Patent ID: 8264629

Claim:
A Liquid Crystal Display, said Liquid Crystal Display comprising a pixel array formed on a thin-film transistor substrate and defined by a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, said pixel array comprising a plurality of pixel elements and each pixel element comprising: a gate line or a common line formed on said thin-film transistor substrate; an insulation layer formed on said gate line or said common line; a semiconductor layer having a plurality of bend seed generation portions formed on said insulation layer; a data line formed on said semiconductor layer, said data line connecting to said semiconductor layer; and a thin-film transistor, comprising a gate, a source, and a drain; wherein said semiconductor layer having said bend seed generation portions is located at the intersection of said data line and said gate line or located at the intersection of said data line and said common line, and during a start-up operation, said data line and said gate line or said data line and said common line generates a transverse electrical field, and whereby said bend seed generation portions generate bend seeds to transform a state of a liquid crystal layer from a splay state to a bend state.