Abstract: Provided is an optical film that can eliminate rainbow unevenness when viewed with the naked eyes and provide favorable color tone uniformity when viewed at an oblique angle. This optical film has a low-refractive index layer on a plastic film, the plastic film has a slow axis that is an axis with the largest refractive index in a plane, and a fast axis that is an axis orthogonal to the slow axis in the plane of the plastic film, and the low-refractive index layer is located on the surface of the optical film. Linearly polarized light is incident, under predetermined conditions, from a surface on a side opposite to the low-refractive index layer of the optical film, and transmitted light of the linearly polarized light is used to measure the a* value and b* value of the L*a*b* color system at 11 measurement points with different angles.

Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing an optical plastic film such that rainbow unevenness when viewed with naked eyes and blackout when viewed with polarized sunglasses can be suppressed without any axis alignment or increase in the in-plane phase difference.

Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing an optical plastic film such that rainbow unevenness when viewed with naked eyes and blackout when viewed with polarized sunglasses can be suppressed without any axis alignment or increase in the in-plane phase difference.

Abstract: Provided is an optical film that can eliminate rainbow unevenness when viewed with the naked eyes and provide favorable color tone uniformity when viewed at an oblique angle. This optical film has a low-refractive index layer on a plastic film, the plastic film has a slow axis that is an axis with the largest refractive index in a plane, and a fast axis that is an axis orthogonal to the slow axis in the plane of the plastic film, and the low-refractive index layer is located on the surface of the optical film. Linearly polarized light is incident, under predetermined conditions, from a surface on a side opposite to the low-refractive index layer of the optical film, and transmitted light of the linearly polarized light is used to measure the a* value and b* value of the L*a*b* color system at 11 measurement points with different angles.

Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing a polyester film having favorable pencil hardness without an increase in the thickness. Disclosed is a polyester film having an average Martens hardness of 140.0 N/mm2 or more at a polyester film surface, wherein a standard deviation 36 of Martens hardness at the polyester film surface is 9.0 N/mm2 or more and 36.0 N/mm2 or less.

Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing an optical plastic film having favorable pencil hardness without an increase in the in-plane phase difference. Disclosed is an optical plastic film comprising a first surface and a second surface that is a surface on a side opposite to the first surface, wherein the plastic film has an in-plane phase difference of 300 nm or more and 1,450 nm or less, and in a region within a depth of 20 ?m from the first surface in a direction from the first surface to the second surface, an average of an erosion rate is 1.4 ?m/g or more.

Abstract: Provided is an optical laminate that is excellent in terms of adhesion between a polyester film having a high degree of plane orientation ?P and an easy adhesive layer and suppresses a local defect without using an easy adhesive layer of a specific material. The easy adhesive layer, an uneven layer, and an antifouling layer are provided on the polyester film, when a refractive index in a slow axis direction in a plane of the polyester film is defined as nx, a refractive index in a direction orthogonal to the slow axis in the same plane is defined as ny, and a refractive index in a thickness direction of the polyester film is defined as nz, the polyester film satisfies the following formula 1-2, and, regarding the uneven layer, when a three-dimensional skewness of a surface of the uneven layer is defined as Ssk, and a three-dimensional arithmetic average roughness of the surface of the uneven layer is defined as Sa, Ssk and Sa satisfy the following formula 2-1. 0.140 ? ? P ­­­(1-2) 0.

Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing an optical plastic film such that rainbow unevenness when viewed with naked eyes and blackout when viewed with polarized sunglasses can be suppressed without any axis alignment or increase in the in-plane phase difference.

Abstract: Provided is an anti-glare antireflection member capable of suppressing coloring in viewing in an oblique direction, and suppressing visual recognition of local luminescent spots. The anti-glare antireflection member comprises an anti-glare layer and a low refractive index layer on a substrate. The average of ?d is 7.0 nm or more and 40.0 nm or less, where ?d is a thickness difference of the low refractive index layer in an arbitrary 2 mm×2 mm region of the anti-glare anti refractive index layer.

Abstract: Provided is an optical film that can suppress rainbow unevenness when viewed with the naked eyes without increasing the in-plane phase difference. The optical film has a low-refractive index layer on a plastic film, the plastic film is a biaxially stretched plastic film with an in-plane phase difference of 2500 nm or less, the low-refractive index layer is located on the outermost surface, and the optical film has a region in which ?Eab satisfies specific conditions, wherein the ?Eab is calculated from the differences between the L* value, the a* value, and the b* value obtained by measuring a laminate 1 including the optical film, the polarizer, and the surface light source under specific conditions and the L* value, the a* value, and the b* value obtained by measuring a laminate 2 including the polarizer and the surface light source under specific conditions, respectively.

Abstract: Provided are an optical biaxially stretched plastic film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device that can suppress blackouts when viewed with polarized sunglasses, polarized goggles or the like without increasing the in-plane phase difference. In addition, a method for selecting an optical biaxially stretched plastic film is provided. The optical biaxially stretched plastic film has a region satisfying condition 1 and condition 2 below: <Condition 1> the difference between a luminance obtained in a specific measurement 1 and a luminance obtained in a specific measurement 2 (L1.n?L2.n) is calculated at each of 100 measurement points, and the “luminance difference variation 3?” calculated from the luminance differences at the 100 measurement points is 100 or more; and <Condition 2> the in-plane phase difference (Re) is 2500 nm or less.

