Patent ID: 7253856
Filing Date: 2007-08-07
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a common electrode on an inner surface of the first substrate; a gate line on an inner surface of the second substrate; a data line crossing the gate line; a pixel region defined by the gate and data lines having at least a first domain and a second domain extending along a direction of the data line; a switching device connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode connected to the switching device and spaced apart from the data line; a first liquid crystal material layer interposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode corresponding to the first domain having a first alignment direction; a second liquid crystal material layer interposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode corresponding to the second domain having a second alignment direction different from the first alignment direction; and a black matrix covering the data line, the black matrix having a first segment corresponding to the first domain and a second segment corresponding to the second domain such that a central line of the black matrix at the first segment is shifted with respect to a central line of the black matrix at the second segment, the black matrix further having a first segment width extending perpendicular to the direction of the data line between a center line of the data line and a first edge of the black matrix adjacent to the first domain, and a second segment width different from the first segment width extending perpendicular to the direction of the data line between the center line of the data line and a second edge of the black matrix adjacent to the second domain, wherein the data line has a straight shape and the black matrix has a bent shape in the direction of the data line, and wherein the first and second segment widths are asymmetrically formed according to an alignment direction of the first and second liquid crystal material layers, respectively.