Patent ID: 8077279

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; voltage application means for applying a voltage across the liquid crystal layer; a plurality of picture elements each including the liquid crystal layer whose orientation changes according to the voltage applied by the voltage application means, wherein: each of the picture elements is a minimum unit of display, a vertical alignment film is provided on one side of each of the first substrate and the second substrate which is in contact with the liquid crystal layer, the liquid crystal layer in each of the plurality of picture elements has, at least in a presence of an applied voltage, a 4-divided domain formed by a first sub-domain, a second sub-domain, a third sub-domain and a fourth sub-domain, each of the sub-domains includes respective domain forming means orienting liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer, each of the domain forming means performs a rubbing process or optical alignment process, each of the picture elements has two or more 4-divided domains arranged in a column direction, the first sub-domain, the second sub-domain, the third sub-domain and the fourth sub-domain are arranged in this order in the column direction in each of the 4-divided domains, and the two or more 4-divided domains are formed so that an arrangement order of the first sub-domain, the second sub-domain, the third sub-domain and the fourth sub-domain is repeated cyclically.