Patent ID: 7804570

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising an array substrate and an opposing substrate that are disposed face to face at a prescribed interval, the array substrate comprising scan lines, signal lines, switching devices disposed at each intersection between the scan lines and the signal lines, pixel electrodes disposed in a matrix manner and driven by the switching devices, and auxiliary capacitance lines for retaining applied voltage for the pixel electrodes, wherein the pixel electrodes have first side edges superposed on the signal lines and on shield electrodes disposed on the auxiliary capacitance lines to achieve shielding of light, and have second side edges opposite to the first side edges, the second side edges superposed on the signal lines to make an amount of superposition between the pixel electrodes and the signal lines, the amount of superposition having a first superposition width in a region corresponding to positions where the shield electrodes are disposed and a second superposition width in a region corresponding to positions where the shield electrodes are not disposed, the first superposition width being smaller than the second superposition width.