US Patent 7158298 Rear projection screen and diffusing sheet

Provided herein is a rear projection screen capable of displaying a sharper image by reducing deterioration in the image quality, such as coarsening, flickering and glaring. A rear projection screen 10 comprises a Fresnel lens sheet 11 having, on its light-entering-side surface, a Fresnel lens part 11a in the shape of a Fresnel lens. In the Fresnel lens sheet 11, both the Fresnel lens part 11a and a part (diffusing part 11b) situated on the light-emerging side of the Fresnel lens part 11a comprise light-diffusing particles P. The mean particle diameter of the light-diffusing particles P contained in the diffusing part 11b is not more than ⅕ of the lens pitch of the Fresnel lens part 11a.