Patent ID: 7295274

Claim:
A flower-shaped vertical alignment (FVA) structure transmissive liquid crystal display with fast response, high contrast ratio and wide view angle comprising: (a) a first substrate with a protrusion shaped electrode as the pixel electrode on an interior surface of the first substrate; (b) a second substrate with a common electrode on an interior surface of the second substrate, wherein the common electrode includes an empty hole directly above the entire first protrusion shaped electrode to form a gap spacing below the hole on each side of the protrusion shaped pixel electrode between the common electrode and the protrusion shaped pixel electrode; (c) aligning layers formed on said first and second substrates providing liquid crystal vertical alignment; (d) liquid crystal materials filling a space between said first and second substrates as a liquid crystal cell; (d) a first linear polarizer and first wide band quarter-wave film on an exterior surface of the first substrate forming a first circular polarizer; and, (f) a second linear polarizer and a second wide band quarter-wave film on an exterior surface of the second substrate forming a second circular polarizer, wherein a circularly polarized light produced by said first and second circular polarizers is used as a light source so that the liquid crystal display operates in a transmissive mode to form the flower-shaped vertical alignment.