Patent ID: 7264852

Claim:
A liquid crystal panel comprising: a liquid crystal cell comprising a liquid crystal layer containing homogeneously aligned nematic liquid crystals in the absence of an electric field; a polarizer arranged on both sides of the liquid crystal cell; a first optical element arranged between one polarizer and the liquid crystal cell; and a second optical element arranged between the other polarizer and the liquid crystal cell, wherein: the first optical element comprises a retardation film containing a styrene-based resin and a polycarbonate-based resin and satisfying the following expressions (1) and (2) and has a refractive index profile of nx>nz>ny; and the second optical element has substantially optical isotropy, 240 nm<Re[590]<350 nm (1) 0.20< Rth[ 590]/ Re[ 590]<0.80 (2) wherein the expressions (1) and (2), Re[590] and Rth[590] respectively represent in-plane retardation and thickness direction retardation values of the film measured by using light of a wavelength of 590 nm at 23° C., wherein a content of the styrene-based resin in the retardation film is 10 to 40 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of a total solid content.