Patent ID: 8717524

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels, comprising: a first substrate having a thin film transistor; a second substrate placed opposite to the first substrate; liquid crystals filled between the first substrate and the second substrate; alignment layers respectively placed on surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate in contact with the liquid crystals and having an alignment direction inclined at an inclination angle α where 0°<α<90° with respect to an extending direction of a gate line connected to a gate electrode of the thin film transistor; a pixel electrode placed in each of the plurality of pixels and connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor and a common electrode placed opposite to the pixel electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode having a slit for generating a fringe electric field to the liquid crystals with the other of the pixel electrode and the common electrode, the pixel electrode and the common electrode being placed on the first substrate; and a polarizing plate placed in the second substrate on a side opposite to the first substrate and having an absorption axis set in the alignment direction or a perpendicular direction to the alignment direction, wherein each of the plurality of pixels is divided into a first region and a second region by a boundary line that extends in the alignment direction or the perpendicular direction, wherein the slit comprises: a plurality of first slits placed in the first region on one side of the boundary line and inclined at an angle θ to a given direction with respect to a longitudinal direction of the boundary line, and a plurality of second slits placed in a second region on another side of the boundary line opposite to the first region and inclined at the angle θ to a direction opposite to the given direction with respect to the longitudinal direction of the boundary line, and wherein the angle θ is in a range of 1° to 20°.