Patent ID: 7098975

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a pair of transparent substrates placed opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer placed between the respective transparent substrates; a pair of polarizing plates placed on outsides of the respective transparent substrates; a reflective layer placed on an outside of one of the polarizing plates; a viewing angle compensating plate placed between the polarizing plate and the transparent substrate on a side where the reflective layer is provided, and the viewing angle compensating plate is formed of a polymer compound containing liquid crystal molecules of which orientation state is fixed; a light diffusion layer placed not between the transparent substrate and the viewing angle compensating plate but between the viewing angle compensating plate and the reflective layer; and a ½ wave plate between the polarizing plate and the viewing angle compensating plate on the side where the reflective layer is provided; wherein the light diffusion layer is placed between the viewing angle compensating plate and the ½ wave plate.