Patent ID: 8139174

Claim:
A display device for displaying images comprising: a display panel comprising: a plurality of display pixels, each comprising at least one switching thin-film transistor; and a plurality of non-display pixels, each comprising a plurality of dummy thin-film transistors, wherein a number of the dummy thin-film transistors of a first non-display pixel among the non-display pixels exceeds a number of the switching thin-film transistors of a first display pixel among the display pixels, the dummy thin-film transistors of the first non-display pixel are divided into a plurality of first dummy thin-film transistors and a plurality of second dummy thin-film transistors, and gates of the first and the second dummy thin-film transistors are coupled to each other, the first dummy thin-film transistors are connected to each other in series and the second dummy thin-film transistors are connected to each other in series.