In the conventional manufacture method that has reduced the number of
manufacture processes by forming semiconductor layers and source-drain
wires for a channel-etch type insulating gate transistor in a single
photo etching process using halftone exposure technology, the channel
length increases when the photosensitive resin pattern used at above
formation process of source-drain patterning is reduced. Hence the
manufacture tolerance (margin) is small, and the yield decreases when the
distance between the source wire and drain wire is shortened. This
invention suggests the 4-mask process and 3-mask process of the TN type
liquid crystal display devices and IPS-type liquid crystal display
devices by combining the following: streamline technology to form the
already known pixel electrodes and scanning lines simultaneously; new
technology to streamline the opening formation process in gate insulating
layers and island formation process of semiconductor layer, using
halftone exposure technology; and new technology to streamline the
protective layer formation process for electrode terminals by adding
halftone exposure technology to the already known anode oxidization
technology for source-drain wires.