Patent ID: 6912028

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal cell including a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, a first electrode disposed on an inside surface side of the first substrate, and a first alignment film disposed on an opposite side of the first electrode as a side opposing the first transparent substrate, a second electrode disposed on an inside surface side of the second substrate, and a second alignment film disposed on an opposite side of the second electrode as a side opposing the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; a transflector that partially transmits light disposed one of at an outside surface side of the first transparent substrate and at a liquid crystal layer side of the first transparent substrate; and a backlight disposed at the outside surface side of the first transparent substrate, wherein, when an angle between a direction of a normal line with respect to a display surface of the liquid crystal display device and a main viewing direction is a predetermined angle, a reflection ratio peak value of light incident upon the liquid crystal display device and reflected by the transflector occurs within a range near the angle formed between the normal line direction and the viewing direction.