Patent ID: 7847874

Claim:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel comprising: a plurality N horizontal pixel rows disposed one below the next with each row including respective pixel regions arranged horizontally one after the next and with each row extending in a first direction, where N is a natural number greater than one and the Nth pixel row constitutes a last pixel row of the LCD panel; a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction transverse to the first direction; where the respective pixel regions of the first through (N−1)th pixel rows are each constituted by a first pixel structure having a respective first pixel electrode connected so as to be charged to a respective first data voltage in response to a data signal received from a respective one of the data lines; and where the respective pixel regions of the last (the Nth) pixel row are each constituted by a second pixel structure that is different from the first pixel structure and that has a respective second pixel electrically connected to so as to be charged to a respective second data voltage in response to the data signal received from a respective one of the data lines, where the difference between the first and second pixel structures includes the second pixel structure having a first light-blocking pattern disposed in an interior of the pixel region of the second pixel structure so as to partially obscure light that otherwise would have passed through the interior of the pixel region of the second pixel structure.