Patent ID: 8049679

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a first display area; a second display area; a peripheral area outside of the first and second display areas; and a dummy pixel unit formed on the peripheral area; wherein the first and second display areas comprise a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix each of which has a switching element, and data lines and gate lines connected to the pixels, and the data lines comprise a first data line group positioned on the first and second display areas and a second data line group positioned on the first display area and the dummy pixel unit, wherein the dummy pixel unit comprises dummy pixels connected to the gate lines of the second display area and to the data lines of the second data line group, and wherein the second data line group comprises a plurality of sub-data line groups each of which has a number of dummy pixels that is different from other sub-data line groups, and as a distance between the first data line group and a sub-data line group increases, the number of dummy pixels within a respective sub-data line group is gradually reduced.