Abstract: A process for producing a light scattering sheet includes: a coating step of coating a transparent support with a coating solution prepared by dissolving a resin material including at least two kinds selected from polymers and monomers phase-separable with each other in a solvent to form a coating layer; and a drying step of drying the coating layer to form a phase separated concavity and convexity structure on the coating layer by spinodal decomposition, wherein, in the drying step, high speed drying is carried out at a drying speed of 3.0 g/m2·sec or more at a critical phase separation concentration of the coating layer applied to the transparent support.

Abstract: A polarizing plate for a liquid crystal display is provided and includes a first protective film, a polarizer, a second protective film and a light diffusion layer in order. The light diffusion layer is a layer including a translucent resin and translucent particles having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the translucent resin. The internal haze of the light diffusion layer is 45% to 80%.

Abstract: A polarizing plate for a liquid crystal display is provided and includes a first protective film, a polarizer, a second protective film and a light diffusion layer in order. The light diffusion layer is a layer including a translucent resin and translucent particles having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the translucent resin. The internal haze of the light diffusion layer is 45% to 80%.

Abstract: An ECB-mode liquid crystal display device having a pair of substrates 9 and 12, a liquid crystal layer 11, a pair of polarizing plates (1,3,5) (16,18,20) and at least one optically anisotropic layer 7 and/or 14, wherein they are disposed such that the absorption axes 4 and 19 of the polarizing films 3 and 18 in the polarizing plates are parallel or vertical to the left-rightward direction of the screen of the display device. The orientation axes 10 and 13 of the substrates 9 and 12 and the orientation axes 8 and 15 of the optically anisotropic layers 7 and 14 preferably cross the absorption axes 4 and 19 of the polarizing films 3 and 18 of the adjacent polarizing plates at an angle of 45°.

Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device comprising a liquid-crystal cell with plural domains and a transparent film comprising at least two domains that differ in in-plane retardation (Re) and/or thickness-direction retardation (Rth) for a visible light wavelength ? nm is disclosed. The domains of the transparent film and the domains of the liquid-crystal cell have no correlation in terms of their arrangement and/or size.

Abstract: A light-scattering substrate having an irregular shape on one surface thereof is provided, the light-scattering substrate including: a thermoplastic resin; and at least one kind of transparent particles having a mean primary particle size of 3 ?m or more and not more than 12 ?m, wherein the light-scattering substrate contains a first region having a thickness of ½ or more times and not more than 4 times the mean primary particle size of the transparent particles from the surface having an irregular shape; and a second region having a thickness of 3/2 or more times the mean primary particle size of the transparent particles from a surface on back side of the surface having an irregular shape, and the first region and the second region have a region not substantially containing the transparent particle.

Abstract: A polarizing plate for a liquid crystal display is provided and includes a first protective film, a polarizer, a second protective film and a light diffusion layer in order. The light diffusion layer is a layer including a translucent resin and translucent particles having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the translucent resin. The internal haze of the light diffusion layer is 45% to 80%.

Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display which is excellent in both display performance and moisture and heat resistance. A liquid crystal display of the invention includes a light source, a liquid crystal cell that includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer being placed between the substrates, and a film that contains a thermoplastic resin composition containing a lactone ring-containing polymer. The film is arranged on the nearer side to the light source of the liquid crystal cell. Further, the liquid crystal display of the invention includes a film that contains a thermoplastic resin composition containing a lactone ring-containing polymer, wherein each of in-plane retardation (Re) and retardation in a thickness direction (Rth) of the film is 10 nm or less, and an optically anisotropic layer on the film.

Abstract: Disclosed are a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display capable of improving viewing angle dependency of tint of a liquid crystal display image, thereby obtaining a high-quality liquid crystal display image with no tint when viewed from a slanting direction. A backlight unit 200 of a just-beneath type with a plurality of light sources arranged below a light emission surface 38 includes a light emission spectrum controlling unit 53 for controlling separately light emission spectra in a front direction which becomes a normal direction to the light emission surface 38 and a slanting direction inclined at a predetermined angle from the front direction. The plurality of light sources are a plurality of LED light sources which are different in a light emission color, and each LED light source includes a first LED element with the front direction as an optical axis of emission light and a second LED element with the slanting direction as an optical axis of emission light for each light emission color.

Abstract: An ECB-mode liquid crystal display device having a pair of substrates 9 and 12, a liquid crystal layer 11, a pair of polarizing plates (1,3,5) (16,18,20) and at least one optically anisotropic layer 7 and/or 14, wherein they are disposed such that the absorption axes 4 and 19 of the polarizing films 3 and 18 in the polarizing plates are parallel or vertical to the left-rightward direction of the screen of the display device. The orientation axes 10 and 13 of the substrates 9 and 12 and the orientation axes 8 and 15 of the optically anisotropic layers 7 and 14 preferably cross the absorption axes 4 and 19 of the polarizing films 3 and 18 of the adjacent polarizing plates at an angle of 45°.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprising a first polarizer, a first retardation film satisfying (1) to (6) below, a liquid crystal cell, a second retardation film satisfying (7) to (12) below, a second polarizer in this order wherein the absorption axis of the first and second polarizer and the slow axis of the first and second retardation film are substantially in parallel, respectively: 10 nm<Re(548)<100 nm??(1) 20 nm<Rth(548)<400 nm??(2) 1.0<Re(446)/Re(548)<2.0??(3) 0.5<Re(628)/Re(548)<1.0??(4) 1.0<Rth(446)/Rth(548)<2.0??(5) 0.5<Rth(628)/Rth(548)<1.0??(6) 40 nm<Re(548)<300 nm??(7) 20 nm<Rth(548)<400 nm??(8) 0.5<Re(446)/Re(548)<1.5??(9) 0.5<Re(628)/Re(548)<2.0??(10) 0.5<Rth(446)/Rth(548)<2.0??(11) 0.5<Rth(628)/Rth(548)<1.

