Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate and including one or more unit pixel electrodes; a common electrode facing the pixel electrode; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein a length of a short side of the one unit pixel electrode may be equal to or less than about 100 ?m, a length of a long side of the one unit pixel electrode may be equal to or greater than about two times the length of the short side, and the one unit pixel electrode may include a stem portion including a horizontal stem and a vertical stem crossing each other and a plurality of minute branch electrodes extending from the stem portion.

Abstract: A display substrate has first and second conductive layers separated from one another by an insulation layer. The first and second conductive layers are used to integrally form on the display substrate, pixel units in a relatively central display area of the substrate and integrated gate driving circuitry as well as associated wirings thereof in one or more peripheral areas. The first and second conductive layers are covered by a first protection layer made of a first electrically insulative material. A second and supplementing protection layer is provided on top of the first protection layer. The supplementing protection layer (buffer layer) is formed of a material different from that of the first protection layer so as to provide supplemental resistance against corrosive chemical agents and supplemental resistance against formation of cracks.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes: a substrate including a light transmitting region and a light blocking region; a thin film transistor disposed in the light blocking region, the thin film transistor including a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode; a first insulating layer disposed on the drain electrode, the first insulating layer including a contact hole for exposing the drain electrode; a pixel electrode disposed on the first insulating layer, the pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode through the contact hole; and a protruding portion disposed on the pixel electrode, wherein the pixel electrode includes: a stem portion disposed in the light transmitting region; a plurality of branch portions connected to the stem portion; and an extension disposed in the light blocking region, the extension configured to extend from the stem portion or the branch portions, and wherein the protruding portion overlaps the extension.

Abstract: Capacitively actuated touch sensor units are integrated between subpixel light emitters of a liquid crystal display panel. In one embodiment, a sensor unit is monolithically integrated on a same substrate as are a plurality of associated subpixel units and the sensor unit includes a variable capacitor and a reference capacitor connected to define a voltage splitting circuit having a split voltage generating node. The sensor unit also includes a sensing transistor operatively coupled to the split voltage generating node and a voltage resetting transistor operatively coupled to the split voltage generating node. In one embodiment, one plate of the variable capacitor is defined by a touchwise flexed portion of a common electrode of the display and an opposed plate is defined by a spaced apart facing electrode provided on a TFT array substrate of the liquid crystal display.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a first color pixel area, a second color pixel area, and a first boundary area disposed between the first color pixel area and the second color pixel area is provided, the LCD including a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a first color filter disposed in the first color pixel area and the first boundary area on the first substrate, a second color filter disposed in the second color pixel area and the first boundary area on the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a first overlapping portion where the first color filter overlaps the second color filter in the first boundary area is disposed closer to the second color pixel area than to the first color pixel area.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a pixel that includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel, the first subpixel displaying a first image based on a first gamma curve during a first period of a first frame and the second subpixel displaying a second image based on a second gamma curve during the first period of the first frame, where the first and second gamma curves are different; a gate driver configured to transmit a gate signal to the display panel; and a data driver configured to transmit a first data voltage based on the first gamma curve and a second data voltage based on the second gamma curve to the pixel, in which the pixel includes a voltage changing member which changes luminance of at least one of the first image and the second image during a second period of the first frame.

Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes N stages (where N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2). The N stages are cascaded, and each of the N stages has a gate line connected thereto. A first stage group includes k stages of the N stages (where k is a natural number less than N), and the first stage group outputs a first output signal in response to a start signal. A second stage group (including N?k stages) generates a second output signal in response to the first output signal and outputs the second output signal to a corresponding gate line. The first stage group includes a first buffer and a second buffer, each of which receives the start signal. A size of the first buffer is smaller than a size of the second buffer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including: a first substrate including a pixel area including a first subpixel area and a second subpixel area; a first subpixel electrode positioned in the first subpixel area and a second subpixel electrode positioned in the second subpixel area; an insulating layer formed on the first and second subpixel electrodes; a third subpixel electrode positioned in the first subpixel area and overlapping the first subpixel electrode; a fourth subpixel electrode positioned in the second subpixel area and overlapping the second subpixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first and fourth subpixel electrodes are connected to a first thin film transistor, and the second and third subpixel electrodes are connected to a second thin film transistor.

Abstract: A display device includes pixels connected to gate lines and first and second data lines, dummy members extending in a first direction and disposed between adjacent pixels in a second direction crossing the first direction, and color filters extending in the second direction and overlapping pixels arranged in the second direction and disposed on the dummy members. A height of the color filters in step difference areas is larger than a height of the color filters in peripheral areas near the step difference areas. The step difference areas correspond to areas of the color filters in which the dummy members are disposed.

Abstract: A display device includes; a first touch sensor, a second touch sensor disposed in proximity to the first touch sensor, a shade located on the second touch sensor wherein the shade controls intensity of incident light to the second touch sensor so that the second touch sensor receives a different intensity than the first touch sensor, and a reader which receives a first signal and a second signal from the first touch sensor and the second touch sensor, respectively and which analyzes the first signal and the second signal.

