Abstract: This invention relates to driving a liquid crystal display with a polarity inversion. The liquid crystal display panel (98) comprises a matrix of pixels (52, 62, 72), which is driven with a sequence of image frames. The method comprises driving the pixels during a first frame (n?1) with a first polarity pattern; driving the pixels with exception of a first set of pixels (54, 66, 74) during a second frame (n) with an inverted polarity pattern; and driving the first set of pixels (54, 66, 74) with the inverted polarity pattern during a third frame (n+1).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an array of pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed in the respective sub-pixels, and a plurality of common electrodes disposed in the respective sub-pixels. The common electrode disposed in each of the sub-pixels in one of the pixels on each row is connected to the common electrodes disposed in the corresponding sub-pixels in the others of the pixels on the each row, to form a group of common electrodes connected together.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an array of pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed in the respective sub-pixels, and a plurality of common electrodes disposed in the respective sub-pixels. The common electrode disposed in each of the sub-pixels in one of the pixels on each row is connected to the common electrodes disposed in the corresponding sub-pixels in the others of the pixels on the each row, to form a group of common electrodes connected together.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a simplified printed circuit board (PCB) is disclosed. The LCD device includes a first integrated circuit (IC) group operating in accordance with timing control signals to convert digital video data into data voltage and to supply the data voltage to a first data line group, and a second IC group receiving the timing control signals and the digital video data via a first source PCB and LOG wirings and operating in accordance with the timing control signals to convert the digital video data into the data voltage and to supply the data voltage to a second data line group Each IC of the first and second IC groups includes a polarity control signal (POL) generator for generating a polarity control signal to control a polarity of the data voltage, using a part of the timing control signals.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a display section which is composed of a plurality of display pixels, a driving unit which drives the display pixels, and a control unit which controls the driving unit. A first substrate includes pixel electrodes which are disposed in association with the plurality of display pixels. A second substrate includes a counter-electrode which is opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes. A pair of alignment films are disposed on the plurality of pixel electrodes and the counter-electrode, and control an alignment state of liquid crystal molecules, which are included in the liquid crystal layer, by rubbing treatment. Dummy display pixels are disposed on a terminal end side of the display section in a rubbing direction. A driving unit includes circuit for cyclically applying a reverse transition prevention signal to the dummy display pixels.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal modulation element having a liquid crystal layer and first and second electrodes, and a controller performs control for an electric potential difference applied between the electrodes such that an electric field applied to the liquid crystal layer is inverted between positive and negative. The controller switches the control between first control and second control. The first control controls the electric potential difference such that one of an absolute value of a time-integrated value of the positive electric field applied to the liquid crystal layer and an absolute value of a time-integrated value of the negative electric field applied thereto is larger than the other, and the second control controls the electric potential difference such that the other absolute value of the time-integrated value is larger than the one absolute value of the time-integrated value.

Abstract: An active element substrate and an opposed substrate sandwich a liquid crystal layer to constitute a liquid crystal display device. On the active element substrate, two signal lines respectively charge a pair of pixels that are adjacent to each other in a direction parallel to scanning lines. The two signal lines are provided intensively on a pixel electrode of one of the pair of pixels. In the direction parallel to the scanning lines, a pixel electrode on which signal lines are provided, and a pixel electrode on which signal lines are not provided, are arrayed alternately. This arrangement makes it possible to reduce, while ensuring a wide process margin, the fluctuation of the potential of a terminal to be connected to a pixel electrode (the fluctuation of the potential occurs during OFF-period of an active element due to capacitances respectively provided at superimposed portions of signal lines and a pixel electrode), to simplify the arrangement of signal lines, and to improve the aperture ratio.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate is provided. The active matrix substrate includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, and pixel units. The scan lines, data lines, and pixel units are all disposed over the substrate. The pixel unit includes an active component, a pixel electrode, and an auxiliary electrode. The active components are electrically connected with the scan lines and data lines. The pixel electrode has openings extended from the edge of the pixel electrode to the interior of the pixel electrode. The auxiliary electrode is electrically connected with the pixel electrode controlled by a previous scan line and includes a body portion and extending portions disposed in the openings. The pixel electrode is electrically connected with the auxiliary electrode of a pixel unit controlled by a next scan line.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate is provided. The active matrix substrate includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, pixel units, and connecting lines. The scan lines, data lines, pixel units, and connecting lines are all disposed over the substrate. The pixel unit includes an active component, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode. The active components are electrically connected with the scan lines and data lines. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are disposed at the two opposite sides of the scan line, and electrically connected with the active component. The third pixel electrode is electrically insulated from the active component. In the pixel units arranged in a same column, each of the third pixel electrodes is electrically connected with the second pixel electrode controlled by a previous scan line through the corresponding connecting line.

