Stereoscopic image recognition apparatus

A stereoscopic image recognition apparatus comprising:

• a liquid crystal display I that comprises:
• a backlight unit, a first liquid crystal cell and a pair of polarizing plates interposing the first liquid crystal cell therebetween, one of the polarizing plates being a display side polarizing plate on a display side of the first liquid crystal cell and the other of the polarizing plates being on a backlight unit side of the first liquid crystal cell;
• and
• a time division image display shutter II that comprises a second liquid crystal cell and that is disposed between a display surface of the liquid crystal display I and a viewer, wherein the liquid crystal display I includes a λ/4 plate A in a protection region for the display side polarizing plate, the protection region being a region on the display side of a polarizer of the one of the polarizing plates, wherein an angle formed by an absorption axis of the display side polarizing plate and a slow axis of the λ/4 plate A is 35 to 55° or 125 to 145°, and the protection region satisfies the following Expression (III),
• wherein the time division image display shutter II includes a polarizing plate C between the second liquid crystal cell and the viewer and includes a λ/4 plate B between the polarizing plate C and the liquid crystal display I,
• wherein when the absorption axis of the display side polarizing plate and the absorption axis of the polarizing plate C are disposed so as to be perpendicular or parallel to each other, the slow axes of the λ/4 plate A and the λ/4 plate B are perpendicular or parallel to each other:
• |Rth (550)|≦80 nm (III)
• wherein Rth (λ) is a retardation (nm) in a thickness direction at a wavelength λ nm, and
• wherein the protection region for the display side polarizing plate has an Re(550) of 100 to 175 nm,
• wherein the protection region satisfies the following Expressions (IV) and (V):
• 1.00≦Re(450)/Re(550)≦1.18 (IV)
• 0.92≦Re(630)/Re(550)≦1.00 (V)
• where Re (λ) is an in-plane retardation (nm) at a wavelength λ nm, and
• wherein the λ/4 plate B satisfies the following Expressions (XII) and (XIII):
• Re(450)/Re(550)≦0.89 (XII)
• Re(630)/Re(550)≧1.04 (XIII)
• where Re (λ) is an in-plane retardation (nm) at a wavelength λ nm.