The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing an optical plastic film such that rainbow unevenness when viewed with naked eyes and blackout when viewed with polarized sunglasses can be suppressed without any axis alignment or increase in the in-plane phase difference. Disclosed is an optical plastic film satisfying the following conditions 1 and 2: <Condition 1> when a large sample with a size of 200 mm×300 mm is cut out from a plastic film, the large sample is divided into 30 small samples of 40 mm×50 mm, a region of 30 mm×40 mm obtained by excluding 5 mm from each edge of each small sample is subdivided into 47,000 or more regions, and an in-plane phase difference of each subdivided region is then measured, a percentage of small samples in which an average of the in-plane phase difference of each region measured is 50 nm or more and 1,200 nm or less, among the 30 small samples is 50% or more; and <Condition 2> when the 30 small samples are processed in the same manner as in condition 1 and an angle of slow axis of each subdivided region of each small sample is measured, a percentage of small samples in which a standard deviation a calculated from the angle of slow axis of each region measured is 0.8 degrees or more, among the 30 small samples is 50% or more.

According to one embodiment, a display device including a display panel which displays images, a polarization axis rotation element located between the display panel and an observer, and a polarizer located between the display panel and the polarization axis rotation element, wherein the polarization axis rotation element includes a first area and a second area different from the first area, and an orientation of a first polarization axis of a first polarization component transmitted through the first area is different from an orientation of a second polarization axis of a second polarization component transmitted through the second area.

The present disclosure provides a display device and an electronic equipment. The display device includes: a display module, the display module having a light emitting side; a phase retarder, the phase retarder is disposed on the light emitting side of the display module; wherein a range of a compensation value of the phase retarder is [λ/16, λ/4), (λ/4, 7λ/16], [9λ/16, 3λ/4) or (3λ/4, 15λ/λ/16], where λ is a wavelength of light emitted by the display module.

Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of improving light utilization efficiency, without stacking a plurality of microlenses having a three-dimensional shape.

The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a microlens corresponding to each pixel; a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate; and a liquid crystal material layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, in which a first transparent material layer including a material having a first refractive index is formed in the first substrate, and a material having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index is disposed in a portion of the first transparent material layer corresponding to a region between adjacent pixels, and a second transparent material layer including a material having a third refractive index is formed in the second substrate, and a material having a fourth refractive index different from the third refractive index is disposed in a portion of the second transparent material layer corresponding to the region between adjacent pixels.

A wearable display system includes an eyepiece stack having a world side and a user side opposite the world side. During use, a user positioned on the user side views displayed images delivered by the wearable display system via the eyepiece stack which augment the user's field of view of the user's environment. The system also includes an optical attenuator arranged on the world side of the of the eyepiece stack, the optical attenuator having a layer of a birefringent material having a plurality of domains each having a principal optic axis oriented in a corresponding direction different from the direction of other domains. Each domain of the optical attenuator reduces transmission of visible light incident on the optical attenuator for a corresponding different range of angles of incidence.

A one-way glass with switching modes includes an absorbing layer located on a weak light side, a reflecting layer located on an intense light side, and a converting layer stacked between the absorbing layer and the reflecting layer. The absorbing layer absorbs first polarized light and allows second polarized light to pass through. The reflecting layer reflects the first polarized light and allows the second polarized light to pass through. Unpolarized light incident from the weak light side or from the intense light side is respectively converted into the polarized light. During the process of gradually adjusting the converting layer from a twisted state to a vertical state, rotated angles of polarization directions of the first polarized light and the second polarized light gradually decrease.

A liquid crystal display device includes: a pair of substrates (100, 200); a liquid crystal material layer (300) sandwiched between the pair of substrates; and an optical compensation element (220) having an optical compensation film (224).

The optical compensation element includes: a base layer (221) having a serrated cross-sectional shape formed by repeatedly performing a film forming process and an etching process on a surface on which a set of a plurality of grooves having different depths is formed at a predetermined pitch; and an optical compensation film in which a high refractive index film and a low refractive index film are alternately formed on the base layer.

An electronic device includes a display panel including a first substrate and a second substrate disposed on the first substrate. Each of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a curved surface. The second substrate has a display surface including a first region and a second region with different curvatures. The display panel outputs a first light in the first region, having a first normal brightness in a normal view angle and a first oblique brightness in an oblique view angle, and a second light, having a second normal brightness in the normal view angle and a second oblique brightness in the oblique view angle. A ratio of a difference between the first normal brightness and the second normal brightness to the first normal brightness is less than a ratio of a difference between the first oblique brightness and the second oblique brightness to the first oblique brightness.

The invention provides a display device in which the tint is difficult to observe in a case where white display is visually confirmed from a front direction, and the tint is also difficult to observe at any azimuthal angle in a case where white display is visually confirmed from an oblique direction. A display device of the invention includes, from a viewing side, an anisotropic light absorbing layer and a self light emitting display element which emits at least red light, green light, and blue light, the self light emitting display element has a microcavity structure, the anisotropic light absorbing layer is formed of a composition containing a dichroic substance and a liquid crystal compound, the dichroic substance has a maximum absorption wavelength of 400 to 500 nm, and the anisotropic light absorbing layer satisfies a requirement represented by Expression (1) and a requirement represented by Expression (2),

1.50<Amax(60)/A(0)  Expression (1)

1.00≤Amax(60)/Amin(60)≤1.20.  Expression (2)

The phase difference compensation element that is used in combination with a liquid crystal cell provided with a liquid crystal layer in which an optical axis of liquid crystal molecules is inclined and that compensates for a phase difference of light generated in the liquid crystal layer, the phase difference compensation element includes a substrate and a phase difference film having at least one oblique vapor deposition layer on at least one substrate surface of the substrate, and the phase difference compensation element is disposed in an aspect in which an intersecting angle between a slow-axis direction of the phase difference film and a fast-axis direction of the liquid crystal layer, which is a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the inclined optical axis of the liquid crystal molecules is projected onto the substrate surface, is −25° to +25°.