Patent ID: 8330694

Claim:
A liquid crystal display apparatus, comprising: a liquid crystal modulation element including a first electrode, a second electrode, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first alignment film disposed between the first electrode and the liquid crystal layer, and a second alignment film disposed between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer; and a controller that respectively provides a first electric potential and a second electric potential to the first electrode and the second electrode such that a sign of an electric field generated in the liquid crystal layer is cyclically inverted in a modulation operation state of the liquid crystal modulation element, wherein the controller respectively provides a third electric potential and a fourth electric potential to the first electrode and the second electrode such that the sign of the electric field generated in the liquid crystal layer is fixed in a state other than the modulation operation state, wherein the controller provides electric potentials whose difference changes in an in-plane direction of the liquid crystal layer as the third and fourth electric potentials respectively to the first and second electrodes, and wherein, when an area in which charged particles in the liquid crystal layer accumulate is defined as a first area and an area in which charged particles less than those in the first area accumulate is defined as a second area in the in-plane direction of the liquid crystal layer, the controller sets an electric potential difference between the third and fourth electric potentials in the second area to be larger than that in the first area.