Patent ID: 7525626

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a liquid crystal layer held between a first and a second substrate, the first and the second substrate being placed opposite to each other; and a reflector region and a transparent region in one pixel, wherein the first substrate comprises: a comb-like transparent common electrode provided in the transparent region; a comb-like transparent pixel electrode placed opposed in parallel to the transparent common electrode and for generating a horizontal direction electric field between the transparent common electrode in the transparent region; a reflective common electrode provided in the reflector region; and a reflective pixel electrode provided in the reflector region and placed opposed to the reflective common electrode with an insulating film interposed therebetween, wherein between the reflective common electrode and the reflective pixel electrode, a slit is formed in the electrode provided to an upper layer, and an oblique electric field is generated between the reflective common electrode and reflective pixel electrode by the slit.