Patent ID: 8094267

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device whose sub-pixel region has a reflective display region that displays an image in a reflective mode and a transmissive display region that display an image in a transmissive mode, the liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate opposing the first substrate; a polarizer disposed above the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, the liquid crystal layer having a smaller thickness of about one half in the reflective display region than in the transmissive display region, one of the first substrate and the second substrate including a reflection layer in the reflective display region, and the other substrate including on a liquid crystal layer side a functional resin layer having a first functional resin sub layer in the reflective display region and a second functional resin sub layer in the transmissive display region, a thickness adjustment layer being formed directly on the first functional resin sub layer, and an alignment layer formed to cover the thickness adjustment layer in the reflective display region and to cover the second functional resin sub layer in the transmissive display region, the second functional resin sub layer being isotropic and applying no phase difference to transmitted light, the second functional resin sub layer having a slow axis parallel to a transmission axis of the polarizer; and the first functional resin sub layer serving as a retardation layer and applying a phase difference to transmitted light, the first functional resin sub layer having a slow axis forming an angle of about 68° relative to the transmission axis of the polarizer.