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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2016
Applicant:

Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi, Ashigarakami-gun, JP;

Wataru Majima, Ashigarakami-gun, JP;

Kazuhiro Oki, Ashigarakami-gun, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 4/04 (2006.01); G02B 5/30 (2006.01); G02B 27/28 (2006.01); G01J 4/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/3016 (2013.01); G01J 4/04 (2013.01); G02B 27/286 (2013.01); G01J 2004/001 (2013.01); G02B 27/283 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to the invention, there is provided a circular polarizing filter for selectively transmitting circularly polarized light of any one sense of either right-handed circularly polarized light or left-handed circularly polarized light at a specific wavelength in which scattering transmittance/vertical transmittance when circularly polarized light of the sense of the specific wavelength enters from any one surface is less than scattering reflectance/regular reflectance when circularly polarized light of the other sense enters from the surface. The circular polarizing filter includes a circularly-polarized light separating layer, the circularly-polarized light separating layer includes a reflected light-scattering circularly-polarized light separating layer, and may further include a reflected light-non-scattering circularly-polarized light separating layer, the reflected light-scattering circularly-polarized light separating layer is composed of a layer having a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase fixed therein, and the reflected light-non-scattering circularly-polarized light separating layer is composed of a layer having a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase fixed therein, or a laminate including a linearly-polarized light separating layer and a λ/4 phase difference layer. The circular polarizing filter of the invention has a high circular polarizance, and a high-sensitivity sensor system can be provided using the circular polarizing filter of the invention.


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