Patent ID: 8169574

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: first and second transparent substrates; a liquid crystal layer squeezed between said first and second transparent substrates and vertically aligned at a retardation of 300 nm or larger to 940 nm or smaller; two or three viewing angle compensators disposed on said first transparent substrate on a side opposite to said liquid crystal layer, each of said viewing angle compensators having a retardation of 90 nm or larger to 350 nm or smaller in a thickness direction and a retardation of 5 nm or larger to 30 nm or smaller in an in-plane direction; a first polarizer disposed on said two or three viewing angle compensator on a side opposite to said first transparent substrate; and a second polarizer disposed on said second transparent substrate on a side opposite to said liquid crystal layer and crossed-Nichol disposed relative to said first polarizer; wherein an in-plane slow axis of each of said viewing angle compensators is disposed perpendicular to an absorption axis of said first polarizer.