Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels including a plurality of displaying subpixels corresponding to various colors and a viewing angle controlling subpixel for controlling a viewing angle, and a common electrode and a retention capacitor respectively provided to the plurality of pixels. At least one of the common electrode and the retention capacitor is provided so that the plurality of displaying subpixels and the viewing angle controlling subpixel are electrically independent from each other in a region where each of the plurality of pixels is provided.

Abstract: A solid state imaging device according to an embodiment includes: a liquid crystal optical element including a first electrode having a first recess and a projecting portion surrounding the first recess on a first surface, a second electrode facing the first surface of the first electrode, a filling film located between the first recess of the first electrode and the second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer located between the filling film and the second electrode; an imaging lens facing the second electrode to form an image of a subject on an imaging plane; and an imaging element facing the first recess, the imaging element having a pixel block having a plurality of pixels.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate including a first electrode and an insulating layer arranged so as to cover an edge of the first electrode, a second substrate including a second electrode facing the first electrode and a second slit from which the second electrode is removed, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first electrode includes a plurality of first slits extending inwardly from the edge of the first electrode. The insulating layer and the plurality of first slits are arranged such that a position of an end of the insulating layer and a position of a tip to which the first slit extends are apart from each other in a region between the edge of the first electrode and the second slit in a direction in which the first slit extends.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate having a display region and a non-display region. In the display region, the gate line and a data line cross to define a pixel region and a thin film transistor is disposed at the crossing portion of the gate and data lines. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode and source and drain electrodes. A peripheral line having a plurality of openings is disposed in the non-display region. The openings are slits, rectangles, circles, or triangles. The openings relieve plasma during dry-etching of the peripheral line. A pixel electrode is connected to the drain electrode in the pixel region.

Abstract: Disclosed are an array substrate and a liquid crystal display device. The array substrate comprises a base substrate, and data lines and gate lines, which are orthogonal to each other to define a plurality of pixel units, formed in a pixel region of the base substrate, with each of the pixel units comprising a switching element, a pixel electrode and a common electrode that is overlapped with the pixel electrode. The common electrode in each of the pixel units comprises slits, and the slits have a shape of curved line and are parallel to each other so as to form a slit region in the common electrode; and the pattern profile of the pixel electrode is parallel to the profile of the slit region of the common electrode.

Abstract: A switchable three-dimensional (3D) display includes a display device and a switchable parallax barrier that is disposed on the display device. The switchable parallax barrier includes a first electrode structure, a second electrode structure, and a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer is located between the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure. The first electrode structure includes a planar electrode, a plurality of first bar electrodes electrically connected to one another, and an insulating layer. A partial region of the planar electrode is not covered by the first bar electrodes. The insulating layer is disposed between the planar electrode and the first bar electrodes, so that the planar electrode is electrically insulated from the first bar electrodes.

Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display panel includes a substrate and first conductive wires. The first conductive wires are arranged at a surface of the substrate. Each of the first conductive wires includes a plurality of first connecting portions, a plurality of second connecting portions and a conductive portion with a plurality of conductive particles. The conductive portion is sandwiched between the first connecting portions and the second connecting portions, thus electrically connecting the first connecting portions to the second connecting portions. A method for manufacturing the liquid crystal display panel is also provided.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technology provide a TFT-LCD and manufacturing method and driving method thereof. The TFT-LCD comprises a color filter substrate, an array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the color filter substrate and the array substrate. A first strip-like electrode and a second strip-like electrode are formed in the area of a black matrix on the color filter substrate, an area surrounded by the first strip-like electrode and the second strip-like electrode comprises at least one sub-pixel area, and the first strip-like electrode and second strip-like electrode are electrically insulated from each other.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a display unit that includes: forming a plurality of first electrodes for respective pixels; forming a display function layer; forming a second electrode configured to apply, together with the first electrodes, a drive voltage to the display function layer; forming a third electrode disposed facing the second electrode, and electrically connected to the second electrode; and forming a first spacer and a second spacer between the second electrode and the third electrode, in which the second spacer has a height that is lower than a height of the first spacer. The second electrode and the third electrode are electrically connected to one another in a path that includes the first spacer, and are electrically insulated from one another in a path that includes the second spacer.

