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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2002
Jason A. Payne, Rochester, NY (US);
Joseph W. Hoff, Fairport, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A process for making an optical compensator comprising the steps of coating a photo-alignable resin in a solvent onto a substrate; drying the resin-containing coating to form a orientable layer; heat treating the orientable layer before and/or after orientation, orienting the orientable layer in a predetermined direction; coating an anisotropic liquid crystal compound in a solvent carrier onto the orientation layer; drying the anisotropic layer. In a preferred embodiment, these steps are repeated so that the optical axis of a first anisotropic layer is positioned orthogonally relative to the respective optical axis of a second anisotropic layer about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the substrate.