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20080199637 | Optical Compensatory Film, Process for Producing the Same, and Polarizing Plate and Liquid Crystal Display Employing the Same - A novel optical compensatory sheet comprising an optically anisotropic layer comprising at least one liquid crystal compound, at least one cellulose ester, and at least one polymer A comprising at least one repeating unit derived from a monomer having a fluoro-aliphatic group, and at least one repeating unit having a group selected from the group consisting of carboxyl group (—COOH) or a salt thereof, a sulfo group (—SO | 08-21-2008 |
20090040433 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND COLOR FILM PLATE, AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A novel liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, liquid crystal held between the first substrate and the second substrate, patterned layers divided into fine areas, disposed on the first substrate, comprising at least a patterned color filter layer and a patterned first optically anisotropic layer laminated in the direction of the normal line of the substrate, and a barrier wall disposed at a boundary portion of the adjacent fine areas of the patterned layers. | 02-12-2009 |
20100045901 | OPTICAL FILM AND RETARDATION SHEET, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOUND - A compound of formula (1): wherein A | 02-25-2010 |
20100157204 | OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC FILM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An optically anisotropic film comprising at least one species of liquid crystal compound which exhibits a nematic phase or a smectic phase, the liquid crystal phase showing birefringence Δn(λ) at wavelength λ which satisfies the numerical expression ( | 06-24-2010 |
20110051052 | POLARIZING FILM, LAMINATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A polarizing film, satisfying DI′/P′≦4.3×10 | 03-03-2011 |
20110177315 | DICHROIC DYE COMPOSITION, LIGHT ABSORPTION ANISOTROPIC FILM, AND POLARIZING ELEMENT - A light absorption anisotropic film, having at least one dichroic dye, in which the light absorption anisotropic film shows a diffraction peak derived from a periodic structure in a direction in a plane of the light absorption anisotropic film in X-ray diffraction measurement and the diffraction peak has a half width of 1.0 Å or less. | 07-21-2011 |
20120099054 | COLOR FILTER AND LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY ELEMENT - A color filter for use in a light-emitting display element which emits at least white light, the color filter including a circularly polarizing layer which includes a polarizing layer, the polarizing layer having an orientation layer and a liquid crystal compound layer, wherein the circularly polarizing layer is formed only in an optical path of the white light. | 04-26-2012 |
20120107530 | Printing paper for printing stereoscopic image, stereoscopic image printed matter, and method for providing stereoscopic image - Provided is printing paper for printing a stereoscopic image, including a light-transmitting image-receiving layer ( | 05-03-2012 |
20120293734 | OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC ELEMENT, POLARIZING PLATE, STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE, AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY SYSTEM - Reduction of crosstalk of a stereoscopic display device equipped with an optically anisotropic element having a finely patterned optically anisotropic layer. The optically anisotropic element has a patterned optically anisotropic layer which contains a first retardation area and a second retardation area differing from each other in at least either the direction of in-plane slow axes or the in-plane retardation, and the first and second retardation area being alternately arranged in plane, the patterned optically anisotropic layer being disposed on a surface of a laminate having a first film and a second film, while an in-plane slow axes of the first and an in-plane slow axis the second film being orthogonal to each other. | 11-22-2012 |
20130027767 | OPTICAL FILM, SECURITY PRODUCT, AND AUTHENTICITY DETERMINATION METHOD - The present invention provides an optical film with an excellent counterfeit prevention effect. The optical film of the present invention includes: a pattern optically anisotropic layer in which at least a first phase difference region, a second phase difference region, and a third phase difference region are arranged to be in proximity with one another within the same plane, wherein the in-plane slow axis direction is different for the first phase difference region and the third phase difference region, and in the second phase difference region, the slow axis direction is parallel to, and an in-plane retardation is different from, either the first phase difference region or the third phase difference region. | 01-31-2013 |
20130044267 | OPTICAL FILM FOR 3D IMAGE DISPLAY, 3D IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND 3D IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Disclosed is an optical film for 3D image display devices, comprising at least an optically-anisotropic layer formed of a composition that comprises, as the main ingredient thereof, a polymerizable liquid crystal, and a polarizing film having an absorption axis in the direction at 45° to an arbitrary side, wherein the total of retardation along the thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm Rth(550) of all the members including the optically-anisotropic layer disposed on one face of the polarizing film is from −100 to 100 nm. | 02-21-2013 |
20130106675 | OPTICAL FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, PICTURE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND 3D PICTURE DISPLAY SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
20130107173 | PHOTOCHROMIC POLARIZING PLATE AND SHUTTER POLARIZING PLATE | 05-02-2013 |
