Patent ID: 7088414

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a pair of substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween; a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of video signal lines formed on one of said pair of substrates; a plurality of pixel regions formed as an area surrounded by an adjacent two of said plurality of scanning signal lines and an adjacent two of said plurality of video signal lines; at least a pixel electrode formed on said one of said pair of substrates in each of said plurality of pixel regions; a plurality of counter electrodes formed on either one of said pair of substrates in each of said plurality of pixel regions; and at least a counter voltage signal line for connecting said plurality of counter electrodes formed on one of said pair of substrates; wherein said counter voltage signal line is arranged in an overlapping relation with at least one of said plurality of scanning signal lines in plan view; and wherein an end portion of said pixel electrode has an overlapping region with said scanning signal line and said counter voltage signal line in plan view.