Patent ID: 7522246

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines which are arranged on a surface of one of substrates arranged facing each other with liquid crystal interposed therebetween; a plurality of pixel regions which are defined by the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines; first electrodes which are formed on the pixel regions; second electrodes which are formed on a different substrate from the substrate in which the gate signal line was formed; wherein each of the first electrodes in each pixel region has a plurality of patterns that are circular or similar to circles, the patterns being in contact with each other in each of the pixel regions, wherein the patterns are connected to at least two other adjacent patterns, the patterns being formed as a pattern group in a pixel region and arranged along at least two straight lines with each other in the pixel region, each straight line of patterns being arranged at a gap of a half distance between patterns relative to the other straight line of patterns in the pixel region; and projections which are formed on the surface of the substrate in which the second electrodes are formed, a number of the projections of the pixel region is equal to a number of the patterns in the pixel region.