Abstract: A curved display device includes a curved first substrate, a curved second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first alignment layer, and a second alignment layer. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first and second substrates and includes liquid crystal molecules. The first alignment layer includes reactive mesogens polymerized to each other and is disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The second alignment layer is disposed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer. Among the liquid crystal molecules, first liquid crystal molecules disposed in the vicinity of the first alignment layer have a first pretilt angle, and second liquid crystal molecules disposed in the vicinity of the second alignment layer have a second pretilt angle different from the first pretilt angle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display including: a lower electrode including a unit pixel electrode; an upper electrode including an upper unit electrode facing the unit pixel electrode; and a liquid crystal layer between the lower electrode and the upper electrode and including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules aligned approximately perpendicular to the surfaces of the lower electrode and the upper electrode in the absence of an electric field, wherein the unit pixel electrode includes a stem forming a boundary between a plurality of sub-regions and a plurality of minute branches extending in different directions in two different sub-regions, the upper unit electrode includes an opening facing the stem and extending parallel to the stem, any alignment aid to pretilt the liquid crystal molecules is absent, and a length of the minute branches is equal to or less than about 53 ?m.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of an in-plane switching mode is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first gate line and a second gate line. The liquid crystal display device also includes a first data line, a second data line, and a third data line. The liquid crystal display device further includes a first electrode and a second electrode formed in a pixel region surrounded by the first gate line, the second gate line, the first data line, and the second data line. The first electrode includes a first set of slits extending along a first direction in a first section of the pixel region and a second set of slits extending along a second direction in a second section of the pixel region. The third data line overlaps a boundary area between the first section and the second section in the pixel region in plan view.

Abstract: An eyewear lens is described that provides polarization filtering and spectral filtering using polarization interference. The lens produces enhanced saturation and colorfulness, increasing enjoyment when observing commonly encountered imagery. The lens can be configured to optimize accuracy/efficiency when performing a task involving colored imagery, and can improve performance in sports. The lens can further be helpful for color discrimination by those with certain types of color vision deficiency.

Abstract: An array substrate, a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device are provided. The array substrate comprises multiple pixel units, where at least one of the pixel units comprises a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode, the first subpixel electrode is electrically connected to a first charging thin-film transistor, and the second subpixel electrode is electrically connected to a second charging thin-film transistor. In same one pixel unit, the charging capacity of the second charging thin-film transistor is greater than the charging capacity of the first charging thin-film transistor.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device comprises a substrate, a thin-film transistor (TFT) disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer disposed on the TFT, and a pixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer and connected to a drain electrode of the TFT via a contact hole formed in the insulating layer. The pixel electrode includes a stem electrode which extends in a first direction and a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, branch electrodes which extend from the stem electrode, and an extension electrode which is disposed to overlap the contact hole and which is connected to the branch electrodes. The extension electrode includes a slit.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an array substrate and a method for manufacturing the array substrate. The array substrate includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the base substrate and a second electrode disposed on the base substrate and located in a different layer from the first electrode with an insulation layer being disposed therebetween, wherein each of the first and second electrodes is a comb-like electrode, and the first and second electrodes are configured to generate an electric field therebetween when being applied with a voltage.

Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrode series, and a plurality of second electrode series. The substrate has a first surface. The first electrode series are disposed on the first surface. Each of the first electrode series extends along a first direction and includes a plurality of first electrodes. The second electrode series are disposed on the first surface. Each of the second electrode series extends along a second direction and includes a plurality of second electrodes.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes: first and second substrates arranged to be opposite each other at a predetermined gap; a liquid crystal layer filled between the first and second substrates; alignment films; a counter electrode pattern formed on the first substrate; and a pixel electrode pattern formed on the first substrate so as to have a plurality of electrode branches, the pixel electrode pattern having a partial connection branch formed around a contact so as to transversely connect a plurality of electrode branches extending from the contact from among the plurality of electrode branches.

Abstract: An optical system for aberration compensation comprising an optical module and an asymmetric refractive index distribution film is disclosed. The asymmetric refractive index distribution film comprises a liquid crystal and a liquid crystalline polymer, wherein the asymmetric refractive index distribution film set on an out-light surface or an in-light surface of the optical module. A display system comprising the above-mentioned optical system and an image panel are also disclosed herein. The asymmetric refractive index distribution film of the present invention has non-uniform refractive index distribution so as to effectively compensate the aberration formed by the optical module.

