Patent ID: 7139054
Filing Date: 2006-11-21
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. An active matrix liquid crystal display panel, comprising: a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines disposed in an intersecting relationship with each other like gratings on one of a pair of transparent insulating substrates, a plurality of active elements individually provided in the proximity of intersecting points of said scanning lines and said signal lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to said active elements, a plurality of opposing electrodes disposed corresponding to said pixel electrodes, a voltage being applied between said pixel electrodes and said opposing electrodes, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the one transparent insulating substrate and the other transparent insulating substrate, a pair of polarizing plates disposed on the outer sides of said transparent insulating substrates, and a mechanism for controlling a display with an electric field substantially parallel to said liquid crystal layer; and an optical compensation layer having a negative refractive index anisotropy in a one axis direction, a projection of the anisotropic axis of said optical compensation layer on a plane of one of said substrates being parallel to at least one of polarization axes of said two polarizing plates, said optical compensation layer being disposed at least between the one transparent insulating substrate and a corresponding one of said polarizing plates, wherein a refractive index n