Patent ID: 7884890

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising a plurality of pixels that are arranged in columns and rows so as to form a matrix pattern, each said pixel including a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of electrodes for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, wherein each said pixel includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel, having liquid crystal layers to which mutually different voltages are applicable, and wherein each of the first and second subpixels includes a liquid crystal capacitor formed by a counter electrode and a subpixel electrode that faces the counter electrode through the liquid crystal layer, and a storage capacitor formed by a storage capacitor electrode that is electrically connected to the subpixel electrode, an insulating layer, and a storage capacitor counter electrode that is opposed to the storage capacitor electrode with the insulating layer interposed between them; and wherein the counter electrode is a single electrode provided in common for the first and second subpixels, while the storage capacitor counter electrodes of the first and second subpixels are electrically independent of each other, and wherein the device further includes a plurality of electrically independent storage capacitor trunks, and wherein each said storage capacitor trunk is electrically connected to the respective storage capacitor counter electrodes of either the first subpixels or the second subpixels of the pixels through storage capacitor lines, and wherein the pixels include pixels belonging to a first display area and pixels belonging to a second display area, the first and second display areas being able to be scanned independently of each other, and wherein the storage capacitor trunks include a first storage capacitor trunk belonging to the first display area and a second storage capacitor trunk belonging to the second display area.