Patent ID: 7843534

Claim:
An image display system, comprising: a first substrate; a first polarizer disposed on the first substrate; a liquid crystal (LC) layer having a plurality of LC cells each having an optical axis parallel to an absorbing axis of the first polarizer; a second substrate having a plurality of light transmitting zones and a plurality of light reflecting zones, wherein a plurality of reflectors is disposed in the light reflecting zones, the LC cells are horizontally disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the LC cells corresponding to the light reflecting zones are driven in a normally white mode, and the LC cells corresponding to the light transmitting zones are driven in a normally black mode; and a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the pixels comprises: a plurality of color sub-pixels corresponding to the light transmitting zones; and a reflective sub-pixel corresponding to one of the light reflecting zones, wherein the second substrate comprises: a plurality of pixel electrodes; and a plurality of common electrodes for generating a plurality of transversal electric fields in the LC layer in correspondence with the pixel electrodes, wherein the pixel electrodes in the light transmitting zone are arranged alternately and are respectively disposed on the common electrodes.