A liquid crystal display device includes a display substrate including a pixel electrode in a plurality of pixel areas; an opposing substrate opposing the display substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the display substrate and the opposing substrate; and a polarizer in at least one of the display substrate and the opposing substrate. The pixel electrode includes a first slit extending along an edge of the pixel electrode; and a second slit having substantially a quadrangular shape and having a long side which forms an angle ranging from about 0 degree to about 90 degrees with respect to a polarization axis of the polarizer.

A display panel includes a first display substrate, a second display substrate. The second display substrate includes a substrate, a color conversion layer including a first conversion part configured to absorb light of a first color and to emit light of a second color, a second conversion part configured to absorb the light of the first color and to emit light of a third color, and a third conversion part configured to transmit the light of the first color, and a filter layer including a first filter overlapping with the first conversion part and having the second color, a second filter overlapping with the second conversion part and having the third color, a third filter overlapping with the third conversion part and having the first color, and an auxiliary filter overlapping with the second conversion part and configured to absorb the light of the first color.

The liquid crystal display device includes: a display region for displaying an image; and a frame region surrounding the display region, the liquid crystal display device sequentially including from a viewing surface side toward a back surface side: a first polarizing plate; a first substrate provided with a switching element connected to a gate line and a source line; a liquid crystal layer; a second substrate; and a second polarizing plate, in the frame region, the first substrate sequentially including from a viewing surface side toward a back surface side a support substrate, a reflectance-reducing layer, and a metal line layer that overlaps the reflectance-reducing layer and includes at least one of a gate line layer provided with the gate line or a source line layer provided with the source line, the reflectance-reducing layer having a lower viewing surface side reflectance than the metal line layer.

A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display area including a transparent display area and an opaque display area surrounding the transparent display area. In the display area, the display panel also includes a backlight and a liquid crystal display panel. The backlight includes a first through hole corresponding to the transparent display area. The liquid crystal display panel is disposed over the backlight. The liquid crystal display panel includes a driving layer and a liquid crystal layer. The driving layer includes a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit. The liquid crystal layer includes a first liquid crystal region corresponding to the transparent display area and a second liquid crystal region corresponding to the opaque display area. The first driving circuit corresponds to the first liquid crystal region. The second driving circuit corresponds to the second liquid crystal region.

According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes an optical member including a polarizer having an absorption axis and a transmission axis, a liquid crystal display panel including a light-reflecting layer and a liquid crystal layer located between the light-reflecting layer and the optical member, and a lighting unit located on a side opposite to the optical member with respect to the liquid crystal display panel to release linearly polarized light transmitted through the polarizer toward the polarizer side.

A display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other, a reflecting layer, which reflects light incident on the reflecting layer, on the first substrate, a polarizing layer which is disposed on the second substrate and includes a polarizing portion that polarizes light incident on the polarizing portion and a reflecting portion that reflects light incident on the reflecting portion, a liquid crystal layer between the reflecting layer and the polarizing layer, and a retardation layer between the liquid crystal layer and the polarizing layer.

In a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal cell and a polarizing plate respectively have a planar, non-rectangular shape. The polarizing plate has an axis that is either an absorption axis or a slow axis. The planar shape of the polarizing plate includes first and second sides respectively extending in a direction perpendicular to the axis and a direction tilted from the axis. The polarizing plate includes first and second peripheral portions respectively lying along the first and second sides, and includes a corner portion lying at a portion where the first and second peripheral portions overlap each other. The polarizing plate is applied by a bonding agent onto a main surface of the liquid crystal cell so that the corner portion is not coupled to the main surface. A contour portion extending in a direction tilted from the axis may not be coupled to the main surface.

A system includes a spatial light modulator comprising a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The spatial light modulator is characterized by a first retardation and a first phase retardation and has a first slow axis for light propagation. A voltage source is configured to apply a drive voltage to the spatial light modulator and the first retardation of the spatial light modulator is a function of the drive voltage. A retarder is positioned external to the spatial light modulator and is characterized by a second retardation and a second phase retardation. The retarder includes a second slow axis for light propagation. The second retardation has a value such that all illumination wavelengths in a set of illumination wavelengths are above or below a phase retardation value of 0.25. The set of illumination wavelengths includes at least one illumination wavelength in each of at least three different color spectrums.

A polarized device includes a first polarizer, a second polarizer, and a compensation film between the first polarizer and the second polarizer. An absorption axis of the first polarizer is vertical to the absorption axis of the second polarizer, and a slow axis of the compensation film is vertical to the absorption axis of the first polarizer or the absorption axis of the second polarizer. In addition, a display device incorporated with the polarized device is disclosed. The polarized device and the display device may greatly eliminate the optical leakage when the polarizers are not orthogonal to each other such that the display performance may be enhanced.

A liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display are disclosed. Stray backlights which are irradiated into areas of gate electrode circuits are absorbed by adding an anisotropic absorbing material into a mixture for forming a color filter layer and then controlling orientation of the anisotropic absorbing material to reduce the stray backlights entering into the gate electrode circuits, so that a better shading effect for the gate electrode circuits is provided.