Abstract: A lighting film 1 includes a base member 10 which has light-transmitting properties, a plurality of protrusion portions 11 which have light-transmitting properties and are formed on one surface of the base member 10 so as to be adjacent to each other, and a gap portion 12 which is formed between the protrusion portions. In the protrusion portion 11, a first end surface 11a on the base member 10 side or a second end surface 11b on an opposite side to the base member 10 is configured as a light incidence end surface, and a side surface 11c which comes into contact with the gap portion 12 is configured as a reflective surface of totally reflecting light which is incident from the light incidence end surface. The base member 10 or a member that is formed on one surface of the base member 10 and has light-transmitting properties is exposed in the gap portion 12.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device in which grayscale inversion when viewing a liquid crystal panel in an oblique direction is suppressed, thereby being excellent in viewing angle characteristics. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel that includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates, and a pair of polarization plates respectively arranged in the liquid crystal layer on a light incident side and a light emission side, an illumination device that is arranged on the light incident side of the liquid crystal panel and emits light toward the liquid crystal panel, and a light diffusion member that is arranged on the light emission side of the liquid crystal panel and causes light emitted from the liquid crystal panel to be diffused in an azimuthal direction viewed from a normal direction of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a birefringent layer that satisfies the relationship nx>ny?nz and may be considered a first-class birefringent layer, a birefringent layer that satisfies the relationship nx<ny?nz may be considered a second-class birefringent layer, and a birefringent layer that satisfies the relationship nx?ny?nz may be considered a third-class birefringent layer. The LCD may include a first polarizer, a first first-class birefringent layer whose in-plane phase difference is adjusted to a quarter wave, an LC cell, a second first-class birefringent layer whose Nz factor is substantially the same as the first first-class birefringent layer and whose in-plane phase difference is adjusted to a quarter wave, a second-class birefringent layer, and a second polarizer which may be stacked in this order.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel that includes a liquid crystal cell including a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, and a pair of polarizers arranged on a light incident side and a light emission side of the liquid crystal layer; an illumination device that is arranged on the light incident side of the liquid crystal cell, and emits light toward the liquid crystal cell; and a light control member that is arranged on the light emission side of the liquid crystal panel, and controls an emission direction of light emitted from the liquid crystal panel by anisotropically diffusing the light in an azimuthal direction as viewed from a direction normal to the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: Provided are a fluorescent substrate that prevents the occurrence of the phenomenon in which the display color becomes faint and a display device provided with the same. A fluorescent substrate 10 includes a substrate 11; pixels 12 provided on the substrate 11; and partitions 13 that partition the pixels 12, wherein each of the pixels 12 includes at least a red sub-pixel 12R that performs display of red light; a blue sub-pixel 12B that performs display of blue light; and a third color sub-pixel that performs display of third color light different from the two colors, and wherein a distance between the red sub-pixel 12R and the blue sub-pixel 12B is greater than a distance between other sub-pixels.

Abstract: A display device is provided in which reduction of reflected light is realized. Also a multilayer substrate is provided in which light reflectance is reduced even when the substrate has a plurality of layers that differ in refractive index from each other. In the display device of one embodiment, the reflectance of light reflected by the internal structure, of light incident on the internal structure through a display screen, is less than 1.0%. The multilayer substrate of one embodiment includes a first layer and a second layer disposed adjacently to the first layer. The refractive index of the second layer varies continuously from an interface where the second layer is adjacent to the first layer in a direction from the first layer, with the variation being started at a value of the refractive index at the interface where the first layer is adjacent to the second layer.

Abstract: A three-dimensional video recognition system comprises a display device, a front plate, and AS glasses. Each of the AS glasses includes a first ?/4 plate, a first linear polarizing element, a liquid crystal cell, and a second linear polarizing element in this order from the outer surface side. The display device includes a third linear polarizing element on an observation surface side of the display device. The front plate has a second ?/4 plate. Specific angles formed between a transmission axis of polarizing elements and ?/4 plates are provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides at low cost a display device with superior visibility and high contrast ratio even in a bright room environment through a reduction in the undesired reflection, not only of the incident outside light from the normal direction, but also of the outside incident light from an oblique direction. The present invention is a circularly polarizing plate including a polarizer and a ?/4 plate, and the aforementioned circularly polarizing plate includes an anti-reflective layer, the aforementioned polarizer, a birefringent layer, and the aforementioned ?/4 plate which are laminated in this order, the NZ coefficient of the aforementioned birefringent layer satisfies NZ<0.1, the in-plane fast axis of the aforementioned birefringent layer is orthogonal to the absorption axis of the aforementioned polarizer, the NZ coefficient of the aforementioned ?/4 plate satisfies NZ>0.

