Patent ID: 7486363

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween; a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines which are formed on the first substrate; pixels which are formed as regions which are surrounded by the plurality of gate signal lines and the plurality of drain signal lines; counter electrodes formed on the pixels, an insulation film formed above the counter electrodes; and pixel electrodes formed above the insulation film; wherein the pixel electrodes include a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode which are overlapped to the counter electrode in plane, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are electrically connected with the same drain signal line through separate switching elements, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode each respectively include a plurality of electrodes, and the electrodes which belong to the first pixel electrode and the electrodes which belong to the second pixel electrode are alternately arranged.