Patent ID: 6630978
Filing Date: 2003-10-07
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising:first and second substrates; a plurality of gate bus lines and data bus lines on the first substrate in a matrix form; a plurality of pixels defined by the gate bus lines and the data bus lines, the pixels having first and second regions; at least one common bus line at each pixel, the common bus line being parallel to the gate bus line; at least a pair of first parallel electrodes and second parallel electrodes in the first and second regions, respectively, the first and second parallel electrodes having first and second electrode elongation directions (&thgr;EL1 and &thgr;EL2) with respect to a longitudinal direction of the common bus line; a third electrode parallel to and over a portion of the common bus line at each pixel; first and second alignment layers over the first and second substrates, respectively, at least one of the first and second alignment layers having a first alignment direction &thgr;1 in the first region and a second alignment direction &thgr;2 in the second region; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate.