Patent ID: 8228473

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate facing said first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between said first substrate and said second substrate; a plurality of gate bus lines formed on the first substrate; a plurality of drain bus lines formed on the first substrate such that they intersect the gate bus lines; a plurality of pixel regions defined by the gate bus lines and the drain bus lines; a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode formed in each of the pixel regions on the first substrate; and a resin color filter layer formed in each of the pixel regions; wherein the pixel electrode is divided into at least two regions such that at least two domains of different liquid crystal orientation directions are defined within pixel regions; wherein a first of the at least two regions and a second of the at least two regions are located in a diagonal manner with respect to each other, and thus are not aligned in either a row direction or a column direction with respect to each other; wherein the first region and the second region each include a micro-cutout pattern comprising a plurality of cutouts extending in a slanted direction with respect to an edge of the first or second region, respectively, and further wherein the cutouts of the first region and said cutouts of said second region are generally parallel to each other both within each of said regions as well as across the first and second regions; and wherein the pixel electrode also comprises at least two additional regions, defined as a third region and a fourth region, such that at least four domains of different liquid crystal orientation directions are defined within said single pixel when considering said first through fourth regions.