Patent ID: 7738066

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a first substrate having a transparent region; a gate line formed on the first substrate; a data line formed on the first substrate and traversing the gate line; a transistor source electrode coupled to the data line; a transistor drain electrode spaced apart from the source electrode to define a transistor channel area therebetween; a passivation layer formed over the data line and the drain electrode, and comprising an organic material; a pixel electrode formed over the passivation layer, where the pixel electrode is patterned to define a plurality of sub-electrode portions thereof including: a first stem electrode, at least a part of which is overlapped with the gate line or the data line, and a plurality of first branch electrodes contacted to the first stem electrode and substantially parallel arranged each other; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a common electrode formed over the second substrate, where the common electrode is patterned to define a plurality of sub-electrode portions thereof including: a plurality of second branch electrodes positioned so as to be interdigitated relative to first branch electrodes and extending substantially parallel to corresponding ones of the first branch electrodes, and a second stem electrode connecting the second branch electrodes; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.