Abstract: The present disclosure provides a backlight module, a display apparatus and an illumination apparatus. The backlight module includes: a light guide plate; a light emitting diode arranged above the light guide plate; an optical film layer arranged above the light emitting diode; a film of material with a polarization orientation arranged above the optical film layer; a liquid crystal cell arranged above the film of material; and a polarizer arranged above the liquid crystal cell. The liquid crystal cell includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode and a liquid crystal layer between the upper electrode and the lower electrode and the liquid crystal layer is capable of changing polarization state of a light passing through the liquid crystal cell, by the control of a voltage applied between the upper electrode and the lower electrode.

Abstract: A stereo display device includes a light guide plate, light sources, a display module, and first, second, and third lenticular lens arrays. The light guide plate has incident and exit surfaces. The light sources emit a source light towards the incident surface. The first lenticular lens array transforms the source light into directional lights. The light guide plate receives directional lights at the incident surface and reflects the received directional lights out of the exit surface. The second lenticular lens array transforms the reflected directional lights into focused reflected directional lights towards elongated regions of the display module. The display module transforms focused reflected directional lights into sets of pixel light. The display module's elongated regions extend in a first direction and pixels each includes sub-pixels arranged along the first direction. The third lenticular lens array directs the sets of pixel light to viewing zones.

Abstract: The present invention provides a Fresnel liquid crystal lens and a display device. The Fresnel liquid crystal lens comprises an upper substrate and a lower substrate which are aligned and assembled, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. A layer of first electrodes is provided on a surface of the upper substrate close to the liquid crystal layer and two layers of second electrodes are provided on a surface of the lower substrate close to the liquid crystal layer. An electric field formed between the first electrode and the second electrodes enables the Fresnel liquid crystal lens to simulate the phase delay curve of an ideal Fresnel lens.

Abstract: Shutter glasses, used for watching a display device, comprises a first lens, a second lens, a driving circuit and a processor; both the first lens and the second lens are divided into a plurality of sections from top to bottom, and the driving circuit is connected to the plurality of sections of the first lens and the plurality of sections of the second lens to drive the corresponding sections to be opened and transparent; the processor is connected to the driving circuit to determine an updated area of a display image of the display device, which is currently updated and to determine the sections of the first lens and/or the sections of the second lens corresponding to the updated area, and to control the driving circuit to drive the sections of the first lens and/or the sections of the second lens corresponding to the updated area to be opened.

Abstract: A liquid crystal optical device is described configured to provide variable beam steering or refractive Fresnel lens control over light passing through an aperture of the device. The device includes at least one layer of liquid crystal material contained by substrates having alignment layers. An arrangement of electrodes is configured to provide a spatially varying electric field distribution within a number of zones within the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal optical device is structured to provide a spatial variation in optical phase delay with a transition at a boundary between zones which is an approximation of a sawtooth waveform across the boundaries of multiple zones. The arrangement of electrodes, device layered geometry and methods of driving the electrodes increase the effective aperture of the overall optical device.

Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus and method are provided. The 3D display apparatus may include a display screen configured to display each of a plurality of sub-images included in a single frame of a 3D image using a time-division multiplexing (TDM), a polarizer configured to polarize each of the displayed sub-images by changing a polarization direction using the TDM, in synchronization with the display screen, and microlens arrays arranged in a plurality of layers and configured to sequentially refract the polarized sub-images, respectively.

Abstract: A Mueller-matrix microscope, including: a polarizing unit and an analyzing unit. The polarizing unit is configured to modulate a light beam emitted from an external light source module to yield a polarized light beam, and then to project the polarized light beam on the surface of a sample to be measured. The analyzing unit is configured to analyze the polarization state of a light beam reflected from the surface of the sample, to acquire information of the sample. The analyzing unit includes a polarization state analyzer (PSA) and a backside reflection suppression (BRS) unit. The PSA unit is configured to demodulate the polarization state of the light beam; and the BRS unit is configured to suppress the backside reflections from transparent substrate.