Abstract: The present invention provides active shutter glasses, passive glasses, and a stereoscopic image projection system, with which a viewer wearing polarizing sunglasses can enjoy improved visibility. The active shutter glasses comprises: a shutter for a right eye; and a shutter for a left eye, wherein the shutters for a right eye and for a left eye each have a liquid crystal cell and a linearly polarizing element, the linearly polarizing element is provided in each shutter on an inner side than the liquid crystal cell is, the linearly polarizing element has a transmission axis direction set in the vertical direction when the glasses are worn.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a three-dimensional video recognition system, a video display device, and active shutter glasses (AS) in which, even when the observer's visual point and the inclination of the observer's face are changed, the reduction in the brightness of the screen can be suppressed, and in which a sufficient shutter effect can be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid-crystal display device that can achieve high contrast ratios in a wide range of viewing angles and reduce coloration during black display.

Abstract: A display device is provided in which reduction of reflected light is realized. Also a multilayer substrate is provided in which light reflectance is reduced even when the substrate has a plurality of layers that differ in refractive index from each other. In the display device of one embodiment, the reflectance of light reflected by the internal structure, of light incident on the internal structure through a display screen, is less than 1.0%. The multilayer substrate of one embodiment includes a first layer and a second layer disposed adjacently to the first layer. The refractive index of the second layer varies continuously from an interface where the second layer is adjacent to the first layer in a direction from the first layer, with the variation being started at a value of the refractive index at the interface where the first layer is adjacent to the second layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides an LCD device that has a higher contrast ratio in a wide viewing angle and that can be easily produced at low cost. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device, including in the following order: a first polarizer; a first birefringent layer; a first quarter-wave plate; a liquid crystal cell; a second quarter-wave plate; a second birefringent layer; and a second polarizer having an absorption axis orthogonal to an absorption axis of the first polarizer, wherein the first birefringent layer satisfies Nz>0.

Abstract: The present invention provides at low cost a display device with superior visibility and high contrast ratio even in a bright room environment through a reduction in the undesired reflection, not only of the incident outside light from the normal direction, but also of the outside incident light from an oblique direction. The present invention is a circularly polarizing plate including a polarizer and a ?/4 plate, and the aforementioned circularly polarizing plate includes an anti-reflective layer, the aforementioned polarizer, a birefringent layer, and the aforementioned ?/4 plate which are laminated in this order, the NZ coefficient of the aforementioned birefringent layer satisfies NZ<0.1, the in-plane fast axis of the aforementioned birefringent layer is orthogonal to the absorption axis of the aforementioned polarizer, the NZ coefficient of the aforementioned ?/4 plate satisfies NZ>0.

Abstract: A TN liquid crystal display device (1) includes a polarizing plate (4a), a liquid crystal panel (100), and a polarizing plate (4b) in an order from a viewer side, in which absorption axes (4? and 4?) of the polarizing plates (4a and 4b) are set to be at an angle of approximately 45 degrees to respective rubbing directions (6a and 6b) of a first substrate (2a) and a second substrate (2b), and the absorption axes (4? and 4?) are arranged so as to be perpendicular to each other. Further, for example, a biaxial phase plate (5a) is provided at least between the substrate (2a) and the polarizing plate (4a) so that an in-plane slow axis (5?) is set to be at an angle of approximately 90 degrees to the absorption axis (4?) of the polarizing plate (4a). This configuration makes it possible to realize, at a low cost, a technique to concurrently improve (i) a viewing angle display characteristic and (ii) use efficiency of material members of the TN display liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: The present invention provides an LCD device that has a higher contrast ratio in a wide viewing angle and that can be easily produced at low cost. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device, including in the following order: a first polarizer; a first birefringent layer; a first quarter-wave plate; a liquid crystal cell; a second quarter-wave plate; a second birefringent layer; and a second polarizer having an absorption axis orthogonal to an absorption axis of the first polarizer, wherein the first birefringent layer satisfies Nz>0.