Patent ID: 8351001

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: first and second polarizers in cross Nichol configuration; a liquid crystal cell which is disposed between the first and second polarizers, and which establishes vertical alignment in a state of no voltage application; and an odd number of at least three optical films which have optical anisotropy, and which are disposed between the liquid crystal cell and the first polarizer, wherein: a retardation of the liquid crystal cell is equal to or larger than 550 nm and equal to or smaller than 1500 nm; and each of the optical films satisfies nx>ny≧nz, where nx, ny and nz are x-, y- and z-components of a refractive index in which an x-axis is an in-plane slow axis azimuth of each of the optical films, a y-axis is an in-plane azimuth perpendicular to the x-axis and a z-axis is a direction perpendicular to a film surface, an in-plane retardation of each of the optical films is equal to or larger than 30 nm and equal to or smaller than 300 nm, a thickness direction retardation of each of the optical films is equal to or larger than 50 nm and equal to or smaller than 300 nm, an angle between an in-plane slow axis of the optical film disposed nearest to the first polarizer and an absorption axis of the first polarizer is equal to or larger than 45° and equal to or smaller than 135°, and the slow axes of mutually adjacent optical films are perpendicular to each other.