Patent ID: 8300188

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixels; a microlens array provided on a light-incident side of the liquid crystal panel; a first polarizing plate and a first optical compensation element provided on a light-outgoing side of the liquid crystal panel; a second polarizing plate and a second optical compensation element provided on a light-incident side of the microlens array, a backlight provided on a light-incident side of the second polarizing plate, the backlight having higher directivity along a first direction than along a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction, and wherein, the first optical compensation element comprises a positive substantially monoaxial phase difference film having substantial retardation in an in-plane direction but substantially no retardation in a thickness direction, and a negative substantially monoaxial viewing angle compensation film having a retardation of from 200-300 nm in the thickness direction and substantially no retardation in an in-plane direction; the second optical compensation element comprises a positive substantially monoaxial phase difference film having substantial retardation in an in-plane direction but substantially no retardation in a thickness direction, but no viewing angle compensation film having a retardation of from 200-300 nm in the thickness direction and substantially no retardation in an in-plane direction is provided on the light-incident side of the microlens array, so that a retardation of the first optical compensation element along the thickness direction is greater than a retardation of the second optical compensation element along the thickness direction.