Patent ID: 7136132

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: transistors disposed at the intersections of gate lines and source lines; pixel electrodes connected with the transistors; opposite electrodes opposite to these pixel electrodes; and liquid crystal held between said opposite electrodes and said pixel electrodes, wherein said pixel electrodes comprise a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode disposed in a layer above an insulating film which is itself disposed in a layer above the first pixel electrode, and having a region that does not overlap with the first pixel electrode, and wherein the first pixel electrode and second pixel electrode are electrically connected, the first pixel electrode applying a first electric field to the liquid crystal, and the second pixel electrode applying a second electric field whose strength is different from the first electric field to the liquid crystal, and wherein a ratio of a first voltage applied to the liquid crystal by the first pixel electrode and a second voltage applied to the liquid crystal by the second pixel electrode is 0.5:1.0 to 0.9:1.0.