Patent ID: 7411647

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged to face each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween; a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines which intersect the gate signal line; the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines being formed on the first substrate; pixel regions which are formed of regions each of which is surrounded by neighboring gate lines and neighboring drain lines; and a planar counter electrode is formed on the first substrate in each pixel region, wherein a pixel electrode is formed on the counter electrode by way of an insulation layer, a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode are formed in each of the pixel regions, the first pixel electrode has a plurality of first direction slits and a plurality second direction slits, the first direction slits and the second direction slits of the first pixel electrode are formed so that extended directions are different from each other, and the extending direction of the first direction slits and the second direction slits is different from both extending directions of the gate lines and the drain lines, and the second pixel electrode has a plurality of first direction slits and a plurality of second direction slits, the first direction slits and the second direction slits of the second pixel electrode are formed so that extended directions are different from each other, the extending direction of the first direction slits and the second direction slits is different from both extending directions of the gate lines and the drain lines.