Patent ID: 6980186

Claim:
A liquid crystal display for displaying a color image, comprising: a plurality of data signal lines; a plurality of scanning signal lines intersecting the data signal lines; and a plurality of pixel-forming portions each related to one of the intersections made by the data signal lines and the scanning lines, and disposed in a matrix pattern; each of the pixel-forming portions including: a switching element turned on and off by the scanning signal line passing the related intersection and serving as a feeding scanning signal line; a pixel electrode connected via the switching element to the data signal line passing the related intersection and serving as a feeding data signal line; a counter electrode common to the pixel-forming portions for holding predetermined capacities between the counter electrode and the pixel electrodes; and a liquid crystal layer common to the pixel-forming portions, sandwiched between the pixel electrodes and the counter electrode; wherein, simultaneously-selected pixel electrodes that are a group of the pixel electrodes each connected to one of the switching elements turned on and off by a same scanning signal line, are assigned dispersedly to two mutually adjacent up and down rows of the matrix of pixel-forming portions, and in a horizontally periodical pattern having a cycle of “up, down, up” or “down, up, down” as to which of the up row and the down row is selected in the assignment of three pixel electrodes.