A display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate disposed facing each other; a gate line and a first data line disposed on the first substrate; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the first data line; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; and a color filter disposed on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, the color filter overlapping the pixel electrode. The color filter has a width greater than a distance between the the first data line and a second data line disposed adjacent to the first data line.

A display substrate is provided. The display substrate includes an alignment film and a plurality of rows of pixel units arranged in a first direction. Each row of pixel units includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in a second direction. The second direction intersects with the first direction, and the angle between a rubbing direction of the alignment film and the first direction is an acute angle. By setting the angle between the rubbing direction of the alignment film of the display substrate and the first direction to be an acute angle, the contrast of a specific orientation of the display device can be changed.

Provided is a liquid crystal display device that can switch between the privacy mode and the public mode and achieve a high contrast ratio even during display in the privacy mode. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a liquid crystal panel; and a control circuit. The active matrix substrate sequentially includes a first substrate, a first electrode, a first insulating layer, and second electrodes each including a first linear electrode. The color filter substrate includes a second substrate, a black matrix, a color filter layer, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode which is disposed between the black matrix and the third electrode and to which constant voltage is applied. The third electrode includes second linear electrodes and overlaps a portion of the black matrix in a plan view. The control circuit switches between application of driving voltage and application of constant voltage to the third electrode.

Architecture and designs of modulating both amplitude and phase at the same time in spatial light modulation are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, light propagation is controlled in two different directions (e.g., 0 and 45 degrees) to perform both amplitude modulation and phase modulation at the same time in liquid crystals. In one embodiment, a mask is used to form a pattern, where the pattern includes an array of alignment cells or embossed microstructures, a first group of the cells are aligned in the first direction and a second group of the cells are aligned in the second direction. Depending on applications, two cells from the first group and the second group may correspond to a single pixel or two neighboring pixels, resulting in amplitude modulation and phase modulation within the pixel or within an array of pixels.

A display device having a display region to be viewed through a lens, the display device comprising: a substrate; and the display region in which the substrate is provided with a plurality of pixels, a plurality of scan lines extending in a first direction, and a plurality of signal lines extending in a second direction, wherein the first direction is non-parallel and non-orthogonal to a direction orthogonal to the second direction.

A liquid crystal display device according to FFS technology is provided, which sufficiently provides a common electrode with common electric potential and improves an aperture ratio of pixels. A pixel electrode is formed of a first layer transparent electrode. A common electrode made of a second layer transparent electrode is formed above the pixel electrode interposing an insulation film between them. The common electrode in an upper layer is provided with a plurality of slits. The common electrode extends over all the pixels in a display region. An end of the common electrode is disposed on a periphery of the display region and connected with a peripheral common electric potential line that provides a common electric potential Vcom. There is provided neither an auxiliary common electrode line nor a pad electrode, both of which are provided in a liquid crystal display device according to a conventional art.

Disclosed are dimming assemblies and display systems for reducing artifacts produced by optically-transmissive displays. A system may include a substrate upon which a plurality of electronic components are disposed. The electronic components may include a plurality of pixels, a plurality of conductors, and a plurality of circuit modules. The plurality of pixels may be arranged in a two-dimensional array, with each pixel having a two-dimensional geometry corresponding to a shape with at least one curved side. The plurality of conductors may be arranged adjacent to the plurality of pixels. The system may also include control circuitry electrically coupled to the plurality of conductors. The control circuitry may be configured to apply electrical signals to the plurality of circuit modules by way of the plurality of conductors.

The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, the liquid crystal panel including sub-pixels and including an active matrix substrate and a counter substrate, the active matrix substrate including a gate line, a first electrode, and a second electrode, the counter substrate including a third electrode, each of the sub-pixels being provided with an optical opening, the third electrode including a linear electrode extending along the gate line, a distance between the linear electrode and the optical opening being less than D/4 and a width of the linear electrode being D/4 or less, wherein a distance between two optical openings adjacent in the direction perpendicular to the extending direction of the gate line is defined as D.

According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal device includes a first liquid crystal cell and a second liquid crystal cell bonded to the first liquid crystal cell. Each of the first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a sealant bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together, one or more first spacers disposed inside the sealant and holding the gap, and a plurality of second spacers disposed in an effective area surrounded by the sealant and holding the gap.

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a controller. The controller is configured to control voltages between the common electrode and pixel electrodes in first periods included in one frame period and control an operation of a light source in second periods included in the one frame period. The controller controls, in a first first period of the first periods included in the one frame period, the voltages between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes to write, following an immediately preceding one frame period, a video component of a same color as a color of a video component written by applying voltages between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes in a last first period of the first periods included in the immediately preceding one frame period.