Patent ID: 7508475

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate including a first insulation substrate, and a plurality of rectangular pixel electrodes provided in a matrix on the first insulation substrate and elongated in a first direction; a second substrate opposing the first substrate, and including a second insulation substrate, a counter electrode provided on the second insulation substrate and corresponding to the pixel electrodes, and a plurality of projections provided on the counter electrode and elongated in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a liquid crystal layer held between the first and second substrates, each of the pixel electrodes being divided at a position corresponding to a corresponding one of the projections, and having a first rectangular electrode region and a second rectangular electrode region shifted from each other in the second direction, patterns of each pair of adjacent ones of the pixel electrodes, which are adjacent in the second direction, being mirror patterns with respect to a boundary of said each pair, said each pair having portions spaced by a first distance and portions spaced by a second distance.