Patent ID: 8269924

Claim:
A color filter substrate for use in combination with a thin-film-transistor substrate that includes an array of pixels and associated thin film transistors disposed in vicinities of intersections of gate lines and signal lines, said pixels each including an effective opening area and a shielded area encircling said effective opening area, said color filter substrate comprising: a color filter that includes color filter patterns of at least three different colors, wherein a part of each of said color filter patterns overlaps with a part of at least one other of said color filter patterns so that overlapped portions form a light shield pattern, said overlapped color filter patterns having colors different from each other, said light shield pattern being opposed to said shielded area, said light shield pattern including first shield sections formed of parts of said color filter patterns of n different colors, where n is an integer not less than two and less than said at least three, overlapping with one another, and second shield sections formed of parts of said color film patterns of a plurality of colors overlapping with one another, said plurality of colors being more than said n different colors by at least one color, said color filter patterns in said overlapped portions of said first and second shield sections extending from part of color filter patterns covering said effective opening area.