Patent ID: 8294857

Claim:
An in-plane switching mode transflective liquid crystal display device, comprising: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a gate line and a data line on an inner surface of the first substrate, the gate line and the data line crossing each other to define a pixel region having a transmissive area and a reflective area; a common line parallel to the gate line; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a first passivation layer over the thin film transistor; a reflecting layer over the first passivation layer in the reflective area; a second passivation layer over the reflecting layer; a pixel electrode over the second passivation layer, the pixel electrode having a plate shape in the pixel region and connected to the thin film transistor; a third passivation layer over the pixel electrode; a common electrode over the third passivation layer, the common electrode connected to the common line, the common electrode including a plurality of first openings along a first direction in the transmissive area and a plurality of second openings along a second direction different from the first direction in the reflective area, each of the plurality of first openings and the plurality of second openings having a bar shape; a color filter layer on an inner surface of the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrate.