Patent ID: 7724332

Claim:
A transflective liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first substrate having a top surface defining a horizontal plane, wherein the substrate comprises a plurality of reflective regions interlaced with a plurality of transmissive regions; a second substrate opposing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and the second substrates; a reflector disposed on each of the reflective regions of the first substrate, wherein a first recess is formed in each of the transmissive regions between two adjacent reflectors; a first alignment layer conformably disposed on the first substrate entirely covering both the reflectors of the reflective regions and the transmissive regions, wherein a second recess is formed in the first alignment layer in each transmissive region; and a second alignment layer formed on the first alignment layer so as to fill in each second recess in the first alignment layer, wherein the second alignment layer is interlaced between the reflective regions; wherein pre-tilt angles and orientations of liquid crystal molecules on the first alignment layer and on the second alignment layer are different, and wherein a top surfaces of the first and the second alignment layers are on a same horizontal level relative to the top surface of the first substrate.