Patent ID: 7253867

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first substrate having an active region and a non-active region along a peripheral portion of the active region; a second substrate facing and spaced apart from the first substrate, and having an active region and a non-active region along a peripheral portion of the active region; a seal pattern between the first and second substrates disposed along a border of the active and non-active regions; a gate line on an interior surface of the first substrate and crossing the seal pattern; a data line crossing the gate line and the seal pattern; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a common electrode on an interior surface of the second surface; a first step-compensating pattern overlapped by the seal pattern and directly over the gate line wherein the first step-compensating pattern includes a semiconductor pattern and a data pattern and the data pattern is substantially above the semiconductor pattern; a second step-compensating pattern overlapped by the seal pattern and directly under the data line; and a liquid crystal material layer between the pixel electrode and the common electrode.