Patent ID: 7505100

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device in which a light source, a light-scattering or light-reflecting polarizer, a light-absorbing polarizer, liquid crystal cells, and a light-absorbing polarizer are disposed in this order, wherein the light-absorbing polarizer on the light source side has a polarizing film between two sheets of transparent polymer films, and the in-plane retardation value and the retardation value of the thickness direction of the transparent polymer films on the light source side satisfy the following Expressions (I) to (IV): 0<Re(630)<10, (I) | Rth (630)|<25, (II) | Re (400)− Re (700)|<10, and (III) | Rth (400)− Re (700)|<35, and (IV) in the above Expressions, Re(λ) is an in-plane retardation value (unit: nm) in the transparent polymer film as measured at the wavelength of λ nm and Rth(λ) is a retardation value (unit: nm) of a thickness direction in a transparent polymer film as measured at the wavelength of λ nm.