| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20090273741 | OPTICAL MATERIAL HAVING A COLORED OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC LAYER - An optical material including a colored optically anisotropic layer, the colored optically anisotropic layer having at least one maximum absorption wavelength with a nonpolarized light transmittance of 30 percent or lower in a wavelength range of 430 to 700 nm, wherein the absorbance Amax at the polarization of maximum absorbance and the absorbance Amin at the polarization of minimum absorbance of the colored optically anisotropic layer satisfy the following relation at the maximum absorption wavelength: 1.0≦Amax/Amin≦1.4, and the in-plane retardation of the colored optically anisotropic layer is greater than or equal to 10 nm and less than 1,000 nm, which can be employed as a material for forming a color filter having optical compensation capability. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090291272 | BIREFRINGENT PATTERN BUILDER AND LAMINATED STRUCTURE MATERIAL FOR PREVENTING FORGERY - A birefringent pattern builder, having an optically anisotropic layer containing a polymer having unreacted reactive groups, | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090310195 | MEDIUM FOR PREVENTING FORGERY - A medium for preventing forgery having a hologram layer and at least one patterned optically anisotropic layer,
| 12-17-2009 |
| 20100047478 | POLYMERIZABLE LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOUND, PHASE DIFFERENCE FILM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A polymerizable liquid crystal compound is represented by the following formula (1): | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100302636 | VIEWER AND KIT FOR AUTHENTICATING BIREFRINGENT PATTERN, AUTHENTICITY-VERIFYING MEDIUM AND METHOD OF VERIFYING AUTHENTICITY - A viewer for authenticating a birefringent pattern having at least two regions having a different birefringence from each other, wherein the viewer contains a polarizing plate and at least one optically anisotropic layer laminated on the polarizing plate, a front retardation of the at least one optically anisotropic layer is 5 nm or more and the total of the front retardation of the at least one optically anisotropic layer and a maximum value of front retardation of the birefringent pattern is greater than λ/2. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110025973 | METHOD OF PRODUCING PATTERNED BIREFRINGENT PRODUCT AND BIREFRINGENT PATTERN BUILDING MATERIAL - A method of producing a patterned birefringent product, comprising at least steps [1] to [3] in this order:
| 02-03-2011 |
| 20110117295 | OPTICALLY ANISOTOPIC FILM, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING OPTICALLY ANISOTOPIC FILM, SUBSTRATE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL CELL, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A novel optically anisotropic film useful for optical compensation of a liquid crystal display device is provided. The optically anisotropic film has a distorted twisted spiral structure, which is formed from a liquid-crystalline composition comprising a liquid-crystalline compound and at least one optically active compound the torsional force of which is changed by light. The optically anisotropic film is produced, for example by ( | 05-19-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090174941 | OPTICAL DEVICE - There is provided an optical device including a plurality of first phasors having substantially the same phase delaying axis as each other; and a plurality of second phasors having substantially the same phase delaying axis as each other in a direction different from that of the first phasors and providing a phase difference substantially the same as that provided by the first phasors, in which the plurality of first phasors and the plurality of second phasors are arranged on substantially the same face, a density of the first phasors is substantially the same as a density of the second phasors, and a spatial distribution of the density of the first phasors and a spatial distribution of the density of the second phasors are substantially uniform. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090179143 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - An image capturing device includes a lens system including a plurality of regions on a pupil plane that each have different focal distances, a plurality of first polarizing elements that respectively transmit differently polarized light and respectively transmit light passing through the plurality of regions, a plurality of second polarizing elements that respectively transmit polarized light transmitted through the plurality of first polarizing elements, and a plurality of light receiving elements that respectively receive light transmitted through the plurality of second polarizing elements. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090190200 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND OPTICAL SYSTEM - There is provided an optical device including a plurality of polarizers that are arranged along a propagation direction of incident light, where the plurality of polarizers have transmission axes of substantially the same direction, a phaser that is provided between the plurality of polarizers, where the phaser has a retarded-phase axis forming a predetermined angle with the transmission axes of the plurality of polarizers, and a phase modulator that is provided adjacent to the phaser along the propagation direction, where the phase modulator has a retarded-phase axis of substantially the same direction as the retarded-phase axis of the phaser. Here, a phase difference generated in the incident light by the phase modulator is temporally adjusted such that the optical device transmits light in different wavelength ranges at different timings. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090206240 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND OPTICAL SYSTEM - Provided is an optical device, comprising a plurality of polarizers that are arranged along a propagation direction of incident light; a first phase element that is disposed between the plurality of polarizers and that has a phase lag axis forming a prescribed angle relative to transmission axes of the polarizers arranged along the propagation direction; and a second phase element that is disposed between the first phase element and one of the polarizers arranged along the propagation direction, and that provides the incident light with a prescribed phase difference. An angle of the phase lag axis of the second phase element is adjusted such that the optical device transmits light in a prescribed wavelength region in the incident light. | 08-20-2009 |