Patent ID: 7936426

Claim:
A transflective liquid crystal display (LCD), comprising one or more pixels being divided into a reflective and a transmissive subpixel and comprising a layer of an LC medium that is switchable between different orientations upon application of an electric field, a first substrate on the first side of the LC layer and a second substrate on the second side of the LC layer, said substrates optionally being covered by electrode layers, a front polarizer on the first side the LC layer, optionally a back polarizer on the second side of the LC layer, at least one optical retardation film that is positioned between one of the substrates and the LC layer, obtained from a polymerizable liquid crystal (LC) material comprising at least one photoisomerisable compound, and having a set of first areas having an on-axis retardation >0 or <0 and set of second areas having no on-axis retardation, wherein said first areas cover reflective subpixels of the LCD and said second areas cover transmissive subpixels of the LCD, wherein in the retardation film the areas of no on-axis retardation comprise an optically isotropic material or material with C-plate symmetry.