Abstract: A backlight module includes two light guide plates, two light-emitting modules, and a controller. Each of the light guide plates has an incident surface and a light-output surface. The light guide plates are arranged side-by-side to make the light-output surfaces be coplanar. Each of the light-emitting modules is configured to provide a first kind of light and a second kind of light to the incident surface of the corresponding light guide plate. The first kind of light has a first triplet. The second kind of light has a second triplet different from the first triplet. The controller is configured to asynchronously drive any of the light-emitting modules to alternately provide the first kind of light and the second kind of light.

Abstract: A 3D image display method and a 3D image display device are provided. The 3D image display method comprises: receiving an image signal of an image to be displayed; for a predetermined disturbed pixel in a display panel corresponding to a liquid crystal phase disorder region between adjacent lens units in a plurality of lens units of a liquid crystal lens, converting the image signal into a 3D image signal for displaying a black image in the disturbed pixel; and sending the converted 3D image signal to the display panel for displaying. An pixel whose emitting light is directed to the liquid crystal phase disorder region of the liquid crystal lens is set to display a black image, which can remove the light directed to the liquid crystal phase disorder region of the liquid crystal lens, and then avoid the phenomenon of crosstalk and distortion in a crosstalk region, thereby enlarging the entire viewing region of the 3D image.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device is discussed, which may minimize 3D crosstalk and luminance deviation between viewing zones. The stereoscopic image display device can include a display panel that includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixels provided in a pixel region in a curved shape and a second substrate having a plurality of openings respectively overlapped with the plurality of pixels; and a lenticular lens sheet arranged above the display panel, including a plurality of lenticular lenses inclined to be parallel with the openings, wherein each of the plurality of openings is inclined at a slope parallel with one side of each pixel and has a shape different that of the pixel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device and a method for controlling a grating thereof, and belongs to the field of display technology, and can overcome the problem in which electrodes of the grating substrate require high fabricating accuracy and are difficult to fabricate due to the arrangement of a pixel array. The display device at least comprises a pixel array and a grating, an odd-numbered row of sub-pixels and a neighboring even-numbered row of sub-pixels are offset in a longitudinal direction by a preset length, a first substrate of the grating comprises a plurality of electrodes, each electrode comprises a plurality of segments which are continuous and are offset in a segment-wise manner by a predefined length from an end to the other end of the electrodes.

Abstract: An LCD with switchable viewing angle includes a first substrate, second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate is provided with a first electrode and a second electrode. In an embodiment, the first electrode is a pixel electrode, and the second electrode is a common electrode. The second substrate is provided with a third electrode. Liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are positive liquid crystal molecules. When a first bias voltage is applied to the third electrode, the LCD is displayed with a wide viewing angle; and when a second bias voltage greater than the first bias voltage is applied to the third electrode, the LCD is displayed with a narrow viewing angle.

Abstract: A mirror for a mobile device, the mirror configured as a flexible multilayered laminate electrostatically and removably adhered to a viewing screen or other smooth surface of the mobile device. The laminate has at least one reflective layer adhered to an optically transparent bottom layer made of a plastic-silicone material. In another embodiment, the laminate includes a switchable film layer that when current is applied becomes optically opaque, allowing a split screen use of the viewing screen. For instance, when current is applied to the laminate, half of the viewing screen is a mirror and the other half allows use of software and other features of the mobile device. In yet another embodiment, a true mirror is created using software to create a reflective surface beneath a glass of the viewing screen. Control of the mirror using software and physical switches are also provided. LED lighting is also provided.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a scanning line, a data line intersecting with each other, a pixel circuit which is provided corresponding to the intersection thereof, and a wire. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, one transistor which controls a current flowing to the light emitting element, and the other transistor of which conduction state is controlled according to a scanning signal which is supplied to the scanning line between a gate node of the one transistor and the data line. The wire is provided between the data line and the one transistor.

