Patent ID: 7820254

Claim:
A near infrared-absorbing filter comprising a layer obtained by curing a curable composition, wherein the curable composition comprises a lake dye having an absorption maximum in the wavelength region of from 700 nm to 1100 nm and a thermo-setting compound and/or a photo-setting compound, and wherein the lake dye is represented by the following formula (V): wherein L 1 represents a methine chain composed of odd number(s) of methine group(s); A 1 and A 2 each independently represents an alkyl group having a sulfo group; Y represents a cation necessary to balance a charge and selected from the group consisting of Mg 2+ , Ca 2+ , Ba 2+ , Sr 2+ , Ag + , Fe + , Co 2+ , Ni 2+ , Cu 2+ , Zn 2+ and Al 3+ .