Patent ID: 8264650

Claim:
A liquid crystal display, having at least one pixel region and comprising: a first substrate having at least one pixel electrode, wherein the pixel electrode is disposed in the pixel region and has a plurality of first slits, a plurality of second slits and at least one third slit, the first slits and the second slits are connected to the third slit, each first slit stretches along a first vector with a starting point in a junction of the first slit and the third slit, and each second slit stretches along a second vector with a starting point in a junction of the second slit and the third slit; a second substrate, having a common electrode and an alignment layer, wherein the common electrode is covered by the alignment layer; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode of the first substrate and the alignment layer of the second substrate, wherein liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer near the alignment layer are aligned by the alignment layer to pre-tilt, each projection of the long-axis of at least part of the pre-tilted liquid crystal molecules on the second substrate forms a third vector with a starting point at the end of the liquid crystal molecule near the alignment layer, the third slit is parallel to the direction of the third vector, an included angle between the first vector and the third vector is θ 1 , an included angle between the second vector and the third vector is θ 2 , 90°<θ 1 <160°, and 90°<θ 2 <160°, an included angle between the long-axis of the pre-tilted liquid crystal molecules and the direction of the normal of the second substrate is larger than 0° and smaller than or equal to 15°.