Patent ID: 7876403

Claim:
An optical compensation film comprising at least a first optically anisotropic layer and a second optically anisotropic layer, the first optically anisotropic layer having an in-plane retardation of 0 to 10 nm and an in-thickness direction retardation of −400 to −80 nm, the second optically anisotropic layer having an in-plane retardation of 20 to 150 nm and an in-thickness direction retardation of 100 to 300 nm, and at least either one of the first and second optically anisotropic layer being a polymer film; and wherein the first optically anisotropic layer comprises rod-like liquid crystal molecules fixed in a homeotropic alignment state, and a retardation of the first optically anisotropic layer measured in a direction rotated by 40° from a normal line of the layer plane satisfies a relationship below: 1≦Re(40) 450 /Re(40) 550 ≦1.07 Where, Re(40) 450 and Re(40) 550 represent retardation values measured in a direction 40° rotated from the normal line, at 450 nm and 550 nm, respectively.