A mobile terminal disclosed herein includes a window on one surface of a terminal body and configured to be curved, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) on a rear surface of the window to output visual information, and curved by external force. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel to generate an image using light from a light guide plate, at least one prism sheet disposed between the light guide plate and the liquid crystal panel, and a supporting member accommodating the light guide plate and the prism sheet and supporting the liquid crystal panel. The supporting member includes first and second mounting portions with the liquid crystal panel mounted. At least one of the first and second mounting portions has a recess portion for insertion of an edge of the prism sheet to prevent shifting of the prism sheet due to the liquid crystal display being curved.

A liquid crystal display device (100) includes a first substrate (10), a second substrate (20) and a liquid crystal layer (30), and includes a plurality of pixels (Px). The first substrate includes a first electrode (11) and a second electrode (12) capable of generating a transverse electric field in the liquid crystal layer, and an alignment film (18) defining initial alignment axis azimuths (D1, D12), The first electrode includes at least one slit (11a). In each of the plurality of pixels, the alignment film includes a first region (18a) corresponding to the at least one slit of the first electrode and a second region (18b) corresponding to a portion of the first electrode other than the at least one slit. The initial alignment axis azimuth defined by the first region of the alignment film and the initial alignment axis azimuth defined by the second region of the alignment film are different from each other.

A display apparatus including a backlight module, first and second electrically-controlled elements, electrically-controlled first and second polarizers, a half-wave plate, and a display panel is provided. An included angle between first and second alignment directions of first and second alignment layers of the first electrically-controlled element is between 75 degrees and 105 degrees. An included angle between third and fourth alignment directions of third and fourth alignment layers of the second electrically-controlled element is between 165 degrees and 195 degrees. A first absorption axis of the first polarizer disposed between the backlight module and the first electrically-controlled element is perpendicular to a second absorption axis of the second polarizer disposed between the first and second electrically-controlled elements. The half-wave plate is disposed between the second polarizer and the second electrically-controlled element. The display panel is disposed on the second electrically-controlled element. A method of driving the display apparatus is provided.

A liquid crystal display includes: a lower panel in which a plurality of pixel areas is defined; an upper panel opposite to the lower panel and in which the plurality of pixel areas is defined, where each pixel area is divided into domains; a first alignment layer on the lower panel and photo-aligned to have sub alignment portions corresponding to the domains, respectively; and a second alignment layer on the upper panel and photo-aligned to have sub alignment portions corresponding to domains, respectively, where one of the sub alignment portions of the first alignment layer has no pretilt and remaining of the sub alignment portions of the first alignment layer has different pretilt directions, and one of the sub alignment portions of the second alignment layer has no pretilt and remaining of the alignment portions of the second alignment layer has different pretilt directions.

This liquid crystal display device has a plurality of pixels. Each pixel in the plurality of pixels includes first to fourth alignment regions; these first to fourth alignment regions are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the pixels, and the difference between any two alignment orientations in the first to fourth alignment regions is approximately equal to an integer multiple of 90 degrees. Of the pre-tilt angles defined by a first alignment film and a second alignment film in each of the first to fourth alignment regions, one pre-tilt angle is less than 90 degrees and the other pre-tilt angle is substantially 90 degrees. The optical alignment film is formed using a polymer having an optical alignment group in the side chain, and the content of the optical alignment group in the side chain of the polymer is less than 1.1 mmol/g.

A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between display layers. The display layers may include thin-film transistor circuitry having subpixel electrodes for applying electric fields to subpixel portions of the layer of liquid crystal material. Subpixels of different colors may have different shapes and may have different liquid crystal layer thicknesses. These subpixel differences may be configured to slow the switching speed of subpixels of a certain color relative to other subpixels to reduce color motion blur when an object is moved across a black or colored background. The subpixels may have chevron shapes. Subpixels of a first color may have chevron shapes that are less bent than subpixels of second and third colors. In configurations with varying liquid crystal layer thicknesses, the subpixels of the first color may have thicker liquid crystal layers than the subpixels of the second and third colors.

The present invention provides a liquid crystal alignment method and a liquid crystal display panel. The method comprises the steps of: coating a first alignment material layer on a TFT substrate, the first alignment material layer having a plurality of first regions; coating a second alignment material layer on a CF substrate, the second alignment material layer having a plurality of second regions; and utilizing the length of each first region along the row direction as an exposing width and performing an exposing alignment procedure with the exposing width to each first region to form a first alignment layer at the side of the TFT substrate.

A curved display device curved in a first direction includes: a first substrate including a plurality of signal lines, an insulating layer which covers the signal lines, a pixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer, and a shielding electrode electrically insulated from the pixel electrode and disposed along a signal line, which extends substantially in a second direction crossing the first direction, among the signal lines; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate and including a common electrode; and a light control layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.

A display panel is disclosed, comprising: a first electrode comprising a first trunk electrode and a second trunk electrode and a second electrode comprising a third trunk electrode and a fourth trunk electrode formed thereon, wherein when light passes through the display panel, the first and second trunk electrode respectively correspond to first and second dark lines crossing to each other to form a first cross site, the third and fourth trunk electrode respectively correspond to third and fourth dark lines crossing to each other to form a second cross site, the first and third dark lines respectively comprise first and second arc portions at the first and second cross sites near to a first scan line, and a first concave side of the first arc portion and the second concave side of the second arc portion face to sides opposite to each other.

A cured-film formation composition that includes: (A) one or more compounds having a photo-aligning group and hydroxy group, etc.; (B) a polymer having at least one substituent from the group of a hydroxy group, carboxy group, amino group, and alkoxysilyl group, and the like; and (C) a cross-linking agent. Component (A) contains a compound having a group of Formula [1] below as the photo-aligning group: ##STR00001##
where A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 are independently a hydrogen atom or methyl group; and A.sup.3 is a hydroxy group. A cured-film is formed from the cured-film formation composition, and orientation material is formed by use of photo-alignment technique. A retardation material is obtained by applying a polymerizable liquid crystal on the orientation material and curing it.