Patent ID: 7443477

Claim:
An in-plane switching liquid crystal display comprising: a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of gate lines and data lines disposed on the first substrate and intersected to each other, so as to form a pixel surrounded thereby; a counter electrode disposed on the second substrate and corresponding to one of the data lines; a pixel electrode disposed in the pixel and on the first substrate; a pair of shielding electrodes disposed on the first substrate, wherein one of the data lines is located between the shielding electrodes; and a common electrode having a first portion and a second portion disposed on the first substrate, wherein the first portion has a first slit corresponding to one of the data lines, and the second portion is located inside the pixel and adjacent to the pixel electrode, wherein a width of the first slit is parallel with one of the gate lines and larger than a width of the data line, and wherein a horizontal distance between one of the data lines and the corresponding pair of shielding electrodes is ranged from 0.1 to 10.0 μm.