Patent ID: 8174652

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a pair of opposed substrates; a liquid crystal layer formed between the pair of opposed substrates; and an alignment film arranged on a liquid crystal layer side surface of at least one of the pair of opposed substrates, and the liquid crystal display device having two or more regions which differ in alignment azimuth, wherein a position and a width of a dark line generated between the two or more regions which differ in alignment azimuth is continuously changed between adjacent two pixels, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules with negative dielectric anisotropy, the alignment film is arranged on a liquid crystal layer side surface of both of pair of opposed substrates, and the alignment film aligns the liquid crystal molecules substantially vertically to a surface of the alignment film when a voltage lower than a threshold is applied, and wherein an alignment azimuth of the liquid crystal molecules near the alignment film arranged on one substrate is substantially perpendicular to an alignment azimuth of the liquid crystal molecules near the alignment film arranged on the other substrate when the pair of opposed substrates are viewed in plane.