Liquid crystal display device having a reflection layer constituted of an extension portion of a gate or drain signal line
A liquid crystal display device includes at least a liquid crystal display panel, which uses a pair of transparent substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal disposed therebetween as an envelope, and a light guide plate, which guides light from a light source, being sequentially arranged from a viewer side. The liquid crystal display panel forms light reflection layers on a liquid-crystal-side surface of the light-guide-plate side transparent substrate using portions of respective pixels and forms color filters which face the light reflection layers on the liquid-crystal-side surface of one transparent substrate or a liquid-crystal-side surface of the other transparent substrate which faces the one transparent substrate. Light from the light source is irradiated such that respective colors thereof, which constitute three primary colors, are sequentially changed over.
1. A liquid crystal display device, is characterized in that:
at least a liquid crystal display panel, which uses a pair of transparent substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal disposed therebetween as an envelope, and a light guide plate, which guides light from a light source, are sequentially arranged from a viewer side;
the liquid crystal display panel forms light reflection layers on a liquid-crystal-side surface of the light-guide-plate side transparent substrate using portions of respective pixels and forms color filters which face the light reflection layers on the liquid-crystal-side surface of one transparent substrate or a liquid-crystal-side surface of the other transparent substrate which faces the one transparent substrate, and
light from the light source is irradiated such that respective colors thereof, which constitute three primary colors, are sequentially changed over;
wherein each pixel is constituted of a thin film transistor which is turned on in response to the supply of a scanning signal from a gate signal line and a pixel electrode to which a video signal is supplied from a drain signal line through the thin film transistor, and
wherein the reflection layer is constituted of an extension portion of the gate signal line or the drain signal line.
2. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein an area of the reflection layers is set at a rate of equal to or less than ⅓ of an area of regions of the pixels.