Patent ID: 8304055

Claim:
An anti-glare film, comprising: a base; and at least one anti-glare layer provided on the base, wherein irregularities of the anti-glare layer are formed by applying a coating composition containing organic particles having a mean particle size of 1 to 10 micrometers on the base and causing convection generated in the coating composition so that the particles are agglomerated in an in-plane direction of the anti-glare layer, and at least substantially all of the agglomerated particles are agglomerated in the in-plane direction of the anti-glare layer and do not overlap each other in a thickness direction of the anti-glare layer, and any residual particles that do overlap with each other in the thickness direction are limited in number so as to not cause an increase in the degree of white muddiness of the anti-glare film, ratio R is defined by r/d×100, the ratio R is 40% to 75%, d being a thickness of the anti-glare layer, r being a mean particle size of the particles, arithmetic mean roughness Ra of a roughness curve of the surface of the anti-glare layer is 0.05 to 0.5 micrometers, and root mean square slope RΔq is 0.003 to 0.05, wherein the particles have a particle size distribution expressed by a coefficient of variation (standard deviation/mean particle size) of 20 to 40%, and wherein the particle size distribution and a degree of agglomeration of the particles caused by the convection is set such that the root mean square slope RΔq of the anti-glare layer after the agglomeration is less than the root mean square slope RΔq of the anti-glare layer before the agglomeration.