Abstract: The present invention aims to reduce flickers of the liquid crystal display device and enable the use of liquid crystal material exhibiting a high response speed, and to enhance light usage efficiency of the field sequential type liquid crystal display device. After writing the video signal to all the pixels in each sub-frame period, a correction voltage signal or an alternating signal having a frequency of greater than or equal to a certain frequency is input to the data line, so that the magnitude of the leakage current of each pixel TFT caused by the difference in polarity of the video signal with respect to the opposing electrode written to the pixel electrode is equalized, and the flickers are greatly reduced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of first and second pixel cells supplied with data of the opposite polarities to display a picture, and a pre-charging unit to electrically connect a first one of the first pixel cells and a first one of the second pixel cells to each other just prior to a period of supplying the data to the first ones first and second pixel cells, and to electrically disconnect the first ones of the first and second pixel cells from each other for a period of supplying the data to the first and second pixel cells.

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a first pixel of an LCD panel is driven via a first scan line to a first pixel voltage during a first scan period and to a second pixel voltage during a second scan period. Also, a second pixel is driven via the first scan line and a second scan line to the first pixel voltage during the first scan period.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, liquid crystal which is in between the first and the second substrate, and a detection electrode provided on a side of the first substrate, opposite to a side of the liquid crystal. The second substrate includes pixel electrodes connected through switching elements to signal lines, opposite electrodes formed between the pixel electrodes and the liquid crystal and are connected to control lines, a selection circuit that conducts the switching element during a selection period and interrupts conduction after the selection period has elapsed, a signal supplying circuit which supplies a data electric potential during the selection periods, a electric potential control circuit which sets the control lines to an predetermined electric potential when the scanning lines to the control line is selected and sets to a reference electric potential after the selection period has elapsed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixel cells formed at every regions defined by a plurality of data lines and gate lines; a gate built-in circuit, built-in the liquid crystal panel, for supplying gate-on voltages to the gate lines; a driving integrated circuit for driving the gate built-in circuit and supplying video signals to the data lines; and a pad region including a plurality of input/output terminals electrically connected to input/output bumps of the driving integrated circuit in the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A pixel 3 includes a pixel electrode 31 and opposed electrodes 32 for generating electric fields between a pair of substrates in directions substantially parallel to the substrates and also includes two regions S1 and S2 defined by the pixel electrode 31 and the opposed electrodes 32. The electric fields are generated in the adjacent regions S1 and S2 in opposite directions. A liquid crystal layer has a structure in which a slow axis indicating a refractive-index anisotropy as viewed in a direction normal to the substrates is vertical to the electric-field direction without an application of an electric field whereas slow axis in these regions S1 and S2 rotate about axes normal to the substrates in opposite directions. In this manner, the viewing angle of a liquid crystal display device is increased and coloring is prevented. In addition, the response speed and the aperture ratio are enhanced.

Abstract: A fabrication method and a test method for a light emitting display that together produce a pixel portion of the display by fabricating pixel circuits, testing the pixel circuits, and subsequently fabricating light emitting diodes is disclosed.

Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixel groups. The gate lines extend in a first direction and sequentially receive gate signals, and the data lines extend in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction and receive data signals. Each pixel group includes first, second and third vertical pixels that extend in the second direction and are sequentially arranged in the first direction. The first to third vertical pixels are arranged horizontally and are electrically connected to three consecutive gate lines to receive gate signals, and are connected to two or fewer data lines to receive the data signals.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) including an LCD panel, a gate driver and a data driver is provided. The LCD panel has pixel units, scan lines and several pairs of data lines. Each of the pixel units is electrically connected to a corresponding scan line and a corresponding pair of data lines and has two display regions respectively connected to different data lines. Besides, the gate driver is electrically connected to several scan lines. The data driver is electrically connected to several pairs of data lines. The data driver has a voltage difference generator electrically connected to several pairs of data lines such that the voltages outputted by the pair of data lines are maintained at a fixed voltage difference. Thus, the invention simplifies the complexity of circuit signal processing and lowers the production cost of circuits.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed, which can reduce a unit cost and prevent deterioration of picture quality caused by unfilled pixel cells, the liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixel cells formed at every regions defined by ‘n’ gate lines and ‘m’ data lines, three colors alternatively arranged along the data line direction, and the same colors arranged along the gate line direction; a gate built-in circuit, built-in the liquid crystal panel, for supplying gate-on voltages to the gate lines; and a driving integrated circuit, formed in the liquid crystal panel, for driving the gate built-in circuit, inverting a polarity of video signal in the unit of each data line and at least three gate lines, and supplying the video signal having the inverted polarity to the data lines.

