Patent ID: 8493533

Claim:
A TN-type liquid crystal display device in which liquid crystal is provided between a first substrate and a second substrate, a rubbing process is applied to the first substrate and the second substrate so that a colorscale inversion does not tend to occur in a three o'clock direction or in a nine o'clock direction, and a dot inversion driving or a column inversion driving is applied, wherein over the first substrate, video signal lines extend, as a whole, along a first direction which is parallel to a twelve o'clock direction and are arranged in a second direction which is parallel to the three o'clock direction, scan lines extend along the second direction and are arranged in the first direction, and a pixel including a pixel electrode is formed in a region surrounded by the video signal line and the scan line, the video signal line and the pixel electrode are bent within the pixel, an angle between a side of the bent pixel electrode and the first direction is greater than or equal to 10 degrees and less than or equal to 45 degrees in a clockwise direction on one side of the bent portion and is greater than or equal to 15 degrees and less than or equal to 45 degrees in a counterclockwise direction on the other side of the bent portion when the liquid crystal is twisted in the counterclockwise direction from the second substrate toward the first substrate, and the angle is greater than or equal to 15 degrees and less than or equal to 45 degrees in the clockwise direction on the one side of the bent portion and is greater than or equal to 10 degrees and less than or equal to 45 degrees in the counterclockwise direction on the other side of the bent portion when the liquid crystal is twisted in the clockwise direction from the second substrate toward the first substrate, and the pixel electrode and the video signal line overlap each other, and an amount of the overlap is larger in the bent portion of the video signal line than in the other portions.