The present application relates to a liquid crystal display comprising: an upper polarizer; a lower polarizer; and a liquid crystal panel provided between the upper polarizer and the lower polarizer, in which the upper polarizer and the lower polarizer are provided such that the absorption axes thereof are parallel to each other, a wavelength plate is comprised between the upper polarizer and the liquid crystal panel which rotates linear polarized light at 85 to 90 degrees, and the liquid crystal panel is a horizontally aligned liquid crystal mode.

The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from a viewing surface side to a back surface side: a linearly polarizing plate and a circularly polarizing plate including a first λ/4 retardation layer; a thin-film transistor substrate including a pair of electrodes disposed in a pixel region and a metal line disposed outside the pixel region; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules aligned parallel to the thin-film transistor substrate, alignment of the liquid crystal molecules varying in response to an electric field generated by application of voltage to the pair of electrodes; a color filter substrate including a color filter layer; and a backlight, the thin-film transistor substrate including a second λ/4 retardation layer, the color filter substrate including a reflective layer disposed outside the pixel region and configured to reflect incident light from the backlight toward the back surface.

An optical film is provided and has retardations satisfying relations (1) to (3): (1) 0≦Re(550)≦10; (2) −25≦Rth(550)≦25; and (3) |I|+|II|+|III|+|IV|>0.5 (nm),
with definitions: I=Re(450)−Re(550); II=Re(650)−Re(550); III=Rth(450)−Rth(550); and IV=Rth(650)−Rth(550),
wherein Re(450), Re(550) and Re(650) are in-plane retardations measured with lights of wavelength of 450, 550 and 650 nm, respectively; and Rth(450), Rth(550) and Rth(650) are retardations in a thickness direction of the optical film, which are measured with lights of wavelength of 450, 550 and 650 nm, respectively.

In an image display device including a first display panel and a second display panel, there are provided a first panel body, a first panel body emission-side polarizing plate disposed at a front-surface side with respect to the first panel body, a second panel body, a second panel body incidence-side polarizing plate disposed at a back-surface side with respect to the second panel body, at least one inter-panel polarizing plate disposed between the first panel body and the second panel body, and a back-surface irradiation light source configured to emit light toward the back-surface side. The back-surface irradiation light source is provided in one of regions between the first panel body emission-side polarizing plate and the second panel body incidence-side polarizing plate.

A liquid crystal display panel is provided. The liquid crystal display panel comprises: a first substrate (110) and a second substrate (120) which are oppositely arranged, and a liquid crystal layer (130) arranged between the first substrate (110) and the second substrate (120); an alignment film (300) arranged on an inner side of the first substrate (110); and a compensation film (400) arranged on an inner side or an outer side of the second substrate (120). The inner side of the first substrate (110) and the inner side of the second substrate (120) are sides facing each other, and the outer side of the second substrate (120) is a side provided away from the inner side of the second substrate (120).

A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. Each pixel of the display panel includes a transmission region and a reflection region, and the display panel includes a first polarizer, a first base substrate, a first alignment layer, a liquid crystal layer, a second alignment layer, a second base substrate, and a second polarizer. A reflection layer is provided between the second alignment layer and the second polarizer in the reflection region. The liquid crystal layer in the reflection region includes nematic liquid crystal and a polymer network. The liquid crystal layer in the transmission region includes a liquid crystal mixture including the nematic liquid crystal and polymerizable monomers. The polymer network in reflection region is formed by polymerizing the polymerizable monomers in the liquid crystal mixture.

An optical film includes a negative C-plate, a light diffusion layer on the negative C-plate, and a polarizer on the negative C-plate where the polarizer includes a linear polarizer and a retardation plate on the linear polarizer, the light diffusion layer includes a first light-transmissive base and a plurality of first rods that have a different refractive index from that of the first light-transmissive base and are aligned at a first inclination angle within the first light-transmissive base, and the negative C-plate has an x-axis refractive index Nx, a y-axis refractive index Ny, and a z-axis refractive index Nz, where “Nx>Nz” and “Ny>Nz.”

A display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a liquid crystal panel including a curved display screen, and a phase compensation member provided at a position corresponding to each of corner portions of the curved display screen.

A display unit includes a display panel and a first protective sheet. The display panel has a light-emitting surface. The first protective sheet is provided on the light-emitting surface. The first protective sheet provided in the display unit includes a first impact dispersion layer, a first strain relaxation layer, and a gel-like first impact absorption layer. The first impact dispersion layer has a pencil hardness of 3H or higher. The first strain relaxation layer has flexural strength and tensile strength both higher than the flexural strength and the tensile strength of the first impact dispersion layer. The gel-like first impact absorption layer has a thickness of a submillimeter order or more. The first impact absorption layer, the first strain relaxation layer, and the first impact dispersion layer are arranged in this order from the light-emitting surface.

An optical assembly, a liquid crystal display panel, and a display apparatus, the optical assembly including: a quarter-wave plate, a half-wave plate, and a linear polariser stacked in sequence; the direction of the absorption axis of the linear polariser, the direction of the slow axis of the half-wave plate and the quarter-wave plate are all parallel to the linear polariser; a first included angle between the direction of the absorption axis of the linear polariser and a first direction is 90°-100°; a second included angle between the direction of the slow axis of the half-wave plate and the first direction is 107°-114°; a third included angle between the direction of the slow axis of the quarter-wave plate and the first direction is 164°-176°.