An exemplary embodiment of the present application relates to a retardation film including: an acrylate-based resin; a retardation adjusting agent having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 130° C. or more; and a composition comprising a triazine-based birefringence adjusting agent or a cured product thereof, in which the triazine-based birefringence adjusting agent is included in an amount of 5 parts by weight to 15 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the acrylate-based resin; a polarizing plate comprising the same, and a liquid crystal display device comprising the same.

An optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each having an optically anisotropic layer obtained by curing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition including immobilizing an alignment state of a rod-shaped liquid crystal compound (LCC) having reverse wavelength dispersibility and a monofunctional compound, in which the rod-shaped LCC has polymerizable groups P.sup.1 and P.sup.2, and three or more rings B.sup.1 selected from the group consisting of an aromatic ring and an alicyclic ring a.sub.1 atoms of the rod-shaped LCC and a.sub.2 atoms of the monofunctional compound having polymerizable group P.sup.3, satisfy a relationship of Expression (1): 0.2<a.sub.2/a.sub.1<0.55; b.sub.1 of the rings B.sup.1 contained in the rod-shaped LCC and a total b.sub.2 of the rings B.sup.2 and the aromatic rings Ar contained in the monofunctional compound satisfy a relationship of Expression (2): b.sub.2=b.sub.1×0.5 or b.sub.2=(b.sub.1+1)×0.5.

A display panel, including an array substrate and an opposite substrate that are arranged opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer. A color filter layer and a compensation layer are provided on the array substrate or the opposite substrate; the color filter layer includes n color filter units that are periodically arranged; the compensation layer includes n compensation units; and the ith compensation unit is configured to enable the sum of the phase retardation of the light of an ith color passing through the ith compensation unit and the phase retardation of the light of the ith color passing through the liquid crystal layer is an integer multiple of the wavelength of the light of the ith color. Further disclosed are a display apparatus including the display panel, and a manufacturing method for the display panel.

There is provided a liquid crystal display apparatus having sufficiently small black brightness in an oblique direction. A liquid crystal display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal cell including a viewer-side substrate, a back surface-side substrate, and a homogeneously aligned liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween; a first polarizer arranged on a viewer side of the liquid crystal cell; a second polarizer arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal cell; a first optical compensation layer arranged between the liquid crystal cell and the first polarizer; and a second optical compensation layer arranged between the liquid crystal cell and the second polarizer. The viewer-side substrate and the back surface-side substrate each have a thickness direction retardation Rth(550) of from −10 nm to 100 nm, and a product A×E is 300 or less.

A reflective display panel and a display device are provided. The reflective display includes: a first liquid crystal cell including a first substrate and a second substrate oppositely arranged to each other, and a first liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of pixel units on the first substrate, where each pixel unit includes a first sub-pixel unit and a second sub-pixel unit; an optical structure, arranged at a light-emitting side of the first liquid crystal cell and covering the pixel units.

Provided are a display panel and a method for preparing same, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate, which are oppositely arranged, and a liquid crystal layer, which is arranged between the array substrate and the opposite substrate, wherein a compensation layer is arranged on the array substrate or the opposite substrate, and an included angle between an optical axis direction of the compensation layer and an initial optical axis direction of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer is less than or equal to 10 degrees; dispersion characteristics of the liquid crystal layer and the compensation layer are the opposite of each other.

There is provided a liquid crystal display apparatus having sufficiently small black brightness in an oblique direction. A liquid crystal display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal cell including a viewer-side substrate, a back surface-side substrate, and a homogeneously aligned liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween; a first polarizer arranged on a viewer side of the liquid crystal cell; a second polarizer arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal cell; a first optical compensation layer arranged between the liquid crystal cell and the first polarizer; and a second optical compensation layer arranged between the liquid crystal cell and the second polarizer. The viewer-side substrate and the back surface-side substrate each have a thickness direction retardation Rth(550) of from −10 nm to 100 nm, and a product A×E is 300 or less.

There is provided a liquid crystal display apparatus having the following feature: although the liquid crystal display apparatus has a step between its display screen and outermost surface, the step is hardly recognized; and the liquid crystal display apparatus can achieve bright display. A liquid crystal display apparatus according to the present invention includes a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizer arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal cell; a cover sheet arranged on a viewer side of the liquid crystal cell, the cover sheet having a transmission portion at a position corresponding to a display region of the liquid crystal cell; and a second polarizer arranged on a viewer side of the cover sheet to cover the transmission portion, wherein an absorption axis direction of the first polarizer and an absorption axis direction of the second polarizer are substantially perpendicular to each other.

An exemplary embodiment of the present application relates to a retardation film including: an acrylate-based resin; a retardation adjusting agent having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 130° C. or more; and a composition comprising a triazine-based birefringence adjusting agent or a cured product thereof, in which the triazine-based birefringence adjusting agent is included in an amount of 5 parts by weight to 15 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the acrylate-based resin; a polarizing plate comprising the same, and a liquid crystal display device comprising the same.

The present application relates to a retardation film including a composition or a cured product thereof, the composition comprising: an acrylate-based resin having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 120° C.; or more; a retardation adjusting agent comprising a styrene monomer; and a triazine-based birefringence adjusting agent, in which the triazine-based birefringence adjusting agent is included in an amount of more than 5 parts by weight and 15 parts by weight or less, based on 100 parts by weight of the acrylate-based resin; a polarizing plate comprising the same, and a liquid crystal display device comprising the same.