Patent ID: 7675589

Claim:
A liquid crystal device comprising: a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates; a first region and a second region, a thickness of the liquid crystal layer being smaller in the second region than that in the first region; a plurality of sub pixels, each of the sub pixels having a transmission region formed in the first region and a reflection region formed in the second region, the transmission regions of the plurality of sub pixels arranged side-by-side, and the reflections regions of the plurality of sub pixels arranged side-by-side; a plurality of color filters including a first color filter, a second color filter and a third color filter, the first, the second and the third color filters corresponding to each of the sub pixels, respectively; and a liquid crystal layer thickness adjusting layer placed at least in the second region, the liquid crystal layer thickness adjusting layer having a groove formed at a boundary between sub pixels corresponding to the first color filter and the second color filter, the liquid crystal layer thickness adjusting layer not having a groove and continuously formed between sub pixels corresponding to the second and the third color filters, wherein a light transmitted by the first color filter has lower visibility than lights transmitted by the second and the third color filters and a light transmitted by the third color filter has higher visibility than lights transmitted the first and the second color filters.