Abstract: A normally closed liquid crystal display device using an in-plane switching mode prevented from light leakage caused by spacer beads and having a high contrast ratio can be produced by making a pretilt angle between an alignment control film and liquid crystals 4° or less and controlling a light leakage centering the spacer in 4-divided shapes; or by placing a film provided with a liquid crystal alignment controlling function by irradiation with polarized light between the spacer and a liquid crystal layer, the spacer being present in a pair of substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display for displaying an image to be visible for a viewer, has a liquid crystal, a pair of electrodes for controlling an orientation of at least a part of the liquid crystal in accordance with an electric field between the electrodes, a light source for generating a light to be transmitted through the liquid crystal to the viewer, a pair of first and second polarizer plates, the first polarizer plate being arranged between the liquid crystal and the light source, and the second polarizer plate being arranged between the liquid crystal and the viewer, and a band-pass filter for absorbing a component of the light, a wave-length of which component is not more than 440 nm, and the band-pass filter being arranged between the light source and the viewer.

Abstract: A display method can achieve both of substantially high definition image display and high speed dynamic image display. The image displaying method of an image displaying apparatus having a display portion consisted of a plurality of pixels takes each of a predetermined number of pixels as one block unit and forms one screen image for displaying by combining a region for displaying the same information on a plurality of pixels in the one block unit during one scanning period and a region for permitting display of respectively different information on the plurality of pixels in the one block unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel having a pair of substrates, a plurality of electrodes formed on at least one of the pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, and a light source provided on the back surface of the liquid crystal panel. The light source has the luminous characteristic with the chromaticity of a warm color family, and the liquid crystal panel has a spectral transmission characteristic with the chromaticity of a cold color family, whereby the color of the light source can be compensated.

Abstract: A color STN-LCD having preferable display quality and decreased manufacturing cost uses a liquid crystal display apparatus which includes a liquid crystal layer having a twist angle in a range from 200.degree. and less than 360.degree., a retardation of the liquid crystal layer in a range of 0.80 .mu.m.about.0.90 .mu.m, an azimuth of transmittance axis of the upper polarizer in a range of 30.degree..about.70.degree., an azimuth of the transmittance axis of the lower polarizer in a range of 60.degree..about.90.degree., an azimuth of the slow axis of the upper phase plate in a range of 150.degree..about.190.degree., an azimuth of the slow axis of the lower phase plate in a range of 30.degree..about.80.degree., a retardation of the upper phase plate at a wave length of 550 nm in a range of 200 nm.about.300 nm, and a retardation of the lower phase plate at a wave length of 550 nm in a range of 500 nm.about.620 nm.