Patent ID: 7142279

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display by divisionally exposing an active area with a plurality of shots including first and second shots adjacent to each other, the method comprising: preparing a stitch area which is an overlapping area of the first and the second shots at a boundary between the first shot and the second shot; and performing gradual decrease of an area for the first shot and gradual increase of an area for the second shot in the stitch area along a direction from the first shot to the second shot, wherein the decrease of an area for the first shot and the increase of an area for the second shot are preformed by unit of a unit stitch area obtained by dividing a pixel area into at least two parts, a subarea-dividing member is provided in a pixel area, and the subarea-dividing member is located at a boundary between the unit stitch areas, the subarea-dividing member being defined by at least one of a pixel electrode and a common electrode.