Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical control element comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate include a first electrode, a second electrode provided on the first electrode, and a high-resistance layer provided on the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the second substrate comprises a third electrode, a plurality of circular apertures are provided in each of the second electrodes, and lines connecting centers of the plurality of apertures constitute a triangle.

Abstract: A display device includes an array substrate, and a counter substrate facing the array substrate. The array substrate includes a plurality of signal lines arrayed in a first direction in a manner spaced apart from each other, a plurality of scanning lines arrayed in a second direction in a manner spaced apart from each other, a plurality of pixel electrodes provided to respective openings of pixels each surrounded by two adjacent signal lines and two adjacent scanning lines, a plurality of semiconductors provided to the respective pixels, and a common electrode overlapping the pixel electrodes with an insulating film interposed between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical control element includes a plurality of lens forming regions along a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, each of the lens forming regions includes an annularly shaped second electrode and a circularly shaped first electrode provided on an inner side of the second electrode, a plurality of first wiring lines connected to the first electrodes each include a first stem portion extending in a zigzag shape along the second direction and a plurality of first branch portions extending from the first stem, and each of the first branch portions overlap the plurality of first electrodes, respectively.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first liquid crystal panel, a second liquid crystal panel. Each of the first liquid crystal panel and the second liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate including a common electrode and a pixel electrode, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrode includes a plurality of branch portions extending in a first direction, and a trunk extending in a second direction and connected to the plurality of branch portions. The pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal panel and the pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal panel have a same shape and overlap each other.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, in a display device, a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode overlap with a first electrode which includes a first branch portion that is exposed from between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, a second electrode includes a first trunk portion, a second branch portion, and a second trunk portion, the second branch portion overlaps with the first pixel electrode, a light-shielding layer includes a first opening portion, a second opening portion, and a light-shielding portion located between the first and second opening portions, the first opening portion overlaps with the second branch portion, and the light-shielding portion overlaps with the first branch portion.

Abstract: Provided is an artificial leather that achieves both a soft texture and excellent durability, and a method for manufacturing the same, the leather comprising: a fibrous base material formed from superfine fibers having an average single fiber diameter of 0.1-10 ?m; and a polymeric elastic body, where the polymer elastic body comprises a compound having a hydrophilic group and a compound having an ethylene oxide skeleton, the content of the compound in the polymeric elastic body of the artificial leather being 0.1-5 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the polymeric elastic body.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a polarization conversion element includes a first wiring and a second wiring, a planar electrode, a control electrode including first strip electrodes, and a first alignment film, a second substrate including a second alignment film, and a liquid crystal layer. An alignment treatment direction of the first alignment film and an alignment treatment direction of the second alignment film are parallel to each other and cross an extension direction of the first strip electrodes. The control electrode overlaps the planar electrode in plan view. An applied voltage of the first wiring is configured to be higher than an applied voltage of the second wiring. The planar electrode is configured to have a voltage gradient.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid crystal panel includes: a light-transmitting first substrate; a light-transmitting second substrate disposed facing the first substrate with a liquid crystal interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a conductive layer provided on the first substrate on a side facing the liquid crystal and comprising wiring lines or electrodes; an insulating layer stacked on the conductive layer on a side facing the liquid crystal; a first electrode layer stacked on the insulating layer on a side facing the liquid crystal; a second electrode layer provided on the second substrate on a side facing the liquid crystal; and a switch capable of opening and closing a coupling path between the first electrode layer and a reset potential. A sheet resistance of the first electrode layer is higher than a sheet resistance of the conductive layer and a sheet resistance of the second electrode layer.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid crystal panel includes: a first substrate that is a light-transmitting substrate; a second substrate that is disposed facing the first substrate with a liquid crystal interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and is a light-transmitting substrate; a wiring layer provided on the first substrate on a side facing the liquid crystal and comprising a plurality of wiring lines arrayed in a predetermined direction; an insulating layer stacked on the wiring layer on a side facing the liquid crystal; a first electrode layer stacked on the insulating layer on a side facing the liquid crystal; and a second electrode layer provided on the second substrate on a side facing the liquid crystal. A sheet resistance of the first electrode layer is higher than a sheet resistance of the wiring layer and a sheet resistance of the second electrode layer.

