Display device with mirror-symmetrical pixels

A display device comprising an electro-optical display medium between two supporting plates, a system of pixels arranged in rows and columns, with each pixel being formed by picture electrodes arranged on the facing surfaces of the supporting plates, and a system of row and column electrodes for presenting selection and data signals, a picture electrode on one of the supporting plates being connected in an electrically conducting manner to a first switching unit between a column electrode for data signals and the picture electrode and to a second switching unit between the picture electrode and an electrode for a reference voltage, characterized in that the pixels in consecutive rows are offset with respect to each other in the row direction by a distance covering half a pitch, and in that the patterns of switching units, picture electrodes, column electrodes and electrodes for the reference voltage are arranged substantially mirror-symmetrically with respect to a direction transverse to the row direction for pixels associated with consecutive rows.