Patent ID: 8300190

Claim:
A liquid crystal panel performing display in a vertical alignment mode, the liquid crystal panel comprising: an active matrix substrate on which pixel electrodes, scanning signal lines, and data signal lines are provided; a counter substrate that faces the active matrix substrate; a liquid crystal layer provided between the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate; a first polarizing plate; and a second polarizing plate, the first polarizing plate having a polarization axis perpendicular to a polarization axis of the second polarizing plate, the liquid crystal panel further comprising: alignment control structures on at least one of the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate, the alignment control structures controlling alignment directions of liquid crystal molecules, the alignment control structures respectively having an outline shape in a region in which one or more of the pixel electrodes are located when viewed from a direction perpendicular to a surface of the active matrix substrate or of the counter substrate, the outline shape being constituted by continuously arranging a plurality of unit patterns each having a side in parallel with the polarization axis of the first polarizing plate and a side in parallel with the polarization axis of the second polarizing plate.