Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Yuki Aikawa

Kouichi Tanaka

Yoshiyuki Yahagi

Saki Abe

Tomoko Maruyama

Shouhei Maezawa

An optical film for eyewear includes a light control layer and at least one light reflection layer laminated in this order from an outer side with respect to a viewer. The light reflection layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer that reflects left-handed circularly polarized light or right-handed circularly polarized light in a visible light range, and the light control layer is a quarter wave plate.

Optical film for eyewear, and optical laminate and eyewear using the optical film

An optical film for eyewear includes a first light control layer, at least one light reflection layer, a second light control layer, and a linear polarization element layer in this order from an outer side with respect to a viewer. The light reflection layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer that reflects left-handed circularly polarized light or right-handed circularly polarized light in a visible light range, and the first light control layer and the second light control layer are each a quarter wave plate.

Optical film for eyewear with light control, light reflection, and polarization layers

A liquid crystal display apparatus which includes an optical compensation layer in addition to a liquid crystal panel and which is capable of preventing degradation of the optical compensation layer, thereby providing high long-term reliability in display characteristics, is provided. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panelin which a liquid crystal layeris interposed between a first substrateand a second substrate; a protection substratedisposed at least one side of the liquid crystal panelso as to face the liquid crystal panel; and an optical compensation layerinterposed between the liquid crystal paneland the protection substrate. In addition, the liquid crystal display apparatus further includes polarizing platesanddisposed at either side of the liquid crystal panelon which the protection substrateis provided; an illumination optical system irradiating the liquid crystal panelwith light h through one of the polarizing platesandand a projector lens projecting the light h that passes through the liquid crystal panel

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuki Aikawa