Patent ID: 8400592

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a pair of polarizing plates, each comprising a polarizer and a transparent layer, transmission axes of the pair of polarizing plates being perpendicular to each other; and a liquid crystal panel between the pair of polarizing plates, wherein the liquid crystal panel comprises a pair of substrates disposed opposite to each other, one of the pair of substrates having an electrode on one side thereof, a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules aligned by alignment axes of opposite surfaces of the pair of substrates, and a pair of optically anisotropic layers, the liquid crystal layer being between the pair of optically anisotropic layers wherein the liquid crystal panel has a double symmetrical axis with respect to a cubic structure defined by: upper and lower alignment control directions of the liquid crystal layer which are defined by the alignment axes of opposite surfaces of the pair of substrates; and alignment control directions of the pair of optically anisotropic layers, the double symmetrical axis being parallel to the surfaces of the pair of substrates, a transmission axis of one of the pair of polarizing plates is parallel to the double symmetrical axis, and a transmission axis of the other of the pair of polarizing plates is perpendicular to the double symmetrical axis, and wherein the transparent layer between the liquid crystal layer and the polarizer is a biaxial retardation layer, and an in-plane retardation axis perpendicular to an absorption axis of the polarizer closer to the biaxial retardation layer.