Patent ID: 7474292

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: first and second substrates placed to face each other; liquid crystals contained between the first and second substrates; a gate bus line provided on the first substrate and supplied with a scan signal; a data bus line provided on the first substrate and supplied with a display signal; a picture element electrode placed in a picture element region delimited by the gate bus line and the data bus line, the picture element electrode being divided into a plurality of sub picture element electrodes with a slit; a switching element connected to the gate bus line and the data bus line; a control electrode connected to the switching element and capacitively coupled to at least one of the plurality of sub picture element electrodes; and a common electrode provided on the second substrate, wherein at least part of the slit dividing the picture element electrode constitutes a domain regulation structure for regulating orientations of liquid crystal molecules when a voltage is applied.