Patent ID: 8508702

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: electrodes that are formed on at least one of a pair of substrates, and are used for applying voltage onto liquid crystal molecules; a liquid crystal layer formed by sandwiching a liquid crystal composition comprising a liquid crystal and a photopolymerizable compound between the substrates, followed by ultraviolet ray irradiation; and a first alignment control layer that is formed on at least one of the substrates between the electrodes and the liquid crystal layer, and which makes the liquid crystal molecules align vertically; a second alignment control layer formed directly on, and that completely covers, the first alignment control layer, such that the second alignment control layer is located between the first alignment control layer and the liquid crystal layer, thereby separating the first alignment control layer from the liquid crystal layer, the second alignment control layer being composed of a UV-cured product formed by ultraviolet ray irradiation that is formed so that not less than two domains having different threshold voltages are present in a pixel, and at least one of the domains has a threshold voltage higher than the threshold voltage would be without the second alignment control layer, wherein the mutual border between said domains is approximately in parallel with the tilting direction of the liquid crystal molecules.