Patent ID: 7868979

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display panel which is configured to include a liquid crystal layer held between a pair of substrates, and to which an OCB mode is applied; and an optical compensation element which is disposed on an outer surface of the liquid crystal display panel and which optically compensates a retardation of the liquid crystal layer in a predetermined display state in which a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer, the optical compensation element including: a polarizer; a first retardation plate which is disposed between the polarizer and the liquid crystal display panel and in which discotic liquid crystal molecules are fixed in a state in which the discotic liquid crystal molecules are hybrid-aligned along a normal direction; and a second retardation plate having wavelength dispersion characteristics of α 1 <1, when a ratio of an in-plane retardation Re430 at a wavelength of 430 nm to an in-plane retardation Re550 at a wavelength of 550 nm is α 1 .