Abstract:
The present invention provides a mirror display that sufficiently prevents a decrease in the screen luminance in the display mode while sufficiently increasing the reflectance in the mirror mode, and also gives excellent production efficiency. The mirror display includes a half mirror plate including at least two half mirror layers; and a display device arranged on the backside of the half mirror plate, the display device including a polarizer, the at least two half mirror layers including at least one reflective polarizer, the transmission axis of the polarizer and the transmission axis of the at least one reflective polarizer being substantially parallel to each other or substantially perpendicular to each other, the mirror display configured to switch a display mode allowing display light to be emitted from the display device and to pass through the half mirror plate and a mirror mode preventing display light from being emitted from the display device, the mirror display exhibiting a sum of the transmittance in the display mode and the reflectance in the mirror mode of 100% or higher.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a liquid crystal panel that achieves low-voltage driving and wide color gamut and suppresses the generation of residual DC voltage caused by UV light included in backlight illumination or the like, a switchable mirror panel including the liquid crystal panel, and a switchable mirror display including the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel of the present invention includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a vertical alignment film disposed on a liquid crystal layer side of each of the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer contains a liquid crystal material with a negative anisotropy of dielectric constant. The liquid crystal material contains a tolan liquid crystal compound. The vertical alignment film contains a vertical alignment polymer that includes a main chain and a side chain. The side chain includes a saturated aliphatic functional group at a terminal.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a mirror plate capable of suppressing the occurrence of orange peel-like unevenness. The mirror plate includes a mirror film including a mirror layer and an adhesive layer; and a substrate. The adhesive layer is attached to one surface of the substrate. The one surface of the substrate has an arithmetic average roughness of less than 0.03 μm. The mirror film includes no hard coat layer containing cured resin. The thicknesses of the mirror layer and the adhesive layer have a relation satisfying: tA/tM≦0.18, where tM represents the thickness of the mirror layer and to represents the thickness of the adhesive layer.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a mirror display that can match the peripheral environment having diffusely reflecting surfaces in the mirror mode, and an electronic device including the mirror display. The mirror display includes a half mirror plate that includes a reflective polarizer and a display device. The half mirror plate further includes a light-diffusing member that diffuses at least part of incident light. The mirror display includes, in the order from the back surface side, the display device, the reflective polarizer, and the light-diffusing member.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a mirror display that enables simultaneous perception of a mirror image and an image with suppressed uncomfortable feeling. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer, and a display device. The display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate. The distance between a display surface of the display device and a display surface of the half mirror plate is not smaller than 100 mm. The half mirror layer preferably includes a reflective polarizer.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a mirror display that can suppress warp of a half mirror plate with a reflective polarizer under heat to prevent distortion of a reflected image in a mirror mode. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate that includes a first reflective polarizer and a first base material, a display device, and a warp-suppressing member that suppresses shrinking of the first reflective polarizer under heat. The first reflective polarizer and the first base material are integrated, and the display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate.
Abstract:
One aspect of the present invention provides a touch panel-equipped mirror display that can reduce distortion and ghosting in mirror images while also reducing the rainbow effect in displayed images. The touch panel-equipped mirror display according to one aspect of the present invention includes, in order from a rear side: a display device that includes a polarizer; a touch panel; and a mirror plate that includes a reflective polarizer and a substrate, wherein the reflective polarizer and the substrate are fixed together, and wherein the touch panel does not create a phase difference in light. It is preferable that the substrate be a glass substrate with a thickness of greater than or equal to 0.1 mm and less than or equal to 0.4 mm.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a mirror display system that enables simultaneous perception of a mirror image and a video image with suppressed uncomfortable feeling. The mirror display system of the present invention includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer; a 3D display device; and a control unit being configured to supply a video signal to the 3D display device. The 3D display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate and is configured to display, by the video signal, a video image for the left eye and a video image for the right eye that give a parallax on a display surface of the 3D display device. The parallax is set such that a fused video image of the video image for the left eye and the video image for the right eye is perceived on the back surface side behind the display surface of the 3D display device.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device includes: a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer between the pair of substrates; and an alignment film between at least one of the pair of substrates and the liquid crystal layer, wherein the alignment film includes a first and second component, wherein the first component is a polymer in which at least two types of liquid crystal orientation side chains are bonded to a polysiloxane main chain, wherein the second component is made of at least one of a polyamic acid and a polyimide, wherein the at least two types of liquid crystal orientation side chains include a first side chain having on an end thereof a fluorine atom, and a second side chain that does not have on an end thereof a fluorine atom, wherein a proportion of the first component to a total amount of the second component is 2 mass % or greater, and wherein, in the liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal is sealed between the pair of substrates by a One Drop Fill scheme.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a mirror display that can be enlarged without quality deterioration. The mirror display includes, in the order from a viewing surface side, a half mirror plate including a reflective polarizer, a polarization conversion layer, and a display device including an absorptive polarizer on a side of the polarization conversion layer. The reflective polarizer includes a transmission axis parallel to the longitudinal direction of the display device and is jointless. The absorptive polarizer includes a transmission axis perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the display device and is jointless. The polarization conversion layer is configured to convert the polarization of polarized light passed through the absorptive polarizer.