Abstract: In order to improve the state of image irregularities of a liquid crystal panel, a plasma treatment is performed for an alignment film using a treatment gas such as hydrogen and/or deuterium, or a surface treatment is performed in which an alignment film is immersed in deuterium oxide. As a result, moisture contained in the alignment film is removed, and re-adsorption of moisture is also suppressed, thereby reducing image irregularities.

Abstract: To provide a display which can improve viewing angle dependency of a contrast ratio at least in a specific azimuth without design change of a basic structure of a display element, limitation to white display state or black display state, and deterioration in display quality in other directions. The above-mentioned display is a display comprising: a display element with a contrast ratio dependent on a viewing angle; and an anisotropic scattering film having an anisotropic scattering layer, wherein the anisotropic scattering film is located on a viewing screen side of the display element and has a scattering central axis in substantially the same azimuth as an azimuth in which a contrast ratio of the display element in a direction inclined by a certain angle from a normal direction of a viewing screen of the display element has an extreme value.

Abstract: A film forming method is constituted by forming a silicon oxide film on a substrate by causing silicon generated by sputtering with silicon as a target to be incident on the substrate from an oblique direction while supplying oxygen gas onto the substrate.

Abstract: In order to improve the state of image irregularities of a liquid crystal panel, a plasma treatment is performed for an alignment film using a treatment gas such as hydrogen and/or deuterium, or a surface treatment is performed in which an alignment film is immersed in deuterium oxide. As a result, moisture contained in the alignment film is removed, and re-adsorption of moisture is also suppressed, thereby reducing image irregularities.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide high-luminance liquid crystal display device and polarizer, each including a reflection and polarization sheet. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including: a backlight system including a reflection and polarization sheet; a back polarizer; a liquid crystal cell; and a front polarizer, stacked in this order, wherein the liquid crystal display device includes a protective film that protects a back face of the back polarizer, the protective film has no retardation in a thickness direction thereof, and when the protective film is viewed in plane, an optic axis of the protective film in an in-plane direction thereof is parallel to an absorption axis of the back polarizer.

Abstract: A method of forming a film on a substrate is constituted by a step of depositing a material vaporized from an evaporation source onto a surface of a substrate while inclining the surface of the substrate with respect to a direction from the evaporation source to the substrate, and a step of providing the surface of the substrate with an energy depending on a deposition angle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polarization control system which includes an E-type polarizer and therefore can provide excellent dark state at a wide azimuth and viewing angle. Further, the polarization control system includes a viewing angle control element for controlling a traveling direction of light which has passed through the E-type polarizer and therefore can provide excellent bright state at a wide azimuth and viewing angle. The present invention further provides a display device including such a polarization control system. The polarization control system of the present invention is a polarization control system including a plurality of polarizer, wherein the polarization control system includes an E-type polarizer and a viewing angle control element, and the viewing angle control element controls a traveling direction of light which has passed through the E-type polarizer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rim which can increase a lens holding capacity by a simple structure and can apply a new decoration to a spectacle. In a rim (1) of a spectacle in which a fitting groove (3) is formed in such a manner as to be fitted to a fitting portion (5a) formed so as to protrude to a side surface of a lens (5) and hold the lens (5), a concave groove (4) is formed in a bottom portion of the fitting groove (3) along a top portion (5b) of the fitting portion (5a). A absorbing material may be filled in the concave groove (4) or a paint may be filled in or applied to the concave groove (4).

Abstract: The invention aims at providing a display which can improve viewing angle dependency of contrast ratio in a wide azimuth without changing design of a basic structure of a display element, impairing display quality in a direction showing large contrast ratio and being limited to a state of displaying white or black. The aim is attained by a display comprising: a display element having viewing angle dependency of contrast ratio; and an anisotropic scattering film having an anisotropic scattering layer, wherein the anisotropic scattering film has a scattering central axis approximately parallel to a direction showing the largest contrast ratio of the display element and is located on a viewing screen side of the display element.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal apparatus that includes a display region in which electrodes are disposed in a matrix pattern and a non-display region provided at a periphery of the display region and has a liquid crystal disposed in the display region and non-display region, wherein the liquid crystal disposed in the display region is splay-aligned when a voltage is not applied and bend-aligned when the voltage is applied, the liquid crystal disposed in the non-display region is bend-aligned, an alignment film including an inorganic material is provided in at least one of a pair of substrates, and a thickness of the alignment film provided in the display region is smaller than a thickness of the alignment film provided in the non-display region.