Abstract: A pixel structure includes: a first planarizing film and a second planarizing film laminated in order on a substrate on which a circuit section is formed; and metallic wiring for electrically connecting two electrodes disposed on the second planarizing film to each other so as to be separated from each other, the metallic wiring being formed between the first planarizing film and the second planarizing film.

Abstract: Provided is a TFT board for a liquid crystal display device including: a circuit layer formed on a substrate, the circuit layer including a thin film transistor including a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a drain electrode, and a source electrode; and a color filter layer formed on the circuit layer. The color filter layer has a through hole formed therein above the semiconductor layer in a region between the source electrode and the drain electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pixel electrode structure and a LCD device. The pixel electrode contains linear backbone electrodes, a first backbone electrode and a second backbone electrode, whose centers cross each other, thereby forming four display regions. Each display region is configured with a number of linear spine electrodes at intervals, and the edges of the outer ends of the spine electrodes in the same display are aligned. Yet, the edges of the outer ends of the backbone electrodes are not aligned with those of the spine electrodes. Through the present invention, the display quality at the outer ends of the backbone electrodes is enhanced.

Abstract: A flat display panel includes a bridge line disposed between adjacent common lines. When a short defect occurs, the common line near the short defect can be directly cut off in order to repair the short defect and the common voltage can be transferred through the bridge line to maintain the normal operation of the flat display panel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate for array process of panel display device, which includes a cell switch set and a PVSA mode pad set. Cell switch set includes a plurality of switch elements. PSVA mode pad set includes a data scan pad and a common electrode pad. Data scan pad is connected through some switch elements of cell switch set to a plurality of scan lines and data lines. Common electrode pad is connected through switch element to common electrode line in the area. The present invention further provides a panel display device and manufacturing method of liquid crystal display panel. In this manner, the present invention reduces the number of pads in PSVA mode pad set to simplify peripheral routes.

Abstract: A multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display using fringe field amplification is disclosed. Each pixel is subdivided into color dots. Further more each pixel contains extra-planar fringe field amplifiers that separate the color dots of a pixel. The voltage polarity of the color dots and extra-planar fringe field amplifiers are arranged so that fringe fields in each color dot causes multiple liquid crystal domains in each color dot. Specifically, the color dots and the extra-planar fringe field amplifiers are arranged so that neighboring polarized elements have opposite polarities. The performance of the display is further enhanced by using a sliced common electrode having common electrode slices over the color dots.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a gate line and a data line on the first substrate, the gate line and the data line crossing each other to define a pixel region; a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode in the pixel region on the first substrate, the thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, the pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a common electrode on the second substrate, the common electrode facing the pixel electrode; at least one first reset electrode and at least one second reset electrode on one of the first and second substrates, the at least one first reset electrode and the at least one second reset electrode spaced apart from each other; and a bi-stable chiral splay nematic liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, the bi-stable chiral splay nematic liquid crystal layer having bi-stable states of a splay state as an initial state and a ?-twist state, whe

