Patent ID: 6522379
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
A liquid crystal display element comprising: a pair of opposed substrates and liquid crystal interposed between the substrates, whereinsource lines, gate lines, switching elements, and pixel electrodes are formed on one of the substrates, and the switching elements are each connected to the gate line, the source line, and the pixel electrode, a counter electrode is formed on the other substrate, the liquid crystal has an initial orientation state in a power off state and a display orientation state in a display state and requires initialization for changing the initial orientation state to the display orientation state before an image is displayed, the pixel electrode has a zigzag-shaped edge portion, and in the initialization, a different orientation area of an orientation direction locally different from an orientation direction of the other area is formed by applying voltages of different polarities to adjacent source lines, respectively.