Patent ID: 8242991

Claim:
A liquid crystal display apparatus comprising: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix shape; and a drive circuit for actively driving the plurality of pixels; wherein each of the pixels has a laminated structure including a pixel electrode, a first alignment film, a liquid crystal layer, a second alignment film, and a counter electrode, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal molecule having a vertical alignment property, wherein the first alignment film and the second alignment film are inorganic alignment films formed by obliquely depositing an inorganic material, wherein the drive circuit has a first calculation section which calculates a first difference by obtaining a difference in first video signals, of the two pixels which are adjacent to each other, considering a deposition direction of the inorganic alignment film, and thereafter, when the first difference is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, extracts a first positional information on the pixels corresponding to the deposition direction of the inorganic alignment film in the two pixels of the calculation source of the difference; a second calculation section which calculates a second difference by obtaining a difference in second video signals anterior to the first video signals, of two pixels which are adjacent to each other, by one field, considering the deposition direction of the inorganic alignment film, and thereafter, when the second difference is equal to or larger than the threshold, extracts a second positional information on the pixels corresponding to the deposition direction of the inorganic alignment film in the two pixels of the calculation source of the difference; a third calculation section for calculating a third positional information on the basis of the first positional information and the second positional information; and a fourth calculation section for calculating a third video signal by adding a predetermined correction amount to the first video signal of the pixels corresponding to the third positional information.