US 7,483,104 B2
Liquid crystal display panel and method for driving the same
Kenji Nakao, Kanazawa (Japan); Shinji Ogawa, Ishikawa-gun (Japan); Naoya Kubota, Ishikawa-gun (Japan); and Hirofumi Wakemoto, Kanazawa (Japan)
Assigned to Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on May 27, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/138,460.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-159658 (JP), filed on May 28, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0264738 A1, Dec. 01, 2005
Int. Cl. G02F 1/1337 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 349—126  [349/123; 349/94] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An OCB mode liquid crystal display panel comprising:
a pair of electrode substrates;
a liquid crystal layer which is held between said pair of electrode substrates and has liquid crystal molecules whose alignment state is controlled within a display area by a drive voltage applied from said electrode substrates; and
a pair of alignment films which are disposed on said pair of electrode substrates in contact with said liquid crystal layer and whose rubbing directions are set parallel to each other;
wherein said display area includes a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix, and the rubbing directions of said alignment films are substantially opposite to a scanning direction in which rows of said pixels are sequentially selected for application of the drive voltage in a display operation.