Patent ID: 7777852

Claim:
A liquid crystal display unit comprising: a plurality of parallel gate lines; a plurality of parallel data lines on a first layer above said gate lines, said data lines extending crosswise to said gate lines for defining a matrix pattern of pixels at intersections with said gate lines; a plurality of transparent pixel electrodes on said first layer corresponding in position to said pixels; a plurality of transparent common electrodes arranged on a second layer above said first layer corresponding in position to both of said pixels and said pixel electrodes; and a liquid crystal layer on said transparent common electrodes, wherein each of the common electrodes has a pattern of parallel stripe portions inside of an aperture of the corresponding pixel and a peripheral portion outside of said aperture for shielding undesired field generated by a corresponding one of said data lines, wherein each of the pixel electrodes cooperates with the parallel stripe portions of the corresponding common electrode for uniformly generating fringe fields along said parallel stripe portions, and wherein each of said pixel electrodes has an overlapping portion that laterally extends beyond said aperture to overlap said peripheral portion of the corresponding common electrode by a predetermined amount to produce peripheral fringe fields along said peripheral portion.