Patent ID: 7714968

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a pair of opposing substrates; a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer sandwiched between said pair of substrates; a pair of transparent electrodes each formed on a surface of a respective one of said pair of substrates, on a side of said vertical alignment liquid crystal layer; and slits of a first kind and slits of a second kind formed in said pair of transparent electrodes, and disposed in a matrix shape, each of said slits having a rectangular shape or a parallelogram shape, wherein: each of said slits of the first kind have a first angle relative to a row direction of the matrix, and each of said slits of the second kind have a second angle different from the first angle relative to said row direction; in each of said pair of transparent electrodes, a first row consisting of slits of the first kind disposed at a constant pitch along said row direction, and a second row consisting of slits of the second kind disposed while being shifted by a half pitch of said constant pitch along said row direction, are alternately disposed along a column direction crossing said row direction; and as viewed in plan view, a first column of slits of the first kind is formed by alternately disposing slits of the first kind of one transparent electrode and slits of the first kind of the other transparent electrode, along said column direction, and a second column of slits of the second kind is formed by alternately disposing slits of the second kind of one transparent electrode and slits of the second kind of the other transparent electrode, said first column of slits of the first kind and said second column of slits of the second kind being disposed alternately along said row direction.