Patent ID: 8130187

Claim:
A liquid crystal display that employs an optically compensated bend liquid crystal mode capable of transitioning liquid crystal molecules from splay orientation to bend orientation, comprising: a liquid crystal layer with the liquid crystal molecules held in the bend orientation between pixel electrodes and a counter electrode; a display screen including a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix, on which an image is displayed by light transmitted through the liquid crystal layer, each of the plurality of pixels including a pixel electrode connected with a switching element, the counter electrode, a storage capacitor portion situated below the pixel electrode through an insulating layer to form a storage capacitor and the liquid crystal layer; a gate driver for sequentially scanning the plurality of pixels by a gate voltage applied to a gate electrode; and a source driver for applying a base voltage to the pixel electrode of the pixels during a write period by sequentially scanned, through a source electrode and the switching element, the base voltage being variable according to luminance information for each field of image information for displaying the image on the display screen; and a circuit configured for applying a compensation voltage to a corresponding pixel electrode in accordance with the luminance information through the storage capacitor portion so as to compensate for the base voltage to adjust a voltage at the corresponding pixel electrode to a voltage as indicated by the luminance information during a cumulating period subsequent to the write period for cumulating the compensation voltage to the base voltage, in order to enable a faster drive of the liquid crystal molecules in the bend orientation for displaying the image on the display screen.