A liquid crystal display module is switchable between a blocking state and a displaying state on the basis of a change, caused by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, in the orientation of liquid crystal molecules contained in the liquid crystal layer, the blocking state being a state in which transmitting light is concentrated to a blocking region on an initial optical axis, the displaying state being a state in which transmitting light is concentrated to a light-emitting region on a voltage-induced optical axis different from the initial optical axis.

According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes second substrates, a light-shielding layer, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes pixel electrodes, a common electrode, and subpixel areas each including area in which the pixel electrode is present and a second area in which the pixel electrode is not present. Each of the subpixel areas includes first and second sides. The first area includes an axial area and branch areas. The second area includes a gap area between the adjacent branch areas. The axial area includes a projection portion projecting to the second side and in alignment with the gap area, and overlaps the light-shielding layer.

A liquid crystal optical device providing refractive Fresnel lens type element control over light passing through an aperture is provided. The device includes a layer of liquid crystal material contained by flat substrates having flat alignment layers; and an arrangement of electrodes configured to provide a spatially varying voltage distribution within a number of lensing zones within said liquid crystal layer. The arrangement of electrodes includes ring-shaped electrodes defining boundaries between Fresnel lensing zones. The liquid crystal optical device is structured to provide a spatial variation in the optical phase delay with an abrupt transition at a boundary between lensing zones to increase the effective aperture of the optical device.

A display panel includes a substrate, an opposite substrate opposite to the substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrate and the opposite substrate, a pixel array disposed between the substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and first polarized patterns. The pixel array includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of active devices, and a plurality of first electrodes. The active devices are electrically connected to the scan lines and the data lines. The first electrodes are disposed on the substrate. Each of the first electrodes includes a plurality of slits. The first polarized patterns overlap with the first electrodes in a direction perpendicular to the substrate. The first polarized patterns are disposed between the substrate and the opposite substrate. An extending direction of the first polarized patterns is different from an extending direction of the slits.

According to an aspect, a display device has a first electrode, a second electrode and liquid crystal layer. When a voltage is not applied to the first and second electrodes, the major axes of the liquid crystal molecules are oriented in a third direction. When a voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes, the major axes are oriented so as to rise in a direction perpendicular to a first substrate while rotating clockwise in a vicinity of one of long sides of comb tooth portion that face each other and counterclockwise in a vicinity of the other of the long sides. An angle between an electrode base-side portion of a long side of each comb tooth portions and the third direction is larger than an angle between a distal end-side portion of the long side of each comb tooth portions and the third direction.

The disclosure discloses an array substrate, a liquid crystal panel, and a process of fabricating the array substrate. The array substrate includes an orientation film, an upper electrode, a lower electrode, and an intermediate electrode located between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, wherein the intermediate electrode is configured to have drive voltage applied thereto when there is zero relative voltage between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, so that an electric field is generated between the intermediate electrode and the lower electrode, and a direction of the electric field is parallel to an orientation direction of the orientation film.

A liquid crystal light deflector includes a first electrode layer including line electrodes, a second electrode layer including a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer that forms an electrical prism using liquid crystal molecules according to an electric field formed between the first and second electrode layers. The orientations of the liquid crystal molecules may be reset by an electric field formed between line electrodes of adjacent channels within the first electrode layer. A method of deflecting light includes controlling the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer to reset the orientation of the liquid crystal molecules prior to forming an electrical prism in the liquid crystal layer.

An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes: a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of common electrodes disposed on a base substrate. The plurality of gate lines are extended in a first direction, the plurality of data lines are extended in a second direction. Each of the common electrodes includes an overlap section which overlaps at least one of the data lines in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate. A gap is provided between the overlap sections of two adjacent common electrodes in the second direction, the two adjacent common electrodes overlap the same data lines in the direction perpendicular to the base substrate. An intersection of the data line and the gate line between the two adjacent common electrodes is located within the gap.

The present disclosure relates to a display device, a liquid crystal display panel and a driving method for a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel includes: an array substrate including a plurality of sub-pixels having active display areas, each of the sub-pixels including a plurality of first electrodes, and a first slit being disposed between adjacent first electrodes; an opposite substrate facing the array substrate, wherein a first surface of the opposite substrate facing the array substrate includes at least a target area facing an edge area of the active display area; and a control electrode disposed in the target area and opposite to the first electrode, for generating an electric field in a target direction with the first electrode, so as to control liquid crystals between an edge area of the array substrate and the target area of the opposite substrate to be deflected.

A liquid crystal display panel is provided and includes a pair of substrates arranged face to face so as to sandwich a liquid crystal layer, a lower electrode formed on a lower substrate, an upper electrode formed on the lower substrate through an insulating layer, in which plural slits are formed in each sub-pixel, wherein each of the plural slits is formed as an aperture in which both ends thereof in the longitudinal direction are closed, and an alignment film formed so as to cover a surface of the upper electrode and the insulating layer. The plural slits have different widths at both ends of slits in a longitudinal direction, and a rubbing direction of the alignment film is a direction crossing longitudinal edges of each of the slits.