Abstract: Red, green, and blue color resists and a shielding layer (black matrix) are layered on a liquid crystal panel. The subpixels are zoned by the shielding layer. The subpixels arranged in three rows and two columns form a pixel. The red, green, and blue color resists are colored on the basis of a row of subpixels. The color resists extend in stripes in the X-axis direction. Three data lines are provided for each column of subpixels in the manner that one is provide under the shielding layer and the other two diagonally divide the opening of the shielding layer at equal intervals.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a gate line, first and second data lines, a first power line, first, second, third and fourth switching elements, and first, second, third and fourth pixel electrodes. The first switching element is connected to the gate line and the first data line. The second switching element is connected to the gate line and the first power line. The third switching element is connected to the gate line and the second data line. The fourth switching element is connected to the gate line and the first power line. The first to fourth pixel electrodes are connected to the first to fourth switching elements, respectively. Thus, a light leakage may be prevented and an aperture ratio of a display substrate may be enhanced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including pixels, wherein at least one of the pixels includes a first sub-pixel charged with a first voltage and a second sub-pixel charged with a second voltage lower than the first voltage, a first substrate including a first sub-pixel electrode of the first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel electrode of the second sub-pixel, a first alignment layer aligned in first and second directions in each of the first and second sub-pixels, a second alignment layer aligned in third and fourth directions in each of the first and second sub-pixels to form a plurality of domains in each of the first and second sub-pixels, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second alignment layers, wherein the first sub-pixel electrode includes a plurality of slits formed substantially parallel to a liquid crystal alignment direction in each of the domains of the first sub-pixel electrode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fan-out wiring arrangement of TFT-LCD slim bezel arrangement. The fan-out wiring arrangement includes a first metal layer that is subjected to etching to form parallel first fan-out wires and a second metal layer that is subjected to etching to form parallel second fan-out wires. The first and second metal layers are respectively arranged at upper and lower sides to be parallel to and substantially correspond to each other. The first fan-out wires have line width and fan-out pitch that are identical to those of the second fan-out wires. The first fan-out wires have projections on the second metal layer that are parallel to the second fan-out wires and alternate with the second fan-out wires in an equally spaced manner. The fan-out wiring arrangement realizes wire pitch ?8 ?m, reduces fan-out height, while increasing metal CD, reducing resistance loading, and achieving slim bezel arrangement.

Abstract: In an element substrate of a liquid crystal device, a peripheral electrode to which a potential different from a common potential applied to a dummy pixel electrode and the like is applied is formed in a region interposed between an image display region and a sealing material. An electrical supply line that supplies the potential from the side to the peripheral electrode runs through the outside from a scanning line driving circuit portion.

Abstract: In an element substrate of a liquid crystal device, a peripheral electrode to which a potential Vtrap different from a common potential Vcom applied to a dummy pixel electrode and the like is applied is formed in a peripheral region which is interposed by an image display region and a sealing material. The peripheral electrode extends along the sealing material through the outside of the outside end of a data line driving circuit portion, and the outside end of a scanning line driving circuit portion, and does not intersect a data line and a scanning line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel is provided. The LCD panel includes: a liquid crystal layer, a first data line, a scan line, a pixel electrode, and a first thin film transistor (TFT). The liquid crystal layer includes a high-dielectric-constant liquid crystal material, and the pixel electrode drives the liquid crystal layer. The first TFT includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode, electrically connected to the pixel electrode, has at least two first branch electrodes. The second electrode, electrically connected to the first data line, has at least one second branch electrode. A first overlapped area of the first electrode and the scan line is greater than a second overlapped area of the second electrode and the scan line, and the second branch electrode is disposed between two of the first branch electrodes.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a first substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate; a first alignment layer disposed on the first substrate and the pixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; a second alignment layer disposed on the second substrate and the common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the common electrode has a plurality of cutouts having a cross shape, and when viewing the first substrate and the second substrate upward, the edge of the cutout is protruded from the edge of the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal alignment layer both offers a surface to which the liquid crystal molecules align, and maintains conductive properties required for the liquid crystal molecules to be manipulated by an applied electrical field. Advantages of the alignment layer offer reduced device degradation and improved stability under conventional or high intensity radiation, and also simplify the liquid crystal display or device construction.