Abstract: A display module is disclosed. The display module includes a display panel and a liquid crystal lens. The liquid crystal lens includes a liquid crystal layer; the liquid crystal lens is on a display side of the display panel and configured to gather, in a horizontal direction, light rays exiting from the display panel together to at least one observation position, which includes a primary observation position corresponding to a center of the display panel and subsidiary observation positions on both sides of the primary observation position. Also disclosed are a display device including the display module and a control method for the display module.

Abstract: A display device includes a light modulation layer and a light source. The light modulation layer is disposed between a pair of transparent substrates, has determined refractive index anisotropy, and includes plural light modulation elements which differ in responsiveness to an electric field generated by electrodes formed on a transparent substrate. The light source emits light of a determined color incident on the light modulation layer from a side of the light modulation layer. When the electric field is not generated, the light modulation layer transmits the incident light emitted from the light source. When the electric field is generated, the light modulation layer scatters the incident light and emits scattered light to a transparent substrate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for displaying a multi-view 3D image by using viewing zone expansion that is applicable to multiple observers, and to a method for same, comprising: an image display panel for displaying a 3D image; a control portion for controlling an image view of each 3D pixel line; and a system for tracking the position of the pupils of both eyes of the observer, wherein each of the 3D pixel lines provide at a multi-view of at least four views, and the control portion selects first and second views that are close to the center of each of the pupils of both eyes of the observer for each viewing zone of the view formed by each of the 3D pixel lines and provides one image view from both eyes of the observer to the first view, by using three dimensional coordinates of the position of the pupils of both eyes of the observer that are determined by the system for tracking the position of the pupils of both eyes of the observer.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a light shielding unit, a supporting unit, and a backlight module. The display panel includes a first substrate and a first polarizer. The first substrate has a first surface, and the first surface has a first active area and a first non-active area. The first non-active area is disposed adjacent to the first active area, and the first polarizer is disposed on the first active area. The light shielding unit is disposed on the first non-active area and connected to the first polarizer. The supporting unit is disposed corresponding to the light shielding unit. The backlight module is disposed corresponding to the display panel and includes an optical film. The supporting unit is disposed between the light shielding unit and the optical film, and contacts the light shielding unit and the optical film.

Abstract: A display panel, a method of manufacturing the display panel, and a display apparatus are provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The display panel comprises a first substrate assembly and a second substrate assembly, and a first polarizing filter and a second polarizing filter. The first substrate assembly and the first polarizing filter are located on a light output side. A lens grating is disposed between the first polarizing filter and the first substrate assembly of the display panel, and a substrate of the first substrate assembly serves as a substrate of the lens grating.

Abstract: An active grating, a three-dimensional display device and a three-dimensional display method are provided.

Abstract: An electrically tunable optical phase modulation element is provided comprising a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of first stripe electrodes, a first anti-mosaic layer, a first insulating layer, a plurality of second stripe electrodes, a second anti-mosaic layer, a second insulating layer and a controlling circuit. The first stripe electrodes and the first anti-mosaic layer are disposed in between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The second stripe electrodes and the second anti-mosaic layer are disposed in between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer, wherein an extension direction of the first stripe electrodes intersects with an extension direction of the second stripe electrodes.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device prevents a barrier wire breakage failure and includes a parallax barrier panel resistant to static electricity. The 3D display device has a liquid crystal parallax barrier panel disposed over a display panel. The parallax barrier panel has a first substrate having an electrode formed flat thereon and a second substrate having a display area, the first substrate and the second substrate having liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween. The second substrate has barrier electrodes extending in a first direction and arrayed at a first pitch in a second direction, has a first bus electrode extending in the second direction outside the display area along a first side thereof, and has a second bus electrode extending in the second direction outside the display area along a second side thereof opposite to the first side. The barrier electrodes are connected to the first and the second bus electrodes.

