Article comprising a reflective polarizer having a first major surface, and an exposed hardcoat on the first major surface, the hardcoat comprising binder, wherein the hardcoat has a thickness less than 500 nanometers and has a scratch rating of not greater than 1 as determined by the Linear Abrasion Test in the Examples. Articles described herein are useful, for example, for applications benefiting from reflective polarizers having brightness enhancement properties (e.g., use with liquid crystal display (LCD) devices).

A liquid crystal display device 10 includes a liquid crystal panel 11, a backlight 12, and a drive circuit for driving the liquid crystal panel 11 and the backlight 12. A part of the backlight 12 disposed in back of the liquid crystal panel 11 is transparent. The drive circuit drives the backlight 12 based on backlight control information included in a part of a video signal V1 corresponding to a blanking period. The backlight control information may be included in a part of the video signal V1 corresponding to a video signal period. Similar configuration may be applied to a display device which does not have a function of showing a space behind a display screen transparently. With this, a display device which easily receives lighting control information is provided.

In the display device according to an embodiment, optical functional elements such as a prism sheet and a light diffusion layer are combined, and an optical composite sheet to which a light absorbing layer that selectively absorbs light of a specific wavelength band is inserted is used, so that the color gamut can be enhanced as compared with the prior art.

In the optical composite sheet according to an embodiment, optical functional elements such as a prism sheet and a light diffusion layer are combined, and a light absorbing layer that selectively absorbs light of a specific wavelength band is inserted, so that the optical performance and color gamut can be enhanced as compared with the prior art. In particular, it is possible to minimize the decrease in luminance due to the absorption of light by the light absorbing layer while enhancing the color gamut by adjusting the lamination configuration of the optical composite sheet.

Provided is a display panel including a base substrate which includes a display area and a non-display area, a polarizing member disposed on a surface of the base substrate and including a plurality of grid patterns overlapping the display area and a reflective pattern overlapping the non-display area, and a pixel array layer which overlaps the polarizing member and is insulated from the polarizing member, wherein a first height from the surface of the base substrate to an upper surface of the reflective pattern is different from a second height from the surface of the base substrate to upper surfaces of the grid patterns.

The present invention provides an optical film including a light reflection layer, in which the light reflection layer is a layer in which alignment of liquid crystal molecules is immobilized, the liquid crystal molecule forms a helical structure in a film thickness direction of the light reflection layer, and a tilt angle of the liquid crystal molecule is 15° to 55°. The present invention also provides a manufacturing method of the optical film including curing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound and a chiral agent interposed between a support and another support. In the optical film according to the present invention, an absolute value of oblique retardation is smaller. In the liquid crystal display device including the optical film, front surface brightness is high and an oblique change in the shade is suppressed.

A display system includes a light source configured to emit light from a light exit surface, the emitted light having an emitted wavelength. An optical filter is disposed on the light exit surface of the light source. One or more light converting films are disposed between the optical filter and the light exit surface of the light source. The one or more light converting films are configured to receive the emitted light from the light source and convert at least portions of the received emitted light to blue, green, and red lights having respective blue, green and red wavelengths. For a substantially normally incident light and for at least an in-plane first polarization state, the optical filter reflects more than about 80% of the incident light having the emitted wavelength, and transmits greater than about 60% of the incident light for each of the blue, green and red wavelengths.

A display device includes a display panel including a lower substrate, a resonance unit disposed on the lower substrate, a pixel disposed on the resonance unit, and a polarizing plate disposed on the pixel and having a first polarization axis, where the pixel includes a first sub pixel which displays a first color and a second sub pixel which displays a second color different from the first color, and a backlight unit disposed below the display panel and which supplies backlight to the display panel where the resonance unit includes a first optical cavity having a first resonance frequency corresponding to the first color and a second optical cavity having a second resonance frequency corresponding to the second color.

A laminate includes: a substrate layer; and an optical function layer that is layered on one surface of the substrate layer, and has a plurality of light transmission parts which are arranged in a row along a surface of the substrate layer so as to be light-transmissive, and light absorption parts in a row, each of which is arranged between adjacent ones of the light transmission parts so as to be light-absorptive, wherein on a cross section of the optical function layer in the layer thickness direction, a cross-sectional area of one of the light transmission parts to the total cross-sectional area of one of the light transmission parts and one of the light absorption parts which are adjacent to each other is 78.2% to 88.5%, and optical diffuse reflectances thereof satisfy predetermined values.

A display system includes a backlight configured to project light including a housing and one or more light emitting elements received in the housing and one or more reflective portions disposed on the housing. A first display unit is disposed proximate the backlight includes a liquid crystal layer and at least one reflective polarizer. A second display unit is disposed proximate the first display unit. The second display unit includes a TFT display layer and at least one linear polarizer. At least one microcontroller is in communication with one or more of the backlight, the first display unit and the second display unit. The at least one microcontroller executes instructions to adjust the liquid crystal layer of the first display unit between a first transmissive state and a second transmissive state.