Patent ID: 7215398

Claim:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprising: first and second substrates; a plurality of gate and data lines on the first substrate to define a plurality of pixel regions; a pixel electrode in each pixel region; a common electrode on the second substrate, the common electrode having an electric field inducing window dividing each pixel region into at least two domains; an auxiliary electrode on the first substrate, the auxiliary electrode corresponding to the periphery of the pixel electrode in only one of the at least two domains; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a thin film transistor at each crossing point of the gate and data lines; a black matrix layer on the second substrate; a color filter layer on the black matrix layer; and first and second alignment layers on the first and second substrates, wherein the auxiliary electrode is formed at a portion where an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules is opposite to an alignment direction of the first alignment layer when a voltage is applied.