Patent ID: 8659731

Claim:
A liquid crystal display element, comprising: a pair of substrates facing each other with a predetermined gap; a plurality of strips of first electrodes formed on a counterface surface of one of the pair of substrates; a plurality of strips of second electrodes formed on a counterface surface of another one of the pair of substrates and crossing the first electrodes; an alignment film formed on the counterface surface of at least one of the pair of substrates and treated with an alignment process in a direction not perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the second electrodes; a vertical alignment mode liquid crystal layer placed between the pair of substrates and having a pretilt angle; and a pair of polarizers sandwiching the pair of substrates, wherein the first electrodes and the second electrodes cross each other to form a plurality of pixels, wherein non-uniform alignment regions where liquid crystal molecules in a center of a thickness of the liquid crystal layer are aligned in a different direction from the direction defined by the alignment process appear near an edge of the pixel in each pixel, wherein the first electrodes and the second electrodes cross at a right angle, and wherein the alignment film is treated with the alignment process in a direction rotated by 5 to 15 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise from a longitudinal direction of the first electrodes.