Patent ID: 8184076

Claim:
A method of driving an OCB mode liquid crystal display device, the OCB mode liquid crystal display device including: a main substrate on which pixel electrodes are provided; a counter substrate on which a common electrode is provided; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the main substrate and the counter substrate, the liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules which are in a spray orientation state while no voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer, and a transition of the liquid crystal molecules occurring from the spray orientation state into a bend orientation state in response to a voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer, said method comprising the steps of: (i) applying, to the liquid crystal layer, a transition voltage causing the transition of the liquid crystal molecules into the bend orientation state; and (ii) continuously reducing the voltage to be applied to the liquid crystal layer from the transition voltage to a reverse tilt eliminating voltage, the reverse tilt eliminating voltage causing the liquid crystal molecules, which exist in an edge part of each of the pixel electrodes and which are tilted in a reverse tilt direction while the transition voltage is being applied, to be tilted in a forward tilt direction, the forward tilt direction being a direction in which the liquid crystal molecules are tilted while no voltage is applied, and the reverse tilt direction being a direction reverse to the forward tilt direction.