Abstract: In an information processing system including host computers and disk devices, each of an execution-node host and a standby-node host includes an I/O request unit and an access-right change command unit. The I/O request unit issues an I/O request. The access-right change command unit transmits an access-right change command. The access-right change command results from causing I/O-enable/disable information and the host identification information to correspond to each other. The disk device includes an access control table, an access control unit, and an access-right change unit. The access control table stores information of the access-right change commands from the hosts. The access control unit judges the execution enablement/disablement for the I/O requests from the host identification information and the access control table.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprising a first polarizer, a first retardation film satisfying (1) to (6) below, a liquid crystal cell, a second retardation film satisfying (7) to (12) below, a second polarizer in this order wherein the absorption axis of the first and second polarizer and the slow axis of the first and second retardation film are substantially in parallel, respectively: 10 nm<Re(548)<100 nm??(1) 20 nm<Rth(548)<400 nm??(2) 1.0<Re(446)/Re(548)<2.0??(3) 0.5<Re(628)/Re(548)<1.0??(4) 1.0<Rth(446)/Rth(548)<2.0??(5) 0.5<Rth(628)/Rth(548)<1.0??(6) 40 nm<Re(548)<300 nm??(7) 20 nm<Rth(548)<400 nm??(8) 0.5<Re(446)/Re(548)<1.5??(9) 0.5<Re(628)/Re(548)<2.0??(10) 0.5<Rth(446)/Rth(548)<2.0??(11) 0.5<Rth(628)/Rth(548)<1.

Abstract: An optical compensation film to be used in a VA mode liquid crystal display device, having retardation in plane at a wavelength of 550 nm, Re(550), falling within the range from 20 to 100 nm, and retardation along thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm, Rth(550), falling within the range from 60 to 120 nm, is disclosed. And a VA-mode liquid crystal display device having the optical compensation film, disposed between the liquid crystal cell and each of the pair of polarizing elements, is disclosed.

Abstract: In an information processing system including host computers and disk devices, each of an execution-node host and a standby-node host includes an I/O request unit and an access-right change command unit. The I/O request unit issues an I/O request. The access-right change command unit transmits an access-right change command. The access-right change command results from causing I/O-enable/disable information and the host identification information to correspond to each other. The disk device includes an access control table, an access control unit, and an access-right change unit. The access control table stores information of the access-right change commands from the hosts. The access control unit judges the execution enablement/disablement for the I/O requests from the host identification information and the access control table.

Abstract: An optical film is provided and contains at least one of a polycarbonate copolymer and a blend containing the polycarbonate copolymer. The polycarbonate copolymer contains specific repeating units. The optical film satisfies the following formulae (1) to (4). 0.1<Re(450)/Re(550)<0.95??(1) 1.03<Re(650)/Re(550)<1.93??(2) 0.4<(Re(450)/Rth(450))/(Re(550)/Rth(550))<0.95??(3) 1.05<(Re(650)/Rth(650))/(Re(550)/Rth(550))<1.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and programs for determining whether a vehicle is off-road or on-road, store map data, determine the vehicle's current position; and obtain information about an area around the current position of the vehicle from the stored map data. The systems, methods, and programs obtain information related to a road-side zone of a road from the obtained information about the area around the current position of the vehicle, and determine that the road-side zone is crossed. The systems, methods, and programs may make an off-road determination if the determined current position of the vehicle was on-road before the crossing of the road-side zone and make an on-road determination if the current position of the vehicle was off-road before the crossing of the road-side zone.

Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device comprising a liquid-crystal cell with plural domains and a transparent film comprising at least two domains that differ in in-plane retardation (Re) and/or thickness-direction retardation (Rth) for a visible light wavelength ? nm is disclosed. The domains of the transparent film and the domains of the liquid-crystal cell have no correlation in terms of their arrangement and/or size.

Abstract: A novel liquid crystal display is disclosed. The display comprises a pair of substrates disposed facing each other and at least one of which has an electrode, a liquid-crystal layer being sandwiched in between the pair of substrates and comprising liquid-crystal molecules aligned along with a first alignment axis and a second alignment axis respectively formed on facing surfaces of the first and second substrates, a pair of polarizing plates disposed sandwiching the liquid-crystal layer, and at least an optically anisotropic layer disposed between the liquid-crystal layer and either of the polarizing plates, and comprising at least one liquid crystal compound which is aligned along with a third alignment axis and is fixed in the alignment state.

Abstract: An optical film is provided and contains at least one of a polycarbonate copolymer and a blend containing the polycarbonate copolymer. The polycarbonate copolymer contains specific repeating units. The optical film satisfies the following formulae (1) to (4). 0.1<Re(450)/Re(50)<0.95??(1) 1.03<Re(650)/Re(550)<1.93??(2) 0.4<(Re(450)/Rth(450))/(Re(550)/Rth(550))<0.95??(3) 1.05<(Re(650)/Rth(650))/(Re(550)/Rth(550))<1.