Abstract: To provide a structure for achieving high transmittance in a lateral-electric-field mode liquid crystal display device through stably controlling the domains in the terminal parts of comb-shaped electrodes where the liquid crystal molecules rotate in the reverse direction. In the lateral-electric-field mode liquid crystal display device in which common electrodes and pixel electrodes are formed on a same layer, a protrusion part is provided in a direction in an obtuse angle with the comb-shaped electrode and substantially in parallel to a scan line in the terminal part of the comb-shaped electrode of the pixel electrode or the common electrode, a floating electrode is extended in the extending direction of the comb-shaped electrode to overlap with the comb-shaped electrode in the terminal part, and a liquid crystal reverse rotation locked structure is formed with the protrusion part of the comb-shaped electrode and the floating electrode.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display (LCD) device capable of enhancing an aperture ratio and a transmittance ratio.

Abstract: A fabricating method of a touch screen panel, a transparent electrode layer and an insulating layer which are sequentially formed on a same surface of a transparent substrate. The transparent electrode layer and the insulating layer are co-patterned using a halftone mask to form a plurality of first sensing patterns connected along a first direction, a plurality of second sensing patterns having separated patterns between the first sensing patterns, and the insulating layer positioned on the first and second sensing patterns to expose regions of the second sensing patterns. A conductive layer is formed on the transparent substrate on which the first and second sensing patterns and the insulating layer are formed. The conductive layer is patterned to form second connection patterns allowing the second sensing patterns to be connected along a second direction through the exposed regions of the second sensing patterns.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; and a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate. The pixel electrode includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode. The first sub-pixel electrode and the second sub-pixel electrode include a cross stem, and a plurality of minute branches extending from the cross stem. The second sub-pixel electrode includes two cross stems disposed adjacent in a column direction, and a center transverse stem disposed between the two cross stems. The center transverse stem includes a cutout.

Abstract: A thin film transistor and a display apparatus include: a substrate; a plurality of first conductive lines formed on the substrate, each including a main body and a curved portion connected to the main body; a plurality of second conductive lines crossing the curved portions of the first conductive lines; and a plurality of pixel electrodes formed adjacent to the first conductive lines. The plurality of pixel electrodes includes a first pixel electrode disposed toward a side of one first conductive line, and a second pixel electrode disposed toward the other side of the one first conductive line. The display apparatus also includes an intermediate layer connected to the pixel electrodes for displaying images and an opposite electrode formed thereon.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a plurality of picture elements, and at least one of the plurality of picture elements includes: a switching element; a plurality of gate bus lines extending in a first direction and electrically connected to the switching element; a plurality of data bus lines extending in a second direction and electrically connected to the switching element; a first sub picture element electrode and a second sub picture element electrode disposed adjacent to the first sub picture element electrode with a gap therebetween, and a control electrode overlapping both the first and second sub picture element electrodes. The control electrode extends in the second direction. Each of the first and second sub picture element electrodes includes a cross-shaped connecting electrode part and microelectrode parts extending from the connecting electrode part.

Abstract: A pixel includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are formed on a lower substrate. The third electrode is formed on an upper substrate and above a position between the first and second electrodes. Liquid crystals are formed between the upper and lower substrates. A method for driving the pixel includes providing a first data voltage to the first electrode, providing a second data voltage to the second electrode, and providing a common voltage to the third electrode. The common voltage is substantially the mean value of the first and second data voltages.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates, with a liquid crystal layer sealed therebetween. The device also includes a first electrode formed on the first substrate, a second electrode formed on the second substrate, a first molecule orientation film formed on the first substrate so as to cover the first electrode, a second molecule orientation film formed on the second substrate so as to cover the second electrode, and a plurality of micro structures associated with at least one of the first and second electrodes, wherein at least some of the micro structures extend generally parallel to each other. When a driving voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes, liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are oriented such that no dark line occurs in a vicinity of the plurality of micro structures and no dark line occurs between adjacent micro structures.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel each displaying a different color. A first data line is positioned between the first pixel and the second pixel, and a second data line is positioned between the second pixel and the third pixel. A first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode are respectively positioned in the first, second, and third pixels. An interval between the first pixel electrode and the first data line is larger than an interval between the second pixel electrode and the first data line. An interval between the second pixel electrode and the second data line is smaller than an interval between the third pixel electrode and the second data line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a display area and a non-display area. The liquid crystal display includes a first base substrate, a pixel disposed on the first base substrate in the display area, a second base substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second base substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first base substrate and the second base substrate, and an electric field control line disposed on the first base substrate in the non-display area. The electric field control line is disposed on a same layer as the pixel electrode.

