Patent ID: 6927807

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a plurality of gate lines and data lines arranged horizontally and vertically, respectively, for defining a plurality of pixel areas; a plurality of switching devices formed at intersections of the gate lines and the data lines; a pixel electrode formed in a pixel area connected to the switching device corresponding to the pixel area so as to partially overlap the data lines adjacent to the corresponding pixel area and having an opening around the switching device corresponding to the pixel area, wherein a first parasitic capacitance generated by the pixel electrode overlapping a first area of a data line for the corresponding pixel area and a second parasitic capacitance generated by the pixel electrode overlapping a second area of a data line for an adjacent pixel area are substantially equal to each other; and a protrusion from one of the data lines having an area overlapped with the pixel electrode that is a portion of one of the first and second areas, wherein the first area has a first shape and the second area has a second shape that is different from the first shape.