Patent ID: 7777845

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a liquid crystal cell; a pair of polarizing plates disposed in cross-Nicol arrangement and sandwiching the liquid crystal cell, one of the pair of the polarizing plates having a polarizer and a protective film A disposed on a liquid crystal cell side thereof, the other of the pair of the polarizing plates having a polarizer and a protective film B disposed on a liquid crystal cell side thereof, wherein Re A (λ) and Rth A (λ) of the protective film A, Rth B (λ) of the protective film B and Δnd(λ) of the liquid crystal cell satisfy expressions (I) and (II) at a wavelength of 400 nm to 700 nm: 0.74×(Δ nd (λ)− Rth B (λ))≦ Rth A (λ)≦0.97×(Δ nd (λ)− Rth B (λ)) (I) 0.018×λ 2 /(Δ nd (λ)− Rth B (λ))+0.032×λ Re A (λ)≦0.036×λ 2 /(Δnd(λ)− Rth B (λ))+0.032×λ (II) wherein Re represents an in-plane retardation; Rth represents a thickness-direction retardation; (λ) means that the measurement wavelength is λ nm; Δn is the difference (n e −n o ) between an extraordinary index n e and an ordinary index n o of a liquid crystal in the liquid crystal cell; and d represents a cell gap by nm of the liquid crystal cell.