Patent ID: 8605126

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a substrate comprising a first display area and a second display area; gate lines disposed on the substrate; data lines extending in a column direction and across the gate lines; and pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns and disposed between the gate lines and the data lines, wherein: the data-lines are disposed between each of pixel pairs, each pixel pair comprising a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel; in the first display area, the first and second sub-pixels of each pixel pair arranged in an odd-numbered row are connected in common to an adjacent right-side data line, and the first and second sub-pixels of each pixel pair arranged in an even-numbered row are connected in common to an adjacent left-side data line; and in the second display area, the first and second sub-pixels of each pixel pair arranged in an odd-numbered row are connected in common to an adjacent left-side data line, and the first and second sub-pixels of each pixel pair arranged in an even-numbered row are connected in common to an adjacent right-side data line.