Patent ID: 7760294

Claim:
A liquid crystal device comprising: a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer having a negative dielectric anisotropy, the liquid crystal layer being sandwiched between the pair of substrates; a pixel electrode that is provided on the liquid crystal side of one of the pair of substrates; a counter electrode that is provided on the liquid crystal side of the other of the pair of substrates, the counter electrode being opposed to the pixel electrode; a vertical alignment film that aligns liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer in a direction in which the long axes of the liquid crystal molecules are oriented perpendicular to the pair of substrates; and a light shielding film, wherein the pixel electrode is made up of a plurality of island-pattern sub pixel elements each two adjacent ones of which are connected to each other via a connection portion having a width narrower than that of the sub pixel element; and the light shielding film is formed, on at least one of the pair of substrates, at least in each region not corresponding to the connection portion between each two of the plurality of sub pixel elements that are adjacent to each other.