Patent ID: 8184245

Claim:
A VA-mode liquid crystal display device comprising: a pair of polarizing elements; a liquid crystal cell disposed between the pair of polarizing elements; and an optical compensation film, having retardation in plane at a wavelength of 550 nm, Re(550), falling within the range from 20 to 100 nm, and retardation along thickness direction at a wavelength of 500 nm, Rth(550), falling within the range from 60 to 120 nm, disposed between the liquid crystal cell and each of the pair of polarizing elements; and a backlight unit outside of one of the pair of polarizing elements, wherein the backlight unit is a directly-beneath type backlight unit comprising; a light emission surface, a plurality of light sources placed below the light emission surface, and light emission spectrum setting means for separately setting light emission spectra in a front direction which is parallel to the normal line direction relative to the light emission surface and in an oblique direction which is inclined at a predetermined angle from the normal line direction.