Abstract: A system including an imaging device with a line of sight to an object, capable of producing a glare, which is to be captured in an image, a light source configured to illuminate a surface of the object, and an optical barrier positioned along the line of sight between the imaging device and the object, said optical barrier being sized and positioned to reduce reflected light off the surface of the object directed along the line of sight from being captured in the image. Methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention comprises an anti-reflective device comprised of a main cylindrical body, with thin walled protrusions attached to an optical product via the use of one or more attachment members which clamp to the external body of the aforementioned optical product. The anti-reflective device is to be used on optical products such as binoculars, monocular, rifle scopes, and spotting scopes, to prevent the return to an object of visible reflections of light emitted from the surface of the objective lens of an optical product. In a simple one-handed motion, the anti-reflective device is to be clamped to the external body of an optical product, used as an anti-reflective device, and removed via a simple one-handed motion.

Abstract: A display apparatus has a display panel that includes a display area and a boundary area, a window that protects the display panel and that transmits an image that is realized in the display area, and an adhesion layer that adheres the display panel and the window. The window includes a window body with a first surface that faces the display panel and a second surface that is externally exposed, a light-shielding member that is on the first surface and that blocks the boundary area of the display panel from being externally visible, and a light-shielding member protection layer that is between the light-shielding member and the adhesion layer, and that protects the light-shielding member.

Abstract: An optical body has an anti-reflection function and can be produced without repeating sequential coating to stack a low refractive index layer and a high refractive index layer. The optical body having an anti-reflection function includes a minute concave-convex surface having fluctuations. The minute concave-convex surface has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of smaller than or equal to 25 nm.

Abstract: A printed material includes a printed material body with a surface, and an optical element disposed on the surface of the printed material body. The optical element includes multiple structures formed at a pitch not longer than the wavelength of visible light. The structures have an aspect ratio of 0.6 or more and 5.0 or less.

Abstract: The disclosure includes producing a plastic lens with an antireflection film at a lower cost. The plastic lens is configured to include a plastic base material; and an antireflection film having an electrically conductive layer that is formed in contact with a surface of the plastic base material and that has colorless transparency, and an antireflection film main body that contains a metal oxide, formed on the electrically conductive layer.

Abstract: Lens apparatus includes adjacent concave and convex lens surfaces adjacent with an air layer therebetween. At least one of the lens surfaces includes an antireflection film including multiple subwavelength structures at an average pitch of 400 nm or smaller. The surface satisfies: 0.7<R1/R2<1.3, and |?2??1|>15°, provided that: D=f/FNo, ?1=sin?1(D/(2×fi)), and ?2=sin?1((h×D)/R2), where f and FNo represent focal length and F-number of the entire optical system, f1 represents focal length of an optical system on object side with respect to the air layer between the lens surfaces, h represents axial conversion beam height on the at least one surface having anti-reflection film, R1 and R2 represent curvature radii of surfaces of respective object and image sides between the lens surfaces.

Abstract: The light-shielding coating contains (a) a resin, (b) a coloring material, (c) inorganic fine particles, and (d) a surfactant and/or an oil. The concentration of Component (d), the surfactant and/or the oil, is higher in the uppermost layer of the coating than in the lower layer. The content ratio of Component (d) is in the range of 10 to 40 weight % relative to the total weight of the light-shielding coating. The optical element features this light-shielding coating.

Abstract: A movable light-guiding device includes a light-guiding unit and at least one sucker unit. The light-guiding unit includes at least one light-guiding structure. The sucker unit is installed on the light-guiding unit. Accordingly, a user can easily make the light-guiding device adhere to an object or remove it from an object by using the sucker unit. The movable light-guiding device can be repeatedly installed and uninstalled and thereby it can improve the performance and user's convenience.

Abstract: An optical device that has an antireflection function, the optical device including: a base; and a plurality of structural bodies, which are formed by convex portions or concave portions, arranged on a surface of the base with a fine pitch that is equal to or smaller than a wavelength of visible light, wherein the plurality of structural bodies are arranged so as to form tracks of a plurality of rows on the surface of the base and form a quasi-hexagonal lattice pattern, a tetragonal lattice pattern, or a quasi-tetragonal lattice pattern, and wherein a packing ratio of the structural bodies to the surface of the base is equal to or higher than 65%.

