Patent ID: 6873377
Filing Date: 2005-03-29
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a TFT substrate including a plurality of scan signal electrodes and a plurality of video signal electrodes, both electrodes crossing each other to partition a pixel area into a plurality of pixels, a thin film transistor formed in each of said plurality of pixels, a pixel electrode connected to said thin film transistor and a control signal electrode formed between said plurality of pixels so as to correspond to each of said plurality of pixels; a counter substrate including a common electrode for supplying a reference voltage to said plurality of pixels; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between said TFT substrate and said counter substrate and constructed such that liquid crystal molecules of said liquid crystal layer are aligned parallel to each other at interfaces between said liquid crystal molecules and both of said TFT substrate and said counter substrate; wherein when a first electric field is applied between said common electrode and said pixel electrode, a second electric field is applied between said control signal electrode and said common electrode, said second electric field being larger than said first electric field.