G02B5/0226

OPTICAL MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL MEMBER, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE

An optical member includes: a substrate; and a dot formed on a surface of the substrate. The dot has wavelength selective reflecting properties, and a cholesteric structure which has a stripe pattern including bright and dark portions in a cross-sectional view of the dot when observed with a scanning electron microscope. A surface shape of the dot opposite to the substrate in a cross-section of the dot in a thickness direction has at least one inflection point. In the cross-section, an angle between a normal line perpendicular to a line, formed using a first dark portion from a surface of the dot opposite to the substrate, and the surface of the dot, is in a range of 70° to 90°. A proportion of a retroreflective area of the optical member is high when observed after light irradiation from an oblique direction to a normal direction perpendicular to the optical member.

OPTICAL ASSEMBLY AND REAR-VIEW MIRROR ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SAME
20230027123 · 2023-01-26 ·

The optical assembly disclosed in the embodiment includes a housing having an inclined bottom surface, a plurality of inner surfaces around an outer periphery of the bottom surface, and a receiving space in which an upper portion is opened; and a lighting module disposed on the inclined bottom surface, wherein the lighting module includes a substrate inclinedly disposed on the inclined bottom surface; at least one light emitting device disposed on the substrate; and a resin layer sealing the light emitting device and the substrate, wherein an upper surface of the resin layer emits light by diffusing light emitted from the light emitting device, wherein the plurality of inner surfaces includes a first inner surface adjacent to the light emitting device, a second inner surface facing the first inner surface, and third and fourth inner surfaces facing each other and disposed between the first and second inner surfaces, wherein a height between the bottom surface of the housing and an upper surface of the housing increases from the first inner surface toward the second inner surface, and decreases from the third inner surface toward the fourth inner surface.

ANTI-GLARE SUBSTRATE FOR A DISPLAY ARTICLE WITH A TEXTURED REGION INCLUDING ONE OR MORE SURFACES AT TWO, THREE, OR FOUR ELEVATIONS, AND SURFACES FEATURES PROVIDING AT LEAST A PORTION OF THE ONE OR MORE SURFACES, AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME

A substrate for a display article is described herein including (a) a primary surface; and (b) a textured region disposed at the primary surface, the textured region comprising: (i) one or more higher surfaces residing at a higher mean elevation parallel to a base-plane disposed below the textured region extending through the substrate; (ii) one or more lower surfaces residing at a lower mean elevation parallel to the base-plane; and (iii) surface features providing at a least a portion of either or both of (i) the one or more higher surfaces and (ii) the one or more lower surfaces. The surface features can include larger surface features and smaller surface features, either or both providing one or more surfaces of the substrate that reside at one or more intermediate mean elevations parallel to the base-plane between the higher mean elevation and the lower mean elevation.

OPTICALLY DIFFUSIVE FILM WITH ELONGATED STRUCTURES

An optically diffusive film includes an optical substrate layer with opposing first and second major surfaces; and an optical layer disposed on the second major surface of the optical substrate layer and including a structured major surface having a plurality of spaced apart elongated structures elongated along a same first direction and arranged at a substantially uniform density, each elongated structure including a peak such that, in a plane of a cross-section of the elongated structure that is parallel to the first direction and comprises the peak, the elongated structure has a substantially flat top region; wherein for substantially normally incident light and a visible wavelength range and an infrared wavelength range, the optical substrate layer has an average total transmittance or reflectance of greater than about 60% in the visible wavelength range and an average specular transmittance of greater than about 60% in the infrared wavelength range.

Optical film and image display device including same

The present invention relates to an optical film including a light-transmitting substrate film such as a polyester-based substrate film and an antiglare layer, and more specifically, to an optical film capable of effectively suppressing the occurrence of interference fringes derived from the substrate film, realizing excellent antiglare properties, and having excellent scratch resistance, and excellent adhesion between the substrate film and the antiglare layer, and the like, and to an image display device including the same.

Optical assembly and rear-view mirror assembly comprising same
11697374 · 2023-07-11 · ·

The optical assembly disclosed in the embodiment includes a housing having an inclined bottom surface, a plurality of inner surfaces around an outer periphery of the bottom surface, and a receiving space in which an upper portion is opened; and a lighting module disposed on the inclined bottom surface, wherein the lighting module includes a substrate inclinedly disposed on the inclined bottom surface; at least one light emitting device disposed on the substrate; and a resin layer sealing the light emitting device and the substrate, wherein an upper surface of the resin layer emits light by diffusing light emitted from the light emitting device, wherein the plurality of inner surfaces includes a first inner surface adjacent to the light emitting device, a second inner surface facing the first inner surface, and third and fourth inner surfaces facing each other and disposed between the first and second inner surfaces, wherein a height between the bottom surface of the housing and an upper surface of the housing increases from the first inner surface toward the second inner surface, and decreases from the third inner surface toward the fourth inner surface.

DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH FINGER SENSING

A display system for sensing a finger of a user applied to the display system includes a display panel; a sensor for sensing the finger; a sensing light source configured to emit a first light having a first wavelength W1; and a reflective polarizer disposed between the display panel and the sensor. For a substantially normally incident light, an optical transmittance of the reflective polarizer versus wavelength for a first polarization state has a band edge such that for a first wavelength range extending from a smaller wavelength L1 to a greater wavelength L2 and including W1, where 30 mn≤L2−L1≤50 nm and L1 is greater than and within about 20 nm of a wavelength L3 corresponding to an optical transmittance of about 50% along the band edge, the optical transmittance has an average of greater than about 75%.

LAYERED BODY AND DISPLAY DEVICE

There are provided a layered body and a display device including the same, the layered body including a substrate layer and a resin layer disposed on at least one surface of the substrate layer, in which the resin layer contains a light scattering agent (A), and, when the surface tension of the substrate layer is indicated by σs (mN/m), and the surface tension of the resin layer is indicated by σr (mN/m), the following formula: |σs−σr|≤11.0 is satisfied.

Optical composite sheet and display device comprising same

An optical composite sheet is disclosed. In the optical composite sheet, 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, the color transmittance of the optical composite sheet with respect to wavelength measured for each viewing angle satisfies a specific relationship, whereby it is possible to effectively reduce the color deviation with respect to the viewing angle.

Transparent screen, video projection laminated plate, and video display system
11531147 · 2022-12-20 · ·

There is provided a transparent screen which is capable of separating a direction where a hot spot is observed and a direction where a bright video is allowed to be observed, and establishing a direction where a video is allowed to be wholly brightly observed. A transparent screen includes a first transparent layer, a reflective layer reflecting projected video light, a second transparent layer disposed opposite to the first transparent layer with respect to the reflective layer so as to make a background visible therethrough; wherein the reflective layer has a plurality of slant reflective surfaces, each of the slant reflective surfaces being slant to a reference surface that is a surface of the first transparent layer opposite to the reflective layer; wherein each of the slant reflective surfaces is provided with a concavo-convex and is formed in a stripe shape when seen from a normal direction of the reference surface; and wherein the slant reflective surfaces are disposed so as to have angles to the reference surface, the angle changing with random variations in of range with respect to a certain central angle.