A pretilt angle of a liquid crystal molecule on the side of an array substrate is formed such that the liquid crystal molecule goes away from the array substrate in a direction to the left when viewed from a position facing a display surface of a liquid crystal panel. The pretilt angle on the side of a counter substrate is formed such that the liquid crystal molecule goes away from the counter substrate in a direction to the right when viewed from a position facing the display surface. The directions to the left and the right define a direction X corresponding to a horizontal direction of the liquid crystal panel. A direction of a delay phase axis of a biaxial phase difference film is arranged in a position rotated anticlockwise in an angular range from over 0° to 1° from the direction X.

A liquid crystal panel is provided and includes first and second substrates with liquid crystal layer therebetween; and first electrode in display region; second electrode disposed between first electrode and first substrate; and alignment film having alignment direction, wherein first electrode has: pair of electrode branches; slit between pair of electrode branches; first and second connections connecting pair of electrode branches; wherein first electrode has areas including first and second bent portions, main portion disposed between first and second bent portions, wherein first bent portion is adjacent to contact hole of first electrode, wherein first and second bent portions are bent relative to main portion, and wherein direction of first bent portion is substantially parallel to direction of second bent portion.

A liquid crystal display panel includes a first and second base substrates, a liquid crystal layer and an optical compensation layer. In the liquid crystal layer, a first alignment film is configured to make a part of second liquid crystal molecules proximate to the first alignment film have a first pretilt angle, a second alignment film is configured to make a part of second liquid crystal molecules proximate to the second alignment film have a second pretilt angle. In the optical compensation layer, a third alignment film is configured to make first liquid crystal molecules proximate to the third alignment film have a third pretilt angle. A direction of orthogonal projections of long axes of the first liquid crystal molecules is parallel to or perpendicular to a direction of orthogonal projections of long axes of second liquid crystal molecules anchored by the first alignment film and the second alignment film.

A liquid crystal display panel includes: a first polarizer, a second polarizer, a liquid crystal layer including first liquid crystal molecules, a first optical compensation layer between the liquid crystal layer and any of the first polarizer and the second polarizer, a second optical compensation layer on a same side of the liquid crystal layer as the first optical compensation layer. In a non-powered state of the liquid crystal display panel, orthographic projections of optical axes of the first liquid crystal molecules on the first polarizer, which are perpendicular to an orthographic projection of an optical axis of the first optical compensation layer on the first polarizer, are parallel to any of transmission axes of the first polarizer and the second polarizer that are perpendicular to each other. An optical axis of the second optical compensation layer is perpendicular to a plane where the second optical compensation layer is located.

In a liquid crystal device, a first pixel area is provided in a pixel area of a first substrate, and a second pixel area is provided between the first pixel area and a seal material. The first pixel area has a first pixel electrode to which an image signal is applied, the image signal having a potential alternately switching between a positive polarity and a negative polarity with reference to a first central potential. The second pixel area includes a second pixel electrode to which a first driving potential is applied, the first driving potential having a potential alternately switching between a positive polarity and a negative polarity with reference to a second central potential, the first central potential and the second central potential having a potential difference set therebetween. Therefore, ionic impurities can be efficiently swept from the first pixel area to the second pixel area.

Provided are a liquid crystal panel capable of achieving a small light-shielding angle in a narrow viewing angle mode and a display device including the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel sequentially includes: a first polarizing plate with a first absorption axis; a first substrate including a first electrode; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules; and a second substrate including a second electrode, wherein in a plan view, a director of the liquid crystal molecules with no voltage applied and the first absorption axis form an angle α of not smaller than 5° and not greater than 20° or not smaller than 65° and not greater than 80°.

In a liquid crystal device, a first pixel area is provided in a pixel area of a first substrate, and a second pixel area is provided between the first pixel area and a seal material. The first pixel area has a first pixel electrode to which an image signal is applied, the image signal having a potential alternately switching between a positive polarity and a negative polarity with reference to a first central potential. The second pixel area includes a second pixel electrode to which a first driving potential is applied, the first driving potential having a potential alternately switching between a positive polarity and a negative polarity with reference to a second central potential, the first central potential and the second central potential having a potential difference set therebetween. Therefore, ionic impurities can be efficiently swept from the first pixel area to the second pixel area.

A wearable display system includes an eyepiece stack having a world side and a user side opposite the world side. During use, a user positioned on the user side views displayed images delivered by the wearable display system via the eyepiece stack which augment the user's field of view of the user's environment. The system also includes an optical attenuator arranged on the world side of the of the eyepiece stack, the optical attenuator having a layer of a birefringent material having a plurality of domains each having a principal optic axis oriented in a corresponding direction different from the direction of other domains. Each domain of the optical attenuator reduces transmission of visible light incident on the optical attenuator for a corresponding different range of angles of incidence.

A spatial light modulator for suppressing a fringe field effect includes: a transparent electrode layer; a reflective electrode layer including a pixel electrode, in which a pixel area is surrounded by a boundary of the pixel electrode; a liquid crystal layer located between the transparent electrode layer and the reflective electrode layer to establish a pixel formed by the liquid crystal layer covering the pixel area in the pixel electrode; and an alignment film having a first pattern and a second pattern and covering the pixel area. The first pattern and the second pattern in the pixel area make liquid crystals in the liquid crystal layer of the pixel generate arrangements of a first azimuth angle and a second azimuth angle, respectively, and the first azimuth angle is different from the second azimuth angle.

A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer of a horizontal orientation type that is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first electrode pair that applies a first horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer, an insulating layer provided on the first electrode pair, and a second electrode pair that is provided on the insulating layer and that applies a second horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode pair includes first and second linear electrodes provided with a gap therebetween. The second electrode pair includes third and fourth linear electrodes provided with a gap therebetween. In a plan view of the first substrate, the third and fourth linear electrodes extend in a direction perpendicular with respect to the first and second linear electrodes.