Patent ID: 8269936

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device including an active matrix substrate, a counter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate, the active matrix substrate comprising: a plurality of scanning signal lines; a plurality of signal wires disposed in such a way as to intersect with the plurality of scanning signal lines; and pixel sections, each provided in correspondence with a combination of a corresponding one of the scanning signal lines and a corresponding one of the signal wires, which include respective switching elements each of which connects the corresponding signal wire to a corresponding pixel electrode when a scanning signal inputted to the corresponding scanning signal line commands the switching element to be conductive, the signal wires being disposed so that each of the signal wires (i) partially overlaps its corresponding pixel electrodes adjacent to each other along a direction in which the scanning signal lines extend and (ii) leads from a border between the pixel electrodes toward a central part of each of the pixel electrodes, the signal wires being disposed so that at least part of overlap between each of the signal wires and the pixel electrodes overlaps orientation-changing sections that change orientation of liquid crystal molecules contained in the liquid crystal layer, wherein the liquid crystal display device performs dot inversion driving such that a polarity of each source signal is inverted in every scanning signal line while a polarity of each signal is inverted in every signal wire.