Patent ID: 6909479
Filing Date: 2005-06-21
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal display, comprising: a liquid crystal display panel formed of liquid crystals sandwiched between a pair of opposing substrates, and including pixels having a plurality of sub-pixels each corresponding to different colors, the sub-pixels having outer edges; an illumination device provided to an opposite side of the liquid crystal display panel in relation to an observation side that illuminates the liquid crystal display panel with illumination light; a transflective layer disposed on the opposite side of the liquid crystals in relation to the observation side, the transflective layer including for each sub-pixel a reflective portion and a transmissive portion that transmits the illumination light, each reflective portion having an outer edge disposed at at least one of the outer edges of the corresponding sub-pixel, at least one sub-pixel out of the plurality of sub-pixels having a transmissive area with a first dimension, and another sub-pixel out of the plurality of sub-pixels having a transmissive area with a second dimension, the first dimension being different from the second dimension; and a color filter provided corresponding to each of the sub-pixels that transmits light of a wavelength corresponding to a color of each sub-pixel.