Patent ID: 8692819

Claim:
A liquid crystal display, comprising: a liquid crystal panel assembly including a gate line, a data line intersecting the gate line, a switching element connected to the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode connected to the switching element, and a reference electrode opposing the pixel electrode in a display area; a gate driver for applying a gate signal to the gate line to activate the switching element; a data driver for applying a data voltage that is applied to the pixel electrode to the data line; and a reference voltage generator for generating at least three or more reference voltages simultaneously having different values to be respectively applied to at east three or more positions of the reference electrode in the display area, wherein the farther a position is disposed from the gate driver, the higher reference voltage is applied to the position in the display area, the at least three or more reference voltages are applied along with respective lines parallel to the data line, and at least one of the at least three or more reference voltages applied along with a respective line parallel to the data line extends along between two adjacent data lines.