Patent ID: 7683998

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a gate line and a data line of a unit pixel; a thin film transistor (TFT) connected to the gate line and the data line; a common electrode formed in the whole region of the unit pixel; and a pixel electrode connected to the TFT; wherein the pixel electrode comprises a plurality of slits, the common electrode being exposed the same size as that of each slit; and wherein each slit has first and second end portions, each end portion terminated to an edge defined by a single acute angle and having a curvilinear shape such that a direction of a fringe field at each of the first and second end portions of each slit is substantially identical to a direction of a fringe field at a middle portion of each slit, the first end being disposed to incline a first direction and the second end being disposed to incline a second direction opposing to the first direction.