Patent ID: 7746431

Claim:
A dual mode Liquid Crystal display, comprising: a. a light source for illuminating the dual mode display; b. a first polarizer for aligning the plane of polarization of light from the light source to a first plane c. a second polarizer for aligning the plane of polarization of the light from the light source to a pre-defined second plane; d. a first substrate and a second substrate, the first substrate and the second substrate being interposed between the first polarizer and the second polarizer; and e. a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels being positioned at the first substrate, each of the plurality of pixels comprising a reflective part and a transmissive part, wherein the reflective part has no color filter, at least part of the transmissive part comprises one or more color-filters; wherein each of the one or more color filters imparts one of three different colors, and transmissive parts of pixels imparted with a first color of the three different colors are arranged in a first diagonal stripe, transmissive parts of pixels imparted with a second color of the three different colors are arranged in a second diagonal stripe, and transmissive parts of pixels imparted with a third color of the three different colors are arranged in a third diagonal stripe.