20130286329 | OPTICAL FILM, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND POLARIZING PLATE AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - An optical film comprising a transparent support, and thereon, an alignment layer comprising at least one photo-acid-generating agent, and an optically anisotropic layer formed of a composition comprising a liquid crystal having a polymerizable group as a main ingredient is disclosed. The optically anisotropic layer is an optically anisotropic patterned layer comprising a first retardation domain and a second retardation domain disposed alternately in a plane. | 10-31-2013 |
20140036175 | OPTICAL FILM FOR 3D IMAGE DISPLAY, 3D IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND 3D IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Disclosed is an optical film for 3D image display devices, including at least an optically-anisotropic layer formed of a composition that includes, as the main ingredient thereof, a discotic liquid crystal having at least one polymerizable group, wherein the optically-anisotropic layer is a patterned optically-anisotropic layer which includes a first retardation domain and a second retardation domain differing from each other in at least one of the in-plane slow axis direction and retardation in-plane thereof and in which the first and second retardation domains are alternately arranged in plane. | 02-06-2014 |
20140184992 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes first and second polarizers with absorption axes orthogonal to each other; first and second substrates between the first and second polarizers and at least one of which has a transparent electrode; and a twisted-nematic liquid crystal cell disposed between the first and second substrates, wherein a light scattering film is provided at a viewing side of the first and second polarizers and includes a support member and a liquid crystal layer composed of a liquid crystal compound, wherein the pitch of the liquid crystal compound ranges between 0.35 μm and 3 μm and is oriented at 45° relative to a liquid-crystal direction of the liquid crystal display device, wherein the liquid crystal layer has a thickness between 0.17 μm and 10 μm, and wherein a weighted scattering area ratio of a goniophotometer scattering profile of the light scattering film satisfies the following expression: | 07-03-2014 |
20150079380 | OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC LAYER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, LAMINATE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, POLARIZING PLATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE - To suppress a phenomenon where an optical axis of the optically anisotropic layer is tilted when the optically anisotropic layer is produced by using a liquid crystalline compound showing smectic phase as a materials showing a higher level of orderliness. An optically anisotropic layer wherein a polymerizable composition, containing one or more polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compound showing a smectic phase, is fixed in a state of smectic phase, and a direction of maximum refractive index of the optically anisotropic layer is inclined at 10° or smaller to the surface of the optically anisotropic layer, a method for manufacturing the same, a laminate and a method for manufacturing the same, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic EL display device. | 03-19-2015 |
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20080259268 | PROCESS OF PRODUCING SUBSTRATE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A process of producing a substrate for liquid crystal display device comprising an optically anisotropic layer, which comprises forming the optically anisotropic layer by a process comprising the following [1] to [3]: | 10-23-2008 |
20090086140 | PHOTO ALIGNMENT FILM AND RETARDATION FILM, AND THEIR APPLICATIONS, AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THEM - Disclosed is a composition comprising at least one polymer compound represented by formula (1) below, and at least one polymerizable compound. | 04-02-2009 |
20090087590 | OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC FILM, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - Disclosed is an optically anisotropic film comprising at least one compound having a partial structure represented by formula (1): where, each of R | 04-02-2009 |
20090109378 | COMPOSITION, FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a composition comprising a polymer comprising a repeating unit represented by formula (I). Each of A | 04-30-2009 |
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 |
20090274853 | DICHROIC DYE COMPOSITION - A dichroic dye composition, containing at least one kind of azo dye represented by formula (I) that has a liquid crystallinity: | 11-05-2009 |
20100134726 | POLARIZING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A polarizing element, containing: a transparent support; a light absorption anisotropic layer formed of a dichroic dye composition; and a transparent resin cured layer, with the layers being laminated in this order on the support, and with the composition containing at least one dichroic dye of formula (I) which has nematic mesomorphism but containing no liquid crystalline achromatic compound: | 06-03-2010 |
20100182543 | LIQUID CRYSTALLINE COMPOSITION AND LIGHT ABSORPTION ANISOTROPIC FILM, A POLARIZING ELEMENT AND A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, EACH EMPLOYING THE SAME - A liquid crystalline composition, having a liquid crystalline dichroic azo dye that is represented by formula (I) and has an expression temperature of the nematic phase of 150° C. to 300° C. in a temperature elevating process, and at least one liquid crystalline dichroic azo dye, wherein an expression temperature of the nematic phase of the liquid crystalline composition is 120° C. or higher in a temperature elevating process: | 07-22-2010 |
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 |
20130083276 | PRINTING SHEET FOR PRINTING STEREO PICTURE, STEREO PICTURE PRINT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STEREO PICTURE PRINT, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING STEREO PICTURE - Provided is a stereo picture print having reduced crosstalk and ghost images. The printing sheet for printing a stereo picture comprises, in sequence: a light-transmissive image receiving layer; a linearly polarizing layer; and a retardation layer, wherein the retardation layer is formed by fixing in an aligned state a composition containing a compound having refractive index anisotropy and is patterned into a first domain and a second domain which have different in-plane slow axes or have different in-plane retardations. | 04-04-2013 |
