Patent ID: 8169582

Claim:
A liquid crystal display, comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other and having a plurality of pixel areas; a plurality of conductive lines extending over at least two consecutive pixel areas of the plurality of pixel areas; a pixel electrode disposed within one of the plurality of pixel areas of the first substrate; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; an alignment layer disposed on at least one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a first edge of the pixel electrode has a first expanded portion so that the first edge has a stair shape, and a second edge of the pixel electrode that opposes the first edge has a second expanded portion so that the second edge has a stair shape, wherein the first expanded portion and the second expanded portion both overlap one of the plurality of conductive lines, and wherein a portion of the conductive line overlapping the first expanded portion is disposed along the first edge of the pixel electrode, and a portion of the conductive line overlapping the second expanded portion is disposed along the second edge of the pixel electrode.