Patent ID: 7709163

Claim:
A display device including a display panel on which a plurality of color filters different in color from each other are arranged for each pixel; wherein the display panel includes a color filter substrate and another substrate which is spaced from and faces the color filter substrate; wherein at least the color filter of one color is formed of a plurality of color filter layers including a first color filter layer and a second color filter layer stacked upon one another on a transparent substrate member of the color filter substrate; wherein an area of the first color filter layer of the stacked color filter layers which is positioned close to the transparent substrate member is set to be larger than an area of the second color filter layer which is stacked on the first color filter layer at a position more remote from the transparent substrate member than the first color filter layer; wherein a distance between the color filter substrate and the another substrate is constant at least in an area of the another substrate which faces both of the areas of the first and the second color filter layers of the stacked color filter layers; and wherein the second color filter layer is arranged on a plurality of regions of the first color filter layer in an island array.