Patent ID: 7193675

Claim:
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 and between the first and second regions; 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 with respect to a longitudinal direction of the common bus line, the first and second electrode elongation directions being non-perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the common bus line; first and second alignment layers over the first and second substrates, the first and second alignment layers having first and second alignment directions, respectively, wherein the first alignment direction is different from the second alignment direction; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate.