Patent ID: 8334940

Claim:
A display panel, comprising: a first substrate; a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines disposed on the first substrate; a plurality of sub-pixel units disposed on the first substrate, each of the sub-pixel units comprising: a main display unit comprising a first switch and a first pixel electrode, the first pixel electrode and the data lines adjacent thereto being separated from each other with a gap (G 1 ); and a sub-display unit comprising a second switch and a second pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode and the data lines adjacent thereto being overlapped with a first overlapping width (W 1 ); a light-shielding layer disposed between two adjacent first pixel electrodes, the light-shielding layer and one of the first pixel electrodes adjacent thereto being overlapped with a second overlapping width (W 2 ); a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; and a display medium disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.