Abstract: The embodiment of the present invention provides a display panel, which belongs to the field of display technology. The display panel comprises: a first polarizing layer, a display substrate, a second polarizing layer and a phase difference film; wherein the first polarizing layer is arranged at one side of the display substrate, and the first polarizing layer is arranged between the second polarizing layer and the display substrate, a transmission axis direction of the first polarizing layer and a transmission axis direction of the second polarizing layer are perpendicular to each other; the phase difference film is arranged between the first polarizing layer and the second polarizing layer.

Abstract: An image display device capable of being incorporated into a projector, an HMD, or the like and capable of adjusting an image formation position for each image area, a projector, and a transmission type display device into which the image display device is incorporated. In an image display device, a refractive index distribution regarding a passing area of light emitted from an optical modulation device is changed by a pixel unit of a refractive index distribution variable panel. In a projector in which the image display device is incorporated, the refractive index distribution variable panel is inserted immediately after the optical modulation device so as to make it possible to perform focusing at all areas even for a screen (surface to be irradiated) having any shape.

Abstract: A three dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image rendering system uses a lenticular lens sheet with a light diffusing multi-layer, which may include an adhesive layer, formed on the external surface of its lower base. The microstructural constitution of the light diffusing multi-layer suppresses moiré patterns typically affecting the 3D images. When longitudinally directed stray light rays are internally reflected from the interior surfaces of each lenticular lens in the sheet and impinge on the light diffusing multi-layer contacting the lower base, the stray light rays are scattered diffusely into various directions, thereby significantly reducing the intensity of the moiré pattern and its effect on the image. In addition, certain related problems, such as crosstalk between left and right directed images are also reduced. As a result, the viewer perceives a high quality, moiré free, stereoscopic 3D image.

Abstract: A parallax barrier panel including a first substrate having a flat electrode, and a second substrate, the liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween. The second substrate has first barrier electrodes extending in a first direction and arrayed at a first pitch in a second direction, and has second barrier electrodes, the first and the second harrier electrodes having an interlayer insulating film interposed therebetween. Gaps between the first barrier electrodes are blocked by the second barrier electrodes when viewed in a plan view. Each of the first barrier electrodes is paired with one of the second barrier electrodes. Bus electrodes extend outside the display area along a side thereof. The first barrier electrodes are connected to the bus electrodes via first through holes formed in the interlayer insulating film. The second barrier electrodes are connected to the first barrier electrodes via second through holes formed in the interlay insulating film.

Abstract: A pixel array, a display device and a display method are provided. The pixel array comprises a plurality of pixel rows, each pixel row includes repetitive units sequentially arranged along a row direction, and each repetitive unit includes three sub-pixels of different colors (B, R and G). Odd-numbered pixel rows and even-numbered pixel rows are alternately arranged along a column direction; in an odd-numbered pixel row and an even-numbered pixel row adjacent to each other, a minimum distance between center points of sub-pixels of a same color along the row direction is equal to 1 to 1.5 times a width of the sub-pixel, and the width of the sub-pixel is a size of the sub-pixel along the row direction. The pixel array, the display device and the display method can achieve a high resolution by 2D pixel rendering; and in a 3D mode, 3D optical crosstalk can be mitigated by increasing a buffer sub-pixel.

Abstract: A camera system includes an image sensor assembly and a tunable optical element. The tunable optical element is a polymer dispersed liquid crystal lens doublet using a PDLC layer. The doublet is tunable by applying an electric field to the optical element via a control element. The control element applies a voltage differential to the optical element inducing an electric field which changes the polarization of the PDLC within the optical element. The refractive index of the lens doublet is dependent on the polarization of the liquid crystals within the optical element. Applying the electric field to the tunable element changes the optical properties of the lens doublet.

