaller than the reference voltage to apply to the storage electrode lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a plurality of pixels; a gray voltage generator generating a plurality of gray voltages; an image signal modifier that receives first, second, and third image signals for a pixel in three successive frames, generates a preliminary signal for the second image signal based on the first image signal, and generates a modified signal for the second image signal based on the preliminary signal and the third image signal; and a data driver converting the modified signal into a data voltage selected from the gray voltages and applying the data voltage to the pixel, wherein a range of the gray voltages is substantially equal to a range of target voltages for obtaining target luminance of the pixel, and a highest available value for the modified signal is equal to a highest available value of the image signals.

Abstract: A method for driving a display panel, the display panel including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including a cholesteric liquid crystal capacitor, includes; applying a common voltage to the display panel, displaying a video on the display panel by applying a data voltage to at least one of the plurality of pixels, the data voltage having a phase which is one of inverted to and substantially the same as a phase of the common voltage with respect to a reference voltage.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines, a plurality of switching elements connected to the gate lines and the data lines, a plurality of storage electrodes, a plurality of storage electrode lines connected to the storage electrodes, a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the switching elements and overlapping the storage electrodes, a gate driver generating gate signals having a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage to apply to the gate lines, a data driver generating data voltages corresponding to externally applied image signals to apply to the data lines, and a storage electrode driver generating storage electrode signals having a reference voltage, a high voltage larger than the reference voltage, and a low voltage smaller than the reference voltage to apply to the storage electrode lines.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an active matrix substrate is presented. The method includes forming a transistor having a gate line, a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer between the gate line and the semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; forming a pixel electrode comprising a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode; forming an auxiliary coupling electrode connected to the second sub-pixel electrode through a first contact hole; and forming the first sub-pixel electrode through a second contact hole connected to the drain electrode of the transistor. The auxiliary coupling electrode and the first sub-pixel electrode overlap each other such that the second sub-pixel electrode is capacitively coupled to the first sub-pixel electrode and the auxiliary coupling electrode and the electrode part form a capacitor.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display includes a thin film transistor (TFT) panel including a pixel electrode in a rectangular shape having a transverse length longer than a longitudinal length, the pixel electrode including a first domain divider and having upper and lower half portions arranged symmetrically with respect to a transverse long axis passing through a center of the pixel electrode, a common electrode panel including a common electrode facing the pixel electrode, the common electrode including a second domain divider arranged parallel with the first domain divider, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the TFT panel and the common electrode panel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device having an image-emitting panel and an image dividing sheet. The image-emitting panel includes a light-blocking layer, a lower substrate, an upper substrate and an electro-optic layer. The lower substrate includes pixel electrodes into which a first image signal and a second image signal having different viewing angles are applied in a spatial dividing method. The electro-optic layer reflects a circularly polarized light towards the upper substrate. The image dividing sheet includes a first optical element and a second optical element. The first optical element converts the circularly polarized light into a first light corresponding to the first image signal. The second optical element converts the circularly polarized light into a second light corresponding to the second image signal.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display that comprises: a first substrate; a common electrode formed on the first substrate; a second substrate corresponding to the first substrate; a pixel electrode formed on the second substrate; partitions formed between the common electrode and the pixel electrode; red, green, and blue cholesteric liquid crystals formed in regions separated by the partitions; and sealing lines formed on the outer peripheries of the partitions and having three liquid crystal injection holes.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of a display device according to the present invention includes; a cholesteric liquid crystal display including a plurality of cholesteric liquid crystal regions, wherein each of the plurality of cholesteric liquid crystal regions respectively reflect light of predetermined colors, and the plurality of cholesteric liquid crystal regions are classified into two or more different types according to the predetermined color of the reflected light, and an assistance display device including a plurality of emitting regions, wherein each of the plurality of emitting regions is disposed in alignment with one of the plurality of cholesteric liquid crystal regions, and each of the plurality of emitting regions respectively emits light of substantially the same color as the predetermined color of the light reflected by the cholesteric liquid crystal region with which it is aligned.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a substrate; a field-generating electrode formed on the substrate; and a slope member formed on the substrate and having an inclination angle smaller than about 45 degrees.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixel electrodes that are formed in a matrix shape and each of which includes at least two parallelogram electrode pieces each having a pair of lengthwise edges and a pair of oblique edges adjacent the lengthwise edges, and a common electrode that faces the pixel electrodes and that has tilt direction determining members. Transverse center lines of the pixel electrodes that are adjacent each other in a row direction alternate, and the tilt direction determining members that correspond to the pixel electrodes that are adjacent to each other in the row direction are connected to each other in the row direction.

Abstract: An alignment substrate includes a substrate and an alignment layer. The substrate includes a plurality of unit pixel areas. Each of the unit pixel areas includes a plurality of sub-pixel areas arranged in a matrix configuration. The alignment layer is on the substrate and has polymer chains protruding from a surface of the alignment layer. The alignment layer has a plurality of alignment vectors in which the polymer chains are pretilted according to the sub-pixel areas. The alignment vectors corresponding to adjacent sub-pixel areas point in different directions from each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is presented. The liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a pixel electrode formed on the first substrate; a first alignment layer formed on the pixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a common electrode formed on the second substrate; a second alignment layer formed on the common electrode; a liquid crystal layer formed between the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer; and a light absorption layer formed between the first substrate and the first alignment layer, or the second substrate and the second alignment layer, wherein the light absorption layer absorbs light having a UV wavelength between about 280 nm and about 450 nm.