To suppress a malfunction of a circuit due to deterioration in a transistor. In a transistor which continuously outputs signals having certain levels (e.g., L-level signals) in a pixel or a circuit, the direction of current flowing through the transistor is changed (inverted). That is, by changing the level of voltage applied to a first terminal and a second terminal (terminals serving as a source and a drain) every given period, the source and the drain are switched every given period. Specifically, in a portion which successively outputs signals having certain levels (e.g., L-level signals) in a circuit including a transistor, L-level signals having a plurality of different potentials (L-level signals whose potentials are changed every given period) are used as the signals having certain levels.

A wave plate 1 according to an embodiment includes a first birefringent substrate 10 including a first main surface and an optical axis 13 in a first direction; a second birefringent substrate 20 disposed over the first birefringent substrate 10 and including a second main surface and an optical axis 23 in a second direction; and a third birefringent substrate 30 disposed over the second birefringent substrate 20 and including a third main surface and an optical axis 33 in a third direction. The first birefringent substrate 10 and the second birefringent substrate 20 are made of the same kind of birefringent material. The first main surface, the second main surface, and the third main surface are disposed in parallel to one another. The first direction and the second direction are parallel to the first main surface and the second main surface.

Disclosed is a monolithic LCD projector, including: a light source, a polarizer provided on a light emitting side of the light source and configured for converting light emitted from the light source into linearly polarized light, an LCD panel provided on a light emitting side of the polarizer and configured for modulating the linearly polarized light according to an image signal to generate modulated light, an analyzer provided on a light emitting side of the LCD panel and separated from the LCD panel and obliqued, the analyzer includes a reflective polarizer and a functional structure, and a lens provided in a reflected light path of the analyzer and configured for projecting the second polarization state light reflected by the reflective polarizer.

An augmented reality device includes an eyeglass frame and a combiner mounted on the eyeglass frame. The combiner includes an inner surface and an outer surface disposed opposite the inner surface. The device further includes an active shutter lens mounted on the combiner and an image projector mounted on the eyeglass frame and configured to project display light to the combiner such that a first portion of the display light is emitted from the inner surface of the combiner and a second portion of the display light is emitted from the outer surface of the combiner. The device additionally includes a processor coupled to the image projector and the active shutter lens. The active shutter lens is configured to shield the display light emitted from the outer surface of the combiner. The combiner is configured to emit ambient light from the inner surface thereof.

A peeking prevention system has: a display device having, on a front surface of a display screen, a first polarization layer that has a first absorption axis parallel to a first direction; and a room partition that partitions a space in which a display is provided by the display device from a surrounding space, the room partition having a translucent part that makes it possible to see into the space, the translucent part including a transparent substrate and a second polarization layer that is positioned on the space side of the transparent substrate and that has a second absorption axis parallel to a second direction, wherein: the system furthermore has a phase contrast film that is positioned on the front surface of the first polarization layer; the phase contrast layer has a delay axis parallel to a third direction; and transparency is reduced when the display screen is viewed.

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.

A peeking prevention system includes: a display device having a display plane emitting polarized light; a partition to delimit from the surroundings a space in which displaying is to be provided by the display device, the partition having a light-transmitting portion through which the inside of the space is viewable; and an optical stack opposed to the display plane of the display device. The light-transmitting portion includes a transparent substrate and a first polarizing layer having a first absorption axis that is parallel to a first direction. The optical stack includes a second polarizing layer having a second absorption axis that is parallel to a second direction, the second direction being orthogonal to the first direction, and a first phase difference layer at a side of the second polarizing layer facing the display plane. The first phase difference layer has an in-plane retardation of 4000 nm 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.

Provided are a liquid crystal panel capable of achieving a small light-shielding angle in a narrow viewing angle mode and a display device including the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel sequentially includes: a first polarizing plate with a first absorption axis; a first substrate including a first electrode; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules; and a second substrate including a second electrode, wherein in a plan view, a director of the liquid crystal molecules with no voltage applied and the first absorption axis form an angle α of not smaller than 5° and not greater than 20° or not smaller than 65° and not greater than 80°.

Provided is an image display device including an optical laminate having, in order, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, a specific laminate including an alignment layer and an optically anisotropic layer which are adjacent to each other, and another pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in this order, in which the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers are adjacent to the two surfaces of the specific laminate. The specific laminate has a thickness of 15 μm or less, the optically anisotropic layer has a thickness of 5 μm or less, and a thickness d of the alignment layer and an elastic modulus E of the alignment layer satisfy Expression (1): −E+0.45×d+3.6>0 (1), where d is in units of μm, and E is in units of GPa.