Abstract: Our inventive method enables stereoscopic 3D displays to be watched by 3D and 2D viewers simultaneously. Ghosted images observed on traditional 3D displays can be eliminated for viewers without stereoscopic glasses while 3D perception is preserved for viewers with glasses. A preferred method for displaying an image on a 3D+2D television comprises displaying a composite image (“L+wN”), comprising a left (“L”) image and a weighted image (“wN”), for a first period of time; and displaying a right (“R”) image for a second period of time. The display of “wN” partially cancels out the perception of “R” to mitigate ghosting for viewers not wearing 3D eyeglasses. In the illustrative embodiment, “wN” is a weighted negative version of “R”.

Abstract: A liquid crystal lens panel includes a lower lens electrodes divided into lower lens electrode groups; an upper lens electrode positioned opposite to the lower lens electrodes; alignment layers positioned on the lower lens electrodes and the upper lens electrode, respectively; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lens electrodes that includes liquid crystal molecules. The liquid crystal layer forms a liquid crystal lens upon application of an electric field by the upper lens electrode and the lower lens electrode groups, and each of the lens electrode groups corresponds to a unit of the liquid crystal lens. The alignment layer is divided into a first region and a second region positioned about a center of the liquid crystal lens, and the liquid crystal molecules included in the first region and the second region are aligned at different angles whose signs are opposite to each other.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a plurality of first image regions; a plurality of second image regions arranged alternatingly with the first image regions; one or more first data lines arranged in each of the first image regions; one or more second data lines arranged in each of the second image regions; a constant potential line configured to receive a constant potential; a switching signal line configured to supply a switching signal; and a switching circuit configured to switch a coupling destination of each of the one or more second data lines between any one of the first data lines arranged in a corresponding first image region adjacent to a respective second image region and the constant potential line, based on the switching signal.

Abstract: An apparatus for displaying three dimensional (3D) images to a viewer without the need for 3D glasses. The apparatus includes a first display device horizontally oriented and operable to alternately display a first parallax and a second parallax barrier. The first parallax barrier corresponds with a first viewer location and the second parallax barrier corresponds with a second viewer location. The apparatus includes a second display device positioned parallel to the first display device and operable to alternately display first 3D content corresponding with the first viewer location and second 3D content corresponding with the second viewer location. The apparatus includes a directional backlight assembly alternately backlighting the second display device with first light directed toward the first viewer location and second light directed toward the second viewer location.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display substrate including a plurality of pixel units. Wherein, the plurality of pixel units include a plurality of oblique pixel units, and length directions of the plurality of oblique pixel units are oblique relative to a horizontal direction. The present invention further provides a display panel and a stereoscopic display device. When stereoscopic display is performed using the display panel according to the present invention, the resolutions of each parallax image in both a length direction and a width direction of the display panel decrease, i.e., the problem that the resolution of a single-eye image decreasing only in one direction when stereoscopic display is performed is avoided, thereby improving the display effect.

Abstract: The present invention provides a stereo display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The stereo display device comprises a liquid crystal display unit including a first polarizer, a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the two substrates; and a polarization control unit including a third substrate, a gate line, a protective layer, a first electrode, a spacer, a second electrode and a quarter-wave plate. The second electrode is arranged on the first polarizer. The spacer, the first electrode, the protective layer and the third substrate are sequentially arranged on the second electrode. The gate line is arranged on the third substrate, and the quarter-wave plate is arranged at a side of the third substrate away from the protective layer.

Abstract: Provided is a hologram display apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. The hologram display apparatus includes: a detector configured to detect a position of a viewer; and a spatial light modulation panel that modulates a light to display a hologram. Further, a grade is determined on the basis of the detected position of the viewer. An optical path switching unit refracts the light from the spatial light modulation panel with the determined grade. A laser source of the hologram display apparatus generates the light with a compensated output on the basis of the grade.