Abstract: A vehicle has a display device which widens the field of view (visible area) reflected by a side mirror or a back mirror mounted on the vehicle. To enable a driver driving the vehicle to confirm safety even when it is difficult for the driver to visually recognize some of objects surrounding the vehicle, a liquid crystal display device or an EL display device is provided in the side mirror (door mirror), the back mirror (room mirror) or in an interior portion of the vehicle. A camera is mounted on the vehicle and an image from the camera is displayed on the display device. Further, information read from a sensor (distance measuring sensor) having the function of measuring the distance to another vehicle, and a sensor (impact sensor) having the function of sensing an externally applied impact force larger than a predetermined value is displayed on the display device.

Abstract: An anti-reflection film and a display device including the same, and a manufacturing method of an anti-reflection film and a master film therefor. The anti-reflection film includes an anti-glare and anti-reflection layer, a surface of the anti-glare and anti-reflection layer having an anti-glare pattern for scattering incident light and an anti-reflection pattern.

Abstract: Light transmissive structures include a light transmissive substrate that includes optical microstructures. The optical microstructures have a geometric feature that is configured to reduce glare in light transmitted through the light transmissive structure. Moreover, the plurality of optical microstructures also have a geometric feature that is configured to vary randomly and/or pseudorandomly across the light transmissive substrate so as to diffuse light transmitted through the light transmissive structure. Related fabrication methods are also described.

Abstract: The reflectivity and transmissivity of building and vehicle surfaces is maintained while employing partial, variable, selective, or asymmetric diffusers between a surface and an external light source such that the reflected light is diffused to produce a reduction in glare, while minimally effecting the specular or collimated transmission (if any) of light through the surface. Glare is also reduced by utilizing diffuser devices that reflect light in a temperature dependent manner.

Abstract: A lens includes a first optical surface including an optical axis X, and a first cut end surface at an outer circumference of the first optical surface. The first optical surface has a first SWS configured to reduce reflection of light. The first cut end surface has a second SWS configured to reduce reflection of light. A reflectance of the second SWS with respect to light having a predetermined wavelength is higher than the reflectance of the first SWS with respect to the light having the predetermined wavelength.

Abstract: Provided is an optical member, including: a substrate having an at least partially curved surface; a concave-convex structure at an outermost surface, the concave-convex structure being prepared by hydrothermal treatment of a layer formed by gas-phase deposition of at least one of simple aluminum and a compound containing aluminum on the substrate; and a dielectric layer formed by gas-phase deposition between the substrate and the concave-convex structure.

Abstract: An image display having superior anti-glare properties, less glare, and a small reduction in contrast even though surface asperities of an anti-glare film are easily formed by filler flocculation.

Abstract: A method for producing an anti-glare film, capable of widely and freely control a surface profile of the anti-glare film. The method including the steps of: coating a coating solution on at least one surface of a translucent base to form a coating layer; and curing the coating solution to form an anti-glare layer, wherein the coating solution contains a resin, particles, and a solvent, the method further includes the step of: shearing the coating solution coated on the translucent base, and a surface profile of the anti-glare film is adjusted by adjusting a shear distance of the coating layer, defined by the following equation (I) in the step of shearing, S=?Vdt??(I) V: shear velocity (m/s) t: shear holding time (s).

Abstract: A method for producing an anti-glare film, capable of controlling a flocculation state of particles without depending on flocculation characteristics of the particles and forming an anti-glare layer having desired surface asperities. A coating solution containing resin, particles, thixotropy-imparting agents, and a solvent and satisfying at least one of conditions (I) and (II) is coated on a translucent base and then sheared and cured, (I) a contribution ratio R2 is 0.95 or more in a linear approximate equation of the amount of thixotropy-imparting agents to be added and a Ti value in the range from 1.2 to 3.5, (II) a quadratic coefficient a is a negative value in a quadratic polynomial approximate equation, y=ax2+bx+c of the amount x of thixotropy-imparting agents to be added and a Ti value y in the range from 1.2 to 3.5, Ti value=?1/?2??(A).

