Patent ID: 7898620

Claim:
A transmissive liquid crystal display device comprising at least: a backlight; a polarizer; a second optically anisotropic layer with a retardation of 80 to 180 nm at a wavelength of 550 nm; a first optically anisotropic layer with a retardation of 50 to 140 nm at a wavelength of 550 nm; a homogeneously aligned liquid crystal cell of ECB mode comprising upper and lower substrates facing each other and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the upper and lower substrates; and a polarizer, arranged in piles in this order from the backlight, the first optically anisotropic layer comprising at least a liquid crystal film with a fixed nematic hybrid liquid crystal orientation structure, an angle formed by a slow axis of the second optically anisotropic layer and a tilt direction, projected to a plane, of the hybrid orientation of the liquid crystal film forming the first optically anisotropic layer being in the range of 70 to 110 degrees, and the liquid crystal film of the first optically anisotropic layer being produced by fixing a liquid crystalline substance exhibiting an optically positive uniaxiality, in a nematic hybrid orientation formed when the substance is in the liquid crystal state, and the average tilt angle of the nematic hybrid orientation being in a range of 5 to 45 degrees.