Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.

Mamoru Nakamura

Kozo Katogi

Osamu Igarashi

Masaru Kugo

Hiroshi Ito

A liquid crystal color display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel having a section with transparent electrodes provided with color filters in striped formation and another section with transparent electrodes provided with no color filters, and separate electrode drive circuits for applying a voltage to the electrodes of the former section and another voltage to the electrodes of the latter section, with the intention of achieving little difference of brightness between both sections. The color filters in striped formation are provided in the entire area including display pattern segments having the arrangment of the transparent electrodes and a background area without transparent electrodes, with the intention of equalizing the visibility of unlighted segments and the background.

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Katsuta, Japan

Mamoru Nakamura