Abstract: Shown is a liquid crystal display device including a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal composition having a nematic phase, which is placed between these substrates, wherein the liquid crystal composition includes at least one compound selected from compounds represented by formula (1) as a first component: wherein in formula (1), R1 and R2 are alkyl or the like; ring A and ring C are 1,4-phenylene or the like; ring B is 2,3-difluoro-1,4-phenylene or the like; Z1 and Z2 are a single bond or the like; and m is 1, 2 or 3, n is 0 or 1, and the sum of m and n is 3 or less.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes oppositely disposed upper and lower substrates having a liquid crystal disposed therebetween. A surface of the upper substrate and a surface of the lower substrate are formed with viewing angle upper and lower electrodes respectively, and a length of the lower electrode is shorter than that of the upper electrode. The upper electrode completely covers projection of the lower electrode on the upper substrate. A region between the upper and lower electrodes includes adjacent main body region and pretilt region, the pretilt region is corresponding to edges of the upper and lower electrodes, and portions of the upper and lower electrodes corresponding to the main body region have same sizes. A liquid crystal display device and a method for improving liquid crystal rotation obstacle further are provided. Accordingly, a response time of viewing angle switching is reduced and viewing angle symmetry is improved.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprises a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and comprising liquid crystal molecules; a first alignment layer disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer; and a second alignment layer disposed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer, wherein one of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer comprises a photostable compound, or a photostable compound-derived functional group, or a photostable compound and a photostable compound-derived functional group, and the other does not comprise the photostable compound, or the photostable compound-derived functional group, or the photostable compound and the photostable compound-derived functional group.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has a display area that includes a plurality of pixels (Px). The display area is made up of n kinds of domains (where n is an integer that is equal to or greater than two and equal to or smaller than four). The directors of the n kinds of domains define mutually different alignment directions. If the domain structure of each pixel (Px) is defined by the kinds of the domains that form the pixel (Px), the number k of the kinds of the domains that form the pixel (Px), and the arrangement of the domains in the pixel (Px), the display area includes a pixel, of which k is less than n and of which the domain structure is different from the domain structures of adjacent pixels.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a first substrate including a first display electrode and a second display electrode that is disposed opposite the first display electrode with an insulator interposed between the first display electrode and the second display electrode, a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first display electrode includes a plurality of first openings in each pixel, and an interior angle of at least one apex constituting the first opening is different from interior angles of another apex in each of the plurality of first openings.

Abstract: An array substrate includes: a plurality of pixels including sub-pixels forming a matrix, each sub-pixel including a pair of sub-pixel portions; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of gate lines intersecting with the plurality of data lines; and a plurality of pairs of transistors configured to control the plurality of pairs of sub-pixel portions; wherein: each pair of transistors are disposed adjacent to an intersection between a gate line and a data line, across at least one of the gate line or the data line, and are configured to control a pair of sub-pixel portions in neighboring rows or columns of sub-pixel portions.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a liquid crystal panel including a first polarizer, an array substrate, a color film substrate, and a second polarizer disposed in this order, a plurality of pixel structures are arranged in the array of the array substrate, the pixel structure includes a pixel electrode; the display area portion of the pixel electrode includes a striped horizontal trunk and a striped vertical trunk, a plurality of stripe branches are divided into four quadrant sub-regions each of which is divided equally between the horizontal trunk and the vertical trunk center; wherein the angle between the absorption axis of the first polarizer and the horizontal trunk is ?, the absorption axis of the second polarizer is perpendicular to the absorption axis of the first polarizer, and 0<?<90°. The present disclosure also discloses a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel as described above.

Abstract: An electronic device may generate content that is to be displayed on a display. The display may have an array of liquid crystal display pixels for displaying image frames of the content. The display may be operated in at least a normal viewing mode, a privacy mode, an outdoor viewing mode, and a power saving mode. The different view modes may exhibit different viewing angles. In one configuration, the display may include a switchable phase retarder that can be selectively activated to help reduce contrast ratios at higher viewing angles. A rotated pixel design that includes one or more groups of parallel fingers can be used to help properly align the low contrast regions. In another configuration, the display may include multiple electrically controlled birefringence (ECB) layers that can be selectively activated to provide a desired cone of vision, a region outside of which exhibits substantially reduced contrast ratios.

