Patent ID: 7518686

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a lower substrate; a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixel electrodes on the lower substrate; an upper substrate positioned above the lower substrate and having a surface facing the lower substrate; stripe shaped common electrodes spaced apart from each other by a plurality of regions on the surface of the upper substrate, wherein the stripe shaped common electrodes substantially overlap with the pixel electrodes, and wherein each said region corresponds to one of the data lines of the lower substrate; a shielding film between the surface of the upper substrate and the stripe shaped common electrodes, wherein portions of the shielding film overlap with the plurality of data lines at the plurality of regions and other portions of the shielding film overlap with portions of the stripe shaped common electrodes; liquid crystals disposed between the upper and lower substrates, wherein the pixel electrodes, the stripe shaped common electrodes, and the liquid crystals form a plurality of liquid crystal capacitors; a lower alignment film disposed on the pixel electrodes; and an upper alignment film disposed on the stripe shaped common electrodes and the plurality of regions.