Patent ID: 8432518

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged to be opposite to each other; liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy contained between the first and second substrates; a polymer which determines directions in which liquid crystal molecules tilt; a plurality of gate bus lines; a plurality of data bus lines; and a plurality of picture elements located on the first substrate, wherein at least one of the picture elements on the first substrate comprises: a switching element; a first sub picture element electrode and a second sub picture element electrode being disposed adjacent to the first sub picture element electrode with a gap therebetween, wherein the first sub picture element electrode connects to the switching element and the second sub picture element electrode connects, via capacitive coupling, to the switching element, wherein the first substrate further comprises a control electrode that is connected to the switching element and the first sub picture element electrode, and further wherein the control electrode is capacitively coupled to the second sub picture element electrode through an insulating film, wherein said data bus lines extend perpendicular to said gate bus lines in areas adjacent both said first sub picture element electrode and said second sub picture element electrode, wherein the area of the second sub picture element electrode is larger than the area of the first sub picture element electrode, wherein at least one of the first and second sub picture element electrodes is divided into at least two regions such that at least two domains of different liquid crystal orientation directions are defined within a single sub picture element; wherein a first of the at least two regions and a second of the at least two regions are located in a diagonal manner with respect to each other, and thus are not aligned in either a row direction or a column direction with respect to each other; and wherein the first region and the second region each include a micro-cutout pattern comprising a plurality of cutouts extending in a slanted direction with respect to an edge of the first or second region, respectively, and further wherein the cutouts of the first region and the cutouts of the second region are generally parallel to each other both within each of the regions as well as across the first and second regions.