Abstract: A system and a method for inspecting misalign between a display panel and a film patterned retarder (FPR) in the stereoscopic image display separating polarized lights of a left-eye image and a right-eye image using the FPR. The system for inspecting misalign between a display panel and a film patterned retarder includes: an inspection target panel including the display panel to which the film patterned retarder adheres; a misalign inspector for imaging edge images of both sides of the inspection target panel or imaging a central image of a pixel array of the inspection target panel; and a controller for analyzing an image received from the misalign inspector to measure a misalign degree between the film patterned retarder and the display panel.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a dual view field display panel and a dual view field display apparatus. The dual view field display panel includes first display regions and second display regions alternatively arranged in a row direction and/or a column direction. The dual view field display panel further includes a first substrate; a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate; a grating structure between the first substrate and the second substrate. The grating structure includes a first grating layer made of metal and located within the first substrate, and the first grating layer is provided at one side of the first substrate facing the second substrate.

Abstract: A video display device (10) comprises a display unit (13) that includes a display surface emitting video light for displaying a composite image of a first image and a second image different from the first image, a parallax barrier (11) that separates the video light into first video light representing the first image and second video light representing the second image, a detection unit (12) that detects a position of an observer looking at the composite image, and a control unit (15) that controls a direction of the composite image in accordance with the position of the observer detected by the detection unit (12).

Abstract: A liquid crystal optical device is provided, including a layered structure including at least two support substrates. An external hole patterned control electrode is provided on one of the substrates and has an aperture. An internal hole patterned control electrode is provided on one of the substrates within the aperture, the internal and outer control electrodes being separated by a gap, which forms part of the aperture. A weakly conductive material is provided on one of the substrates over the aperture. A planar transparent electrode is provided on another one of the substrates. An alignment surface is provided on the substrates over the electrodes. A layer of liquid crystal material is contained by the substrates and in contact with the alignment surface of the substrates. A floating transparent electrode is provided on a side of one of the substrates opposite the outer and the internal hole patterned electrode.

Abstract: An auto focus device comprises a focus panel and a focus controller. The focus panel comprises liquid crystal between a first light-transmissive conductive film and a second light-transmissive conductive film, and the focus controller is configured to apply a voltage between the two light-transmissive conductive films at the position of at least one pixel, so that the liquid crystal at the position will have an expected focal length. An auto focus method comprises: acquiring information on eyesight status of a user; acquiring information on posture of the user; calculating expected focal length of the liquid crystal between the two light-transmissive conductive films at the position of at least one pixel according to the acquired user information; selecting a voltage to be applied between the two light-transmissive conductive films at the position according to the expected focal length; and applying the voltage between the two light-transmissive conductive films at the position.

Abstract: Provided are an optical modulation device and a driving method thereof. The optical modulation device includes an active area and a peripheral area disposed around the active area. A plurality of lower electrodes is disposed in the active area. The plurality of lower electrodes extends in a first direction. The plurality of lower electrodes includes a first lower electrode and a second lower electrode. A driver is configured to apply a driving signal to the first lower electrode and the second lower electrode. The driver includes a first channel connected with an upper end of the first lower electrode, a second channel connected with a lower end of the first lower electrode, a third channel connected with an upper end of the second lower electrode, and a fourth channel connected with a lower end of the second lower electrode.

Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel displaying an image, and a diffractive element formed to operate in a 2D mode or a 3D mode so that the image of the display panel is perceived as a 2D image or a 3D image after passing through the diffractive element. In the image display device, the diffractive element includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a first electrode layer formed on the first substrate that includes a plurality of zones, a second electrode layer formed on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Further, when the diffractive element operates in the 3D mode, a common voltage is applied to the second electrode layer, and polarity of voltages applied to the first electrode layer with respect to the common voltage is inverted every zone.

Abstract: An infinity mirror includes a light-transmissible and reflective layer, a reflective layer, a light-transmissible layer and at least one light-emitting element. The light-transmissible and reflective layer is disposed on a top surface of the light-transmissible layer. The reflective layer is disposed on a bottom surface of the light-transmissible layer. The at least one light-emitting element emits a light beam. The light-transmissible layer includes a pattern zone and a non-pattern zone. There is a height difference between the pattern zone and the non-pattern zone of the light-transmissible layer. The infinity mirror can provide a multi-mirror image effect.

