Patent ID: 7697100

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a pair of transparent substrates opposed to each other with liquid crystal therebetween, one of the pair of transparent substrates having a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines; and a plurality of pixel areas defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines, the pixel areas having; a pixel electrode formed of a transparent electrode of rectangular shape having a plurality of slits including first slits having a major dimension extending in a first direction with respect to a horizontal direction and second slits having a major dimension extending in a second direction with respect to the horizontal direction; and a counter electrode formed of a transparent electrode of substantially rectangular shape, the counter electrode being disposed between the pixel electrode and the one substrate in overlapping relationship with the transparent electrode of the pixel electrode of the rectangular shape, the first slits and the second slits; wherein an arrangement region of at least a portion of the first slits and an arrangement region of at least a portion of the second slits are mutually separated from one another proximate to a center portion of the pixel area; and wherein a center portion of the pixel electrode is a portion arranged in a center of a minor dimension of the rectangular shape of the pixel electrode so that a plurality of the first and second slits are not mutually connected.