Abstract: A display panel comprises of a first substrate and a spaced apart second substrate and a protection or other additional film attached to an outer and laterally extending major surface of the first substrate. During attachment, charged particles may flow down along a vertically extending sidewall surface of the first substrate. The first substrate includes a first base substrate having a major lateral surface subdivided into a display region and a peripheral region, a color filter member disposing on the first base substrate and having a plurality of color filters, a light blocking member disposing on the peripheral region of the first base substrate and an overcoating member disposing on the color filter member and on the light blocking member and extending to cover a sidewall surface of the light blocking member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fine structure form such as a wire-grid polarizer 1 comprising a substrate having convex stripes 50 formed at a pitch of at most a visible light wavelength on at least one surface thereof, an inorganic oxide layer 30 covering at least the top 52 of the convex stripes 50, and a fluorinated compound layer 32 formed by treating at least the surface of the inorganic oxide layer 30 with a fluorinated compound having a group reactive with the inorganic oxide, wherein the inorganic oxide layer 30 covering the top 52 of the convex stripes 50 has a thickness Ha of at least 30 nm and a ratio of the thickness Ha to the width Dat (i.e. Ha/Dat) of at most 1.0; and a liquid crystal display device comprising such a fine structure form.

Abstract: An imaging mechanism includes: an imaging device; a light receiving section that is provided on one surface of the imaging device; a cover member that covers the one surface of the imaging device and the light receiving section; and a lens unit that has a plurality of lenses including a plano-convex lens having a flat portion and a lens barrel, and that is optically coupled to the light receiving section, the lens barrel fixing the plurality of lenses, wherein the plano-convex lens having the flat portion is provided at a closest position to the imaging device in the plurality of lenses such that the flat portion faces the imaging device, and the flat portion protrudes from an end of the lens barrel toward the imaging device and is fixed to the cover member.

Abstract: The claimed invention provides an antireflection film including a light-transmitting substrate, a hard coat layer, and a low-refractive-index layer, the hard coat layer and the low-refractive-index layer being formed on the light-transmitting substrate, the low-refractive-index layer including a (meth)acrylic resin, hollow silica particles, reactive silica particles, and two kinds of antifouling agents, the hollow silica particles having an average particle size of 40 to 80 nm and a blending ratio to the (meth)acrylic resin, represented by a ratio: Amount of hollow silica particles/Amount of (meth)acrylic resin, of 0.9 to 1.4, the amount of the reactive silica particles being 5 to 60 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the (meth) acrylic resin, the antifouling agents including an antifouling agent that contains a fluorine compound and an antifouling agent that contains a fluoro-silicone compound.

Abstract: A device grows sapphire ingots by dipping a sapphire seed into molten aluminum oxide and lifting and spinning the sapphire seed from the molten aluminum oxide to cause the molten aluminum oxide adhering to the sapphire. Meanwhile, the device controls temperature such that the molten aluminum oxide is crystallized on the sapphire seed which is gradually cooled down to a room temperature. The device also includes a housing and air controller for providing desire air conditions for growing the sapphire ingot.

Abstract: An anti-reflection material comprising a coating film formed on at least a part of surface of a substrate having translucency and consisting of a binder, silica particles and air reserves, said silica particles being arranged forming two layers one on the other on the substrate surface, a first layer on the substrate side being formed by covering the substrate surface with the silica particles and having said air reserves between said substrate and said silica particles, and the silica particles of a second layer covering part of the silica particles of said first layer and having said air reserves between the silica particles of said first layer and the silica particles of said second layer.

