Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic layer which has a high S/N ratio for generating polarized light with respect to rays in an infrared wavelength region, is lightweight, and has excellent handleability, a laminate, and a sensor system including the light absorption anisotropic layer or the laminate. The light absorption anisotropic layer contains a dichroic coloring agent having a maximal absorption at a wavelength of 700 to 1500 nm, in which an average absorbance at a wavelength of 850 nm is 0.24 to 0.50 and a thickness is 5 ?m or less.

Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic film which has absorption in a range of a near-infrared region (particularly, a wavelength of 700 to 1600 nm) and is excellent in bendability, a manufacturing method of a light absorption anisotropic film, a display device, a camera, a sensor, and an apparatus. The light absorption anisotropic film contains a dichroic substance having a hydrophilic group, in which a film thickness is 10 m or less and the light absorption anisotropic film has a maximal absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 700 to 1600 nm.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image display device capable of easily detecting an eye gaze. The object is achieved by providing an image display optical system; an infrared light source that irradiates an eyeball of a user with infrared light; a hologram element that transmits infrared light emitted by the infrared light source and reflected by the eyeball of the user; and an infrared light image sensor that images infrared light transmitted through the hologram element, in which the hologram element acts on infrared light without acting on visible light and emits reproduced infrared light with an intensity distribution in a plane direction corresponding to an eye gaze of the user.

Abstract: A fingerprint recognition sensor having an excellent S/N ratio and capable of realizing thinning and an optical element including the fingerprint recognition sensor. The fingerprint recognition sensor includes a light-receiving element; and an optical element including a near infrared absorbing dichroic substance, in which a fingerprint reading surface is positioned on a side of the optical element opposite to the light-receiving element side. The optical element has an absorption axis with respect to near infrared light in an in-plane direction. When linearly polarized light of near infrared light orthogonal to the absorption axis is radiated from a normal direction of the optical element and from a direction inclined by 45° from the normal direction at an azimuthal angle orthogonal to the absorption axis, an absorbance during the radiation from the direction inclined by 45° from the normal direction is more than an absorbance during the radiation from the normal direction.

Abstract: An optically anisotropic film exhibiting reverse wavelength dispersibility and an Nz factor of about 0.50 (0.40 to 0.60), is formed of a lyotropic liquid crystalline composition containing colorable rod-like and plate-like compounds, where a measurement to obtain an ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrum by applying linearly polarized light is carried out by changing light direction and assuming that an absorbance at a maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 230 to 400 nm of the rod-like compound is highest at a first direction, and of the plate-like compound is highest at a second direction, the first direction and the second direction are orthogonal to each other, the maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 230 to 400 nm of the rod-like compound is smaller than that of the plate-like compound, and NzP represented by Expression (N) NzP = (nxP - nzP)/(nxP - nyP) of the plate-like compound is negative.

Abstract: Provided is an optically anisotropic film having favorable black tightness when the optically anisotropic film is disposed on a display element as a circularly polarizing plate in combination with a polarizer and an obtained display device is viewed from an oblique direction; as well as a circularly polarizing plate and a display device. The optically anisotropic film is formed of a composition containing a non-colorable lyotropic liquid crystal compound, in which an Nz factor of the optically anisotropic film satisfies a relationship of Expression (1) 0.40?Nz factor?0.60 and the optically anisotropic film satisfies a relationship of Expression (2) 0.60?Re(450)/Re(550)?0.90. In Expressions (1) and (2) Re(450) represents an in-plane retardation of the optically anisotropic film at a wavelength of 450 nm, and Re(550) represents the in-plane retardation of the optically anisotropic film at a wavelength of 550 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a composition capable of forming an optically anisotropic film exhibiting reverse wavelength dispersibility and an Nz factor of about 0.50 (0.40 to 0.60); as well as an optically anisotropic, a circularly polarizing plate, and a display device. The composition includes a non-colorable rod-like compound having an acid group or a salt thereof, a non-colorable plate-like compound having an acid group or a salt thereof, and a salt consisting of a cation and an anion, and exhibiting lyotropic liquid crystallinity, in which a ratio W obtained by Expression (W) is 0.25 to 1.75, and a maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 230 to 400 nm of the rod-like compound is smaller than a maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 230 to 400 nm of the plate-like compound.

Abstract: Provided is a composition with which an optically anisotropic film exhibits reverse wavelength dispersibility and shows nx>nz>ny can be formed, an optically anisotropic film, an optical film, a circularly polarizing plate, and an organic EL display device. The composition includes a compound represented by Formula (1); and a rod-like compound, in which the compound represented by Formula (1) has a maximal absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 300 nm or less, and the rod-like compound has a maximal absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 330 nm or more.