Patent ID: 7379143

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a first panel including a first signal line, a second signal line intersecting the first signal line, a thin film transistor connected to the first and the second signal lines, and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor and including a first subpixel electrode configured to receive a first voltage and a second subpixel electrode capacitively coupled to the first subpixel electrode and configured to receive a second voltage; a second panel including a common electrode facing the pixel electrode and supplied with a common voltage; and a vertically aligned liquid crystal layer that is interposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein a steepness of a light transmittance curve of display, wherein the light transmittance of the display is a function of a voltage applied to the first subpixel electrode with respect to the common voltage, is lower than about 20% light transmittance/Volt in a section of the light transmittance curve between about 1.5% light transmittance and about 5.5% light transmittance.