Abstract: The present invention provides a driver, including: data lines disposed in parallel with each other; gate lines disposed in parallel with each other and at right angles to the data lines so as to be electrically insulated from the data lines; odd-numbered pixel cell connected to the odd-numbered data line from the head one, and the odd-numbered gate line from the head one; even-numbered pixel cell connected to the even-numbered data line from the head one, and the even-numbered gate line from the head one; driving means for driving the odd-numbered gate lines and the even-numbered gate lines independently of each other; inputting means for inputting a signal having a predetermined potential to each of the odd-numbered gate lines and the even-numbered gate lines; and comparing means for comparing potentials of the each adjacent odd-numbered data line and even-numbered data line with each other, and outputting a comparison result.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display are provided, which includes: a liquid crystal panel assembly including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of data lines, wherein the number of the data lines is larger than the number of the columns, the data lines are separated from each other in the panel assembly, each pixel is connected to one of the gate lines and adjacent to two of the data lines, and the pixels in each column are alternately connected to the adjacent data lines at least every one row.

Abstract: A semi-transmission liquid crystal display device of an in-plane switching mode includes M scanning signal lines, N video signal lines, switching elements, and a unit display area. The unit display area includes a first pixel electrode and a first counter electrode, a first storage capacitor, a second pixel electrode and a second counter electrode, and a second storage capacitor. A first voltage V1 is applied to the first counter electrode. A second voltage V2 is applied to the second counter electrode. When a higher one of the voltages V1 and V2 is represented as Hi (V1,V2) and a lower one of the voltages V1 and V2 is represented as Low (V1,V2), a third voltage equal to or lower than Hi (V1,V2) and equal to or higher than Low (V1,V2) is applied to the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode on the basis of an operation of the switching elements.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal element having a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode which control alignment of liquid crystal molecules by applying an electric field in a direction parallel to a surface of a substrate to a liquid crystal layer, a memory circuit which is disposed in a pixel circuit and which serves as a voltage source of a first voltage and a second voltage, and an application voltage inverting circuit which is disposed in the pixel circuit and which inverts voltages applied to the liquid crystal element by controlling each of the first voltage and the second voltage so as to be supplied to either the first pixel electrode or the second pixel electrode of the liquid crystal element.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display for changing a supply sequence of a scanning pulse with which a plurality of gate lines are supplied to realize a one dot inversion, and a driving method thereof are disclosed. In the liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, which are crossed each other, and pixels, which are defined by the lines. A gate driver supplies scanning pulses to the gate lines, and changes a supply sequence of the scanning pulses for each frame. A data driver converts digital video data into data voltages and periodically inverts a polarity of the data voltages to supply the data voltages in accordance with a supply sequence of the scanning pulses.

Abstract: An exemplary a liquid crystal display includes a plurality of scanning lines and control lines, a plurality of first pixel units and second pixel units, and a data line driving chip. The first and second pixel units are connected to be under control of the scanning lines and the control lines. The data line driving chip includes a plurality of output terminals. During a period when one of the scanning lines is scanned, the corresponding first and second pixel units are able to receive a first gradation voltage signal output from the output terminals, and subsequently only the corresponding second pixel units are able to receive a second gradation voltage signal output from the output terminals. A method of driving such kind of liquid crystal display is also provided.

Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display (200) includes a liquid crystal panel (220) and a frequency conversion module (210) electrically coupled to the liquid crystal panel. The frequency conversion module includes a scanning frequency array (230) and a read register (240) that is configured to read the scanning frequency array circularly and form a frequency conversion signal. The frequency conversion signal drives the liquid crystal panel to perform frame inversion. A related method for driving a liquid crystal display is also provided.

