Patent ID: 8089595

Claim:
A transflective liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first substrate with a reflective region and a transmissive region; a second substrate opposing the first substrate with a gap therebetween; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and the second substrates; a color filter disposed on the first substrate, wherein the color filter is thicker in the transmissive region than at the reflective region, and wherein a first recess is formed in the reflective region; a first alignment layer conformably disposed on the color filter, wherein a second recess is formed in the first alignment layer at the reflective region and faces toward the liquid crystal layer; and a second alignment layer filled in the second recess without contacting a surface of the first alignment layer outside of the second recess to provide a single gap transflective liquid crystal cell; wherein a material of the first alignment layer and a material of the second alignment layer have different polarities such that pre-tilt angles and orientations of liquid crystal molecules on the reflective region and on the transmissive region are different.