Patent ID: 8395732

Claim:
A liquid crystal panel, comprising: a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizer placed on one side of the liquid crystal cell; a second polarizer placed on another side of the liquid crystal cell; a biaxial optical element placed between the liquid crystal cell and the first polarizer; and a negative C plate placed between the second polarizer and the biaxial optical element, wherein: a direction of an absorption axis of the first polarizer is substantially perpendicular to a direction of an absorption axis of the second polarizer; a refractive index ellipsoid of the biaxial optical element has a relationship of nx>nz>ny and a direction of a slow axis of the biaxial optical element is substantially parallel to the direction of the absorption axis of the first polarizer; a refractive index ellipsoid of the negative C plate has a relationship of nx=ny>nz; and a wavelength dispersion value (D 1 ) of the biaxial optical element and a wavelength dispersion value (D 2 ) of the negative C plate satisfy a relationship of D 1 ≧D 2 , wherein said liquid crystal panel comprises only one biaxial optical element, said nz coefficient of said biaxial optical element is 0.3 to 0.6, and the liquid crystal cell includes a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules aligned in a homeotropic alignment in the absence of an electric field.