A coated substrate, including a transparent substrate provided with a p-polarized light reflective coating. The p-polarized light reflective coating contains, in sequence starting from a substrate surface, optionally a first coating containing one or more layers of a high refractive index material, optionally a second coating containing one or more layers of a low refractive index material, a third coating containing one or more layers of a high refractive index material, a fourth coating containing one or more layers of a low refractive index material, and further including at least one first layer of absorbent material.

A glass laminate (100) including first and second glass layers (102,104), a reflective film (110) having opposed first and second major surfaces and disposed between the first and second glass layers (102,104) with the first and second major surfaces facing the respective first and second glass layers (102,104), a first adhesive layer (117) disposed between and bonding together the first glass layer (102) and the reflective film (110), and a second adhesive layer (119) disposed between and bonding together the second glass layer (104) and the reflective film (110) is described. The second adhesive layer (119) is thicker than the first adhesive layer (117) such that the first major surface of the reflective film (110) is separated from an outermost major surface of the first glass layer (102) by distance d1, the second major surface of the reflective film (110) is separated from an outermost major surface of the second glass layer (104) by a distance d2, and 0.05<d1/d2<0.9.

A laminated pane for a head-up display (HUD) having an upper edge, a lower edge and an HUD region includes an outer pane, a first thermoplastic intermediate layer, a functional film which is suitable for reflecting at least 5% of p-polarized radiation striking the functional film, a second thermoplastic intermediate layer, the thickness of which is variable in the vertical course at least in the HUD region, and an inner pane. The functional film is arranged between the outer pane and the inner pane, the first thermoplastic intermediate layer is arranged between the outer pane and the functional film, the second thermoplastic intermediate layer is arranged between the functional film and the inner pane, and the second thermoplastic intermediate layer has a maximum wedge angle (?) of less than 0.20 mrad.

A laminated glazing according to this disclosure includes a first glass sheet having first and second opposing surfaces, a second glass sheet having third and fourth opposing surfaces, an interlayer positioned between the second surface of the first glass sheet and the third surface of the second glass sheet, a first opaque layer, and a first reflective layer on the second glass sheet in an area overlapping with the first opaque layer.

A laminated glazing includes a first glass sheet having first and second opposing surfaces, a second glass sheet having third and fourth opposing surfaces, an interlayer between the first glass sheet and the second glass sheet, wherein the interlayer is positioned between the second surface of the first glass sheet and the third surface of the second glass sheet, a p-polarized light reflective layer, and an opaque layer, wherein the p-polarized light reflective layer is positioned between a vehicle interior and the opaque layer when the laminated glazing is installed in a vehicle.

A projection assembly for a head-up display (HUD) includes a windshield, including outer and inner panes joined to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer, with an HUD region; and a projector directed at the HUD region having a radiation predominantly p-polarized; and a reflection coating for reflecting p-polarized radiation. The reflection coating contains exactly one electrically conductive layer based on silver. The reflection coating below the electrically conductive layer includes a lower dielectric layer structure with a refractive index of at least 1.9. The reflection coating above the electrically conductive layer includes an upper dielectric layer structure with a refractive index of at least 1.9. A functional coating for reflecting IR radiation and the reflection coating are arranged between the inner and outer panes. The reflection coating is arranged between the inner pane and the functional coating.

A head-up display system includes a laminated glass and a projection device. The laminated glass includes an outer glass sheet, a thermoplastic interlayer and an inner glass sheet. The laminated glass includes a first head-up display region and a second head-up display region. The projection device can generate first polarized light and second polarized light. At least about 70% of the first polarized light is p-polarized light, and at least about 70% of the second polarized light is p-polarized light.

A chromatic stratified panel structure (100) for generating a sun-sky-imitating effect in lighting systems (1) comprises two cover panels (102, 104) at least one of which being a transparent panel; an adhesive transparent polymeric layer (106) sandwiched between the two inner faces of the two cover panels; and at least one nanoparticle-based Rayleigh-like diffusing coating (108) applied to an inner face of at least one of the two cover panels (102, 104) and/or to a face of the adhesive transparent polymeric layer (106) and forming an interlayer between one of the cover panels (102, 104) and the adhesive transparent polymeric layer (106).

Objects are to provide a projection-image-displaying laminate film that enables, when used for, for example, a HUD, displaying of undistorted projection images of high-quality screen images, a laminated glass using the projection-image-displaying laminate film, and an image display system using the laminated glass. The objects are achieved with a projection-image-displaying laminate film including a half-mirror film including a selective reflection layer configured to wavelength-selectively reflect light, and a heat-sealing layer disposed on one surface of the half-mirror film, wherein the half-mirror film has a stiffness at 25? C. of 4.0 N.Math.mm or less, and the heat-sealing layer has a thickness of 40 ?m or less, contains a thermoplastic resin, and has a surface opposite from the half-mirror film, the surface having a static coefficient of friction of 1.0 or less.

A veiling glare reduction system comprising a glass dashboard part providing increased driver visual comfort, particularly a glass dashboard part arranged so that light passing through the windshield and reflected off the glass dashboard surface is partly reflected by the inner windshield surface towards a driver position providing a reduced veiling glare. A head up display system provided with a glass dashboard part having reduced veiling glare is also provided.