Abstract: Display layers in an electronic device may be used to generate images. The display layers may include liquid crystal display layers such as upper and lower polarizers and a layer of liquid crystal material. A display cover layer may be mounted in a housing adhesive. A touch sensor layer may be mounted under the display cover layer. An air gap may separate the upper polarizer from the touch sensor layer and display cover layer. Antireflection coatings may be formed on the lower surface of the display cover layer or touch sensor layer and may be formed on the upper surface of the upper polarizer. The antireflection coatings may include coatings formed from a polymer hard coat covered with a polymer layer having a different index of refraction and may include broadband antireflection coating material formed from textured polymer or other structure exhibiting a continuously varying index of refraction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hard-coated antiglare film that has an extremely low haze value, superior anti-fluorescent lamp glare properties, and anti-face glare properties, and can improve the depth of black in black display by preventing white blur from occurring. The hard-coated antiglare film: including a transparent plastic film substrate; and a hard-coating antiglare layer containing fine particles, and has a total haze value in a range of 0% to 5%. The number Ntotal of convexities and the number N50 of convexities satisfy the relationship 0.4?N50/Ntotal?0.8. And the number of convexities in which line segments of portions of the mean line that cross the convexities each have a length of 50 ?m or shorter, among convexities the exceed a second standard line that is parallel with the mean line and is located at a height of 0.2 ?m, is 10 or less.

Abstract: A display device includes an anti-reflection film having a plurality of projections over a display screen surface. An angle made by a base and a slope of each of the plurality of projections is equal to or greater than 84° and less than 90°.

Abstract: An antireflection coating has a band ranging from the visible light range to the near infrared range. The antireflection coating has a deposition structure made up of twelve layers in which layers of a high refractive index material having a refractive index nil of 1.95 to 2.32 and layers of a low refractive index material having a refractive index of 1.35 to 1.46 are deposited alternately, wherein the reflectance of the antireflection coating is not higher than 1.5% in the wavelength range of 400 nm to 680 nm and not higher than 2.0% in the wavelength range of 680 nm to 1350 nm.

Abstract: The light-shielding coating contains (a) a resin, (b) a coloring material, (c) inorganic fine particles, and (d) a surfactant and/or an oil. The concentration of Component (d), the surfactant and/or the oil, is higher in the uppermost layer of the coating than in the lower layer. The content ratio of Component (d) is in the range of 10 to 40 weight % relative to the total weight of the light-shielding coating. The optical element features this light-shielding coating.

Abstract: A system and methods for the automated display of a borderless sun glare block area and sunshield in a windshield, which can be made of electrochromatic glass, in a motor vehicle driven at any time and at any location on earth is presented. The first method, which accurately calculates the precise position of the sun glare block area, is based on the apparent solar position, the direction of travel relative to the true North, the slope of the road, the windshield tilt angle, and the dynamic position of the driver's eyes. It uses sets of different formulas depending on the position of the sun glare on the windshield and the slope of the road. The second method calculates the changing opacities of the borderless sun glare block area, whose opacity decreases from its center to its edge and matches that of the sunshield, based on the ambient light intensity.

Abstract: New optic control systems are provided that manage camera, user or environmental movement and other factors impacting optical and resulting image quality. In some aspects of the invention, a variably, directionally shadable semi-transparent matrix and actuating system is provided, which limits problematic glare for an observation point. In other aspects of the invention, a matrix creates directional light from a plurality of shiftable and angle-directable sources, which may aid in creating virtual, 3-D objects of greater realism than conventional 3-D imaging methods and aid in reducing the appearance of distracting interceding objects (e.g., finger blocking a touch screen). In still other aspects of the invention, electromagnetically actuated optical control techniques, including rotational lenses and sensors, are provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of applying an anti-reflective coating to an optical surface of a mold. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of providing a lens mold having an optical surface; forming a layer of a super hydrophobic material over the optical surface, wherein the super hydrophobic material contains an amount of dipodal silane that is a relative percentage of the super hydrophobic material; forming an anti-reflective coating layered structure over the layer of the super hydrophobic material; and forming a layer of a coupling agent deposited with a monolayer thickness to the anti-reflective coating layered structure using vapor deposition under aprotic conditions or by dip coating or spin coating using a solution of a coupling agent in an aprotic solvent.

