Patent 7091664 was granted and assigned to AU Optronics on August, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A display device for displaying images having a plurality of rib walls, a plurality of cells formed by the rib walls, a plurality of column electrodes extending in the column direction, and a plurality of row electrodes extending in the row direction and traverse the column electrodes. The display device further includes at least two of the column electrodes that are electrically shorted.