A device (100) includes a display (102, 800) that is suitable for use under widely ranging lighting conditions. The display includes separately operable transmissive light modulator subpixels (402, 404, 406, 502, 504, 506, 602, 604, 606, 702, 704, 706, 808, 810, 812, 1036, 1136, 1204, 1304, 1404, 1504, 1716, 1916) that can be provided in at least three colors to provide a full color display but also includes separately operable reflective light modulator subpixels (408, 508, 608, 708, 814, 1038, 1138, 1202, 1302, 1402, 1502, 1714, 1914) that provide basic readability when light levels are so high (e.g., bright summer day) that the image presented by the transmissive light modulators would be difficult to discern. The reflective light modulators may be provided with in-pixel memory (526) so as to reduce the energy cost of providing always-on functioning for displaying certain time sensitive information.

A display device includes: a substrate having red, first green, second green and blue subpixels; a driving thin film transistor in each of the red, first green, second green and blue subpixels on the substrate; and a light emitting diode connected to the driving thin film transistor and in each of the red, first green, second green and blue subpixels, wherein the light emitting diodes of the red, first green, second green and blue subpixels includes red, first green, second green and blue emission areas, respectively, and wherein the first green emission area has a cross shape.

An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display, including: a first substrate including a first pixel electrode, the first pixel electrode having a planar shape; a second substrate disposed facing the first substrate, including a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; a liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a plurality of pixels disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, each of the plurality of pixels including a plurality of domains, and liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer disposed in different domains have different pretilt directions.

A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate including a first light blocking region, wherein a plurality of transistors are formed in the first light blocking region; a second substrate facing the first substrate, the second substrate including a common electrode disposed thereon; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate includes: a data line disposed extending in a vertical direction; color filters, each of the color filters overlapping adjacent color filters to form a color filter overlapping portion in boundary regions of the color filters in a vertical direction; and a light blocking member disposed extending in a horizontal direction covering the first light blocking region, wherein the data line and the color filter overlapping portion are spaced apart from each other in a horizontal direction in a region where the light blocking member is formed.

A first pixel electrode and a third pixel electrode are disposed on one side of one of a plurality of column lines. A second pixel electrode and a fourth pixel electrode are disposed on another side of the one of the plurality of column lines. A third switching element is disposed on the one side of the one of the plurality of column lines. A fourth switching element is disposed on the other side of the one of the plurality of column lines. The first pixel electrode is connected to a first switching element via a first connection electrode. The second pixel electrode is connected to a second switching element via a second connection electrode. The third pixel electrode is connected to the third switching element. The fourth pixel electrode is connected to the fourth switching element.

A display device with less light leakage and excellent contrast is provided. A display device having a high aperture ratio and including a large-capacitance capacitor is provided. A display device in which wiring delay due to parasitic capacitance is reduced is provided. A display device includes a transistor over a substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the transistor, a signal line electrically connected to the transistor, a scan line electrically connected to the transistor and intersecting with the signal line, and a common electrode overlapping with the pixel electrode and the signal line with an insulating film provided therebetween. The common electrode includes stripe regions extending in a direction intersecting with the signal line.

A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, and a first pixel which is disposed on the first substrate, and includes a pixel area and a circuit area adjacent to the pixel area where the first pixel further includes a first pixel electrode in which a slit extending in a first direction is defined, a first sub-pixel electrode disposed on one side of the slit, and a second sub-pixel electrode disposed on another side of the slit, the slit, the first sub-pixel electrode and the second sub-pixel electrode are disposed in the pixel area, and the first sub-pixel electrode and the second sub-pixel electrode are directly connected to each other in the circuit area.

A display device includes a plurality of sub-pixel groups, wherein each of the plurality sub-pixel groups comprises eight sub-pixels disposed in a row direction or in a column direction and the eight sub-pixels comprise two red sub-pixels; two blue sub-pixels; two green sub-pixels; and two sub-pixels of a predetermined color, wherein in each of the plurality of sub-pixel groups, a distance between the red sub-pixels or between the blue sub-pixels is less than a distance between the green sub-pixels or between the sub-pixels of the predetermined color, and the sub-pixels of the predetermined color have a luminance higher than a luminance of the red sub-pixels and the blue sub-pixels.

Disclosed are pixel array, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels distributed in matrix along a first direction and a second direction. Each pixel comprising three sub-pixels has different colors, the three sub-pixels are respectively named a first color sub-pixel, a second color sub-pixel, and a third color sub-pixel. In the pixels distributed in the first direction, adjacent two sub-pixels in adjacent two pixels have the same color, and the adjacent two sub-pixels having the same color in the adjacent two pixels shares a date line. A data line number required for the display panel is reduced, and the aperture ratio of the display panel is improved.

Related to is an array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a method for driving the liquid crystal display panel. In the array substrate, each pixel unit thereon comprises a main-area electrode, a sub-area electrode and a sharing capacitor. a control terminal of a sharing control switch connecting the sharing capacitor to the sub-area electrode is connected, via a first control switch, to a scan line correlated with an N.sup.th pixel unit which is arranged in a scanning direction and counted from a present pixel unit, and via a second control switch to a scan line correlated with the present pixel unit. Under a two-dimensional scanning mode, the first control switch is configured to be turned on when at least there is a scan signal on a scan line to which the first control switch is connected, and the second control switch is configured to be turned off when at least there is a scan signal on both a scan line to which the second control switch is connected and on a scan line to which a first control switch of the same stage as the second control switch is connected. Under a three-dimensional scanning mode, the first control switch is configured to be turned off when at least there is a scan signal on the scan line to which the first control switch is connected, and the second control switch is configured to be turned on when at least there is a scan signal on the scan line to which the second control switch is connected.