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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2011
Hidefumi Yoshida, Kawasaki, JP;
Takashi Sasabayashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Arihiro Takeda, Kawasaki, JP;
Hideo Chida, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshio Koike, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasutoshi Tasaka, Kawasaki, JP;
Hidefumi Yoshida, Kawasaki, JP;
Takashi Sasabayashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Arihiro Takeda, Kawasaki, JP;
Hideo Chida, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshio Koike, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasutoshi Tasaka, Kawasaki, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A liquid crystal display device is provided which has a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, in which liquid crystal molecules are vertically aligned with respect to the substrates when no voltage is applied between the substrates and the liquid crystal molecules tilt in a plurality of directions to be almost parallel to the substrates by applying a voltage between the substrates. In the liquid crystal layer, when the voltage is applied, a proportion of a region where the liquid crystal molecules tilt in a direction of 0 degrees to 180 degrees is different from a proportion of a region where the liquid crystal molecules tilt in a direction of 180 degrees to 360 degrees with the angle being defined counterclockwise with the right direction on a screen being 0 degrees.