Abstract: A multi-domain liquid crystal display includes a plurality of picture elements arranged in an array of rows and columns and controlled by a line inversion drive scheme. Each picture element has a pixel electrode and at least one control electrode insulated from each other. All the control electrodes in the same row or the same column of picture elements are connected to the same signal source to provide a voltage difference between the control electrodes and the pixel electrodes in the same row or the same column of picture elements to produce fringe fields.

Abstract: In a display device, gate lines, which extend in a first direction, cross and are insulated from data lines, which extend in a second direction, to define pixel areas on a first base substrate. Pixels are arranged in the pixel areas, respectively, and a color filter layer including a plurality of color filter is arranged on a second base substrate that is coupled with the first base substrate. The color filters include a first sub color filter, a second sub color filter, and a third sub color filter, repeatedly arranged in the first direction and the second direction to represent different colors, respectively.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel (LCD panel), an area light source device which illuminates the LCD panel, a driving unit which drives the LCD panel and the area light source device, and a control unit which controls the driving unit. The LCD panel includes display pixels. The area light source device includes plural kinds of light sources which are successively turned on in one frame period. The control unit includes means for controlling the driving unit in a manner to execute video signal write and reset signal write after the video signal write, in a period in which one of the plural kinds of light sources is turned on in the one frame period. The video signal write and the reset signal write are executed with the same polarity, and a polarity of potential of the display pixels is reversed between frame periods.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having a first electrode and a second electrode, a second substrate, a liquid crystal interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, pixels each having a transmissive portion for performing a transmissive display and a reflective portion for performing a reflective display, and a driving circuit driving the pixels. Here, a third electrode is disposed in the second substrate opposed to the first substrate with the liquid crystal interposed therebetween. The first electrode is disposed in the transmissive portion along with the second electrode and is also disposed in the reflective portion along with the third electrode. The driving circuit is provided to independently apply potentials to the second electrode and the third electrode.

Abstract: An active matrix display apparatus is disclosed which can achieve significant improvement in uniformity. The display apparatus uses a horizontal driving circuit to which a precharge function is provided additionally. The horizontal driving circuit applies double sampling pulses including first and second pulses to each sampling switch. The first pulse is used to precharge a signal line with an image signal, and the second pulse is used to sample the image signal to the signal line. Where the second pulse of double sampling pulses applied to a preceding sampling switch and the first pulse of double sampling pulses applied to a succeeding sampling switch are in a temporally overlapping relationship with each other, image lines of different systems from each other are connected to the preceding sampling switch and the succeeding sampling switch thereby to prevent otherwise possible interference of the image signal between the two sampling switches.

Abstract: An liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a substrate, gate lines, data lines, thin film transistors and pixel electrodes. The gate lines are formed on the substrate and cross the gate lines. The thin film transistors are connected to the gate and data lines, and each thin film transistor include a drain electrode. The pixel electrodes are connected to the thin film transistors and are arranged in a matrix, and each of the pixel electrodes has a first side disposed in parallel with the gate lines and a second side adjacent to the first side and shorter than the first side. In the LCD, a predetermined portion of the drain electrodes is overlapped with only one of two adjacent pixel electrodes if the polarities of the adjacent pixel electrodes are different, and the predetermined portion of the drain electrodes is overlapped with both of the adjacent pixel electrodes if the polarities are the same.

Abstract: A bistable nematic liquid crystal display device comprises two cell walls enclosing a layer of nematic liquid crystal material having finely divided solid particles dispersed therein. At least one electrode on each cell wall applies an electric field across at least some of the liquid crystal material. Surface alignments on the inner surface of both cell walls induce adjacent molecules of the liquid crystal material to adopt desired orientations. The liquid crystal material adopts two different stable molecular configurations according to the polarity of applied electric field pulses.

Abstract: A spatial light modulator contains a substrate (90), a plurality of overlying liquid-crystal cells (202), a plurality of respectively corresponding transistors (204), an electron-beam system (400 and 500), and a control component (203). Each transistor is in electrical communication with the corresponding liquid-crystal cell. The electron-beam system bombards each transistor with electrons that cause it to be selectively in (i) a non-conductive condition in which its channel-region electric field is substantially insufficient for conduction or (ii) a conductive condition in which its channel-region electric field is sufficient for at least partial conduction. During selected time periods when a transistor is in its conductive condition, the control component provides the transistor with a control signal that results in the polarization direction of specified light being selectively rotated in passing through the corresponding liquid-crystal cell.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for driving an active matrix type liquid crystal display device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and the second electrodes, and the liquid crystal layer having a larger polarization when a voltage of a first polarity is applied to the first electrode against the second electrode than that when a voltage of a second polarity different from the first polarity is applied to the first electrode against the second electrode, the method comprising dividing a frame into a first field and a second field, applying a first voltage of the first polarity to the first electrode during the first field, generating a second voltage from the first voltage by changing its polarity, a magnitude of the second voltage being modified by an amount of ?V (?V?0) based on a magnitude of the first voltage in a direction of the first polarity when the first voltage is not zero, and applying the second voltage to the first electrode during the s

