Patent ID: 7864276

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a first substrate provided with an electrode pattern and subjected to an alignment process giving a pretilt angle that is at least 88.5Â° and not greater than 89.5Â°; a second substrate disposed generally in parallel to said first substrate, provided with an electrode pattern and subjected to an alignment process giving a pretilt angle that is at least 88.5Â° and not greater than 89.5Â°; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between said first substrate and said second substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer: has a thickness d; is made of liquid crystal molecule material which (i) is aligned generally perpendicular to said first substrate and said second substrate in a no voltage application state, and (ii) has a twist structure at a twist angle that is at least 160Â° and not greater than 240Â° in a voltage application state, in accordance with the alignment processes to which the first and second substrates are subjected; and contains chiral material having a chiral pitch p, where d/p is at least 0.2 and not greater than 0.74; a first polarizer disposed facing a plane of said first substrate on a side opposite to said liquid crystal layer, said first polarizer having as a transmission axis direction a first direction; a second polarizer disposed facing a plane of said second substrate on a side opposite to said liquid crystal layer, said second polarizer having as a transmission axis direction a second direction at an angle of at least 85Â° and not greater than 95Â° relative to said first direction as viewed along a direction normal to said first substrate and said second substrate; and an optical anisotropic plate having a delay phase axis in parallel to an in-plane direction of said first and second polarizers and disposed at least one of between said first substrate and said first polarizer and between said second substrate and said second polarizer.