Patent ID: 7567325

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 the neighboring gate lines and the 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, the pixel electrode is formed of a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode in the pixel region, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode have a plurality of slits, the slits of the first pixel electrode have the same extending directions, the slits of the second pixel electrode have the same extending directions, the extending direction of the slits of the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are different from both extending directions of the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines, the extending directions of the slits between the first pixel electrode and second pixel electrode differ mutually, and the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes are arranged parallel to each other, and a portion between the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes is positioned above the counter electrode.