Patent ID: 8274627

Claim:
A liquid crystal panel, comprising: a liquid crystal cell comprising a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal molecule that is oriented in homogeneous alignment when no electric field is applied thereto; a first polarizer placed on one side of the liquid crystal cell; a second polarizer placed on another side of the liquid crystal cell; a first anisotropic optical element placed between the liquid crystal cell and the first polarizer and satisfying nx 1 >ny 1 >nz 1 ; and a second anisotropic optical element placed between the first anisotropic optical element and the liquid crystal cell and satisfying nz 2 >nx 2 >ny 2 , wherein: the slow axis of the first anisotropic optical element is parallel to the slow axis of the second anisotropic optical element, and nx 1 and nx 2 represent the refractive indices of the first and second anisotropic optical elements in in-plane slow axis directions thereof, respectively, ny 1 and ny 2 represent the refractive indices of the first and second anisotropic optical elements in in-plane fast axis directions, respectively, and nz 1 and nz 2 represent the refractive indices of the first and second anisotropic optical elements in their thickness directions thereof, respectively.