Patent ID: 6856369

Claim:
An electrode substrate for a liquid crystal display panel, comprising: a transparent substrate; a plurality of parallel signal lines formed on the transparent substrate; a plurality of parallel gate lines formed perpendicularly to the signal lines on the transparent substrate; a plurality of switching devices formed on the transparent substrate at positions near intersections of the signal lines and the gate lines; a color layer having a plurality of color segments and formed with the color segments being coinciding with pixel regions, each of the pixel regions being defined by the signal lines and the gate lines, the pixel regions being arranged in a two-dimensional grid pattern; and a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on the color layer with the pixel electrodes respectively corresponding to the pixel regions; wherein each of the color segments of the color layer and each of the pixel electrodes are stacked in that order on the transparent substrate, each of at least either the signal lines or the gate lines has offset sections formed near the intersections of the signal lines and the gate lines with center axes of the offset sections being dislocated laterally from a corresponding center axis of the signal line or the gate line such that the switching devices are disposed in dark regions outside color regions corresponding to the color segments of the color layer; the pixel electrodes have projections projecting from the color regions into the dark regions, respectively; and the projections are connected to the switching devices in the dark regions, respectively.