Patent ID: 7221419

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: an illumination device that emits light; a liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal layer and a pair of substrates sandwiching the liquid crystal layer, the liquid crystal display panel having an illuminated side facing the illumination device, an observation side opposite from the illuminated side, and a plurality of sub-pixels each corresponding to different colors, each of the sub-pixels having at least one outer edge, a reflective region where reflective display is performed and a transmissive portion where transmissive display is performed, at least one sub-pixel having a transmissive portion that is different sized from a transmissive portion of an adjacent sub-pixel; reflectors on a side of the liquid crystal layer opposite from the observation side of the liquid crystal display panel, the reflectors corresponding to the reflective regions of the sub-pixels, each reflector having an outer edge disposed at least one of the outer edges of the corresponding sub-pixel, at least one of the reflectors having a two-dimensional area in plan view that is different from a two-dimensional area of a reflector in an adjacent sub-pixel; and color filters each provided for a corresponding sub-pixel and that transmit light of a wavelength corresponding to the color of the corresponding sub-pixel.