Patent ID: 8253901

Claim:
A display device comprising: a pair of substrates; electrodes formed on each side of the substrates; alignment layers formed on the electrodes and facing each other; a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules filled in between the alignment layers, wherein rubbing directions of the alignment layers formed on the electrodes of respective substrates are anti-parallel to each other; and wide viewing films respectively disposed on the substrates, wherein transmission axes of the wide viewing films cross each other at about 90 degrees and an angle between the transmission axis of a wide viewing film and a rubbing direction of an alignment layer disposed adjacent to the wide viewing film is about 45 degrees, and wherein at least part of the liquid crystal molecules are aligned substantially parallel to the plane of the substrates by anti-parallel rubbing when no voltage is applied to the electrodes, and the liquid crystal molecules positioned at a middle portion of the liquid crystal layer between the alignment layers are aligned to tilt to the plane of the substrates at substantially the same angle as the liquid crystal molecules positioned adjacent the substrates when biased voltage is applied to the electrodes, the biased voltage is applied at a level between a threshold voltage of the liquid crystal layer, and a maximum voltage of the liquid crystal layer, the maximum voltage corresponds to maximum gray level wherein an entirety of the liquid crystal molecules is aligned in substantially the same direction when the bias voltage is applied to the electrodes.