Patent ID: 8248561

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: first and second transparent substrates; a liquid crystal layer squeezed between said first and second transparent substrates and vertically aligned at a retardation of 300 nm or larger to 1000 nm or smaller; first and second viewing angle compensators disposed on said first transparent substrate on a side opposite to said liquid crystal layer and having negative biaxial optical anisotropy; a first polarizer disposed on said first and second viewing angle compensators on a side opposite to said first transparent substrate; and a second polarizer disposed on said second transparent substrate on a side opposite to said liquid crystal layer, said second polarizer being crossed-Nichol disposed with said first polarizer, wherein: said second viewing angle compensator is disposed between said first transparent substrate and said first viewing angle compensator; an in-plane slow axis of said first viewing angle compensator is disposed perpendicular to an absorption axis of said first polarizer; the in-plane slow axis of said first viewing angle compensator is disposed perpendicular to an in-plane slow axis of said second viewing angle compensator; and a retardation in an in-plane direction of said first viewing angle compensator is larger than a retardation in an in-plane direction of said second viewing angle compensator.