System for displaying images including a liquid crystal display panel

1. A system for displaying images, comprising:

a liquid crystal display panel; and

a pair of polarizers sandwiching the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the liquid crystal display panel has a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, and the liquid crystal display panel comprises:

a first substrate having a common electrode at the display area and the peripheral area;

a light-shielding layer disposed at the peripheral area;

a second substrate having a pixel electrode at the display area and a separate electrode independent of the pixel electrode at the peripheral area, wherein the separate electrode is controlled by a constant voltage; and

a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and the second substrates,

wherein the separate electrode is disposed for corresponding to the light-shielding layer and the light-shielding layer is completely overlapped with the separate electrode.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the light-shielding layer is disposed between the first substrate and the common electrode.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first substrate is a color filter substrate and the second substrate is an array substrate.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the light-shielding layer is disposed between the second substrate and the separate electrode.

5. The system as claimed in claim 4 , further comprising a color filter disposed between the second substrate and the pixel electrode.

6. The system as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the second substrate is an array substrate.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pair of polarizers covers the peripheral area on which the separate electrode is disposed.

8. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the separate electrode comprises a transparent conductive material.

9. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the separate electrode comprises a metal.

10. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the separate electrode is controlled by an external circuit outside the liquid crystal display panel.

11. The system as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the separate electrode is controlled by a circuit inside the liquid crystal display panel.

12. The system as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a liquid crystal display, wherein the liquid crystal display comprises:

the liquid crystal display panel;

the pair of polarizers sandwiching the liquid crystal display panel; and

a backlight device disposed under the pair of polarizers and the liquid crystal display panel.

13. The system as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the liquid crystal display is a normally white twisted nematic liquid crystal display (NW TN LCD).

14. The system as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the peripheral area of the liquid crystal display panel exhibits a dark state when the separate electrode is turned on.

15. The system as claimed in claim 14 , wherein an equivalent optical density (OD) of the peripheral area is twice an optical density of the light-shielding layer.

16. The system as claimed in claim 12 , further comprising an electronic device, wherein the electronic device comprises:

the liquid crystal display; and

an input unit coupled to the liquid crystal display to provide input to the liquid crystal display such that the liquid crystal display displays images.

17. The system as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the electronic device is a mobile phone, digital camera, personal data assistant (PDA), notebook computer, desktop computer, television, car display or portable DVD player.