Patent ID: 8179350

Claim:
A display device comprising: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each pixel having a pixel electrode and a switching element coupled thereto; a plurality of gate lines coupled with the switching elements and extending in a row direction of the matrix, each pixel row including at least two of the gate lines; and a plurality of data lines coupled with the switching elements, each data line extending in a column direction of the matrix, wherein each of the pixel electrodes is directly next to a neighboring data line and has a first edge and a second edge that are substantially parallel to the neighboring data line, wherein the second edge is farther from the neighboring data line than the first edge, and a switching element transmitting a data signal to the pixel electrode is arranged closer to the second edge than the first edge of the pixel electrode so as to reduce differences in light blocking areas between pixel electrodes in the row direction, wherein two directly neighboring pixels in the row direction in each pixel row are arranged between two directly neighboring data lines and form a pixel set, and the two directly neighboring pixels that form the pixel set are coupled with different gate lines, and wherein a distance from a first switching element coupled to one of the two directly neighboring pixels of the pixel set to a boundary region between the two directly neighboring pixels of the pixel set is less than a distance from the first switching element to the two directly neighboring data lines directly next to the pixel set.