Patent ID: 8269935

Claim:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) having a plurality of pixel regions, the LCD comprising: a first substrate having a plurality of domain formation means which comprises a plurality of first domain formation means; a second substrate having a patterned electrode layer, wherein the patterned electrode layer has a plurality of complete coverage regions and at least one slits distribution region, and each of the complete coverage regions is located in the corresponding pixel region and corresponding to each of the first domain formation means; and an liquid crystal (LC) layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein LC molecules of the LC layer have various slanting directions, each of the complete coverage regions is located at a slanting center of the slanting directions of the LC molecules, and the slits distribution region is used for stabilizing the slanting directions of the LC molecules, wherein an area of a projection of each of the complete coverage regions covering each of the corresponding first domain formation means, wherein a shape of each of the first domain formation means is point symmetric and the area of a projection of each complete coverage region on the first substrate is larger than an area of the corresponding first domain formation means on the first substrate, wherein each of the first domain formation means has a first branch, a second branch and a plurality of third branches, the first branch and the second branch are substantially perpendicular to one another such that four quadrants are defined, and azimuths of the third branches relative to the second branch in the same quadrant are the same, and the azimuths of the third branches in the quadrants are respectively 45 degrees, 135 degrees, 225 degrees and 315 degrees.