Patent ID: 8531630

Claim:
A liquid crystal panel, comprising: a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizing plate placed on one side of the liquid crystal cell; and a second polarizing plate placed on another side of the liquid crystal cell, wherein: the first polarizing plate comprises a first polarizer and a first protective layer which is placed on a liquid crystal cell side of the first polarizer, and a refractive index ellipsoid of the first protective layer exhibits a relationship of nx>ny>nz; and a transmittance (T 1 ) of the first polarizing plate is higher than a transmittance (T 2 ) of the second polarizing plate; and wherein a difference (ΔT=T 1 −T 2 ) between the transmittance (T 1 ) of an entirety of the first polarizing plate and the transmittance (T 2 ) of an entirety of the second polarizing plate is 0.1% to 6.0%, wherein the light transmittance (T 1 ) of the first polarizer is 41.1% to 44.3% and the light transmittance (T 2 ) of the second polarizer is 38.3% to 43.3%; and wherein the first polarizer and the second polarizer each contain as a main component a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin containing iodine; and wherein a slow axis direction of the first protective layer is substantially perpendicular to an absorption axis direction of the first polarizer.