Patent ID: 7701520

Claim:
A liquid crystal panel comprising: a plurality of gate bus lines extending in a first direction; a plurality of data bus lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a switching element provided for each picture element, the switching element using part of a corresponding gate bus line as a gate electrode and being electrically connected to a corresponding data bus line; a picture element electrode provided for each picture element and electrically connected to a corresponding switching element; a counter electrode placed with liquid crystals interposed between the counter electrode and the picture element electrode; and a plurality of auxiliary capacitance bus lines extending only in the second direction, without extending in the first direction across the picture element electrode, wherein each auxiliary capacitance bus line forms auxiliary capacitances together with a plurality of said picture element electrodes, wherein each of said picture element electrodes has the shape of a square and is delimited by the respective auxiliary capacitance bus lines as boundaries.