Abstract: A liquid crystal display of the present invention is adapted to perform initialization by inputting voltages with different polarities to two pixel electrodes (23á, 23â) adjacent in front and back direction. It is preferable that in the two pixel electrodes (23á, 23â) adjacent in front and back direction, the pixel electrode (23á) located on back side is provided with a first protrusion (232á) at a front side and back direction, the pixel electrode (231â) adjacent in front and back is provided with a second protrusion (23â) located on front side is provided with a second a second protrusion (234â) on a back side edge (233â)thereof.

Abstract: A method of aligning Half V-Switching Mode ferroelectric liquid crystal material in the presence of an applied electric field, a driving method, and an apparatus for driving a ferroelectric liquid crystal display using the same has a high response speed characteristics and a wide viewing angle characteristics. The liquid crystal material has a small capacitance, C, and is driven according to a double frequency column inversion driving method operating at about 120 Hz to display a picture.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device for eliminating a vertical dimming phenomenon to improve a picture quality of a liquid crystal display panel is disclosed. In the device, first and second data lines are supplied with data. A first pixel electrode is spaced at a desired distance from the first data line. A second pixel electrode is spaced, by a distance different from said distance between the first data line and the first pixel electrode, from the second data line.

Abstract: A low power color display system includes a memory which, stores color data and status bits corresponding to a plurality of pixels, status logic, which generates the status bits responsive to receipt of color data for a respective one of the pixels, a data generator, which generates voltage data corresponding to the pixels based on the color data and the status bits for each of the pixels, driver circuitry, which generates voltage signals responsive to receipt of the voltage data for each of the pixels, and a bistable liquid crystal display (LCD) having multiple cells arranged in a matrix, each cell corresponding to a pixel, the LCD being responsive to the voltage signals. Preferably, the system also includes a power supply which provides power to the driver circuitry, and a power manager, the latter turning the power supply ON when the data generator is in the first operating mode and turning the power supply OFF when the data generator is in the second operating mode.

Abstract: One of a pair of substrates with liquid crystals sandwiched therebetween includes a plurality of pixels each of which is provided with a scanning electrode, an image signal electrode, a switching element provided at an intersection of the scanning electrode and the image signal electrode, a pixel electrode connected to the image signal electrode via the switching element, a counter electrode, and a busbar electrically connected to the counter electrode. A portion of the pixel electrode is overlapped with the busbar so as to make up a storage capacitance. A shape of the pixel electrode is altered for each pixel so that a value of the storage capacitance becomes smaller from a feeding side to a termination side. The portion of the pixel electrode overlapped with the busbar so as to make up the storage capacitance is located within the busbar in a plan view of the device.

Abstract: An active-matrix liquid crystal display is composed of an active matrix substrate, a liquid crystal, and an opposite substrate having a common electrode. The active matrix substrate fabricates a first group of pixel electrodes that are aligned and supplied with picture signals of a first polarity, and a second group of pixel electrodes that are aligned to adjoin with the first group of pixel electrodes respectively and are supplied with picture signals of a second polarity. An inorganic orientation film is formed on the surface of the active matrix substrate to provide a first orientation direction (Ra) to its proximal liquid crystal molecules, while an organic orientation film is formed on the surface of the opposite substrate to provide a second orientation direction (Rb), rectangularity crossing the first orientation direction, to its proximal liquid-crystal molecules.

