Liquid-crystal color display with comb-shaped pixel electrodes partially overlapping at the electrode ends

Claim 1

A liquid crystal color display comprising: a plurality of color selecting members provided for transmitting light of specific colors, respectively, and formed over one entire surface of one of a pair of light-transmitting substrates disposed opposite each other, which substrates sandwich a liquid crystal layer between them, the one entire surface being on the side of said one substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; a light blocking member interposed between the adjacent color selecting members; and a pair of light-transmitting comb-shaped pixel electrode groups which are disposed adjacent each other in portions of the display area on the side facing the liquid crystal layer of said one light-transmitting substrate and light transmitting comb-shaped pixel electrodes provided in the display area of the other substrate, all of which pixel electrodes, in response to electrical signals, alter the molecular alignment in the liquid crystal layer in the portion between the other substrate and the specific color selecting member elected in accordance with the color to be displayed in the display area, the liquid-crystal color display being characterized in that the comb-shaped pixel electrode groups disposed adjacent to each other on the side of said one substrate correspond to different color selecting members and are formed in such a manner as to partially overlap at the ends of said electrodes and extend into each other's display area portions in alternating fashion to decrease the gap between adjacent different, non-simultaneously displayed, display patterns.