Patent ID: 7253863

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween; a plurality of gate signal lines made of metal and a plurality of drain signal lines made of metal; a plurality of counter voltage signal lines; a plurality of pixel regions defined by neighboring gate signal lines and drain signal lines; a pixel electrode formed on the first substrate in each pixel region; and a counter electrode formed on the first substrate in each pixel region, the counter electrode having a substantially rectangular shape; wherein the pixel electrode and the counter voltage signal lines have an overlapping region, the pixel electrode has an edge with portions which extend in parallel to the drain signal line at each of the overlapping region and a non overlapping region, and the edge portion of the pixel electrode at the overlapping region shifts to inside of the pixel region as compared to the edge portion of the pixel electrode at the non-overlapping region; and wherein the counter electrode has side portions which extend substantially in parallel to the gate signal line and other side portions which extend substantially in parallel to the drain signal line.