Patent ID: 8314917

Claim:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprising: an array substrate divided into an active region on which an image displayed and a GIP circuit part on which a gate driver is mounted; a color filter substrate attached to the array substrate in a facing manner; a color filter formed on an inner surface of the color filter substrate of the active region and including a plurality of red, green and blue sub-color filters; a plurality of dummy color filters formed on an inner surface of the color filter substrate of the GIP circuit part to correspond to the plurality of red sub-color filters to form the same step as the active region; a passivation layer on the inner surface of the array substrate, wherein the passivation layer at the active region where a TFT pattern is positioned includes protrusions formed with a certain distance toward the color filter substrate and wherein the passivation layer at the GIP circuit part where a GIP circuit pattern is positioned has a certain step with respect to a region where the GIP circuit pattern is not positioned; a seal pattern positioned at the outer side of the GIP circuit part; a plurality of gap spacers formed between the sub-color filter of the color filter substrate and the protrusions of the passivation layer at the active region of the array substrate; and a plurality of GIP column spacers formed between the dummy color filter of the color filter substrate and the passivation layer at the GIP circuit part where the GIP circuit pattern is positioned, where the gap spacers have the same height as the GIP column spacers.