Patent ID: 7567383

Claim:
An anti-glare film, comprising: a substrate; and an anti-glare layer formed on the substrate, wherein the anti-glare layer has diffuser elements thereon, the diffuser elements on the anti-glare layer are formed by applying a coating composition including organic fine particles on the substrate and causing convection in the coating composition so that the fine particles are agglomerated in the in-plane direction, the fine particles have an average particle diameter ranging from 4 μm to 15 μm, the anti-glare layer has a dried film thickness ranging from 4 μm to 15 μm, and the fine particles are coated by the coating composition, the diffuser elements have an average space therebetween of 50 μm to 300 μm, wherein the anti-glare film has the following optical properties of: the maximum value of an I(α+1)/I(α) ratio more than 0.1 to 0.6, wherein I(α) is an intensity of a reflected light reflected toward a wide-angle direction at an arbitrary angle α of 10° or less from a specular reflection direction of an incident light upon the surface having the plurality of diffuser elements thereon at an angle of 5° to 30° from the normal direction of the surface, and I(α+1) is an intensity of a reflected light deviated from the arbitrary angle α by 1° in the wide-angle direction, and a gain of 0.02 or less of a light reflected in the direction at 20° or more from the specular reflection direction of the incident light, the gain being obtained by normalizing a reflected light intensity using a specular reflection intensity of a standard diffuse plate as 1.