Patent ID: 7776389

Claim:
A method for producing an anti-glare film, comprising: applying a coating composition to a substrate, the coating composition including at least a resin, a solvent, and fine particles; drying the coating composition applied to the substrate to form a Benard cell structure in a surface of the coating layer by convection caused during volatilization of the solvent; and curing the resin contained in the coating composition including the formed Benard cell structure to form an anti-glare layer having fine irregularities with a moderate surface waviness, wherein the anti-glare layer has a dried average coating thickness in the range of from an average particle diameter of the fine particles to three times the average particle diameter of the fine particles, and wherein the anti-glare layer has a degree of white muddiness of 1.7 or less, as measured by quantitatively determining a diffuse reflection component of the diffused light incident upon the surface of the anti-glare layer.