Patent ID: 6724454
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
An in-plane switching liquid crystal display device, comprising:first and second substrates; a plurality of data lines on the first substrate; a plurality of gate lines crossing the data lines on the first substrate, perpendicular to the data lines; a plurality of pixel areas on said first substrate defined by the data and gate lines; data electrodes and common electrodes alternately formed in each of said pixel areas, the data electrodes having a first transmittance area and the common electrodes having a second transmittance area, wherein at least one light shielding lever is formed on the first substrate under at least one of the common electrodes, wherein a number of common electrodes having no light shielding layer thereunder is equal to a number of data electrodes having no light shielding layer thereunder so that the first transmittance area equals the second transmittance area; and a liquid crystal layer between said first and second substrates.