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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2016
Nitto Denko Corporation, Ibaraki-shi, Osaka, JP;
Katsunori Takada, Ibaraki, JP;
Kentarou Takeda, Ibaraki, JP;
Tadatoshi Nakanishi, Ibaraki, JP;
Tadayuki Kameyama, Ibaraki, JP;
Hiroki Kuramoto, Ibaraki, JP;
NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, Ibaraki-shi, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an image display mirror that includes a half mirror and an image display apparatus, reduces an influence of a reflected image provided by the half mirror, and is excellent in visibility of an image displayed on the image display apparatus. The image display mirror for a vehicle includes: a first polarizing plate; a first liquid crystal cell; a half mirror; and an image display apparatus in the stated order from a viewer side, in which in the first liquid crystal cell, a state in which a polarization direction of incident linearly polarized light is maintained and a state in which the incident linearly polarized light is transformed into circularly polarized light are switched in accordance with a voltage to be supplied.