Abstract: A black matrix and a color filter are formed on a substrate, a indium-tin-oxide (ITO) common electrode are deposited thereon and then protrusion pattern made of sensitive material such as photoresist are formed on the common electrode with 3 to 20 micron width. A vertical alignment layer is coated thereon to complete a color filter substrate. After a thin film transistor (TFT) and a passivation film are formed on the other substrate, ITO is deposited on the passivation film and patterned to form a pixel electrode which contains open areas with 3 to 20 micron width. Then, a vertical alignment layer is coated to complete a TFT substrate. Two substrates are assembled in the manner that the apertures and the protrusion patterns are arranged on shifts and liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy is injected between the substrates. Each Polarizer is attached at the outer surfaces of the LCD substrates. Compensation films may be attached between the polarizer and the substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a gate line formed on a lower substrate, a storage line formed on the lower substrate, and a data line formed on the lower substrate crossing and insulated from the gate line and the storage line. The liquid crystal display also includes a pixel electrode formed on the lower substrate crossing and insulated from the storage line. The pixel electrode has a first aperture pattern. The liquid crystal display further includes a common electrode formed on an upper substrate and having a second aperture pattern, and a storage electrode connected to the storage line. The storage electrode overlaps the second aperture pattern. The storage line, first aperture pattern, and second aperture pattern each includes a straight portion slanting to the gate line. A long axis of a liquid crystal molecule is arranged perpendicular to a substrate when an electric field is not applied.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes; a first substrate, a gate line disposed on the first substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second substrate, a first domain partitioning member disposed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate and including a first portion disposed in a direction substantially parallel to the gate line, a second portion obliquely extending from an end of the first portion, and a third portion obliquely extending from the end of the first portion, and a second domain partitioning member disposed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate and including a fourth portion disposed in a direction substantially parallel to the gate line.

Abstract: Liquid crystal material is interposed between an upper panel and a lower panel. The lower panel includes signal transmitting wires including a gate wire and a data wire, thin film transistors connected to the signal transmitting wires and pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors, and the upper panel includes color filters, a black matrix and a common electrode. The pixel electrodes and the common electrode have apertures partitioning the pixel electrode into several domains. In addition, the director of liquid crystal molecules contained in the liquid crystal material is aligned perpendicular to the upper panel and the lower panel in absence of electric field between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode. The dielectric anisotropy of the liquid crystal material has a value ranging ?4.0 to ?5.5.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate with pixel electrodes, and a second substrate with a common electrode facing the first substrate. The common electrode has depression patterns corresponding to the pixel electrodes. The side wall of each depression pattern is at an angle of 30-120° with respect to the first substrate. The depression patterns of the common electrode are formed through making depression patterns at color filters. In this structure, the liquid crystal display bears wide viewing angle and good picture quality.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display panel and a liquid crystal display including the same. The display panel includes a pixel electrode, which includes a first subpixel electrode, a second subpixel electrode, and a third subpixel electrode insulated from each other, a first thin film transistor connected to the first subpixel electrode, a second thin film transistor connected to the second subpixel electrode, a third thin film transistor connected to the third subpixel electrode, a gate line connected to the first, second, and third thin film transistors, a data line connected to the first, second, and third thin film transistors, and a voltage differentiating member to change voltages of the first, second, and third subpixel electrodes, the voltages of the first, second, and third subpixel electrodes being different from each other.

Abstract: In a thin film transistor, first and second thin film transistors are connected to an Nth gate line and an Mth data line, and first and second sub pixel electrodes are connected to the first and second thin film transistors, respectively. A third thin film transistor includes a gate electrode connected to an (N+1)th gate line, a semiconductor layer overlapping with the gate electrode, a source electrode connected to the second sub pixel electrode and partially overlapping with the gate electrode, and a drain electrode facing the source electrode. A first auxiliary electrode is connected to the drain electrode and arranged on the same layer as the first and second sub pixel electrodes. An opposite electrode is arranged on the same layer as the gate line and at least partially overlaps with the first auxiliary electrode with at least one insulating layer disposed therebetween.

Abstract: A thin film transistor (“TFT”) substrate includes first through third TFTs, first and second sub pixel electrodes, and a voltage down capacitor. A control terminal and an input terminal of the first and the second TFT are connected to an (N-1)-th gate line and a data line, respectively. The first sub pixel electrode is connected to an output terminal of the first TFT. The second sub pixel electrode is connected to an output terminal of the second TFT. A control terminal and an input terminal of the third TFT are connected to an N-th gate line and the first sub pixel electrode, respectively. The voltage down capacitor is connected to an output terminal of the third TFT. A maximum data voltage transferred from the data line to at least one of the first and second sub pixel electrodes has a range of approximately 14 volts to approximately 16 volts.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a gate line formed on a lower substrate, a storage line formed on the lower substrate, and a data line formed on the lower substrate crossing and insulated from the gate line and the storage line. The liquid crystal display also includes a pixel electrode formed on the lower substrate crossing and insulated from the storage line. The pixel electrode has a first aperture pattern. The liquid crystal display further includes a common electrode formed on an upper substrate and having a second aperture pattern, and a storage electrode connected to the storage line. The storage electrode overlaps the second aperture pattern. The storage line, first aperture pattern, and second aperture pattern each includes a straight portion slanting to the gate line. A long axis of a liquid crystal molecule is arranged perpendicular to a substrate when an electric field is not applied.