Abstract: A cross line is formed on the surface of the peripheral portion of an electrode substrate so as to cross a source line array with a gate insulating film interposed in between. If a display failure such as a line defect is found in a dynamic operating inspection that is performed after mounting of a driver LSI, a crossing portion of the cross line and a source line as a failure occurring position is irradiated with YAG laser light, whereby the source line concerned and the cross line are connected to each other. Then, an output waveform of the driver LSI is measured by contacting a prober that is connected to an oscilloscope into contact with a cross line electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a control signal part and a liquid crystal display including the control signal part in which damage to wires due to electrolysis is prevented. A high voltage redundancy wire(s) is formed at one side or both sides of a high voltage signal wire, thereby to form equipotential around the high voltage signal wire. The control signal part includes a first signal wire that transmits a first signal voltage, a second signal wire that transmits a second signal voltage smaller than the first signal voltage, and a first redundancy wire that transmits the same voltage as the first signal voltage. The first redundancy wire is formed between the first signal wire and the second signal wire. The control signal part may also include a second redundancy wire that transmits the same voltage as the first signal voltage. Herein, the first redundancy wire is located at one side of the first signal wire and the second redundancy wire is located at the other side of the first signal wire.

Abstract: One of a pair of substrates with liquid crystals sandwiched therebetween includes a plurality of pixels each of which is provided with a scanning electrode, an image signal electrode, a switching element provided at an intersection of the scanning electrode and the image signal electrode, a pixel electrode connected to the image signal electrode via the switching element, a counter electrode, and a busbar electrically connected to the counter electrode. A portion of the pixel electrode is overlapped with the busbar so as to make up a storage capacitance. A shape of the pixel electrode is altered for each pixel so that a value of the storage capacitance becomes smaller from a feeding side to a termination side. The portion of the pixel electrode overlapped with the busbar so as to make up the storage capacitance is located within the busbar in a plan view of the device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display, comprising: gate lines and data lines aligned on a transparent insulating substrate to vertically cross each other; common electrode lines aligned horizontally to the gate lines; a pixel region defined in a space formed by the gate lines and data lines; a first transparent electrode formed in the pixel region, and divided into at least two regions; and a second transparent electrode insulated from the first transparent electrode, and divided on the first transparent electrode as many as the first transparent electrode, a data voltage being applied to the second transparent electrode in a first region and to the first transparent electrode in a second region, a sum of the voltages applied to the pixel region having a zero voltage.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device suitable for analog gradational display according to active matrix drive is formed using a chiral smectic liquid crystal. The voltage-transmittance (V-T) characteristic change accompanying a cell thickness change can be minimized to allow the production of such a liquid crystal device at a higher yield. In the liquid crystal device, the liquid crystal is placed in such an alignment state that the liquid crystal is monostabilized under no voltage application and is tilted in response to the application of voltages of opposing polarities so that the saturation voltage becomes larger at small cell thickness (liquid crystal layer thickness).

Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display which is capable of preventing light from leaking out from the peripheral portion of pixels and which has a high display performance.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus which has: a liquid crystal display which has chiral nematic liquid crystal between a pair of substrates with electrodes thereon and which makes a display by use of selective reflection of the liquid crystal; and a driving circuit for driving the liquid crystal by applying voltages to the electrodes. When an electric field of a specified strength is applied to the chiral nematic liquid crystal, the liquid crystal changes the direction of the helical axis without untwisting. By using this characteristic, the direction of the helical axis of the liquid crystal is changed by changing the direction of the electric field applied thereto, and thereby, the liquid crystal is set to a planar state or a focal-conic state. In this way, writing on the liquid crystal is carried out.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal between a substrate having gate buslines, source buslines, switching elements, pixel electrode array, gate driver, source driver, etc., and a substrate having a counter electrode, etc. In this liquid crystal display device, the gate driver performs simultaneous two-line scanning by applying a scanning signal to two gate buslines simultaneously. The source driver feeds video signals of opposite polarities to adjacent source buslines, respectively. The video signals are inverted every vertical scanning period.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display in which a liquid crystal having spontaneous polarization is sandwiched between substrates, liquid crystal alignment which achieves a wide viewing angle and hardly causes alignment destruction is readily formed. A common electrode is formed by a pair of meshed comb electrodes, and rubbing alignment is performed in the logitudinal direction of teeth of these comb electrodes. When the liquid crystal material transits from a nematic phase or an isotropic phase to a chiral smectic C phase, a positive DC voltage, for example, is applied between a pixel electrode and one of the comb common electrodes, and a negative voltage is applied between a pixel electrode and the other comb common electrode. This readily accomplishes liquid crystal alignment in which smectic layers bend horizontally with respect to the substrate surface in space portions between the interdigitated teeth of the comb electrodes.