Patent ID: 8284367

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a lower substrate, an upper substrate disposed opposite to the lower substrate, and a liquid crystal layer filling a space defined between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, wherein said lower substrate includes: first gate lines and second gate lines alternately formed in a first direction such that the first gate lines and the second gate lines are insulated from each other; data lines formed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction such that the data lines intersect the first gate lines and the second gate lines; common lines formed alternately with the data lines in the second direction; shield lines extending from the common lines such that the shield lines are disposed adjacent to opposite sides of the data lines in parallel; first transistors formed at regions where the first gate lines and the data lines intersect; first pixel electrodes formed at pixel regions of first pixels defined by intersection between the first gate lines and the data lines, the first pixel electrodes being connected to the first transistors, the first pixel electrodes at least partially overlapping with the common lines and the shield lines respectively in the second direction around the pixel regions of the first pixels; and first common electrodes formed alternately with the first pixel electrodes at the pixel regions of the first pixels, the first common electrodes being connected to the common lines.