Patent ID: 7773174

Claim:
A liquid crystal panel, comprising a liquid crystal cell and a wide viewing angle compensation polarizing plate, said wide viewing angle compensation polarizing plate comprising: a laminate comprising an optical film ( 1 ) that is formed of an obliquely oriented material exhibiting optically-negative uniaxiality, an anisotropic light-scattering film ( 2 ) and a polarizer ( 3 ); wherein the optical film ( 1 ), the polarizer ( 3 ) and the anisotropic light-scattering film ( 2 ) are laminated in this order; wherein the wide viewing angle compensation polarizing plate is adhered to a viewer side substrate of the liquid crystal cell; and wherein a vector produced by projection of the maximum scattering direction of light passing through the anisotropic scattering film ( 2 ) onto an X-Y plane makes an angle of at most 40° with a vector produced by projection of the average director of a liquid crystal molecule in the liquid crystal cell onto the X-Y plane, a vector produced by projection of the maximum scattering direction of light passing through the anisotropic scattering film ( 2 ) onto a Z axis and a vector produced by projection of the average director of the liquid crystal molecule onto the Z axis are oriented in the same direction, and the X-Y plane is a plane of the liquid crystal panel, the Z axis is a direction perpendicular to the X-Y plane, and the maximum scattering direction of light passing through the anisotropic scattering film ( 2 ) and the average director of the liquid crystal molecule in the liquid crystal cell are each divided into the vector projected onto the X-Y plane and the vector projected onto the Z axis.