Patent ID: 6859247

Claim:
An electro-optical apparatus, comprising: a first substrate having an image-display area and a peripheral area disposed around the image-display area; a second substrate; an electro-optic material sandwiched between the first and second substrates; a plurality of pixel electrodes provided at the image-display area of the first substrate; a plurality of data lines providing with image signal to the pixel electrodes; external circuit connection terminals formed at the peripheral area; a plurality of image signal lines provided with the image signal from the external-circuit connection terminals, and formed at the peripheral area; a data line driving circuit formed at the peripheral area; a sampling-circuit driving signal line provided with a sampling-circuit driving signal from the data line driving circuit, and formed at the peripheral area; a sampling circuit providing the image signal from the image signal lines to the corresponding data lines based on the sampling-circuit driving signal; and an opposite electrode provided at the second substrate, being formed by a transparent conductive film, the opposite electrode being disposed opposite the plurality of pixel electrodes, the opposite electrode being formed so as not to extend into at least at a part of an area of the second substrate, the area being opposite at least the image signal lines portions located in the peripheral area.