Abstract: Example embodiments provide for an optical lens assembly and imaging lens with IR light filtering. The lens comprises a body having two surfaces and a plurality of layers of optical thin film layered along a direction formed on at least one surface. The optical thin films comprise less than 20 layers and thicker than 400 nm and thinner than 2000 nm thickness. Through the alternately layered layers of optical thin film, the transmittance of the lens for incident light in infrared ray band is reduced. Therefore, the infrared ray is mostly filtered without use of an additional infrared ray filter.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical anti-reflective structure. The antireflective structure comprises a concave-convex surface structure and a nanoscale columnar structure on the surface of the concave-convex surface structure. Furthermore, a structure of a solar cell having the antireflective structure and a method of making the above antireflective structure are also provided.

Abstract: An optical element that includes a substrate having two surfaces, each of the surfaces having a micro-relief structure that includes numerous fine protrusions, and a film that includes one or more layers including a metal layer and that is formed on one of the micro-relief structures.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical element for use in a camera system for the inspection of passageways, a camera system for the inspection of passageways and a method of illuminating a passageway during inspection with a camera. An optical element for use in a camera system for the inspection of passageways comprises a first optical portion arranged to transmit light into a camera, a second optical portion arranged to transmit light emitted from a light source, the second optical portion located adjacent the first optical portion, and barrier means arranged to prevent light being transmitted from the second optical portion into the first optical portion.

Abstract: A flat panel display device includes a transparent display panel including a transparent area transmitting light incident on one surface of the transparent display panel to the other surface opposite to the one surface; a first anti-reflective film which is formed over the one surface of the transparent display panel and has a moth eye structure; and a second anti-reflective film which is formed over the other surface of the transparent display panel and has a moth eye structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-reflection film which provides not only sufficient anti-reflection properties and antistatic properties but also excellent contrast in a bright place and excellent contrast in a dark place especially applied on a surface of a transmissive LCD. The anti-reflection film has an antistatic hard coat layer and a low refractive index layer in order on at least one surface of a transparent substrate, average luminous reflectance in the range of 0.5-1.5% on a surface of the low refractive index layer side, haze equal to or less than 0.5%, parallel light transmittance in the range of 94.0-96.5%, and an absorption loss in average luminous transmittance in the range of 0.5-3.0%.

Abstract: Provided is an antiglare film having a hard coat property, capable of highly suppressing generation of a rainbow interference pattern and interference fringes in display images, preventing white muddiness and scintillation of a display screen, while giving high contrast in a bright room and a dark room. The antiglare film includes an antiglare layer having an uneven form on its surface and formed on one face of a transparent substrate having an in-plane birefringence and a retardation of 3000 nm or higher. The antiglare layer contains silica fine particles, organic fine particles, and a binder resin. The silica particles include particles forming agglomerates to be contained coarsely and densely in the antiglare layer. The agglomerates are distributed densely around the organic fine particles, and some agglomerates adhere to surfaces of the organic particles and/or some silica particles are impregnated in the inside of the organic particles.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an anti-reflection film excellent in high-temperature and high-humidity environment resistance and scratch resistance in addition to improved anti-reflection performance of a concave-convex nanostructure. To achieve the object, an anti-reflection film 10 comprises: a base layer 11 as a first optical thin film that is provided on an optical surface 21a of an optical element 21; a concave-convex nanostructure layer that is provided on a surface of the base layer 11 and is composed of a concave-convex nanostructure 12 formed so as to have a pitch width p between the convex parts 12b of shorter than an incident light wavelength; and a cover layer 13 as a second optical thin film that covers peaks of the convex part 12b with a void 14 being provided between the cover layer 13 and concave part 12a constituting the concave-convex nanostructure 12.

Abstract: A process for producing a reflection-reducing interference layer system is provided, in which a stack of layers is formed by applying to a surface of a substrate several layers which have alternately a high refractive index and a low refractive index, and a nanoporous final layer is applied to the stack of layers by vapour deposition of the material of the final layer at an oblique angle relative to the normal of the top layer of the stack of layers such that the refractive index of the final layer is lower than the refractive index of the top layer of the stack of layers.

