Patent ID: 8081153

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate including a pixel area and a peripheral area around said pixel area; a second substrate disposed so as to face said first substrate with a predetermined gap between said first substrate and said second substrate; a liquid crystal layer retained within the gap between said first substrate and said second substrate; a first electrode part formed on said first substrate; and a second electrode part formed on said second, substrate, wherein said first electrode part includes a pixel electrode formed in said pixel area and there is a first substrate peripheral electrode formed in said peripheral area, said second electrode part includes a pixel electrode part formed in said pixel area and there is a second substrate peripheral electrode formed in said peripheral area, the peripheral electrode of at least one of said first electrode part and said second electrode part is formed by a plurality of electrodes adjacent to each other, wherein the first substrate peripheral electrode and the second substrate peripheral electrode are located outside of the pixel area and voltage values of driving voltages applied to the respective electrodes adjacent to each other of said peripheral electrode are different from each other, and further wherein a phase of signals applied to the pixel electrodes is opposite a phase of signals applied to some of the peripheral electrodes and a peak-to-peak voltage of signals applied to the peripheral electrodes is greater than a peak-to-peak voltage of signals applied to the pixel electrodes.