Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Mikiya Itakura

Toshiomi Ono

Toshihiro Aoki

Seiichi Kizaki

Ken Kozima

A display cell is mounted on a color-compensating cell. The display cell has a pair of substrates each having an alignment-treated surface, a first liquid-crystal layer and electrodes. Multiplex drive signals are supplied to the electrodes. The color-compensating cell has a second liquid-crystal layer. The molecules of the first liquid-crystal layer are twisted by a twist angle ranging from 160.degree. to 270.degree.. The molecules of the second liquid-crystal layer are twisted by the same angle in the opposite direction. The substrates are alignment-treated in two directions, respectively, which are substantially at right angles to each other. One of the polarizing plates has an optical axis crossing at 35.degree. to 50.degree. with an aligning direction of the liquid crystal molecules on that substrate adjacent to the polarizing plate, and crossing with the optical axis of the other polarizing plate at right angles. The second liquid-crystal cell compensates for the coloring of the light passing through the display cell. The second liquid-crystal layer has retardation .DELTA.n.sub.2 .multidot.d.sub.2, which is less than the retardation .DELTA.n.sub.1 .multidot.d.sub.1 of said first liquid-crystal layer, for compensating for a decrease in the retardation .DELTA.n.sub.1 .multidot.d.sub.1, which has resulted from the excitation of the liquid-crystal molecules by application of a bias voltage to unselected pixels of the display cell.

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Mikiya Itakura