A curved liquid crystal display device, includes: a first bent substrate; a second bent substrate disposed facing the first bent substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first bent substrate and the second bent substrate, the liquid crystal layer including first liquid crystal molecules disposed adjacent to the first bent substrate and second liquid crystal molecules disposed adjacent to the second bent substrate; a first alignment inducing layer disposed between the first bent substrate and the liquid crystal layer; and a second alignment inducing layer disposed between the second bent substrate and the liquid crystal layer, wherein one of the first alignment inducing layer and the second alignment inducing layer includes a polymerized reactive mesogen, and the remaining alignment inducing layer includes polyimide.

Provided is a method for designing a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal layer containing a negative liquid crystal material and a pair of vertical alignment films sandwiching the liquid crystal layer. The method includes a step of determining a coefficient depending on the anchoring intensity of the liquid crystal material in the liquid crystal layer by using a material for forming the alignment film and the liquid crystal material, and a step of determining an optical compensation value necessary for the retardation occurring when the pretilt angle of the alignment film is changed in the liquid crystal display device using the material for forming the alignment film and the liquid crystal material based on the determined coefficient and the following Expressions (1) to (3):

Re(photo)=nd[{square root over ((n.sub.e.sup.2+n.sub.o.sup.2))}cos{(X)}n.sub.o]C (1)

n=|n.sub.en.sub.o|(2)

{square root over ((n.sub.e.sup.2+n.sub.o.sup.2))}cos =n.sub.o (3)

In this liquid crystal display device, a plurality of pixels 30 are arranged in a display region. The liquid crystal display device comprises a first substrate 11 in which a pixel electrode 15 having slits 15a is provided, a second substrate disposed face to the first substrate 11, a liquid crystal layer 13 containing liquid crystal molecules that have negative dielectric anisotropy, a first alignment film 22, and a second alignment film 23. The slits 15a are positioned in each alignment region of a plurality of alignment regions in the pixels 30, and have oblique slit parts extending in an oblique direction with respect to sides of the pixels 30. The angle ? formed by the direction in which the oblique slit parts extends and a liquid crystal projection direction is 15 degrees or more and 85 degrees or less.

Disclosed are a display assembly and a manufacturing method thereof. The first glass substrate and the polymer stabilization vertical alignment machine metal stage are used to connect a driving circuit to receive a driving signal. The display assembly is used to generate a capacitive coupling effect between the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate with the driving signal to form a voltage difference. The liquid crystal molecules are arranged at a preset angle with the voltage difference. The display assembly is also used to receive incident light for curing the liquid crystal molecules. The embodiments are beneficial for reducing the driving traces of the panel and improving the utilization of the glass.

The present invention provides an optical film exhibiting high alignment and good phase difference development in an oblique direction, and a polarizing plate and an image display device using the same. This optical film of the present invention has a substrate; and a phase difference layer which is provided on the substrate to be adjacent to the substrate, in which the phase difference layer is a layer formed by fixing vertical alignment of a liquid crystal compound having a polymerizable group included in a liquid crystal composition containing the liquid crystal compound and a polymer compound, a difference in ?a value between the polymer compound and the substrate, which is calculated using three-dimensional SP values, is 3 or less, and a content of the polymer compound is less than 10 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the liquid crystal compound.

A liquid-crystal display device includes a first polarizer which has a transmission axis extended in a first direction, a second polarizer disposed above the first polarizer and which has a transmission axis extended in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a liquid-crystal layer disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarizers, and a linear patterned layer disposed between the liquid-crystal layer and the second polarizer, wherein the linear patterned layer comprises a pattern of linear features and the linear features of the pattern are extended in the second direction and spaced apart from one another in the first direction.

Each pixel of the liquid crystal display device includes a first, second, third, and fourth domains arranged in two rows and two columns, and reference alignment directions of the respective domains are first, second, third, and fourth directions. The first direction and the second direction form an angle of approximately 180?, and the first domain and the second domain are adjacent to each other in an oblique direction. The pixel electrode includes a plurality of first slits formed in a region corresponding to the first domain and extending approximately parallel to the first direction, and a plurality of second slits formed in a region corresponding to the second domain and extending approximately parallel to the second direction, and has no slits in a region corresponding to the third domain and no slits in a region corresponding to the fourth domain.

An intelligent window includes two substrates and a dimming layer. Each substrate is electrically connected to a voltage source. A switchable electric field is formed between the two substrates. The dimming layer is formed by filling a liquid crystal material between the two substrates. The liquid crystal material is formed by mixing a chiral molecule, a dichroic dye, and a salt ion in a nematic liquid crystal. A weight percentage concentration of the chiral molecule in the liquid crystal material is determined according to a limitation formula (I). C is the weight percentage concentration, n is a birefringence index of the liquid crystal material, p is a chiral force of the chiral molecule in micrometer.sup.?1, D is a thickness of the dimming layer in micrometer, m.sub.1 is a constant of multiaxial absorption condition in micrometer, and m.sub.2 is a constant of normally transparent condition.

[00001]$\begin{array}{cc}\frac{n}{4{\mathrm{pm}}_1}?C?\frac{m_2}{\mathrm{Dp}}& \left(I\right)\end{array}$

Provided is an optical element including, sequentially from a viewing surface side toward a back surface side: a first polarizer; a negative C plate; a phase difference layer; and a second polarizer. A transmission axis of the first polarizer is parallel to a transmission axis of the second polarizer. The phase difference layer contains anisotropic molecules. In the phase difference layer, a tilt angle of the anisotropic molecules on a viewing surface side in the phase difference layer and a tilt angle of the anisotropic molecules on a back surface side in the phase difference layer are the same as each other and greater than 0?. A slow axis of the phase difference layer, in a case of lying in a tilt direction of the anisotropic molecules, is parallel to or perpendicular to the transmission axis of the first polarizer.

A liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes: a base; an alignment inducing layer on the base and including a first compound represented by formula A1 or a polymer of the first compound; and a liquid crystal layer on the alignment inducing layer that includes liquid crystals:

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where R.sub.1 may be hydrogen or a polymerizable group, R.sub.2 may be a hydrophilic group, SP.sub.1 and SP.sub.2 may each independently be a single bond, a C.sub.1-C.sub.12 alkylene group, or a C.sub.1-C.sub.12 alkoxylene group, Z may be a single bond, an ester group, or an ether group, and X.sub.1, X.sub.2 and X.sub.3 may each independently be hydrogen, a methyl group, fluorine, or chlorine.