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US 5,689,322 AGranted
Liquid crystal display device having regions with different twist angles
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMitsuaki Hirata, Akihiro Nammatsu, Noriko Watanabe, Shigeaki Mizushima, Seiji Makino, Hiroko Iwagoe, Kei Oyobe
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Abstract
A liquid crystal display device which includes a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates; and an electrode for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer is disclosed. The liquid crystal layers includes liquid crystal molecules, and is divided into a plurality of regions having different twist angles from one another.
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A liquid crystal display device, comprising:
- a pair of substrates;
- a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair or substrates;
- and
- an electrode for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, wherein
- the liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of regions having different twist angles from one another, and the twist angles in the plurality of regions change in a step-like manner in an increasing pattern along the entire liquid crystal layer.
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A liquid crystal display device, comprising:
- a pair of substrates;
- a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates and including liquid crystal molecules;
- and
- an electrode layer for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, wherein
- the electrode layer includes a plurality of areas, and each of the areas and an area of the liquid crystal layer in positional correspondence with the each of the areas of the electrode layer are included in a pixel,
- the liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of regions in the pixel, two of the plurality of regions having opposite reference orientation directions, and
- the plurality of regions occupy different ratios of a surface area of the pixel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.