Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display is set forth that comprises first and second substrates disposed opposite one another and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates. The first substrate includes a red pixel region, a green pixel region, a blue pixel region and a white pixel region defined thereon. Each of the red, green, blue and white pixel regions has a respective transmission region and a respective reflection region associated with the pixel. An offset brightness is applied to the display at the white pixel region. The offset brightness of the white pixel region may be operable, for example, to compensate for differences in appearance of the transflective liquid crystal display that would otherwise occur between operation of the display in a transmission mode of operation and a reflective mode of operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display, which is capable of controlling image brightness according to an Average Picture Level (APL) in a red-green-blue-white (RGBW) type display, and a driving method using the same is disclosed. The apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including 4-color sub-pixels; a data driver for providing video data signals to each sub-pixel; a gate driver for providing a scan pulse to each sub-pixel A data converter determines an Average Picture Level (APL) of 3-color source data, and generates a gain value corresponding to the average picture level. The 3-color source data is converted into 4-color data using the generated gain value; and a timing controller for communicates the 4-color data received through the data converter to the data driver.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a liquid crystal panel including 4-color sub-pixels, a data driver to provide video data signals to each sub-pixel, a gate driver to provide a scan pulse to each sub-pixel, a data conversion part to generate a gain value by analyzing a ratio of an achromatic color signal to a chromatic color signal of 3-color source data inputted from an external source and convert the 3-color source data into 4-color data using the generated gain value, and a timing controller to provide the 4-color data received from the data conversion part to the data driver and control the gate driver and the data driver.

Abstract: An LCD device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The LCD device according to an embodiment includes a black matrix having a plurality of open regions on a substrate; a color filter layer including a first color filter pattern, a second color filter pattern, and a third color filter pattern that are formed in the open regions; an overcoat layer formed on the color filter layer; a column spacer formed in a first region on the overcoat layer; and a fourth color filter pattern formed in a second region on the overcoat layer.

Abstract: An IPS mode LCD device is disclosed in which a retardation layer is formed in a reflective part of unit pixel region to efficiently operate both transmitting and reflective modes and to improve the contrast ratio, the unit pixel region having a transmitting part and a reflective part, wherein a cell gap in the transmitting part is substantially the same as a cell gap in the reflecting part.

Abstract: A LCD device and a method for fabricating the same is disclosed that decreases the fabrication time of the LCD device by obtaining a white color in a fourth pixel region using first, second, and third auxiliary color filter layers, and improve the resolution for the white color by controlling the width of the auxiliary color filter layers. The device includes first and second substrates having first, second, third and fourth pixel regions arranged repetitively; a black matrix layer formed on the second substrate corresponding to portions of the substrates other than the pixel regions; first, second and third color filter layers respectively formed on the first, second, and third pixel regions of the second substrate; first, second, and third auxiliary color filter layers formed on the fourth pixel region of the second substrate to display a white color; and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second substrates.