Patent ID: 7834962

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: an array substrate having a plurality of rectangular pixel structures which are arranged in matrix; a counter substrate opposed to said array substrate, having a color filter and a black matrix; and a liquid crystal layer held between said array substrate and said counter substrate, said liquid crystal display having a curved display surface formed of said array substrate and said counter substrate both being curved, wherein long sides of said pixel structures are arranged along a curve direction of said display surface, a rectangular pixel electrode is provided in each of said pixel structures, with its long side being arranged along the long side of the pixel structure, and assuming that the length of said display surface in said curve direction is L, the thickness of said array substrate is T 1 , the thickness of said counter substrate is T 2 , the size of a gap between said array substrate and said counter substrate is d, the radius of curvature of the curved display surface is R and the length of the long side of the pixel electrode provided in each of said pixel structures is E, the length of an opening sectioned by said black matrix in said curve direction is not longer than E−L {(T 1 /2)+(T 2 /2)+d}/R.