Patent ID: 6781656
Filing Date: 2004-08-24
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
A vertically aligned liquid crystal display device comprising a pair of spaced and opposed substrates, an electrode and an alignment layer formed on each substrate, and liquid crystal molecules filled between said pair of substrates, wherein each of said alignment layers is treated to realize an alignment with a pretilt angle by the irradiation of ultraviolet rays and formed so that one pixel has at least first and second regions having different threshold voltages,wherein with respect to each alignment layer, a pretilt direction of the liquid crystal molecules in the first region is substantially identical to that in the second region, and the pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecules in the first region is different from that in the second region, and wherein the pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecules in the first region on one alignment layer is substantially identical to that in the first region on the other alignment layer, and the pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecules in the second region on said one alignment layer is substantially identical to that in the second region on the other alignment layer.