Abstract: The present invention easily provides a liquid crystal display in which conductivity between a first substrate over which a pixel electrode is formed and a second substrate over which a counter electrode is formed, can be certainly obtained even when it has a narrow frame, without adding new steps. As for a liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal is interposed between the first substrate over which the pixel electrode is formed and the second substrate over which the counter electrode is formed, when the first and second substrates are positioned so that the pixel electrode and the counter electrode are on the inside, and are attached to each other with a sealant, by providing a partition wall between the sealant and a conductive portion formed with a conductor to electrically connect the pixel electrode to the counter electrode, conductivity in a conductive portion can be certainly obtained.

Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate in which a display region and a circuit component mounting region are defined and a second substrate, an end of which is cut to expose the circuit component mounting region. The first substrate includes a plurality of first source wirings formed from the display region to the circuit component mounting region and a wiring protection pattern formed in a region corresponding to the cut end of the second substrate between any adjacent first source wirings. In a cross sectional view, an upper end of the wiring protection pattern is located above an upper end of the first source wirings.

Abstract: A first peripheral electrode and a second peripheral electrode are provided at a peripheral region sandwiched between a pixel region and a seal material in a first substrate of a liquid crystal device, and strength of electric potentials which are applied to the first peripheral electrode, the second peripheral electrode, and a common electrode of an opposite substrate satisfies the condition of the second peripheral electrode<the common electrode<the first peripheral electrode. Therefore, electric fields are formed between the first peripheral electrode and the common electrode, between the second peripheral electrode and the common electrode, and between the first peripheral electrode and the second peripheral electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a plastic flat display and a method for manufacturing the same. In a plastic flat display including upper and lower substrates, the lower substrate is formed of an FPCB substrate for supplying an electrical signal to the plastic flat display. Accordingly, a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) is used in an integrated type to serve as a lower substrate film of the flat display, so that an additional lower substrate is not necessary and the flat display can be implemented with a simple structure, and a method for manufacturing the plastic flat display.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a pair of substrates; a plurality of electrodes formed in a matrix on one of the pair of substrates, wherein each of the plurality of electrodes includes a plurality of stripe-like portions that define a plurality of spaces therebetween; polymer material and liquid crystal between the pair of substrates; and polymer alignment films which are formed on each of the substrates and are affected by light irradiation and cause alignment of the liquid crystal in predetermined directions. The plurality of stripe-like portions extend in at least two different directions which are not parallel to each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display and pixel units thereof. The pixel unit has a plurality of subpixel units, and each of the subpixel units is a rectangular block, and the rectangular block is divided into a triangular bright-partition and a triangular dark-partition along an inclined line, and the bright-partition of each subpixel unit corresponds to the dark-partitions of adjacent subpixel units, so as to reduce jagged phenomenon of lines in screen images with the configuration of the pixel unit, and thereby enhance image quality of the liquid crystal display.

