Patent ID: 7088402

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal layer clamped between a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate; a plurality of gate lines provided on the first transparent substrate; a plurality of drain lines disposed to intersect the plurality of gate lines in matrix form on the first transparent substrate; and pixels respectively formed by areas each surrounded by adjacent ones of the plurality of gate lines and adjacent ones of the plurality of drain lines, each of the pixels having at least one TFT element and a pixel electrode to which a signal from one of the adjacent drain lines is selected in accordance with a signal from one of the gate lines by the TFT element and is electrically supplied; each of the pixels having a common electrode line being connected to plural ones of the pixels to give a reference voltage to the plural ones, and a common electrode connected to the common electrode line, liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer being driven by lateral electric fields having components formed in a direction parallel to the first transparent substrate between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, each of the pixels having a storage capacitance electrode or a storage capacitance line different from the common electrode and the common electrode line, a storage capacitance being formed between the storage capacitance electrode or the storage capacitance line and a storage capacitance member connected to a potential of the pixel electrode.