Abstract: An optical member includes a laminated body configured to reduce light reflection disposed on a substrate, wherein a surface of the laminated body is a porous layer or a layer having a textured structure, and at least one layer of the laminated body is a polymer layer containing a linear polymer and a branched polymer. A method for manufacturing the optical member is also provided. The branched polymer content is 10% by weight or more and 90% by weight or less of the total weight of the linear polymer and the branched polymer. The layer having a textured structure contains crystals mainly composed of aluminum oxide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improved electro-optic rearview mirror elements and assemblies incorporating the same. Area of the effective field of view of the electro-optic mirror element substantially equals to that defined by the outermost perimeter of the element.

Abstract: An optical device is configured such that the device includes an inorganic light-transmissive base material and an organic antireflection layer, which is provided on a principal surface of the light-transmissive base material and contains an organosilicon compound, an epoxy group-containing organic compound, and hollow silica, and the light-transmissive base material and at least one of the organosilicon compound and the epoxy group-containing organic compound are covalently bonded to each other. Since dirt, dust, etc. do not adhere to a principal surface of the light-transmissive base material during film formation, the occurrence of a defect in the organic antireflection layer can be prevented. The organic antireflection layer has a larger contact angle than an antireflection layer made of an inorganic material, and therefore has a higher dust-proof effect than an inorganic antireflection layer, and thus, dirt, dust, etc. hardly adhere thereto.

Abstract: An optical device includes an inorganic light-transmissive base material, a hard coat layer, which is provided on a principal surface of the light-transmissive base material and is harder than the light-transmissive base material, and an organic antireflection layer, which is provided on a principal surface of the hard coat layer and contains an organosilicon compound, an epoxy group-containing organic compound, and hollow silica. The hard coat layer and at least one of the organosilicon compound and the epoxy group-containing organic compound are covalently bonded to each other. The occurrence of a defect in the organic antireflection layer can be prevented. The organic antireflection layer has a higher dust-proof effect than an inorganic antireflection film, and therefore, dirt, dust, etc. hardly adhere thereto.

Abstract: An apparatus for shielding a display panel of an electronic device is described herein. The apparatus comprises a shade portion, holding portions and magnet portions. The shade portion may surround a display panel of an electronic device and may limit a field of view to the display panel. The shade portion includes a backside shade portion and two side shade portions. The holding portions may include a bottom holding portion coupled to a bottom side of the backside shade portion and side holding portions coupled to each of the side shade portions. The magnet portions may be included in the plurality of holding portions, respectively, and may couple to a housing that is coupled to the display panel. Other embodiments are also described.

Abstract: An apparatus for shielding a display panel of an electronic device is described herein. The apparatus comprises a shade portion, holding portions and an attachment layer. The shade portion may surround a display panel of an electronic device and may limit a field of view to the display panel. The shade portion includes a backside shade portion and two side shade portions. The holding portions may include a bottom holding portion coupled to a bottom side of the backside shade portion and side holding portions coupled to each of the side shade portions. The attachment layer may be coupled to each of the side holding portions. The attachment layer may be a suction cup tape which may be removably coupled to the electronic device. Other embodiments are also described.

Abstract: An antiglare film with various inner and outer haze includes a transparent substrate, and an antiglare coating layer formed by coating an antiglare coating solution on the transparent substrate. The antiglare coating solution further includes a resin, resin-philic light-scattering particles and resin-phobic light-scattering particles. The resin-philic light-scattering particles and the resin-phobic light-scattering particles respectively have different functional groups on the surfaces thereof. The resin-philic light-scattering particles do not repel the resin and thus are distributed inside the antiglare coating layer. The resin-phobic light-scattering particles repel the resin and thus are distributed on the surface of the antiglare coating layer, so that the inner and outer haze of an antiglare film can be effectively controlled via adjusting the proportion of the resin-phobic to resin-philic light-scattering particles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for controlling the optical transmission of a plurality of windows Vk with electro-controllable optical transmission properties, comprising at least one spatial brightness sensor for supplying at least one value representative of brightness respectively for different spatial areas forming subsets Xi of a set X and thus supplying a mapping L of a brightness in which the subsets Li of L are associated with the sets Xi, and a control unit comprising a memory in which programs are stored which are capable of controlling the optical transmission of each of said windows.