Abstract: A display substrate includes an insulation substrate, an (n)-th gate line, a data line, first and second source electrodes, first and second drain electrodes, a pixel electrode, a third drain electrode, and a storage line. The first source electrode overlaps a first portion of the (n)-th gate line and is electrically connected to the data line. The first and second drain electrodes overlap a second portion of the (n)-th gate line. The pixel electrode is connected to the first drain electrode. The second source electrode overlaps a first portion of an (n+1)-th gate line, while the third drain electrode overlaps a second portion thereof. The storage line overlaps a portion of each of the pixel electrode and the second and third drain electrodes. The second source electrode is formed by extending the second drain electrode in a direction substantially from the (n)-th gate line towards the (n+1)-th gate line.

Abstract: Liquid crystal material is interposed between an upper panel and a lower panel. The lower panel includes signal transmitting wires including a gate wire and a data wire, thin film transistors connected to the signal transmitting wires and pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors, and the upper panel includes color filters, a black matrix and a common electrode. The pixel electrodes and the common electrode have apertures partitioning the pixel electrode into several domains. In addition, the director of liquid crystal molecules contained in the liquid crystal material is aligned perpendicular to the upper panel and the lower panel in absence of electric field between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode. The dielectric anisotropy of the liquid crystal material has a value ranging ?4.0 to ?5.5.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes; a gate line, a data line disposed substantially perpendicular to the gate line, a switching element connected to the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode connected to the switching element, and having a first inclination direction determining member including at least one first oblique portion forming an oblique angle with the gate line and the data line, and an inclination direction assistance member disposed adjacent to the first inclination direction determining member, and substantially parallel to the first oblique portion.

Abstract: A LCD and a method of driving the LCD are provided. The LCD includes first and second gate lines extending in a first direction, a data line insulated from the first gate line and crossing the first gate line, a pixel electrode including first and second sub-pixel electrodes, the pixel electrode being disposed in a pixel having a long side in the first direction, a first thin film transistor (TFT) connected to the first gate line, the data line, and the first sub-pixel electrode, a second TFT connected to the first gate line, the data line, and the second sub-pixel electrode, and a third TFT connected to the second gate line, the second sub-pixel electrode, and a charge-sharing capacitor, the charge-sharing capacitor sharing a data voltage applied to the second sub-pixel electrode.

Abstract: A display apparatus including a plurality of gate lines, a data line intersecting the plurality of gate lines; a first pixel unit connected with a n-th gate line of the plurality of gate lines and the data line. A second pixel unit connected with a (n+1)-th gate line of the plurality of gate lines; and a coupling capacitor disposed between the first pixel unit and the second pixel unit, wherein the first pixel unit comprises a first liquid crystal capacitor and a first thin film transistor (TFT), the second pixel unit comprises a second liquid crystal capacitor and a second thin film transistor (TFT), and a source electrode and a drain electrode of the second TFT are connected with both electrodes of the coupling capacitor, respectively.

Abstract: A refractive index decrement film, includes: a transparent base layer; a plurality of refraction decreasing layers that is formed on the base layer and has different refractive indices, where the refraction decreasing layers closer to the base layer have a relatively high refractive index and the refraction decreasing layers farther from the base layer have a relatively low refractive index.

Abstract: In a display apparatus having a plurality of pixel parts, each pixel part receives a data signal in response to a present gate signal and charges first and second pixel voltages having the same voltage level. A plurality of voltage controllers includes a level-down part to lower a voltage level of the second pixel voltage using a previous pixel voltage charged in a previous frame in response to a next gate signal and a level-up part to receive the lowered second pixel voltage in response to the next gate signal to boost up a voltage level of the first pixel voltage.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel assembly and a backlight assembly. The display panel assembly includes a main panel unit and a sub panel unit facing the main panel unit. The backlight assembly emits light to the display panel assembly. The main panel unit includes a color filter and displays an image in chromatic and achromatic colors, and the sub panel unit displays an image only in an achromatic color.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) comprises a first substrate comprising a pixel electrode comprising one or more first domain-forming features and further comprising a first vertical alignment film disposed on the pixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate and comprising a common electrode which comprises one or more second domain-forming features and further comprises a second vertical alignment film disposed on the common electrode; and a liquid crystal compound interposed between the first and second substrates, wherein the liquid crystal compound comprises liquid crystal molecules, ultraviolet (UV) hardening monomers and UV hardening initiators, and the liquid crystal molecules are pre-tilted to form an angle greater than 88 degrees but less than 90 degrees with respect to the first substrate when no driving power is applied to the pixel and common electrodes. Fast response time is provided in some embodiments.

Abstract: A display device including a first gate line and a second gate line that extend in parallel with each other, a data line crossing the first and second gate lines to form a pixel region, a pixel electrode in the pixel region and including a main pixel electrode and a sub pixel electrode, which are connected to the first gate line and the data line, a control thin film transistor connected to the second gate line and the sub pixel electrode, and a gate driver. The gate driver outputs a first gate signal to the first gate line and a second gate signal to the second gate line. The first gate signal activates the first gate line during a first time and a second time following the first time, and the second gate signal activates the second gate line during the first time but not the second time.

Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of touch sensors and a touch sensor controller. The touch sensor controller defines sensing units. Each of the sensing units includes at least two touch sensors. The touch sensor controller generates coordinates information of the sensing unit when all of the touch sensors of the sensing unit are generating an output signal or at least one of the touch sensors of the sensing unit is generating an output signal.