Patent ID: 8243235

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: an array substrate including a gate line and a data line on a first substrate to define first and second sub-pixel regions and a thin film transistor in each of the first and second sub-pixel regions; a color filter substrate including a color filter layer including first and second color filters corresponding to the first and second sub-pixel regions, respectively, wherein the first and second color filters overlap each other over the data line; and a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, wherein the first color filter has a first step, and the second color filter has a second step, wherein the first and second steps contact each other to overlap each other such that the first and second color filters form a flat top surface, and wherein the first and second color filters have the same shape, and a plane area of an entire surface of an upper side of each of the first and second color filters is substantially the same as a plane area of an entire surface of a lower side of each of the first and second color filters.