Patent ID: 7273077

Claim:
An apparatus for dispensing liquid crystal material onto a plurality of liquid crystal display (LCD) panel regions formed on a substrate, the apparatus comprising: a container for containing the liquid crystal material; a discharge pump for drawing in the liquid crystal material from the container and discharging the drawn liquid crystal material; a nozzle for dispensing the discharged liquid crystal material onto each LCD panel region as a plurality of liquid crystal droplets; and a control unit for calculating a total amount of liquid crystal material to be dispensed onto each LCD panel region as a predetermined number of liquid crystal droplets arranged in a predetermined dispensing pattern and each liquid crystal droplet having a predetermined amount of liquid crystal material contained therein and for compensating the total amount of liquid crystal material by at least one of: compensating the predetermined number of liquid crystal droplets arranged within the predetermined dispensing pattern, and compensating the predetermined amount of liquid crystal material within at least one liquid crystal droplet.