According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal and first and second substrates. The first substrate comprises pixel electrodes, a common electrode and sub-pixel areas. The sub-pixel areas each have a first area in which the pixel electrodes is provided and the second area in which the pixel electrode is not provided. The sub-pixel areas include first and second sub-pixel areas. A shortest distance between the first area of the each first sub-pixel area and the first area of the associated second sub-pixel area is 5 μm or less. When an image is displayed, a polarities of the pixel electrodes in the first and second sub-pixel areas are different from each other.

An electrode for display includes at least two display electrodes arranged at intervals along first direction, each including a body electrode and an end electrode; the at least two display electrodes include first and second display electrodes, body electrodes of the first and second display electrodes being parallel in first direction with a first preset pitch; among two side edges of the end electrode of the first display electrode opposite in first direction and two side edges of the end electrode of the second display electrode opposite in first direction, at least two side edges are unparallel; a minimum distance in first direction between one side edge of the end electrode of the first display electrode close to the second display electrode and one side edge of the end electrode of the second display electrode close to the first display electrode is greater than or equal to first preset pitch.

An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display element using a liquid crystal composition having negative dielectric anisotropy, which is capable of realizing excellent display properties by being used in an FFS mode liquid crystal display element without deteriorating various properties, as a liquid crystal display element, such as dielectric anisotropy, viscosity, a nematic phase upper limit temperature, nematic phase stability at low temperature, and γ.sub.1, and burn-in characteristics of the display element.

Provided is an FFS mode liquid crystal display element using an n-type liquid crystal composition so as to achieve the above object.

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate having a first transparent substrate and a pixel electrode, a second substrate having a second transparent substrate, a first common electrode, a second common electrode, and an insulating film disposed between the first common electrode and the second common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The first common electrode is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the insulating film, and includes a first opening and a first electrode portion. The second common electrode is disposed between the insulating film and the second transparent substrate, and includes a second electrode portion overlapping the first opening.

Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: a liquid crystal panel; and a control circuit, the liquid crystal panel sequentially including an active matrix substrate, a first alignment film, a liquid crystal layer, a second alignment film, and a counter substrate, the active matrix substrate sequentially including a first substrate, a first electrode, a first insulating layer, and a second electrode including a linear electrode portion, the counter substrate including a second substrate and a third electrode, the third electrode extending in a longitudinal direction of the sub-pixel at a right or left end of the sub-pixel, a ratio of a width of the third electrode to a width of the first electrode in a widthwise direction being 0.14 or greater and 0.25 or smaller, the control circuit being configured to switch between application of an alternating voltage and application of a constant voltage to the third electrode.

According to one embodiment, a display device including a first substrate including a first electrode, a second electrode located above the first electrode and having potential different from the first electrode, and a third electrode located above the second electrode and electrically connected to the first electrode, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein at least one of the second electrode and the third electrode includes a first side, and a second side which faces the first side and is not parallel to the first side.

A display substrate includes: a plurality of sub-pixel regions at a first base substrate, each of the plurality of sub-pixel regions including a light-blocking region and aperture regions located at opposing sides of the light-blocking region; and a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode within each of the plurality of sub-pixel regions, configured to drive a liquid crystal layer; wherein the first transparent electrode includes a first electrode unit located inside the light-blocking region and including a plurality of first sub-electrodes, wherein each of the plurality of first sub-electrodes are separated from two adjacent first sub-electrodes by a separation distance; and wherein the separation distance between two adjacent first sub-electrodes nearest to a center line of the light-blocking region is smaller than the separation distance between two adjacent first sub-electrodes nearest to an edge of the light-blocking region.

According to one embodiment, a display device includes an illumination device, a display panel modulating light from the illumination device and emitting image light, a polarized light modulation element transmitting the image light from the display panel and diffusing external light, and a magnification mirror magnifying an image by the image light transmitted through the polarized light modulation element. The polarized light modulation element is a liquid crystal lens including a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a first control electrode and a second control electrode applying voltage to the liquid crystal layer.

A display panel includes an array substrate having a first substrate, a gate line, a data line, and a thin film transistor (TFT); and a plurality of sub-pixel regions defined by the gate and data lines; and an opposite substrate including a second substrate, a plurality of additional electrodes arranged on a side of the second substrate facing the array substrate; at least one sub-pixel region including at least one of: a first overlap region at an intersection region by the gate and data lines, a second overlap region between the TFT gate and source electrodes, or a third overlap region between the TFT gate and drain electrodes; and an orthographic projection of the additional electrodes on the first substrate substantially overlaps with orthographic projections of at least one of the first, second, or third overlap regions on the first substrate.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a display apparatus having a configuration and a structure that enable virtual images to be observed by an observer to exhibit high contrast, and enable the observer who uses the display apparatus to safely act in a real environment while reliably recognizing an external environment. A display apparatus of the present invention includes: a frame to be mounted to a head of an observer; an image display apparatus attached to the frame; and a dimming apparatus 700. The image display apparatus includes an image forming apparatus, and an optical apparatus 120 having a virtual-image forming region 701 in which virtual images are formed. The optical apparatus 120 overlaps with at least a part of the dimming apparatus 700. When the dimming apparatus 700 operates, a light blocking rate of the dimming apparatus decreases, for example, from an upper region and an outer-side region of a virtual-image-forming-region facing region 701 toward a central portion of the virtual-image-forming-region facing region.