Provided is an optically anisotropic layer formed of a liquid crystal compound, which includes first and second layers in direct contact along a thickness direction, an alignment state of the liquid crystal compound in the first layer is different from the second layer, and the optically anisotropic layer satisfies a relationship of Expression (2A) Xmax/Xmin<1.10 where a region within a square having a largest size that can be drawn on a surface of the optically anisotropic layer is subdivided into 64 square-shaped sub-regions having the same area, a thickness d1 of the first layer and a thickness d2 of the second layer at a center position of the sub-region are obtained, X represented by Expression (1) X=d1/(d1+d2) for each sub-region is calculated, and among the calculated 64 X's, a maximum value is defined as Xmax and a minimum value is defined as Xmin.

There are disclosed a liquid crystal panel and method for the manufacture thereof, and a 3D display apparatus, for enabling left-eye and right-eye images to be separated directly by means of a liquid crystal cell and the manufacturing process of a naked-eye 3D mode liquid crystal cell to be simplified. The liquid crystal panel comprises an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a liquid crystal cell formed of liquid crystal molecules located between the upper and lower substrates. The liquid crystal cell comprises a display layer and a grating layer, the grating layer being arranged in proximity to the upper substrate, the grating layer comprising a light shielding region and a light transmitting region, the light shielding region comprising light shielding liquid crystal molecules, the light transmitting region comprising light transmitting liquid crystal molecules, the light shielding region and the light transmitting region being arranged alternately. The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal panel that is capable of separating left-eye and right-eye images directly by means of a liquid crystal cell and simplifying the manufacturing process of a naked-eye 3D mode liquid crystal cell.

A cured-film formation composition that includes: (A) one or more compounds having a photo-aligning group and hydroxy group, etc.; (B) a polymer having at least one substituent from the group of a hydroxy group, carboxy group, amino group, and alkoxysilyl group, and the like; and (C) a cross-linking agent. Component (A) contains a compound having a group of Formula [1] below as the photo-aligning group: ##STR00001##
where A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 are independently a hydrogen atom or methyl group; and A.sup.3 is a hydroxy group. A cured-film is formed from the cured-film formation composition, and orientation material is formed by use of photo-alignment technique. A retardation material is obtained by applying a polymerizable liquid crystal on the orientation material and curing it.

The present invention pertains to: a polymerizable compound represented by a formula (I); a polymerizable composition comprising the polymerizable compound and an initiator; a polymer obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable compound or the polymerizable composition; and an optically anisotropic article comprising the polymer. The present invention provides a polymerizable compound, a polymerizable composition, and a polymer that have a practical low melting point, exhibit excellent solubility in a general-purpose solvent, can be produced at low cost, and can produce an optical film that achieves uniform conversion of polarized light over a wide wavelength band, and also provide an optically anisotropic article.

A liquid crystal display device in which light leak and a tint change when being seen from an oblique direction at the time of black display are suppressed. The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal cell and a pair of polarizing plates that are disposed such that the liquid crystal cell is interposed between the pair of polarizing plates, in which a tilt angle of the liquid crystal compound is 1.0° or less, respective color filters that are disposed on respective pixel regions of the liquid crystal cell are provided between the pair of polarizing plates, Rth of the respective color filters satisfy predetermined requirements, the polarizing plate that is disposed on the visible side among the pair of polarizing plates includes an optical compensation layer and a polarizer in this order from the liquid crystal cell side, and the optical compensation layer satisfies a predetermined requirement.

A color filter substrate and a liquid crystal display panel are described. The color filter substrate has: a base substrate; a color resist layer disposed on a surface of the base substrate and formed with color resist blocks each configured to filter a light with a predetermined wavelength and emits a target light; a compensating film disposed on the other surface of the base substrate and having compensating units corresponding to the color resist blocks and facing toward the corresponding color resist blocks, respectively; and an upper polarizing sheet disposed on the compensating film. A first compensating specific value Re and a second compensating, specific value Rth of each of the compensating units respectively satisfy the following relationships: Re/λ=A, Rth/λ=B, Re=(Nx−Ny)*d, Rth=[(Nx+Ny)/2−Nz]*d. Thus, the light leakage problem can be eliminated, and a user's experience can be improved.

A color filter substrate, a liquid crystal display panel, and a liquid crystal display are described. The color filter substrate has: a base substrate, a color resist layer disposed on a surface of the base substrate and having a plurality of colored-filter color resists each configured to filter a stray light and emit a light corresponding to a color; an upper polarizing sheet disposed on the other surface of the base substrate; and a ¼ wavelength plate covering on the upper polarizing sheet and having a plurality of areas which are respectively corresponding to the colored-filter color resists and face toward the colored-filter color resists, respectively. An in-plane retardation Re of the ¼ wavelength plate in each of the areas satisfies: Re=λ/4, wherein λ is a wavelength of the light corresponding to the color,

The present invention is related to 6,7-dihydrobenzimidazo[1,2-c]quinazolin-6-one derivatives of the general structural formula (I), the anisotropic optical film based on these derivatives with phase-retarding properties for displays, and method of producing thereof: ##STR00001##
where X is a carboxylic group COOH, m is 0, 1, 2 or 3; Y is a sulfonic group SO.sub.3H, n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; Z is an acid amide group L-NH.sub.2; p is 0, 1, 2 or 3; K is a counterion selected from the list comprising H.sup.+, NH.sub.4.sup.+, Na.sup.+, K.sup.+, Li.sup.+, Mg.sup.2+, Ca.sup.2+, Zn.sup.2+, and Al.sup.3+; s is the number of counterions providing neutral state of the molecule; R is a substituent selected from the list comprising CH.sub.3, C.sub.2H.sub.5, NO.sub.2, Cl, Br, F, CF.sub.3, CN, OH, OCH.sub.3, OC.sub.2H.sub.5, OCOCH.sub.3, OCN, SCN, NH.sub.2, and NHCOCH.sub.3; w is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; and R.sub.1 is a substituent selected from the list comprising H, CH.sub.3, C.sub.2H.sub.5, C.sub.3H.sub.7, i-C.sub.3H.sub.7, CH.sub.2CH.sub.2CH.sub.2CH.sub.3, CH(CH.sub.3)CH.sub.2CH.sub.3, CH.sub.2CH(CH.sub.3)CH.sub.3 and C(CH.sub.3).sub.3 and L is a linking group.

A material from which a cured film exhibiting high solvent resistance, liquid crystal-alignment performance, heat resistance and high transparency can be formed. A composition for forming a thermoset film having photo alignment properties, including: a component (A) that is an acrylic copolymer having a photodimerizing moiety and a thermal cross-linking moiety; and a component (B) that is a cross-linking agent.

The invention relates to a polymerisable LC medium with negative optical dispersion, a polymer film with negative optical dispersion obtainable from such a medium, and the use of the polymerisable LC medium and polymer film in optical, electro optical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.