Abstract: The present application discloses an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate comprises: a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of pixel units defined by the plurality of data lines and the plurality of gate lines, each pixel unit comprising a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and at least three thin film transistors, the pixel unit further comprising: a charge-discharge element, the charge-discharge element and a third thin film transistor in the at least three thin film transistors charging and discharging the pixel unit such that the pixel unit forms a first voltage region and a second voltage region with different voltages.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The panel comprises: a first substrate, having a first alignment film formed by performing optical alignment to a first alignment-film material by taking data lines as a first optical alignment reference; and a second substrate, having a second alignment formed by performing optical alignment to a second alignment-film material by taking a connecting line of at least two auxiliary spacers as a second optical alignment reference.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display panel having a perspective function and an array substrate, the display panel comprises: a plurality pixel regions, wherein each pixel region respectively comprises a perspective region and a display region, wherein said perspective of said each pixel region is used to look the scene after the display panel, and said display region of said each pixel region is used to provide the display function. Through the above way, which can make the effects of perspective view and display diversification, to meet the multiple requirements of perspective view and display form users, and the transparent display effect can be adjusted, thereby achieving the ideal requirements of users.

Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device includes a first substrate, a plurality of pixel units disposed on the first substrate, a color filter layer overlapping the plurality of pixel units and including first to third color filters, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid-crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each of the pixel units of the plurality of the pixel units includes a first pixel, a second pixel and a third pixel. The first pixel includes a first pixel electrode, the second pixel includes a second pixel electrode, and the third pixel includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode. A voltage applied to the first sub-pixel electrode is different from a voltage applied to the second sub-pixel electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including one surface, a second substrate including one surface and the other surface, a first alignment layer which is disposed on the one surface of the first substrate, includes a polymeric material, and has a first thickness, a first photocured layer disposed on the first alignment layer, a second alignment layer which is disposed on the one surface of the second substrate, and includes a polymeric material same as the polymeric material in the first alignment layer, and which has a second thickness less than the first thickness, a second photocured layer disposed on the second alignment layer, and a liquid crystal layer which includes first liquid crystal molecules and second liquid crystal molecules further vertically aligned than the first liquid crystal molecules in an initial aligned state.

Abstract: A display device includes: pixels corresponding to respective colors arranged in matrix, wherein each pixel has a pixel circuit portion in which a circuit for display driving of the pixel is arranged and a pixel opening to be an area obtaining effective display light, the pixel openings of the pixels corresponding to at least one color have an area different from areas of the pixel openings of pixels corresponding to other colors.

Abstract: A display device includes a first unit pixel disposed in a first pixel column and a first pixel row, and a second unit pixel disposed in the first pixel column and a second pixel row adjacent to the first pixel row, and first and second gate lines extending in a row direction and having gate voltage input pads at a terminal portion thereof. First and second data lines extend in a column direction and are connected to the first unit pixel and the second unit pixel, respectively. A first charge control line extends in the row direction and has a charge control gate voltage input pad disposed at a terminal portion thereof. The first gate line is connected to the first unit pixel and the second gate line is connected to the second unit pixel. The first gate line and the second gate line simultaneously receive a same gate pulse.

Abstract: In this display device, an electrode layer for an upper electrode and a lower electrode is formed on an array substrate via a dielectric film, one of the upper electrode and the lower electrode is a pixel electrode, the other thereof is a common electrode, and an opening portion for generating horizontal electric field in a liquid crystal layer is formed in accordance with a shape of the electrode layer in a plan view. A CF substrate has a light-shielding film (BM) including a lateral BM portion. The opening portion has a plurality of slits in an X direction, and an end portion of an outermost slit in a Y direction is concealed by the lateral BM portion overlapped in a Z direction.

Abstract: A display substrate having pre-tilt angle for liquid crystal molecules and a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a plurality of pixel regions, an alignment film for providing a pre-tilt angle for liquid crystal molecules being disposed in the plurality of pixel regions. In each of the pixel regions, a surface of the alignment film has a plurality of orientation grooves extending along at least two directions.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel, a fabrication method thereof and a display device are provided. The liquid crystal display panel comprises: an opposed substrate (10) and an array substrate (20) arranged opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer (30) filled between the opposed substrate (10) and the array substrate (20). Alignment films (40) having opposite friction directions are provided on opposing surfaces of the opposed substrate (10) and the array substrate (20), respectively. The liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of pixel units which are arranged in array, and each of the pixel units comprises two pixel regions (A, B) along the friction direction of the alignment film.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a diagnostic software service that utilizes a subscription model to distribute diagnostic software to diagnostic tools. A diagnostic application is installed on a mobile device. The mobile device communicates with an adapter which can be coupled to a vehicle. An application server provides software modules that are available to be subscribed to by a technician and, once subscribed, can be utilized via the diagnostic application. Subscription to software modules enable the technician to add and utilize specific diagnostic functionality in an a la carte manner.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a liquid crystal panel of a vertical alignment mode, and an optical control member disposed on a light-exiting side of the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of pixels having at least two domains (50a, 50b), in which directors of liquid crystal molecules are in a first direction. An absorption axis of a first polarizing sheet and an absorption axis of a second polarizing sheet are a mutually orthogonal and form angle that is approximately 45°. The optical control member includes a base, a light diffusion part, a light blocking layer and a low refractive index part.

Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept includes: a substrate; a data line and a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate; a common electrode and a pixel electrode disposed on the thin film transistor and overlapping each other by interposing an insulating layer therebetween; a roof layer formed to be separated from the pixel electrode and the common electrode while interposing a microcavity therebetween and having an injection hole partially exposing the microcavity; a liquid crystal layer filling the microcavity; an overcoat formed on the roof layer to cover the injection hole and sealing the microcavity. The pixel electrode includes an auxiliary electrode that is formed on the data line, the auxiliary electrode overlapping and being insulated from the data line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form with m rows and n columns, where the pixels define a plurality of first and second pixel portions including parts of the pixels. Pixel electrodes of two of the pixels of the first pixel portion define a first domain, and pixel electrodes of the remaining three of the pixels define a second domain, and pixel electrodes of two of the pixels of the second pixel portion include the first domain, and pixel electrodes of the remaining three of the pixels include the second domain, and the first and second domains in the first pixel portion and the first and second domains in the second pixel portion are in a point symmetry relationship.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and outputting an image through a first surface; and a first polarizer attached to the first surface of the display panel, the first polarizer transmitting linearly-polarized light of a first direction and reflecting linearly-polarized light of a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein when a voltage is not applied, the display device is used as a mirror mode and the first polarizer reflects external light, and when a voltage is applied, the display device is used as an image display mode and an image from the display panel is outputted through the first polarizer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided. A liquid crystal display device comprising, a substrate, and a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate, wherein the pixel electrode includes first cutout portions, which are disposed along edges of the pixel electrode, and second cutout portions, which are disposed closer than the first cutout portions to a center of the pixel electrode, and each of the second cutout portions includes first and second extensions, which extend in different directions and are connected to each other.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a metal layer formed on an interlayer insulating film, arranged in contact with at least one of common electrodes adjacent to each other via a slit, and covering at least a part of the slit. The metal layer is at least partly opposed to a signal line located in correspondence with the slit and is arranged closer than the signal line to a liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a display medium, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode and a transparent electrode. Sub-pixel units are defined on the first substrate and the second substrate. A sub-pixel unit has a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The transparent electrode is disposed on the second substrate, and the transparent electrode receives a first common potential and a second common potential. When grey levels displayed by the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are in the range of about 96 to 180, a potential difference between the first common potential received when the first sub-pixel has the maximum brightness and the second common potential received when the second sub-pixel has the minimum brightness is in the range of about 0 mV to 100 mV.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates facing each other and including a plurality of pixels; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates and including a liquid crystal mixture. The first substrate includes a pixel electrode in each pixel. The pixel electrode includes a stem electrode extending in a first direction and a second direction in a cross shape and dividing the pixel into first to fourth domains; and branch electrodes disposed in the first to fourth domains and extending from the stem electrode in a tilted direction to the first and second directions. The branch electrodes disposed in two adjacent domains extend to have angles different from each other with respect to the first direction and the second direction. The liquid crystal mixture includes liquid crystals, and a dopant which adjusts a pitch of the liquid crystals.

Abstract: A composition for an alignment layer includes a polyimide-based compound including a polymerization initiator coupled to a side chain of the polyimide-based compound.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a display substrate having pixel electrodes and a curvature along a first direction, an opposite substrate coupled to the display substrate and curved together with the display substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the display substrate and the opposite substrate. Each pixel electrode comprises a plurality of domains successively arranged along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and further comprises branch electrodes positioned within each domain to be inclined with respect to the first and second directions, the branch electrodes of two domains adjacent to each other in the second direction being arranged in alternating manner.

