Patent ID: 7405794

Claim:
A method of fabricating an in-plane switching liquid crystal display device, comprising: preparing first and second substrates; forming a gate line and a data line defining a pixel region on the first substrate; forming a common line on the middle of the pixel region; forming a thin film transistor at a crossing portion of the gate and data lines, the thin film transistor having gate, source, and drain electrodes; forming a first insulating layer on the gate line; forming a plurality of transparent common electrodes on the first substrate, each of the plurality of transparent common electrodes having a plurality of extended portions perpendicular to the common line; forming a plurality of transparent pixel electrodes on the first substrate; forming at least one extended portion extending from the common line at a boundary of the pixel region, wherein the at least one extended portion is on a layer different from the plurality of transparent common electrodes; forming a first storage electrode on the first insulating layer over the common line; forming a second storage electrode on the first insulating layer over the gate line, wherein the first and second storage electrodes are connected to the drain electrode by extended lines on a layer different than the plurality of transparent pixel electrodes; and forming a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.