Abstract: A method for driving a pixel electrode disposed on a first substrate operates by providing a voltage corresponding to a displaying data to the pixel electrode and a control electrode, such that the pixel electrode and the control electrode are at a floating connection state; providing a first coupling voltage to a coupling electrode; and coupling a variation of a first coupling voltage to the control electrode via at least one coupling capacitor, such that an absolute value of a voltage difference between the control electrode and a common electrode substantially greater than an absolute value of a voltage difference between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein the common electrode is disposed on a second substrate and the second substrate is corresponding to the first substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a geometric transformation lens which can transform a target image geometrically as desired, achieving downsizing and reducing energy consumption. Even if another target to be observed more in detail is inside the field of view, the geometric transformation lenses (20a, 20b, 20c and 20d) can magnify optically the desired region within the target projection image by supplying the magnification instruction voltage (V2,mn) to the corresponding magnifying/demagnifying electrodes (EL2,mn) simply without moving the lens itself using heavy mechanical parts motorized. This can achieve downsizing because a space for setting the existing mechanical part to control the direction of the lens and its motion can be disregarded. This also can achieve reducing energy consumption because no space is needed to move the lenses with the heavy mechanical parts.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal optical device includes first and second substrate units and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate unit includes a first substrate having a first major surface, and a first electrode extending along a first direction. The second substrate unit includes a second substrate and a first opposing electrode. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the first substrate unit and the second substrate unit and includes a first portion provided on a side of the first substrate unit and a second portion provided on a side of the second substrate unit. The first portion has a vertical alignment. The second portion has a horizontal alignment. A long axis of liquid crystal molecules in the second portion aligns along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, a color filter (CF) substrate, and a method of manufacturing the CF substrate are proposed. The method includes forming a black matrix pattern on an invalid pixel domain on a transparent substrate for forming an alignment mark, coating a transparent conducting layer on the invalid pixel domain for covering the alignment mark, and patterning the transparent conducting layer so that the alignment mark and the peripheral domain of the alignment mark could have a different feature of coverage. The alignment mark and the peripheral domain of the alignment mark show optics differences obviously through a CCD (charge-coupled device) optical reading lens, which increases the success ratio of reading the alignment mark and improves manufacturing efficiency.

Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device, a liquid crystal display device, and an electronic device which have a wide viewing angle and in which the number of manufacturing steps, the number of masks, and manufacturing cost are reduced compared with a conventional one. The liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode formed over an entire surface of one side of a substrate; a first insulating film formed over the first electrode; a thin film transistor formed over the first insulating film; a second insulating film formed over the thin film transistor; a second electrode formed over the second insulating film and having a plurality of openings; and a liquid crystal over the second electrode. The liquid crystal is controlled by an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical device includes a first substrate, a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, first electrodes, second electrodes, a third electrode, and fourth electrodes. The first electrodes are provided on the first substrate on a side of the liquid crystal layer and extends in a first direction. The second electrodes are arranged between the first electrodes and extend in the first direction. The third electrode is provided on the second substrate on the side of the liquid crystal layer and extends in a third direction. The fourth electrodes are arranged between the first and second electrodes and extend in the first direction. The second electrodes adjacent in a second direction are electrically connected, and the fourth electrodes adjacent in the second direction are electrically connected.

Abstract: A horizontal electric field type liquid crystal display is disclosed. The horizontal electric field type liquid crystal display includes a gate line on a substrate, a data line crossing the gate line with a gate insulating layer interposed between the gate line and the data line, the gate line and the data line defining a pixel area, a thin film transistor (TFT) connected to the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode that is connected to the TFT to receive a data signal, a common electrode pattern on which a common voltage is supplied, and a pixel common electrode that is electrically connected to the common electrode pattern to form a horizontal electric field together with the pixel electrode. The pixel common electrode contacts the common electrode pattern in a non-display area of an upper portion at one side of the pixel area.

Abstract: Provided are thin film transistor substrates, thin film transistor liquid crystal displays, thin film transistors, TFT substrates for liquid crystal displays, liquid crystal displays provided with TFT substrates and liquid crystals, pixel electrodes for driving a liquid crystals, and transparent electrodes, an processes for the preparation thereof.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel including liquid crystal sealed between a pair of substrates; a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines formed to cross each other on one of said pair of substrates; a pixel region surrounded by a pair of adjacent gate signal lines and a pair of adjacent drain signal lines; a thin film transistor provided in the pixel region and connected to at least one of the pair of adjacent gate signal lines and at least one of the pair of drain signal lines; a pixel electrode provided in the pixel region and supplied with a video signal via the thin film transistor; and a counter electrode provided in the pixel region and supplied with a reference signal via a counter voltage signal line, the reference signal being a reference for the video signal.