Patent ID: 8049843

Claim:
A polarizing plate comprising at least first and second polarizing elements and satisfying following formulae (1) to (3): kx 1 >ky 1 =kz 1 (1) kz 2 >ky 2 (2) ( kx 1 −ky 1 )× d 1 >( kz 2 −ky 2 )× d 2 (3) wherein an x-axis and a y-axis are in-plane axes crossing perpendicularly to each other, and a z-axis is the axis crossing perpendicularly to the x-y axis plane; kx 1 , ky 1 and kz 1 each are the absorption coefficient in the x-axis, y-axis and z-axis directions, respectively, of the first polarizing element; ky 2 and kz 2 each are the absorption coefficient in the y-axis and z-axis directions, respectively, of the second polarizing element; and d 1 and d 2 each are the thickness (unit: nm) of the first and second polarizing elements, respectively.