Liquid crystal 20 is sealed between a first substrate 10 and a second substrate 16 opposed each other. A first electrode 12 is formed on the first substrate 10 at a prescribed position in a prescribed region. A second electrode 18 is formed on the second substrate 16 at a position offset with respect to the first electrode 12 in the prescribed region. When a voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes 12 and 18, the prescribed region is divided in at least two regions of a first r...

In an electro-optical apparatus, such as a liquid-crystal apparatus, a TFT array substrate is provided with pixel electrodes and TFTs connected thereto. In addition, a peripheral area (including a frame area and a sealing area) is provided with peripheral circuits that drive the pixel electrodes, such as data-line driving circuits and a sampling circuit, and wires that send image signals. On an opposite substrate, an opposite electrode is formed so as to avoid areas opposite the wires. Therefore...

A transflective liquid crystal display device having one or more substrates is provided. A light emitting device is disposed at an edge of one of the substrates, such as the lower substrate. An insulating layer is disposed on the lower substrate and is formed with a plurality of notches. Each notch has a first angled sidewall and a second angled sidewall. The second angled sidewall has an included angle from horizontal. A first reflective layer may also be provided on top of the insulating layer...

An electrode-wiring substrate includes first routing wires (108) made of gate material for forming gate electrode wires (105) and second routing wires (110) made of source material for forming source electrode wires (106). The first routing wires (108) and the second routing wires (110) are arranged alternately so as not to coincide with each other when viewed in plan. The second routing wires (110) are electrically connected to the gate electrode wires (105) via first contact holes (111) and to...

An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates having an array region and a sealant region along a periphery of the array region, a sealant in the sealant region attaching the first and second substrates, a metallic black matrix formed in the sealant region and in the array region of the first substrate, a color filter on the metallic black matrix, an organic layer on the color filter and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrat...

A LCD device (200) is disclosed that has a cholesteric compound layer (205), a backplane light (201), and one or more polarizers (203, 209) and liquid crystal smectic C* layers. The cholesteric compound layer (205) transmits elliptically polarized light having an amount of absorbance which is related to the angular rotation of the polarization. One or more of the liquid crystal smectic C* layers may be controlled as a polarization filter to select the apparent color of the transmitted light.

A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of video signal lines formed on one of said pair of substrates, a plurality of first electrodes on the one of said pair of substrates and a plurality of second electrodes on the one of said pair of substrates to drive the liquid crystal by a voltage difference with respect to the first electrode. The first electrodes have a bent form, and th...

A fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display device includes opposing first and second substrates having a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween. A gate line and a data line crossing the gate line define a pixel region on the first substrate. A thin film transistor is connected to the gate line and the data line, a common line is parallel to and spaced apart from the gate line, and a common electrode extends from the common line. A pixel electrode is connected to the thin film trans...

A liquid crystal display with defect reparability including two vertical common lines and a plurality of horizontal common lines in a pixel, wherein the vertical common lines are parallel to a data line, and each horizontal common line is intersected to connect with each vertical common line. Each horizontal common line is extended to pass through but not touch the data line and connect with a horizontal common line in a neighboring pixel, and the horizontal common lines have overlaps with the d...

A liquid crystal displays and a method of production in which a plurality of data lines are formed on an insulating substrate with a plurality of gate lines formed on the insulating substrate and arranged perpendicular to the data lines and are located at opposite sides with respect to the data lines. The first and the second common electrode lines are arranged parallel to the gate lines and divided into a plurality of bars which are located at opposite sides with respect to the data lines. A pl...