Patent ID: 7646457

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal cell, two polarizing plates, each polarizing plate being disposed on a side of the liquid crystal cell, and at least two optical compensatory films, each optical compensatory film being disposed between one of the polarizing plates and the liquid crystal cell, wherein each polarizing plate comprises a polarizer and two protective films disposed on both sides of the polarizer, and at least one of the protective films on the side toward the liquid crystal cell satisfies the relation of the following formulae (1) and (2) within a wavelength range of from 400 to 700 nm, one of the optical compensatory films satisfies the relation of the following formulae (9) to (12), and the other one of the optical compensatory films satisfies the following formulae (13) to (16): 0 nm≦ Re (λ)≦5 nm (1) −20 nm≦ Rth (λ)≦20 nm (2) 50 nm< Re (548)<200 nm (9) 30 nm< Rth (548)<150 nm (10) 0.5< Re (446)/ Re (548)<1 (11) 1.0< Re (628)/ Re (548)<2.0 (12) 0 nm≦ Re (548)<10 nm (13) 100 nm< Rth (548)<300 nm (14) 1.0< Rth (446)/ Rth (548)<2.0 (15) 0.5< Rth (628)/ Rth (548)<1.0 (16) wherein Re(λ) represents an in-plane retardation at a wavelength λ and Rth(λ) represents a retardation in the thickness direction of the film at a wavelength λ, wherein the optical compensatory films satisfying the following formulae (13) to (16) is formed on a protective film of cellulose acylate.