Patent ID: 7952675
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate facing said first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between said first substrate and said second substrate; a first electrode formed on said first substrate; and a second electrode formed on said second substrate, wherein said first electrode is divided into at least two regions such that at least two domains of different liquid crystal orientation directions are defined within a single pixel; wherein a first of said at least two regions and a second of said at least two regions are located in a diagonal manner with respect to each other, and thus are not aligned in either a row direction or a column direction with respect to each other; wherein an auxiliary capacitance electrode is formed between said first region and said second region; wherein said first region and said second region each include a micro-cutout pattern comprising a plurality of cutouts extending in a slanted direction with respect to an edge of said first or second region, respectively, and further wherein said cutouts of said first region and said cutouts of said second region are generally parallel to each other both within each of said regions as well as across said first and second regions; and wherein said first electrode also comprises at least two additional regions, defined as a third region and a fourth region, such that at least four domains of different liquid crystal orientation directions are defined within said single pixel when considering said first through fourth regions; wherein said third region and said fourth region are located in a diagonal manner with respect to each other, and thus are not aligned in either a row direction or a column direction with respect to each other; and wherein said third region and said fourth region each include a micro-cutout pattern comprising a plurality of cutouts extending in a slanted direction with respect to an edge of said third or fourth region, respectively.