Patent ID: 8159635

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal cell including: a pair of transparent glass substrates each having a transparent electrode, wherein the pair of transparent glass substrates are disposed at an interval and the transparent electrode of one of the pair of the transparent glass substrates faces to the transparent electrode of the other of the pair of the transparent glass substrates; and a nematic liquid crystal between the pair of the transparent glass substrates, wherein the nematic liquid crystal has a negative dielectric anisotropy and a longitudinal axis of a liquid crystal molecule of the nematic liquid crystal is oriented in a direction approximately perpendicular to the transparent glass substrates with no voltage applied; and a pair of polarizing plates sandwiching the liquid crystal cell; wherein at least one of the pair of polarizing plates includes a protective film; a polarizer; and an optical compensation film, one of the pair of transparent glass substrates, an adhesive; the optical compensation film; the polarizer; and the protective film are stacked in this order, and the one of the pair of the transparent glass electrodes, the adhesive; and the optical compensation film satisfy the following equations (1) to (3): | n 1 −n 2|≦0.03 (1) | n 2 −n 3|≦0.03 (2) | n 1− n 3|≦0.03 (3) wherein n1, n2, and n3 indicate average refractive indices at 589 nm of the one of the pair of the transparent glass electrodes, the adhesive; and the optical compensation film, respectively.