Patent ID: 7821609

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a pair of substrates with liquid crystal in-between; and a plurality of pixel regions defined by a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, wherein each of the pixel regions includes a counter electrode and a pixel electrode to which a video signal is supplied from a drain signal line of the plurality of drain signal lines through a switching element of the pixel region driven in response to a scanning signal from a gate signal line of the plurality of gate signal lines, the counter electrode and the pixel electrode of each pixel region being formed on different substrates of the pair of substrates, the pixel electrode of each of the pixel regions is divided into a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes, the sub-pixel electrodes of each pixel region and the switching element of the pixel region are connected to each other through paths which are branched from the switching element, the counter electrode of each of the pixel regions is also divided into a plurality of sub-counter electrodes, and the sub-counter electrodes of each of the pixel regions are arranged in positions which are shifted half a pitch from positions where the sub-pixel electrodes of the pixel region are arranged.