Abstract: A method for producing an orientation film that causes orientation of a liquid crystal includes a process of vapor depositing an inorganic oxide from an oblique direction on a substrate and forming an obliquely vapor-deposited film composed of a plurality of columnar structural bodies tilted at an angle equal to or greater than 20° from a substrate normal and a process of performing ion beam irradiation onto the plurality of columnar structural bodies constituting the obliquely vapor-deposited film. An ion beam irradiation direction in the ion beam irradiation process is in a plane including a vapor deposition direction of the inorganic oxide and the substrate normal and an angle of the ion beam irradiation direction ?IB measured from the direction of the columnar structural bodies is within a range of +50°??IB?+100° (?IB is taken to be positive on a side where the ion beam irradiation direction approaches the substrate normal from the direction of the columnar structural bodies).

Abstract: A liquid crystal device has a pair of substrates, an alignment film formed at least on one of the pair of substrates and liquid crystal showing an orientation defined by the alignment film. The alignment film is a carbon film having a cross-sectional structure inclined relative to the direction of the film thickness by a constant angle.

Abstract: In an input device with an illumination function including an illumination device having light-emitting diodes, strip-like light-guide plates that distribute light emitted from the light-emitting diodes to the side surfaces other than a light-incident surface, and a planar light-guide plate that is provided with a plurality of through-holes and laterally propagates light incident from the strip-like light-guide plates and emits the light from through-holes, the planar light-guide plate is provided with strip-like light-guide-plate providing grooves at portions where the through-holes are not provided, and the strip-like light-guide plates are provided in the strip-like light-guide-plate providing grooves such that the side surfaces of the strip-like light-guide-plate providing grooves and the side surfaces of the strip-like light-guide plates face each other.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method of compensating the wavelength dependence of birefringence of an optical part (B) which comprises using a film (a) made of a (co)polymer (?) obtained from at least one olefin selected among 4-methyl-1-pentene, 3-methyl-1-pentene, and 3-methyl-1-butene as a (co)monomer ingredient.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention comprising: a liquid crystal display cell including liquid crystal between two substrates facing to each other; a polarizing element provided on each side of the liquid crystal display cell; and at least one film member provided in at least either one area of areas between the liquid crystal display cell and the polarizing element, the polarizing element being formed from a film made of polyvinylalcohol resin, the film member being attached to the polarizing element with a cohesive layer and/or an adhesive layer having a thickness of less than 10 ?m therebetween, and the film member provided in at least either one area of areas between the liquid crystal display cell and the polarizing element having an absolute value of a photoelastic coefficient of less than 10×10?8 cm2/N and having a water absorption of less than 2.0%.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal optical device is provided including an alignment film forming step of forming an alignment film containing silicon oxide on a substrate, and a liquid crystal cell forming step of disposing a pair of substrates at least one of which the alignment film has been formed on, opposite to each other interposing a liquid crystal therebetween. In the alignment film forming step, the substrate surface is bombarded with a plasma beam generated by vacuum arc discharge using a cathode containing silicon, where the substrate is disposed on the course of the plasma beam obliquely with an angle. When the plasma beam bombards the substrate surface, plasma ions in the plasma beam have higher kinetic energy or higher flux density than plasma ions in a plasma beam which, if bombarding the substrate obliquely at the angle, form a film having a column structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a complex birefringent medium, which has the so-called inverse wavelength dispersibility, that is, a wavelength dispersibility capable of giving an optimum phase difference to a light of a wide visible wavelength range, has a wide viewing angle, can be produced by a convenient method and is excellent in a degree of adjusting freedom of inverse wavelength dispersibility and in mass productivity, a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: A first film is formed on a substrate by oblique deposition and thereafter a second film is formed on the first film by sputtering.

Abstract: A shape detailing device includes a storage unit that stores therein an identifier of each structure in an electrical computer-aided design (CAD) system and an identifier of the structure in a mechanical CAD system associated with each other, and a converting unit that converts shape information of the structure created by the electrical CAD system into shape information for the mechanical CAD system based on the relation between the identifiers.

Abstract: An antenna sheet includes a magnetic sheet composed of a resin matrix and an Fe-based amorphous alloy contained in the resin matrix, and an antenna pattern disposed directly on the magnetic sheet, the antenna pattern being composed of nanoparticles. The antenna sheet can be manufactured by forming the antenna pattern directly on the magnetic sheet using a material containing nanoparticles, and then by sintering the nanoparticles by subjecting the magnetic sheet having the antenna pattern to heat treatment.