Abstract: A display device, includes: a plurality of gate lines which transmits a gate signal; a plurality of data lines which transmits a positive-polarity data voltage and a negative-polarity data voltage; a first color pixel including a first switching element connected to the gate line and the data line and a first capacitor connected to the first switching element, where the first color pixel displays a first color; and a second color pixel including a second switching element connected to the gate line and the data line and a second capacitor connected to the second switching element, where the second color pixel displays a second color different from the first color, where an optimum common voltage of the first color pixel is lower than an optimum common voltage of the second color pixel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a first gate line disposed on the first substrate, a second gate line disposed on the first substrate, a data line disposed on the first substrate, a reference voltage line disposed on the first substrate and extending substantially to be parallel to the data line, a first subpixel electrode disposed in a pixel area on the first substrate, a second subpixel electrode disposed in the pixel area on the first substrate, a first switching element connected to the first gate line, the data line and the first subpixel electrode, a second switching element connected to the first gate line, the data line and the second subpixel electrode, and a third switching element connected to the first subpixel electrode and the reference voltage line.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a first sub-pixel that is charged with a data signal corresponding to an input gray-scale, in response to a gate signal, and a second sub-pixel that is charged with the data signal in response to the gate signal. A boost capacitor is disposed between the first and second sub-pixels. The boost capacitor increases the voltage of the signal charged in the first sub-pixel and decreases the voltage of the signal charged in the second sub-pixel. Each pixel further includes an initializing device to initialize a first electrode of the boost capacitor and a switching device to change an electric potential of the first electrode of the boost capacitor.

Abstract: A method of processing three-dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image data is provided that includes comparing the polarity of image data of a present frame with the polarity of image data of a previous frame. The image data of the present frame are compensated according to the result of the comparison. The image data of the present frame is compensated to generate first compensation data, when the polarity of the image data of the present frame is opposite to the polarity of the image data of the previous frame, with respect a reference voltage.

Abstract: A display substrate includes a gate line, a data line and a pixel electrode. The gate line is extended in a first direction on a base substrate. The data line is extended in a second direction crossing to the first direction. The pixel electrode is disposed on a pixel area of the base substrate. The pixel electrode includes a first sub-electrode and a second sub-electrode spaced apart by an opening portion, and receives a voltage having a same polarity. The opening portion includes a straight line portion extended in the first direction, a diagonal line portion extended in a third direction crossing the first and second directions, and a protrusion portion disposed in a length direction of the straight line portion at a portion of the pixel electrode where the straight line portion and the diagonal line portion meet.

Abstract: A display substrate has first and second conductive layers separated from one another by an insulation layer. The first and second conductive layers are used to integrally form on the display substrate, pixel units in a relatively central display area of the substrate and integrated gate driving circuitry as well as associated wirings thereof in one or more peripheral areas. The first and second conductive layers are covered by a first protection layer made of a first electrically insulative material. A second and supplementing protection layer is provided on top of the first protection layer. The supplementing protection layer (buffer layer) is formed of a material different from that of the first protection layer so as to provide supplemental resistance against corrosive chemical agents and supplemental resistance against formation of cracks.

Abstract: A mother substrate for a display device includes: a first mother substrate and a second mother substrate including a plurality of panel regions and facing each other; a first contact electrode and a second contact electrode on the first mother substrate; a common electrode, a first voltage application electrode and a second voltage application electrode separated from each other and on the second mother substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first mother substrate and the second mother substrate. The first voltage application electrode is connected to the first contact electrode, and the second voltage application electrode is connected to the second contact electrode. The first voltage application electrode is applied with a first voltage, and the second voltage application electrode is applied with a second voltage different from the first voltage.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a pixel that includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel, the first subpixel displaying a first image based on a first gamma curve during a first period of a first frame and the second subpixel displaying a second image based on a second gamma curve during the first period of the first frame, where the first and second gamma curves are different; a gate driver configured to transmit a gate signal to the display panel; and a data driver configured to transmit a first data voltage based on the first gamma curve and a second data voltage based on the second gamma curve to the pixel, in which the pixel includes a voltage changing member which changes luminance of at least one of the first image and the second image during a second period of the first frame.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including: a first substrate including a pixel area including a first subpixel area and a second subpixel area; a first subpixel electrode positioned in the first subpixel area and a second subpixel electrode positioned in the second subpixel area; an insulating layer formed on the first and second subpixel electrodes; a third subpixel electrode positioned in the first subpixel area and overlapping the first subpixel electrode; a fourth subpixel electrode positioned in the second subpixel area and overlapping the second subpixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first and fourth subpixel electrodes are connected to a first thin film transistor, and the second and third subpixel electrodes are connected to a second thin film transistor.

Abstract: A display substrate has first and second conductive layers separated from one another by an insulation layer. The first and second conductive layers are used to integrally form on the display substrate, pixel units in a relatively central display area of the substrate and integrated gate driving circuitry as well as associated wirings thereof in one or more peripheral areas. The first and second conductive layers are covered by a first protection layer made of a first electrically insulative material. A second and supplementing protection layer is provided on top of the first protection layer. The supplementing protection layer (buffer layer) is formed of a material different from that of the first protection layer so as to provide supplemental resistance against corrosive chemical agents and supplemental resistance against formation of cracks.