Patent ID: 9488867
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G02F

Claim Text:
1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: an array substrate including a plurality of pixel electrodes and a plurality of common electrodes corresponding to each of a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, and an alignment film; a color filter substrate facing the array substrate and including a plurality of color filters and a plurality of counter electrodes corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, wherein each of the plurality of pixels has a polygonal shape longer in a longitudinal direction than in a lateral direction when viewed from the top, when viewed from the top, each of the plurality of pixels is line symmetric with respect to a center line which is parallel to a lateral side of the polygonal shape and divides the pixel into two portions, for each of the plurality of pixels, in each of the two portions of each of the plurality of pixels, the liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal molecule having negative dielectric constant anisotropy, and the alignment film gives a pretilt angle to the liquid crystal molecule to tilt a lengthwise direction of the liquid crystal molecule from the vertical direction in a direction in which each of the plurality of common electrode shifts from each of the pixel electrodes.