Patent ID: 7218363

Claim:
A transflective liquid crystal display device, comprising: opposed upper and lower substrates; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between opposed upper and lower substrates, each of which having dot regions, each dot region having a transmissive display region and a reflective display region; an upper polarizing plate provided on the outer side of the upper substrate; a lower polarizing plate provided on the outer side of the lower substrate; and a reflective layer and retardation layer provided on the reflective display regions of the inner side of the lower substrate in that order from the substrate side; no retardation layer provided on the transmissive display region of the inner side of the lower substrate; with one of a voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer and no voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer, a phase difference of the liquid crystal layer in the transmissive display regions is greater than that in the reflective display regions.