Patent ID: 7116388

Claim:
A liquid crystal display panel, comprising: an upper substrate; a lower substrate parallel to said upper substrate; a liquid crystal layer between said upper substrate and said lower substrate; a common line layer having a plurality of common lines on said lower substrate; a gate line layer having a plurality of gate lines parallel to said common lines on said lower substrate; an insulating layer on said lower substrate and said common line layer and said gate line layer; a data line layer having a plurality of data lines perpendicular to said gate lines on said insulating layer; a plurality of thin film transistors on said lower substrate, where each of said thin film transistors is positioned near a respective intersection portion of said gate lines and said data lines; a passivation layer on said plurality of thin film transistors and said insulating layer; a planar insulating layer on said passivation layer; a plurality of transparent inter-digital pixel electrodes on said planar insulating layer, each of said plurality of transparent inter-digital pixel electrodes having first fingers that extend in the direction parallel to said data lines and are electrically connected to one corresponding drain of said thin film transistors through at least one first contact hole; and a plurality of transparent inter-digital counter electrodes on said planar insulating layer, one side of each of said plurality of transparent inter-digital pixel counter electrodes having second fingers that extend in the direction parallel to said data lines and are electrically connected to one corresponding common line through at least one second contact hole; wherein a pixel region is defined by one of said data lines and one of said gate lines, at least one said first contact hole and at least one said second contact hole are on the same side of said pixel region, and said first fingers and said second fingers are interlaced in said pixel region.