Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a transmission decorative film capable of applying different visual effects on observation surfaces and a method of manufacturing the same.Provided is a transmission decorative film of the present invention including: a circular polarization plate; and a circular polarization reflection layer disposed on the circular polarization plate, in which the circular polarization reflection layer includes at least one or more first cholesteric liquid crystalline layers that reflect any one of left circularly polarized light or right circularly polarized light, the first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer includes two or more reflection regions having different selective reflection wavelengths, and the circular polarization plate transmits circularly polarized light having a revolution direction opposite to a revolution direction of the circularly polarized light reflected by the first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer.
Abstract:
According to the invention, there are provided a vehicle minor with an image display function including: an image display device; and a half mirror, in which the half minor includes a reflection layer, and the reflection layer is inclined with respect to a surface of an image display portion of the image display device, and a method of manufacturing a vehicle mirror with an image display function including: positioning a half minor including a reflection layer on a surface of an image display portion of an image display device such that the half mirror is inclined with respect to the surface of the image display portion. In a vehicle minor with an image display function according to the invention, image visibility is hardly reduced by outside light.
Abstract:
A sensing method includes sensing the target object by sensing light that is derived from emitted light and has passed the target object, in which the emitted light is circularly polarized light, sensed light is circularly polarized light, and light derived from the emitted light is incident to the target object at an angle greater than 20° and equal to or smaller than 70° that is formed with a normal line of the target object.
Abstract:
According to the invention, provided are a windshield glass including: a projected image display portion on which a projected image is displayed with projected light; and a second glass plate, an intermediate layer, and a first glass plate provided in this order from an incidence side of the projected light, in which the intermediate layer has a wedge-shaped cross section, the projected image display portion at least includes a half-mirror film, and the half-mirror film includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and a head-up display system including the windshield glass. According to the windshield glass of the invention, it is possible to perform a display of a projected image having high brightness, in which generation of a double image is reduced.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method of sensing a target object due to a change in light intensity detected when the target object passes to cross a light path of circularly polarized light, in a state where circularly polarized light selectively including any one sense of right circularly polarized light and left circularly polarized light is sensed, and a system including: an emission unit which emits circularly polarized light; a target object movement unit; and a detection unit which senses circularly polarized light, in this order, in which the detection unit is at a position where light emitted from the emission unit is incident, a light path of light where the light emitted from the emission unit is incident to the detection unit intersects with the target object movement unit, and the sense of circularly polarized light selectively emitted by the emission unit and the sense of circularly polarized light selectively sensed by the detection unit are the same as each other. It is possible to sense various target objects by using an optical sensor with excellent sensitivity and decreased erroneous sensing in an arbitrary environment, by using the method and the system of the invention.
Abstract:
Provided are a half mirror for displaying a projected image having visible light transmittance including a layer formed by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase(forple, three or more layers formed by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase which exhibit different center wavelengths of selective reflection), in which in a surface of the layer formed by immobilizing the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase on a projected image display side which is closest to the projected image display side, directors of cholesteric liquid crystal molecules forming a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase are even; a projected image display system including the half minor for displaying a projected image and a projector; and a method for producing the half mirror for displaying a projected image. The half mirror for displaying a projected image of the present invention is useful as a combiner of a head up display or the like.
Abstract:
The invention provides: a circularly polarized light separation film which selectively allows the transmission of any one of right circularly polarized light and left circularly polarized light in at least a part of a near infrared light wavelength range and includes a visible light shielding layer which reflects or absorbs light in at least a part of a visible light wavelength range and a circularly polarized light separation layer which selectively allows the transmission of any one of right circularly polarized light and left circularly polarized light in at least a part of a near infrared light wavelength range; a manufacturing method of the circularly polarized light separation film; an infrared sensor including the circularly polarized light separation film; and a sensing system and a sensing method utilizing the circularly polarized light separation film or a combination of the circularly polarized light separation film and a film including the visible light shielding layer. The sensing system and the sensing method provides high sensitivity regardless of the surrounding environment and causing fewer sensing errors.
Abstract:
According to the present invention, provided is a system for irradiating a target object selectively with specific circularly polarized light, comprising a polarization-state control member that controls the polarization state of light to thereby generate circularly polarized light; and a circularly polarized light-reflecting member, wherein the circularly polarized light-reflecting member is disposed at a position on which the circularly polarized light emitted from the polarization-state control member can be incident; the circularly polarized light-reflecting member generates reflected light that selectively comprises circularly polarized light of the same sense as the incident circularly polarized light from the polarization-state control member; and the circularly polarized light-reflecting member is disposed such that the target object can be irradiated with at least a part of the reflected light.
Abstract:
A method for producing a cholesteric liquid crystal layer is a method that can produce a cholesteric liquid crystal layer whose reflection surface is not parallel to a substrate surface by a simple method. The method includes: a step 1 of forming a composition layer satisfying a condition 1, a condition 2, or a condition 3 on a substrate, using a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound; and a step 2 of subjecting the composition layer to a treatment for cholesterically aligning the liquid crystal compound in the composition layer to form a cholesteric liquid crystal layer.
Abstract:
An optical element includes an optically-anisotropic layer that is formed of a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound having a polymerizable group, in which a ratio of a bend elastic constant K33 to a splay elastic constant K11 in the liquid crystal composition satisfies 0.8≤K33/K11≤1.2 at any temperature of a nematic temperature range, and the optically-anisotropic layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction.