Patent ID: 7202924

Claim:
A liquid crystal display having a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising: a gate line on a first transparent substrate; a data line arranged to cross the gate line wherein the gate line is insulated from the data line; a gate electrode protruding from said gate line near an area where said data line crosses said gate line; a thin film transistor having a source electrode connected to the data line and a drain electrode separated from the source electrode; a passivation layer covering the thin film transistor wherein a contact hole exposing a portion of the drain electrode is formed in the passivation layer; a pixel electrode on the passivation layer, the pixel electrode being connected to the drain electrode through the contact hole and partially overlapping the data line; a black matrix, a color filter and a common electrode on a second transparent substrate, the black matrix being extended along the data line to overlap partially and asymmetrically with the data line; and liquid crystals provided and sealed between the first and second transparent substrates.