Patent ID: 7414688

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a substrate; a thin film transistor on the substrate; a pixel electrode on the substrate, the pixel electrode having a first plurality of protrusions and a first plurality of indentations, wherein each of the first plurality of protrusions includes a first flat zone and first edges at opposite sides of the first flat zone; and a common electrode on the substrate, the common electrode having a second plurality of protrusions and a second plurality of indentations, wherein each of the second plurality of protrusions includes a second flat zone and second edges at opposite sides of the second flat zone, wherein a horizontal distance is substantially perpendicular to the length of the pixel electrode and wherein a first horizontal distance between each of the first edges and each of the second edges is less than a second horizontal distance between each of the second plurality of indentations and each of the first plurality of protrusions.