Patent ID: 7920243

Claim:
A display panel comprising: a first substrate having a plurality of pixel regions in which a pixel electrode is formed, the first substrate including a switching device formed at a first region and a storage line formed at a second region, the storage line corresponding to a first electrode of a capacitor for maintaining a pixel voltage for a predetermined time; a second substrate including a color filter layer having a plurality of color filters each operable to provide color filtration, wherein lateral boundaries of two adjacent ones of continuous and operable color filters overlap at the first region so that a thickness of the color filter layer at the first region due to the overlapping color filters is thicker than that at the second region; a first cell gap maintaining member disposed between the first and second substrates at the first region where the switching device is formed, and disposed over the overlapping boundaries of the two color filters, where the first cell gap maintaining member is different from the overlapping boundaries of the color filters; and a second cell gap maintaining member disposed between the first and second substrates at the second region where the storage line is formed, the second cell gap maintaining member being spatially separated from the first substrate, wherein the second cell gap maintaining member is not formed by overlapping of the color filters.