Patent ID: 7782432

Claim:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device, comprising: a plurality of pixel regions; a first substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein each pixel electrode is respectively located in one of the pixel regions, each pixel electrode having a plurality of first slits extending along a first direction and a second slit connected to the first slits, wherein the second slit of each pixel electrode extends in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction; a second substrate having a common electrode and an alignment layer, wherein the alignment layer covers the common electrode, wherein the alignment layer is rubbed along a direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a liquid crystal layer, disposed between the pixel electrodes of the first substrate and the alignment layer of the second substrate, wherein liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are aligned by the alignment layer by pre-tilting the liquid crystal molecules along a second direction, the second direction being substantially perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the liquid crystal molecules of each pixel region are negative liquid crystal molecules, wherein an arrangement of the first slits and the second slits in the corresponding pixel electrodes and the alignment layer is to cause each of multiple ones of the pixel regions to have liquid crystal molecules that operate according to both a twisted nematic (TN) mode and a vertical alignment (VA) mode.