Abstract: The present invention includes an optical element of which an oblique tint change can be improved in a case of the optical element is incorporated to a liquid crystal display device, a method of manufacturing an optical element, and a liquid crystal display device. The optical element includes: a reflection polarizer which is formed of a discotic liquid crystal compound and in which a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase is immobilized, in which, in the reflection polarizer, a front retardation value Re satisfies 0 nm?Re<10 nm in a range of ±50 nm outside a reflection center wavelength, and an absolute value |Ret (50°)| of a retardation value Ret in a polar angle 50° direction satisfies |Ret (50°)|?50 nm.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a polymerizable liquid crystal composition which has excellent coating properties, is capable of suppressing film thickness unevenness, and has good coating properties for an upper layer coating liquid after being formed as an optically anisotropic layer, an anisotropic layer formed using the same; an optical laminate; a method for producing an optical laminate, and an image display device. The polymerizable liquid crystal composition of the embodiment of the present invention is a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a polymerization initiator, and a compound having a monovalent specific group including a cleavage group capable of decomposing by an action of at least one selected from the group consisting of light, heat, an acid, and a base to generate a polar group, in which the specific group has a fluorine atom or a silicon atom on a side closer to a terminal than the cleavage group.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a photo-alignable polymer which has excellent coating properties, is capable of suppressing film thickness unevenness, and has excellent upper layer coating properties and good liquid crystal alignment properties after being formed as a layer; a binder composition; a binder layer; an optical laminate; a method for producing an optical laminate; and an image display device. The photo-alignable polymer of an embodiment of the present invention is a photo-alignable polymer having a repeating unit A including a cleavage group capable of decomposing by an action of at least one selected from the group consisting of light, heat, an acid, and a base to generate a polar group, in which the repeating unit A has the cleavage group in a side chain, has a fluorine atom or a silicon atom on a side closer to a terminal than the cleavage group in the side chain, and the photo-alignable polymer satisfies Condition 1 or Condition 2 shown below.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic EL image display device including a light emitting element substrate, and a circularly polarizing plate, in which the light emitting element substrate includes a reflecting layer and an organic electroluminescent layer on the reflecting layer, the reflecting layer, the organic electroluminescent layer, and the circularly polarizing plate are arranged in this order, a polarization separation layer is provided between the organic electroluminescent layer and the circularly polarizing plate, the polarization separation layer includes a polarization separation region that reflects light of one polarization state in light emitted from the organic electroluminescent layer, and transmits light of another polarization state, and a visible light transmission region, the polarization separation region is formed of a layer formed by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, and a positive C region-containing layer is provided between the organic electroluminescent lay

Abstract: An optical film is an optical film in which a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase is fixed and a helical axis of the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase is aligned in an in-plane uniaxial direction, and an Nz is 0.2 to 0.75.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent display device in which reflection of external light is suppressed and a change in tint in a case of being viewed in an oblique direction is further suppressed, a phase difference film, and a circular polarization plate. This organic electroluminescent display device according to the present invention includes an organic electroluminescence display panel and a circular polarization plate arranged on the organic electroluminescence display panel, in which the circular polarization plate includes a polarizer and a phase difference film, the phase difference film includes a positive A-plate and a positive C-plate, and the positive A-plate and the positive C-plate satisfy prescribed requirements.

Abstract: The present invention provides: an organic electroluminescent display device that further suppresses reflection of external light when viewed in an oblique direction; a phase difference film; and a circularly polarizing plate. This display device has an organic electroluminescent display panel, and a circularly polarizing plate arranged on the display panel, in which the circularly polarizing plate has a polarizer and a phase difference film, the phase difference film has, from a side of the polarizer, a negative A-plate, and a positive A-plate, the in-plane retardation of the negative A-plate at a wavelength of 550 nm is more than 50 nm and less than 90 nm, and the in-plane retardation of the positive A-plate at a wavelength of 550 nm is 100 to 200 nm, and the angle formed by the in-plane slow axis of the negative A-plate and the in-plane slow axis of the positive A-plate is 45°±10°.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical film including a light reflection layer, in which the light reflection layer is a layer in which alignment of liquid crystal molecules is immobilized, the liquid crystal molecule forms a helical structure in a film thickness direction of the light reflection layer, and a tilt angle of the liquid crystal molecule is 15° to 55°. The present invention also provides a manufacturing method of the optical film including curing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound and a chiral agent interposed between a support and another support. In the optical film according to the present invention, an absolute value of oblique retardation is smaller. In the liquid crystal display device including the optical film, front surface brightness is high and an oblique change in the shade is suppressed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent display device that further suppresses reflection of external light and a change in tint in a case of being viewed in an oblique direction, a phase difference film, and a circularly polarizing plate. This organic electroluminescent display device has an organic electroluminescent display panel and a circularly polarizing plate. The circularly polarizing plate has a polarizer and a phase difference film. The phase difference film has, from the polarizer side, a positive A-plate, a first positive C-plate, and a ?/4 plate. The positive A-plate and the first positive C-plate have predetermined optical properties. The in-plane slow axis of the positive A-plate and the absorption axis of the polarizer are orthogonal to each other. The angle formed between the in-plane slow axis of the positive A-plate and the in-plane slow axis of the ?/4 A plate is 45°±10°.

