Patent ID: 7916245

Claim:
A transflective display device comprising; four or more filters having different colors in a pixel, each of the four or more filters in said pixel having different colors including: a transmissive region for displaying an image by transmitting light from a backlight; and a reflective region for displaying an image by reflecting surrounding light, wherein at least two of the four or more filters having different colors are different in a proportion of an area of the reflective region, the proportion of the area is represented by the following formula (1): Proportion of area of reflective region=Area of reflective region/Effective area of filter (1), wherein a shielding film is arranged to overlap with at least part of at least one of the four or more filters having different colors, or arranged instead of a part of at least one of the four or more filters having different colors the at least two of the four or more filters having different colors are different in a proportion of an area of the shielding film, and the proportion of the area is represented by the following formula (2) or formula (3): Proportion of area of shielding film=Area of shielding film arranged to overlap with a part of filter/Effective area of filter, or (2) the proportion of the area is represented by the following formula: Proportion of area of shielding film=Area of shielding film arranged instead of a part of filter/Effective area of filter. (3)