Patent ID: 7079212

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a pair of substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween; a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of video signal lines formed on one of the pair of substrates; a plurality of pixel electrodes provided on the one of the pair of substrates; at least a counter electrode on the one of the pair of substrates to drive the liquid crystal layer by a voltage difference with respect to the pixel electrode; and an orientation film formed on a nearest surface to the liquid crystal layer on each of the pair of substrates and having an initial orientation direction; wherein at least one of the pixel electrode and the counter electrode has a first region and a second region; an angle formed by the first region and the initial orientation direction is substantially same in absolute value and reverse in polarity to an angle formed by the second region and the initial orientation direction; and a length of the first region and a length of the second region are substantially equal.