Abstract: An optical laminate includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer and a lenticular lens which is laminated on the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a plurality of regions which are arranged in a pattern in an arrangement direction of lenses of the lenticular lens and are different from each other in terms of the reflection center wavelength for front incident light, and among the plurality of regions, a region having the shortest reflection center wavelength is disposed at a focus position of the lenticular lens for the front incident light, and among the plurality of regions, a region having a longer reflection center wavelength is disposed further away from the focus position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a blue light blocking film including a selective reflection layer, in which the selective reflection layer exhibits selective reflection having a center wavelength in a wavelength range of 450 nm to 500 nm, a half-width of the selective reflection is 20 nm to 45 nm, a light transmittance of the selective reflection layer at the center wavelength is 50% or less, and a light transmittance of the selective reflection layer at any wavelength in a wavelength range of more than 500 nm and 780 nm or less is 60% or more. The blue light blocking film of the present invention has high light transmittance in a visible light range, while effectively blocking blue light, and has a reduced yellowish tint. The blue light blocking film of the present invention is used for light sources and the like, and is capable of effectively blocking blue light.

Abstract: Provided are: a color filter for an image sensor in which an infrared filter having no particulate defects or the like can be laminated adjacent to an image pickup element and in which the total thickness of an image sensor can be significantly reduced; an image sensor including the color filter for an image sensor; and a method of manufacturing the color filter for an image sensor. The color filter for an image sensor includes: two or more absorbing color filters that absorb light components having different wavelength ranges; and a cholesteric reflecting layer in which a right circularly polarized light cholesteric layer having right circularly polarized light reflecting properties and a left circularly polarized light cholesteric layer having left circularly polarized light reflecting properties are laminated.

Abstract: The optical film of the present invention is an optical film including a thermoplastic resin, in which the optical film has a moisture permeability of 70 g/m2/day or less (in terms of a film thickness of 40 ?m), and contains a moisture permeability-reducing compound having a molecular weight of 200 or more and satisfying Formula (1) described below. Formula (1) A/B?0.9 (A represents a moisture permeability of an optical film in a case in which 10 mass % of the moisture permeability-reducing compound is added to the mass of the thermoplastic resin, and B represents a moisture permeability of an optical film in a case in which the thermoplastic resin is included and the moisture permeability-reducing compound is not added.

Abstract: Provided are a projection member in which a change in tint depending on a projection position is suppressed, a projection system, and a method of manufacturing the projection member. A projection member according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a reflecting layer that is obtained by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, in which a helical pitch of the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase gradually changes in a plane direction of the reflecting layer.

Abstract: A polymer film that has an in-plane retardation Re(?) and a thickness-direction retardation Rth(?) satisfying formula (i) and (ii), and that further has a surface energy of at least one surface is from 50 mN/m to 80 mN/m: 0?Re(630)?10, and |Rth(630)|?25;??(i) and |Re(400)?Re(700)|?10, and |Rth(400)?Rth(700)|?35.??(ii) in the formulae, Re(?) and Rth(?) are measurement values at the wavelength of ? nm, and an optically-compensatory film, an optical material such as a polarizer and a liquid-crystal display device using the polymer film.

Abstract: Disclosed is a laminate film comprising an inner layer formed of a composition comprising a polymer material as a main component and an outer layer formed of a composition comprising a polymer material as a main component and laminated on at least one surface of the inner layer, wherein a film thickness of the outer layer differs depending upon a position in the width direction of the laminate film.

Abstract: A polymer film that has an in-plane retardation Re(?) and a thickness-direction retardation Rth(?) satisfying formula (i) and (ii), and that further has a surface energy of at least one surface is from 50 mN/m to 80 mN/m: 0?Re(630)?10, and |Rth(630)|?25; and??(i) |Re(400)?Re(700)|?10, and |Rth(400)?Rth(700)|?35.??(ii) in the formulae, Re(?) and Rth(?) are measurement values at the wavelength of ? nm, and an optically-compensatory film, an optical material such as a polarizer and a liquid-crystal display device using the polymer film.

Abstract: The optical film of the present invention is an optical film including a thermoplastic resin, in which the optical film has a moisture permeability of 70 g/m2/day or less (in terms of a film thickness of 40 ?m), and contains a moisture permeability-reducing compound having a molecular weight of 200 or more and satisfying Formula (1) described below. Formula (1) A/B?0.9 (A represents a moisture permeability of an optical film in a case in which 10 mass % of the moisture permeability-reducing compound is added to the mass of the thermoplastic resin, and B represents a moisture permeability of an optical film in a case in which the thermoplastic resin is included and the moisture permeability-reducing compound is not added.