Abstract: A phase difference film is formed by using a liquid crystal compound and that indicates an Nz factor of more than 0 and less than 1, an optical film with same, and a display device. The phase difference film is formed by using a composition including a polymerizable liquid crystal compound having a mesogen group, where an order parameter of the mesogen group in an in-plane slow axis direction of the phase difference film is set as Sx, an order parameter of the mesogen group in a direction orthogonal to the in-plane slow axis direction in a plane is set as Sy, and an order parameter of the mesogen group in a thickness direction of the phase difference film is set as Sz, in a case where the mesogen group has a rod or a disc shape, differing Expressions are satisfied.

Abstract: The present invention provides a circularly polarizing plate applied to a display device, which further suppresses reflection of external light and a change in tint when viewed in an oblique direction, and an organic electroluminescent display device. The circularly polarizing plate has a polarizer, a ?/2 plate, and a ?/4 plate in this order, in which an angle formed between an absorption axis of the polarizer and an in-plane slow axis of the ?/4 plate is in a range of 20° to 70°, an Nz factor of the ?/4 plate is 0.30 to 0.70, the absorption axis of the polarizer and an in-plane slow axis of the ?/2 plate are orthogonal or parallel to each other, at Nz factor of the ?/2 plate being 0.10 to 0.40, and the Nz factor of the ?/2 plate being 0.60 to 0.90, respectively.

Abstract: The polarizing plate of the present invention includes a polarizer and an optical element that rotates a polarization plane of polarized light emitted from the polarizer, an orientation direction on a surface of the optical element on a polarizer side is parallel to an absorption axis of the polarizer, an orientation direction on a surface of the optical element opposite to the polarizer is perpendicular to the absorption axis of the polarizer, and ?nd and a birefringence parameter RH of the optical element fall in a range of a predetermined region in an orthogonal coordinate in which ?nd is indicated along a vertical axis and the birefringence parameter RH is indicated along a lateral axis.

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: An optical film includes a liquid crystal layer derived from a smectic phase, wherein an Nz factor of the liquid crystal layer is from 0.2 to 0.8. A display device that includes the optical film, and a method of producing an optical film is also provided.

Abstract: An optical film including: a cholesteric layer of a disk-like liquid crystal composition including a disk-like liquid crystal compound, in which the cholesteric layer exhibits a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, and in which fluctuation of a helical pitch in a film thickness direction of the cholesteric layer is 2% or greater, and having a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase of a disk-like liquid crystal compound and a wide reflection bandwidth; a brightness enhancement film; a backlight unit with a brightness enhancement film; and a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: The present invention includes an optical element of which an oblique tint change can be improved in a case of the optical element is incorporated to a liquid crystal display device, a method of manufacturing an optical element, and a liquid crystal display device. The optical element includes: a reflection polarizer which is formed of a discotic liquid crystal compound and in which a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase is immobilized, in which, in the reflection polarizer, a front retardation value Re satisfies 0 nm?Re<10 nm in a range of ±50 nm outside a reflection center wavelength, and an absolute value |Ret (50°)| of a retardation value Ret in a polar angle 50° direction satisfies |Ret (50°)|?50 nm.

Abstract: The polarizing plate of the present invention includes a polarizer and an optical element that rotates a polarization plane of polarized light emitted from the polarizer, an orientation direction on a surface of the optical element on a polarizer side is parallel to an absorption axis of the polarizer, an orientation direction on a surface of the optical element opposite to the polarizer is perpendicular to the absorption axis of the polarizer, and ?nd and a birefringence parameter RH of the optical element fall in a range of a predetermined region in an orthogonal coordinate in which ?nd is indicated along a vertical axis and the birefringence parameter RH is indicated along a lateral axis.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical film including a light reflection layer, in which the light reflection layer is a layer in which alignment of liquid crystal molecules is immobilized, the liquid crystal molecule forms a helical structure in a film thickness direction of the light reflection layer, and a tilt angle of the liquid crystal molecule is 15° to 55°. The present invention also provides a manufacturing method of the optical film including curing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound and a chiral agent interposed between a support and another support. In the optical film according to the present invention, an absolute value of oblique retardation is smaller. In the liquid crystal display device including the optical film, front surface brightness is high and an oblique change in the shade is suppressed.

Abstract: A cellulose acylate film is provided and has a surface where a first in-plane orientation in a portion from 0 to 3 ?m in depth from the surface is lower than a second in-plane orientation in a portion from 3 ?m to 10 ?m in depth from the surface.

Abstract: An optical film contains a cellulose ester and more than 30% by mass, relative to the cellulose ester, of a condensation product of at least one polyhydric alcohol having an average of 2.01 or more carbon atoms and at least one polybasic acid having an average of 4.10 or more carbon atoms, and at least one of the at least one polyhydric alcohol contains at least three carbon atoms bonded together without being interrupted by any other atom.