Patent ID: 6342939
Filing Date: 2002-01-29
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
A liquid crystal display comprising:first and second wiring substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween, each of said first and second substrates including a plurality of electrodes formed on a liquid crystal layer side thereof, so that pairs of electrodes are formed with one of each pair being on the first substrate and the other of the pair on the second substrate; each pair of electrodes on said substrates forming a pixel, wherein one or more slit-like openings are formed per pixel in each of said electrodes on at least one of said substrates, each of said openings extending longitudinally in a direction perpendicular to an average orienting direction of liquid crystal molecules projected on said substrate, and each region forming one pixel on one substrate is made larger than a corresponding region forming one pixel on the other substrate by an arbitrary value in directions parallel to said average orienting direction, said opposing electrodes being displaced relative to each other in two directions parallel to said average orienting direction in a manner such that first and second areas are provided on opposite sides of said slit-like opening in the one pixel wherein liquid crystal molecules may simultaneously be caused to line up differently in said first area than in said second area due to differently slanted electric fields in the respective areas in order to improve viewing characteristics of the display.