Abstract: According to an aspect, an optical element includes: a first polarizing plate having a first absorption axis; a second polarizing plate facing the first polarizing plate and having a second absorption axis; and a first viewing angle control panel placed between the first polarizing plate and the second polarizing plate. The first viewing angle control panel includes: a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a plurality of electrodes provided on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate to generate a transverse electric field in a predetermined direction. The liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules with a positive dielectric anisotropy. The liquid crystal molecules have hybrid orientation in a state in which the transverse electric field is not generated.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a first polarizer having a first transmission axis, a first viewing angle control panel including a first liquid crystal layer containing hybrid-aligned liquid crystal molecules, a second polarizer, a second viewing angle control panel including a second liquid crystal layer containing hybrid-aligned liquid crystal molecules and a third polarizer. In plan view, an initial alignment direction of horizontally aligned liquid crystal molecules of the first liquid crystal layer and an initial alignment direction of horizontally aligned liquid crystal molecules of the second liquid crystal layer are parallel to each other and parallel or orthogonal to the first transmission axis.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes scanning lines, signal lines, pixels, a pixel electrode, a common electrode including a stem portion and branch portions, and a third wiring line, wherein a region where each pixel electrode and the first scanning line overlap is larger than a region where the respective pixel electrode and the second scanning line overlap, a width of the first region of the third wiring lines is less than a width of the scanning lines, and the branch portions of the common electrode extend from the stem portion along the second direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises first and second substrates. The first substrate comprise first and second common electrodes, and a first pixel electrode including a pair of first sides arranged in a first direction. The second common electrode includes first and second trunk portions, and a first branch portion extending from the second trunk portion toward the first trunk portion. The first pixel electrode is located between the trunk portions. The first branch portion overlaps with the first pixel electrode between the first sides. A width of the first pixel electrode between the first sides becomes smaller toward the second trunk portion.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first image generator and a second image generator. The first image generator generates a first image, including a predetermined ruled-line image and an inscription image, from a second sheet in a sheet group. The sheet group is obtained by stacking multiple sheets including a single first sheet and the second sheet. The first sheet has inscription information inscribed thereon. The second sheet has the inscription image corresponding to the inscription information transferred thereon and includes the ruled-line image. The second image generator generates a second image in which a surplus image is removed from the first image generated by the first image generator in accordance with a learning model that has learned to remove the surplus image different from the ruled-line image and the inscription image.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an illumination device, a display panel, a first polarizer attached to the display panel, a second polarizer attached to the display panel, and a transmissive diffraction grating provided in a location between the illumination device and the first polarizer or in a location facing the second polarizer. The diffraction grating includes a third substrate, a fourth substrate, and a second liquid crystal layer provided between the third substrate and the fourth substrate, containing a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, and cured in a state where alignment directions of the liquid crystal molecules are fixed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a polarization conversion element includes a first substrate including a first plane electrode and a first control electrode, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first control electrode comprises a first strip electrode, a second strip electrode, a third strip electrode, and a first common electrode. The first strip electrode and the first common electrode are orthogonal to each other, respective extension directions of the first to third strip electrodes are different from each other, and an angle formed by the first strip electrode and the third strip electrode is greater than an angle formed by the first strip electrode and the second strip electrode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an illumination device, a display panel, a first polarizer attached to the display panel, a second polarizer attached to the display panel, and a transmissive diffraction grating provided in a location between the illumination device and the first polarizer or in a location facing the second polarizer. The diffraction grating includes a third substrate, a fourth substrate, and a second liquid crystal layer provided between the third substrate and the fourth substrate, containing a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, and cured in a state where alignment directions of the liquid crystal molecules are fixed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a first polarizer having a first transmission axis, a first viewing angle control panel including a first liquid crystal layer containing hybrid-aligned liquid crystal molecules, a second polarizer, a second viewing angle control panel including a second liquid crystal layer containing hybrid-aligned liquid crystal molecules and a third polarizer. In plan view, an initial alignment direction of horizontally aligned liquid crystal molecules of the first liquid crystal layer and an initial alignment direction of horizontally aligned liquid crystal molecules of the second liquid crystal layer are parallel to each other and parallel or orthogonal to the first transmission axis.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a first recognition result and a first recognition probability on target data from a first recognizer, acquire a second recognition result and a second recognition probability on the target data from a second recognizer, execute checking of the first recognition result and the second recognition result, and execute first control in a case where the first recognition result and the second recognition result match each other as a result of the checking. The first control is control for executing either of first processing or second processing on the matched recognition result and outputting a processing result based on at least one of the first recognition probability or the second recognition probability. A human workload for the first processing is smaller than a human workload for the second processing.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises first and second substrates. The first substrate comprise first and second common electrodes, and a first pixel electrode including a pair of first sides arranged in a first direction. The second common electrode includes first and second trunk portions, and a first branch portion extending from the second trunk portion toward the first trunk portion. The first pixel electrode is located between the trunk portions. The first branch portion overlaps with the first pixel electrode between the first sides. A width of the first pixel electrode between the first sides becomes smaller toward the second trunk portion.