Patent ID: 8670097

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a plurality of pixels at intersections of a plurality of row lines and a plurality of column lines, wherein each pixel includes a switching transistor, and pixel and common electrodes that induce an in-plane electric field; a plurality of gate lines each connected to the pixels on each row line; a plurality of data lines each connected to the pixels on each column line; and a plurality of common lines each of which is alternately connected to the common electrodes of the pixels on a first row line of neighboring two row lines, and to the common electrode of the pixels on a second row line of the neighboring two row lines, wherein the common line includes a first sub-line connected to the common electrodes of the pixels on the first row line among the neighboring two row lines, and a second sub-line connected to the common electrodes of the pixels on the second row line among the neighboring two row lines.