20130100367 | OPTICAL FILM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND POLARIZING PLATE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND STEREO PICTURE DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE OPTICAL FILM - Provide is an optical film which includes an optically anisotropic layer having a high-definition alignment pattern, can be readily produced, and is utility. The optical film comprising: a transparent support; an alignment film subjected to a unidirectional alignment treatment; and an optically anisotropic layer formed of one kind of composition mainly containing liquid crystal having a polymerizable group, wherein the optically anisotropic layer is a patterned optically anisotropic layer having first retardation regions and second retardation regions alternately disposed in a plane, and the first retardation regions and the second retardation regions have in-plane slow axes orthogonal to each other. | 04-25-2013 |
20130120676 | STEREO IMAGE PRINT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a stereo image print observable without polarized glasses, having a transparent support; first and second laminate disposed on a surface, respectively, of the transparent support, each laminate having an image layer satisfying condition (1) and a protective layer having at least one layer satisfying condition (2), the image layer and the protective layer being disposed in this order from the transparent support side: (1) each image layer has a dichroic image including pixels for a left eye and pixels for a right eye arranged in a predetermined array, each pixel having at least one kind of horizontally aligned dichroic dye, and absorption axes of the dichroic images in the first and the second laminates are orthogonal to each other, (2) the protective layer has an in-plane retardation value (Re) 10 mm or less for visible light. | 05-16-2013 |
20130169896 | STEREO IMAGE PRINT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Stereo image print observable without polarized glasses, having: a transparent support; first laminate and second laminate disposed on a front surface and a back surface, respectively, of the transparent support, each laminate having an image layer satisfying condition (1) and protective layer having at least one layer satisfying condition (2), the image layer and the protective layer being disposed in this order from the transparent support side: (1) each image layer has a dichroic image including pixels for a left eye and pixels for a right eye arranged in a predetermined array, each pixel has at least one horizontally aligned dichroic dye, and absorption axes of the dichroic images included in the first and the second laminates are orthogonal to each other, (2) the protective layer has an in-plane retardation value (Re) of 10 nm or less for visible light; and a linearly polarizing layer satisfying the according to predefined condition. | 07-04-2013 |
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20110242637 | COLOR TONE VARIABLE FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTROCHROMIC ELEMENT OBTAINED BY THE MANUFACTURING METHOD - The present invention provides a color tone variable film which is formed by a reaction of a cationic polymer containing a structural unit containing a positive ionic group in a side chain and a compound containing an acid group and a partial structure which can change color tone as a result of energy application, which can be formed by a wet method, which has flexibility and strength in practical use, and which changes color tone with high sensitivity as a result of energy application, a simple manufacturing method thereof, and an electrochromic element obtained by the manufacturing method. | 10-06-2011 |
20130070899 | POLARIZING FILM, DISPLAY DEVICE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREOF - A polarizing film comprising a substrate, and a photo alignment film and a light absorption anisotropic film laminated on the substrate in this order, wherein the light absorption anisotropic film has a content ratio of 30% by mass or less of a liquid crystalline non-colorable low molecular weight compound and is obtained by fixing the alignment of a dichroic dye composition comprising at least one nematic liquid crystalline azo dichroic dye; in X-ray diffraction measurement thereof, diffraction peaks derived from periodic structure along a vertical direction to the alignment axis are present, the period indicated by at least one of the diffraction peaks is 3.0 to 15.0A and an intensity of the diffraction peak does not show a maximum value in the range of ±70° of the film normal line direction in a plane vertical to the alignment axis. | 03-21-2013 |
20130107195 | LIGHT ABSORPTION ANISOTROPIC FILM, POLARIZING FILM, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE POLARIZING FILM AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE POLARIZING FILM | 05-02-2013 |
20130141681 | LAMINATE, OPTICAL FILM AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR THESE, POLARIZING PLATE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A laminate comprising a transparent support and, as formed on the transparent support, a patterned alignment control layer containing a first alignment control region and a second alignment control region each having an alignment control surface, in which the two regions differ from each other in point of the composition thereof and in point of the alignment-controlling capability thereof, in which the individual alignment control surfaces are alternately positioned in the patterned alignment control layer, and in which the alignment control surfaces of the first alignment control region and the second alignment control region can control liquid crystals in such a manner that the long axes of the aligned liquid crystals could be vertical to each other in the plane parallel to the alignment control surfaces. | 06-06-2013 |