Patent ID: 7535534

Claim:
An FFS (Fringe Field Switching) mode liquid crystal display comprising: a lower substrate including a gate line and a data line crossing perpendicular to the gate line; a first ITO electrode formed in a region defined by the gate line and the data line, the first ITO electrode being a plate-type electrode; and a second ITO electrode formed on the lower substrate while overlapping with the first ITO electrode, the second ITO electrode including a plurality of slit patterns having edge sections of a wedge shape, the edge sections of the slit pattern extending toward the data line; and an upper substrate including a conductive black matrix formed on the upper substrate, the resistance of the conductive black matrix having a resistance of 1×10 −2 Ω-cm to 1×10 −7 Ω-cm, wherein edge sections of the slit patterns extending toward the data line are formed at a position spaced by a predetermined interval to the inside from an edge section of the black matrix, which is disposed above the data line, said conductive black matrix being sized, shaped and arranged to prevent distortion of the liquid crystal occurring due to electric field interference, near the data line, between the conductive matrix and edge sections of the slit pattern having the wedge shape.