Abstract: Mesogenic compounds of formula I-Z are suitable for use in mesogenic media. Such mesogenic media can exhibit a blue phase and comprise component A, consisting of one or more compounds of formula I-Z, and, optionally a component B, consisting of one or more compounds selected from the group of compounds of formulae I-M and I-U, wherein the parameters are as defined herein. The media can also be stabilized by a polymer. The media can be used in electro-optical light modulation elements and displays.

Abstract: The liquid crystal grating of the present disclosure may include a plurality of grating element groups for forming dark fringes and transparent fringes. The dark fringe of each grating element group may be arranged adjacent to a transparent fringe of a neighboring grating element group. Each grating element group may include a plurality of first grating elements and at least one second grating element arranged parallel to each other. At least one of the first grating elements is transparent so as to form the transparent fringe of the grating element group, and different first grating elements are enabled to be transparent so as to change positions of the transparent fringes. The second grating element is opaque, the first grating elements and the second grating element that are opaque may be used to form the dark fringes of the grating element group, and the second grating element may have a width greater than that of each of the first grating elements.

Abstract: A display device has a liquid crystal panel that switches between a transparent state and an opaque state, a first light source, a light guide plate arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal panel and made of a transparent material, the light guide plate having an incident surface facing the first light source and an outgoing surface facing the back surface of the liquid crystal panel, propagating light emitted from the first light source and incident through the incident surface, and outputting the light toward the liquid crystal panel from the outgoing surface, and a second light source configured to illuminate an object arranged on an opposite side to the liquid crystal panel with the light guide plate interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A surgical device includes one or more cameras integrated therein. The view of each of the one or more cameras can be integrated together and provided to a surgeon display and/or an assistant display. A surgical tool that includes an integrated camera may be used in conjunction with the surgical device. The image produced by the camera integrated with the surgical tool may be associated with the images generated by the one or more cameras integrated in the surgical device. The position and orientation of the cameras and/or the surgical tool can be tracked, and the surgical tool can be rendered as at least partially transparent. A surgical device may be powered by a hydraulic system, thereby reducing electromagnetic interference with tracking devices.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a switching liquid crystal unit, a display, and a controller. The switching liquid crystal unit includes optical elements switching an aperture pattern including an aperture portion and a light-shielding portion. The display overlaps the switching liquid crystal unit and displays parallax images including right and left eye images. The controller acquires positional information relating to a position of a viewer, and controls a position of the aperture pattern. The controller switches the aperture pattern from a first aperture pattern to a second aperture pattern so that a right eye always views the right eye image and a left eye always views the left eye image, and starts the switching before the viewer moves to an optimal switching position where a luminance viewed from the first aperture pattern is substantially equal to a luminance viewed from the second aperture patterns.

Abstract: An illumination unit of an embodiment of the present technology includes: an illumination optical system configured to generate illumination light; and a plurality of lenses configured to reduce a divergence angle of the illumination light. The illumination optical system includes: a light source (20) configured to apply light onto an end surface of one of a first substrate and a second substrate; and a light modulation layer (30) provided in a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate. The illumination optical system includes an electrode configured to generate an electric filed that generates, in the light modulation layer (30), a plurality of linear scattering regions (30B) in a three-dimensional mode, and to generate an electric field that generates, in the light modulation layer, a planar scattering region in a two-dimensional display mode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal optical device includes a first substrate unit, a second substrate unit, a liquid crystal layer, and a driver. The first substrate unit includes first electrodes, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The second substrate unit includes an opposing electrode provided on a second surface opposing the first surface. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the first substrate unit and the second substrate unit. The driver sets the first electrodes, the second electrode and the third electrode to a first potential, a second potential and a third potential respectively. A distance between the first electrode and the second electrode is longer than a distance between the second electrode and the third electrode. A difference between the first potential and the second potential is larger than a difference between the second potential and the third potential.