Patent ID: 7894006

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a substrate; a plurality of gate lines formed on the substrate; a plurality of data lines crossing the gate lines; a plurality of thin film transistors connected to the gate lines and the data lines, and each thin film transistor including a drain electrode; a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors, arranged in a matrix, and each pixel electrode having a first side disposed in parallel with the gate lines and a second side shorter than the first side and adjacent to the first side; and a data driver coupled to the data lines applies a voltage having positive polarity or negative polarity to the pixel electrodes, wherein a predetermined portion of each of the drain electrodes is disposed between adjacent pixel electrodes and the drain electrodes include a first drain electrode and second drain electrode, the predetermined portion of the first drain electrode is overlapped with only one of the adjacent pixel electrodes if the polarities of the adjacent pixel electrodes are different, and the predetermined portion of the second drain electrode is overlapped with both of the adjacent pixel electrodes if the polarities of the adjacent pixel electrodes are the same, wherein the polarities of the pixel electrodes are driven in an m×1 inversion-drive manner, and wherein the m is an integer greater than 2.