Patent ID: 8659711

Claim:
A liquid crystal cell, comprising a unit cell containing a liquid crystal layer and forming a pixel, and a phase difference layer laminated body including a phase difference layer arranged at least on one side in a thickness direction of the unit cell, and to be used in a liquid crystal display device capable of displaying a three-dimensional image, wherein the unit cell is configured such that liquid crystal molecules on a surface of the liquid crystal layer are orientable in directions along two different directors within each of the unit cells; the phase difference layer laminated body comprises a photo-oriented film, and a phase difference layer made of a liquid crystal material that can form an oriented nematic phase on the photo-oriented film and that has mutually different directions of refractive index anisotropy within a plane of the phase difference layer; the photo-oriented film has two types of patterns forming two parts having different orientation directions for right eye and left eye, respectively; and the liquid crystal material contacting the two types of patterns has fixed orientations such that the directions of refractive index anisotropy coincide with the two different orientation directions of the photo-oriented film and such that the orientation directions correspond to the directions of the directors for the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer.