Patent ID: 7239362

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a liquid crystal cell including a liquid crystal layer of twisted nematic mode held between an upper substrate and a lower substrate that oppose each other, and a semi-transparent reflective layer provided on an inner side of the lower substrate, the inner side being adjacent to the liquid crystal layer; a first elliptically polarizing plate to cause elliptically polarized light to enter the liquid crystal layer through the upper substrate; and a second elliptically polarizing plate to cause elliptically polarized light to enter the liquid crystal layer through the lower substrate, each of the first elliptically polarizing plate and the second elliptically polarizing plate including a polarizer for transmitting linearly polarized light, at least one liquid crystal film fixed in nematic hybrid alignment, and at least one stretched film, wherein angles formed between phase-retarding axes of the liquid crystal films fixed in nematic hybrid alignment in the first elliptically polarizing plate and the second elliptically polarizing plate and an axis including the azimuth direction of a director of liquid crystal molecules at almost a center of the liquid crystal cell are within a range from plus 30 degrees to minus 30 degrees.