Patent ID: 8717266

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of transmission sections and a plurality of mirror sections; a light source for directing light irradiated thereby into said liquid crystal panel; and a control unit for controlling said transmission sections and said mirror sections, wherein each of said transmission sections is connected to gate lines through a switching device, and can be switched between an image display state which can allow the irradiated light to exit and a black display state which does not allow the irradiated light to exit, wherein each of said mirror sections is directly connected to electrode wires extending parallel to said gate lines, without passing through said switching device, and includes a reflection member having a flat surface, and can be switched between a mirror state which can allow incident light reflected by said reflection member to exit, and a non-mirror state which does not allow the reflected light to exit, independently of said transmission section, wherein the number of said mirror sections is fewer than the number of said transmission sections, and the area of each of said mirror sections is more than or equal to twice the area of each of said transmission sections, and the number of said electrode wires is fewer than the number of the gate lines, and wherein said control unit places each of said transmission sections into either the image display state or the black display state, and places each of said mirror sections into either the minor state or the non-mirror state.