A touch screen for use with display circuitry and touch sensing circuitry and configured to perform both a display and a touch sensing functionality comprising: a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a storage capacitor comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, thereby forming a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes; one or more opaque display elements suitable to be connected to the display circuitry, the one or more opaque display elements being at least one of a plurality of gate lines (113, 311, 312, 6002, 6310) and at least one of a plurality of data lines (115, 116, 119, 313, 314, 6004, 6311); and a plurality of common lines (121,123, 125, 315, 316, 6005, 6007, 6321, 6322) connected at least to the first electrodes of the plurality of storage capacitors of the plurality of pixels, each common line (121, 123, 125, 315, 316, 6005, 6007, 6321, 6322) made from a non-transparent conductor and positioned at a different layer in the touch screen than the opaque display elements such that the opaque display elements and the plurality of common lines overlap one another, thereby ensuring that the addition of the common lines (121, 123, 125, 315, 316, 6005, 6007, 6321, 6322) does not reduce the aperture of the display, wherein the common lines include a first plurality of parallel common lines (xVcom 206) and a second plurality of parallel common lines (yVcom 204), the first and second pluralities being positioned perpendicular to one another at the same layer to form a lattice structure; wherein, in a first region having a first set of pixels, being a touch drive region, the first electrodes are suitable to be connected through the common lines to the touch sensing circuitry during the touch sensing functionality, and wherein, in a second region having a second set of pixels, being a touch sense region positioned adjacent the first region, and being different from the first region, the first electrodes are suitable to be connected to the touch sensing circuitry during the touch sensing functionality of the touch screen, wherein each region (301, 303) is formed by linking the first electrodes through common lines of the first and second pluralities of common lines (xVcom 206, yVcom 204), wherein breaks in the first and second pluralities of common lines (xVcom 206, yVcom 204) prevent the first region from being connected to the second region; and wherein the first and second region (301, 303) together form a two-region touch pixel capable of indicating a touch event thereon by changes in a capacitance between the first and second regions (301, 303); and wherein, in the first and second regions (301, 303), the first electrodes are suitable to be connected to the display circuitry during the display functionality. a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a storage capacitor comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, thereby forming a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes; one or more opaque display elements suitable to be connected to the display circuitry, the one or more opaque display elements being at least one of a plurality of gate lines (113, 311, 312, 6002, 6310) and at least one of a plurality of data lines (115, 116, 119, 313, 314, 6004, 6311); and a plurality of common lines (121,123, 125, 315, 316, 6005, 6007, 6321, 6322) connected at least to the first electrodes of the plurality of storage capacitors of the plurality of pixels, each common line (121, 123, 125, 315, 316, 6005, 6007, 6321, 6322) made from a non-transparent conductor and positioned at a different layer in the touch screen than the opaque display elements such that the opaque display elements and the plurality of common lines overlap one another, thereby ensuring that the addition of the common lines (121, 123, 125, 315, 316, 6005, 6007, 6321, 6322) does not reduce the aperture of the display, wherein the common lines include a first plurality of parallel common lines (xVcom 206) and a second plurality of parallel common lines (yVcom 204), the first and second pluralities being positioned perpendicular to one another at the same layer to form a lattice structure; wherein, in a first region having a first set of pixels, being a touch drive region, the first electrodes are suitable to be connected through the common lines to the touch sensing circuitry during the touch sensing functionality, and wherein, in a second region having a second set of pixels, being a touch sense region positioned adjacent the first region, and being different from the first region, the first electrodes are suitable to be connected to the touch sensing circuitry during the touch sensing functionality of the touch screen, wherein each region (301, 303) is formed by linking the first electrodes through common lines of the first and second pluralities of common lines (xVcom 206, yVcom 204), wherein breaks in the first and second pluralities of common lines (xVcom 206, yVcom 204) prevent the first region from being connected to the second region; and wherein the first and second region (301, 303) together form a two-region touch pixel capable of indicating a touch event thereon by changes in a capacitance between the first and second regions (301, 303); and wherein, in the first and second regions (301, 303), the first electrodes are suitable to be connected to the display circuitry during the display functionality.