Patent ID: 8064011

Claim:
A display panel, comprising: first and second substrates that face each other, the first substrate including, on a surface facing the second substrate, line electrodes for transmitting signals to pixels and pixel electrodes which are provided for individual pixels and to which the signals are transmitted via the line electrodes, the second substrate including, on a surface facing the first substrate, black matrixes positioned to wholly face predetermined one or more of the line electrodes, and being provided lengthwise and crosswise in a lattice pattern on a display area of the second substrate, color filters positioned between the black matrixes, and a counter electrode positioned to be closer to the first substrate than the black matrixes and the color filters are and to face the pixel electrodes, the counter electrode being formed on a whole surface of the second substrate except extracted patterns formed at portions above the black matrixes other than areas corresponding to cross points of the lattice pattern, the extracted patterns being areas where the black matrixes are not covered by the counter electrode, and at a cross section of the display panel which cross section (i) passes through one of the extracted patterns, (ii) is in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the one of the extracted patterns extends, and (iii) is perpendicular to the surface of the first substrate, the one of the extracted patterns is positioned to wholly face a corresponding one of the line electrodes, the width of the one of the extracted patterns is greater than the width of the corresponding one of the line electrodes, and the line width of the corresponding one of the black matrixes is greater than the width of the one of the extracted patterns.