Patent ID: 8670091

Claim:
A display device comprising: a first light-transmissive substrate and a second light-transmissive substrate which are provided so as to face each other; a display element provided between the first light-transmissive substrate and the second light-transmissive substrate; a first layer including a first stack of polarizers that includes a first polarizer, a second polarizer and a third polarizer adjacent to the first light-transmissive substrate; and a second layer including a second stack of polarizers that includes a fourth polarizer and a fifth polarizer adjacent to the second light-transmissive substrate, wherein absorption axes of the first polarizer, the second polarizer and the third polarizer are in a parallel nicol state, wherein absorption axes of the fourth polarizer and the fifth polarizer are in a parallel nicol state, wherein the absorption axes of the first polarizer, the second polarizer and the third polarizer and the absorption axes of the fourth polarizer and the fifth polarizer are deviated from a cross nicol state, wherein the first polarizer, the second polarizer and the third polarizer are stacked in this order, wherein a wavelength distribution of extinction coefficient of an absorption axis of the first polarizer is the same as that of the third polarizer, wherein a wavelength distribution of extinction coefficient of an absorption axis of the second polarizer is different from that of the first polarizer or that of the third polarizer, and wherein a wavelength distribution of extinction coefficient of an absorption axis of the fourth polarizer is different from that of the fifth polarizer.