Patent ID: 8467022

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal layer provided between a first substrate and a second substrate; a plurality of first electrodes, which are formed on the first substrate as a first layer, each of the plurality of first electrodes being electrically connected to a corresponding data line via a corresponding switching device; the data line extending in a first direction; and a second electrode, which is formed on the first substrate as a second layer, having at least one slit in each of pixel regions defined by the plurality of first electrodes, respectively, wherein said slit is entirely overlapped with a corresponding one of the plurality of first electrodes, wherein each of the plurality of first electrodes has a boundary line extending in a second direction, which is inclined relative to the first direction in which the data line extends, and another boundary line extending in a third direction, which is symmetrical to the second direction with respect to a virtual line orthogonal to the first direction, wherein said slit has a first region extending in the second direction, a second region extending in the third direction, and a bent portion that bridges the first region and the second region, and wherein the bend portion has a region extending in a fourth direction, which is a different direction from the second direction, and another region extending in a fifth direction, which is symmetrical to the fourth direction with respect to said virtual line orthogonal to the first direction.