Patent ID: 7440056

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate having one surface on which a first electrode is provided; a second substrate which is arranged to face the first substrate, and is provided with a second electrode which forms a pixel region in accordance with a region facing the first electrode on one surface facing the first substrate; homeotropic aligning films formed on mutually faced surfaces of the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively; a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the first and second substrates and has a negative dielectric anisotropy a pair of polarizing plates each arranged on a side of the other surface opposite to the one surface of each of the first and second substrates; and a pair of optical compensation layers which are arranged respectively between the other surfaces of the first and second substrates and the pair of polarizing plates, and give a retardation having a value which is substantially ¼ of a wavelength λ of transmitted visible light to the transmitted visible light.