Abstract: There is provided an optical sheet which can prevent problems when it is superimposed on another member. The optical sheet includes: a sheet-like base layer; a light control layer having unit shaped elements arranged in a direction parallel to a sheet surface of the base layer; and a light diffusing layer disposed between the base layer and the light control layer. The light diffusing layer includes a binder resin portion and particles dispersed in the binder resin portion. The particles in the binder resin portion includes a single particle and an aggregate formed of aggregated single particles.

Abstract: An optical sheet including a fly-eye lens is provided, which exhibits excellent optical functions, including desired light condensing ability, light diffusing ability and an ability for rendering a light source image substantially invisible, and can be produced with high reproducibility. The optical sheet includes a sheet-like main body, first unit shaped elements arranged on one surface of the main body and together constituting the fly-eye lens; and second unit shaped elements arranged on the one surface of the main body and extending in parallel with one direction on the sheet surface of the main body. The first unit shaped elements are arranged, with a space provided therebetween, on the one surface of the main body, while the second unit shaped elements are arranged between the first unit shaped elements on the one surface of the main body.

Abstract: An optical sheet including a body portion, unit optical elements arranged on one surface of the body portion, and an uneven coating having an uneven surface with micro-protrusions, provided on the other surface of the body portion. When the hardness He of the optical element surface Pe and the hardness Hm of the uneven coating surface Pm are evaluated in terms of the pencil hardness measured in accordance with JIS K5600-5-4 (1999) (load: 1000 g; speed: 1 mm/s), the hardness Hm is not less than the hardness He (hardness Hm?hardness He) and the hardness Hm is preferably not less than F. Further, the hardness He and the hardness Hm preferably satisfy the following relation: hardness He+3?hardness Hm?hardness He+2 wherein the expression “He+1” indicates a hardness harder than He by one unit on the pencil hardness scale.

Abstract: There is provided an optical sheet which can prevent problems when it is superimposed on another member. The optical sheet includes: a sheet-like base layer; a light control layer having unit shaped elements arranged in a direction parallel to a sheet surface of the base layer; and a light diffusing layer disposed between the base layer and the light control layer. The light diffusing layer includes a binder resin portion and particles dispersed in the binder resin portion. The particles in the binder resin portion include a single particle and an aggregate formed of aggregated single particles.

Abstract: An optical sheet having both of an excellent light condensing function and an excellent scratch resistance is provided. An optical sheet includes: a sheet-like main body; at least three or more first unit shaped elements arranged on one surface of the main body; and second unit shaped elements arranged on the one surface of the main body. Each of the second unit shaped elements extend in parallel with in one direction on a sheet surface of the main body. A height H1 of each of the first unit shaped elements from the one surface is higher than a height H2 of each of the second unit shaped elements. A rate of an area occupied by the first unit shaped elements on the one surface is not more than 10.0%, when observed along a normal direction nd relative to the one surface.

Abstract: 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 (—SO3H) or a salt thereof and a phosphonoxy group {—OP(?O) (OH)2} or a salt thereof, is disclosed. A novel optical compensatory sheet comprising an optically anisotropic layer comprising at lest one liquid crystal compound at least one polymer C, having a weight average molecular weight of not less than 5000 and less than 20000, represented by a formula (1b), and at least one polymer D, having a weight average molecular weight of not less than 20000, represented by a formula (1b), is also disclosed.

Abstract: An anti-glare film having the following: an anti-glare layer which is provided on a transparent substrate film, has a concavo-convex shape on the outermost surface thereof, and has at least a concavo-convex layer formed by curing a curable resin composition, which composition has optically-transparent fine particles A that have an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less, reactive inorganic fine particles B that have an average particle diameter of 30 nm or more and 100 nm or less and reactive functional groups b on the surface thereof, and a binder component C that has reactive functional groups c; a skin layer which has a small number of the reactive inorganic fine particles B in an interface on the side opposite to the transparent substrate film side and in the vicinity of the interface; and a region which is situated nearer the transparent substrate film than the skin layer, in which the fine particles B are uniformly dispersed.

Abstract: An optical sheet having both of an excellent light condensing function and an excellent scratch resistance is provided. An optical sheet (40) includes: a sheet-like main body (45); at least three or more first unit shaped elements (50) arranged on one surface (46) of the main body; and second unit shaped elements (55) arranged on the one surface of the main body. Each of the second unit shaped elements extend in parallel with in one direction on a sheet surface of the main body. A height H1 of each of the first unit shaped elements from the one surface is higher than a height H2 of each of the second unit shaped elements. A rate of an area occupied by the first unit shaped elements on the one surface is not more than 10.0%, when observed along a normal direction nd relative to the one surface.

Abstract: An optical sheet including a body portion, unit optical elements arranged on one surface of the body portion, and an uneven coating having an uneven surface with micro-protrusions, provided on the other surface of the body portion. When the hardness He of the optical element surface Pe and the hardness Hm of the uneven coating surface Pm are evaluated in terms of the pencil hardness measured in accordance with JIS K5600-5-4 (1999) (load: 1000 g; speed: 1 mm/s), the hardness Hm is not less than the hardness He (hardness Hm?hardness He) and the hardness Hm is preferably not less than F. Further, the hardness He and the hardness Hm preferably satisfy the following relation: hardness He+3?hardness Hm?hardness He+2 wherein the expression “He+1” indicates a hardness harder than He by one unit on the pencil hardness scale.