A liquid crystal display device employs a white sub-pixel among RGBW-4
sub-pixels as a view control component to realize a narrow viewing angle
or a wide viewing angle in a fringe field switching mode. The LCD device
comprises gate lines and data lines crossing each other to define RGBW
sub-pixels on a first substrate, a thin film transistor formed at each
crossing of the gate and data lines; a first common electrode in each
region of the RGBW sub-pixels, a pixel electrode connected to the thin
film transistor and insulated from the first common electrode, the pixel
electrode having at least one slit, a second substrate attached to the
first substrate, wherein the first and second substrate face each other
with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, and a second common
electrode on the second substrate and corresponding to each W sub-pixel.