Patent ID: 7462382

Claim:
A method for producing an optical compensating sheet, comprising a step of simultaneously coating at least two coating solutions on a transparent support, wherein a first coating solution simultaneously coated in said step contains a liquid crystalline compound, and a second coating solution simultaneously coated in said step comprises a surface active agent comprising a fluoroaliphatic group-containing copolymer that comprises a repeating unit derived from a poly(oxyalkylene)acrylate and/or a poly(oxyalkylene)methacrylate, wherein the viscosity of the second coating solution containing the fluoroaliphatic group-containing copolymer is lower than the viscosity of the first coating solution containing the liquid crystalline compound, and wherein the optical compensating sheet comprises: an optically anisotropic layer formed from a first coating solution which comprises a liquid crystalline compound, and a surfactant layer constituting an upper layer of the optically anisotropic layer, formed from a second coating solution which comprises a surface active agent comprising a fluoroaliphatic group-containing copolymer that comprises a repeating unit derived from a poly(oxyalkylene)acrylate and/or a poly(oxyalkylene)methacrylate.