Abstract: Provided is a film of which the slow axis in plane does not comply with TD direction nor MD direction of the film and which is excellent in adequacy of pasting with other components. The film is a film comprising at least a first molecule expressing positive intrinsic birefringence and a second molecule expressing negative intrinsic birefringence, having a slow axis in plane in a direction which is neither parallel nor orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the film, and the direction of the slow axis in plane being neither parallel nor orthogonal to the individual directions of alignment of the first and second molecules.

Abstract: A polymer film that has an in-plane retardation Re(?) and a thickness-direction retardation Rth(?) satisfying formula (i) and (ii), and that further has a surface energy of at least one surface is from 50 mN/m to 80 mN/m: 0?Re(630)?10, and |Rth(630)|?25;??(i) and |Re(400)?Re(700)|?10, and |Rth(400)?Rth(700)|?35.??(ii) in the formulae, Re(?) and Rth(?) are measurement values at the wavelength of ? nm, and an optically-compensatory film, an optical material such as a polarizer and a liquid-crystal display device using the polymer film.

Abstract: A cellulose acylate film satisfying the following formulae: 50 nm<Re<400 nm ?200 nm?Rth?50 nm |Nz|?10 wherein Nz represents (Rth/Re)+0.5. The film has an excellent optical compensation performance and a high productivity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical film produced by stretching a film having a low residual solvent amount in a machine direction followed by heat-treating it at a temperature falling from the glass transition point (Tg) to the melting point (Tm) thereof, which is a cellulose acylate film satisfying the following relations (1) to (6) and containing at least one cellulose acylate and at least one retardation enhancer having an absorption maximum wavelength ?max of from 280 nm to 380 nm: (1) 35 nm?Re(550)?75 nm, (2) 85 nm?Rth(550)?140 nm, (3) 0 nm<?Re(630?450)?40 nm, (4) ?75 nm??Rth(630?450)<0 nm, (5) 2.7?A+B?3.0, and (6) B?0, wherein “A” means a degree of substitution with an acetyl group of said at least one cellulose acylate, and “B” means a degree of substitution with an acyl group having at least 3 carbon atoms thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a film of which the slow axis in plane does not comply with TD direction nor MD direction of the film and which is excellent in adequacy of pasting with other components. The film is a long film comprising at least a first molecule expressing positive intrinsic birefringence and a second molecule expressing negative intrinsic birefringence, having a slow axis in plane in a direction which is neither parallel nor orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the long film, and the direction of the slow axis in plane being neither parallel nor orthogonal to the individual directions of alignment of the first and second molecules.

Abstract: An optical film formed of a cellulose acylate and having a first region and a second region that differ from each other in the birefringence, wherein the angle between the slow axis of the first region and the slow axis of the second region is at least 45 degrees can be produced at a low cost and used for 3D stereoscopic image display.

Abstract: Disclosed is a laminate film comprising an inner layer formed of a composition comprising a polymer material as a main component and an outer layer formed of a composition comprising a polymer material as a main component and laminated on at least one surface of the inner layer, wherein a film thickness of the outer layer differs depending upon a position in the width direction of the laminate film.

Abstract: A polymer film, containing a merocyanine compound having ?max of not longer than 375 nm, and a compound represented by formula (II), which is different from said at least one merocyanine compound, is disclosed. In the formula, R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, alkyl group, aryl group, heterocyclic group, cyano, N-alkyl- or N-aryl carbamoyl group, aryloxy carbonyl group or —CH2COOR5, or R1 and R2 bind to each other to form a ring containing a nitrogen atom; R5 represents an alkyl group, aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R3 and R4 each independently represent a substituent having a Hammett substituent constant ?p of equal to or more than 0.2, or R3 and R4 bind to each other to form a cyclic active methylene compound structure.

Abstract: A polarizing plate protective film is provided and has a transparent substrate that is insoluble in a solvent having a dielectric constant of 10 or more and provided with an easily-adhesive layer and a hard coating layer on at least one side thereof in this order.

Abstract: An optical compensatory film of a laminated structure comprising a first optically anisotropic layer having an Re(550) of 20 to 100 nm wherein retardation at a wavelength of 550 nm is never 0 nm along any direction and the direction along which the absolute value of retardation at a wavelength of 550 nm reaches minimum does not exist along the normal direction of the layer or on the in-plane of the layer; and a second optically anisotropic layer having an Re(550) of 20 to 150 nm and an Rth(550) of 40 to 110 nm with Re(450) Re(550)<?3 nm and Rth(450)?Rth(550)>3 nm.

Abstract: A process of producing a cellulose acylate film is disclosed. The process comprises a forming step of forming a web of a fluid, comprising a cellulose acylate, aromatic group-containing oligomer and solvent, by casting the fluid onto a support, a stretching step of stretching the web, thereby to align molecules of the aromatic group-containing oligomer along the stretching direction, and a heat-treatment step of subjecting the stretched web to a heat treatment, thereby to at least increase the alignment degree of molecules of the aromatic group-containing oligomer.