Abstract: An alignment film material and a method of producing an alignment film are described. The alignment film material has polyimide and crosslinked polymer. The crosslinked polymer is formed from a first component through a crosslinking reaction. A crosslink density of the alignment film can be enhanced without additionally adding a catalyst, so as to increase a hardness of the alignment film.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display and a method for fabricating the same. The liquid crystal display comprises a substrate having a plurality of pixel areas; a first electrode formed on the substrate in the unit of a pixel area; a fine space layer positioned on the first electrode; a partition formed between the adjacent fine space layers to partition the plurality of pixel areas; a roof layer formed on the fine space layer and the partition to define the fine space layer between the substrate and the partition; and a second electrode formed on a bottom surface of the roof layer, wherein the second electrode comes in contact with an upper surface of the partition.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal device (LCD). The liquid crystal panel includes a color-film (CF) substrate and a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate opposite to the CF substrate. The CF substrate and the TFT array substrate are spaced apart from each other. The CF substrate includes a first substrate, a plurality of photo-resist units, and a plurality of masking units. The photo-resist units and the masking units are arranged on a surface of the first substrate adjacent to the TFT array substrate. The photo-resist units are spaced apart from each other, and the masking unit is configured between the adjacent photo-resist units. The TFT array substrate includes a second substrate and a plurality of first transparent electrode units.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a method for driving same. The liquid crystal display device comprises the liquid crystal display device in a PVA mode, an LVA mode, an FFS mode, and in an IPS mode. The liquid crystal display device comprises 1 to 50 wt % of an achiral smectic liquid crystal, and a remainder of a nematic liquid crystal. The liquid crystal device comprises 3 to 50 wt % of a smectic liquid crystal and a remainder of the nematic liquid crystal, wherein the smectic liquid crystal comprises a liquid crystal layer, comprising 70 to 97 wt % of an achiral smectic liquid crystal, and 3 to 30 et % of a chiral smectic liquid crystal.

Abstract: The display panel includes multiple sub-pixel areas, a first substrate and a second substrate oppositely arranged to form a cell; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode disposed in each of multiple areas respectively corresponding to the plurality of sub-pixel areas, a protruded object is disposed in a gap between the first sub-pixel electrode and the second sub-pixel electrode, which are adjacent to each other and are respectively included in different sub-pixel areas, and a projection of the protruded object at least partially overlaps an area of the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the gap.

Abstract: A pixel electrode includes a frame electrode, a main electrode orthogonally connected with a middle part of the frame electrode, a plurality of first branch electrodes which are parallel with one another and spaced with one another, and a plurality of second branch electrodes which are parallel with one another and spaced with one another. The first branch electrodes and the second branch electrodes are respectively connected to the frame electrodes at inclination angles of 135° and 45°. The first branch electrodes and the second branch electrodes are orthogonal to each other, and the pixel electrode includes two areas in one sub pixel, in which the first and second branch electrodes are extended from the frame electrode in directions that diverge from each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The liquid crystal panel includes a color filter substrate and an array substrate disposed opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer (170) located between the color filter substrate and the array substrate, and liquid crystals in the liquid crystal layer are vertically aligned. A protrusive structure (150, 55) is provided on the color filter substrate and/or the array substrate, and a recess (160, 65) is provided around the protrusive structure (150, 55).

Abstract: One inventive aspect is a liquid crystal display panel. The panel includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate. Each of the array substrate and the opposite substrate include a display area and a non-display area. The panel also includes a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the array substrate and the opposite substrate, a first alignment layer disposed on a surface of the array substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, and a second alignment layer disposed on a surface of the opposite substrate facing the liquid crystal layer. The first and second alignment layers define a first orientation direction in the display area, and the non-display area includes at least one electrode line. The first and second alignment layers also define a second orientation direction at least in the non-display area corresponding to the electrode line.

Abstract: A curved display device includes a first substrate curved along a first direction and comprising pixel areas defined therein, a second substrate coupled to the first substrate and curved together with the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and comprising liquid crystal molecules, and a light blocking member disposed on the first substrate or the second substrate to block a light, where domains are defined in each of the pixel areas and arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, the domains are arranged in a matrix form in the pixel areas, and the light blocking member includes a first light blocking layer having a first width and a second light blocking layer having a second width greater than the first width.

Abstract: An optical modulation device is provided. The optical modulation device includes first and second plates facing each other, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second plates, and first and second electrodes. The liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The first plate includes a first aligner. The second plate includes a second aligner. A first alignment direction of the first aligner and a second alignment direction of the second aligner are substantially parallel to each other. The first and second electrodes extend to cross each other. The first and second electrodes are insulated from each other. The second electrode extends to cross the second alignment direction. An angle ?P formed between a vertical axis of the second alignment direction and an extending direction of the second electrode is a value between 5° and 45°.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device including a TFT substrate with display and peripheral regions. The display region has pixels each having a pixel electrode and a TFT. A counter substrate opposes the TFT substrate and has a color filter formed at a position corresponding to a position at which the pixel electrode is formed above the TFT substrate. The method includes coating, outside of the display region of the TFT substrate, a second alignment film in the shape of a frame, and coating, in the display region, a first alignment film that dries more slowly than the second alignment film. The first and second alignment films are in contact, and the second alignment film is thicker than the first alignment film.