Patent ID: 7616277

Claim:
A transflective LCD device, comprising: first and second transparent substrates spaced apart from each other and having a reflective portion and a transmissive portion, wherein the first and second transparent substrates include a plurality of pixel regions, and the reflective portion and the transmissive portion are disposed in each pixel region; an insulator on the first transparent substrate; a passivation layer on the insulator within the reflective portion; a reflector on the passivation layer; a transparent pixel electrode disposed over the reflector and covering the reflector and the passivation layer; a buffer pattern disposed on a rear surface of the second substrate, the buffer pattern having a striped shape and a plurality of holes therein corresponding to the reflective portion; a color filter on the rear surface of the second substrate covering the buffer pattern, the color filter having a first thickness in the transmissive portion and a second thickness in the reflective portion; a transparent common electrode over the second substrate such that the color filter layer and the buffer pattern are positioned between the second substrate and the transparent common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer between the transparent pixel electrode and the transparent common electrode, wherein the striped shape in adjacent pixel regions arranged in a row are disposed on a virtual straight line, and wherein a maximum width of the buffer pattern is less than about 50 micrometers.