Patent ID: 7317503

Claim:
A liquid crystal display, comprising: a substrate; a gate line formed on the substrate and extending in a first direction, wherein the gate line is bent at a positive or negative angle with respect to the direction of a rubbing direction on the substrate; a data line intersecting the first direction; a first pixel electrode formed in a pixel area defined by intersections of the gate line and the data line, said first pixel electrode formed substantially parallel to the gate line; a pixel signal line connected to the pixel electrode; a switching element connected to the gate line, the data line, and the pixel signal line; a first common electrode formed in the pixel area parallel to said first pixel electrode; a common signal line formed in the pixel area connected to said common electrode, wherein the distance between the common signal line and the data line is shorter than the distance between the pixel signal line and the data line; a first capacitor electrode formed in the pixel area connected to the pixel signal line; a second capacitor electrode formed in the pixel area connected to said common signal line; a second pixel electrode formed in the pixel area opposite to the first pixel electrode and connected to the pixel signal line; and a second common electrode formed in the pixel area, said second common electrode opposite to the first common electrode and connected to the common signal line, wherein at least the first or second capacitor electrode is triangular in shape.