Abstract: A display device that can switch between normal display and see-through display is provided. Visibility in see-through display is improved. A liquid crystal element overlaps with a light-emitting element. The light-emitting element, a transistor, and the like overlapping with the liquid crystal element transmit visible light. When the liquid crystal element blocks external light, an image is displayed with the light-emitting element. When the liquid crystal element transmits external light, an image displayed with the light-emitting element is superimposed on a transmission image through the liquid crystal element.

Abstract: Implementations of a microlens system may include a first layer including a first refractive index, the first layer including one or more substantially hemispherical elements formed therein; a second layer including a second refractive index coupled over the substantially hemispherical elements of the first layer; and a third layer including a third refractive index coupled over the second layer. A value of the first refractive index may be larger than a value of the third refractive index and a value of the second refractive index and the value of the second refractive index may be less than a value of the third refractive index.

Abstract: A display device is described that includes an optical member such as a camera. According to an exemplary embodiment, the display device includes: a substrate that overlaps a light transmission area, a display area that surrounds the light transmission area, and a boundary area that is disposed between the light transmission area and the display area; a first light blocking member that is disposed on the substrate and overlaps the boundary area; a window that overlaps the substrate; and a second light blocking member that is disposed between the first light blocking member and the window, and overlaps the boundary area, wherein the first light blocking member includes a first opening that overlaps the light transmission area, the second light blocking member includes a second opening that overlaps the light transmission area, and a diameter of the first opening is larger than a diameter of the second opening.

Abstract: Described herein are liquid crystal (LC) assemblies that are dimmable and techniques for manufacturing LC assemblies. In some embodiments, an LC assembly includes a Guest-Host (GH) liquid crystal layer containing nematic liquid crystals, dye molecules, and a chiral dopant. The GH liquid crystal layer is located between a pair of substrates. The LC assembly is a film assembly, with each of the substrates including a flexible film and a conductive layer formed on the flexible film. The substrates are separated by spacers that define a cell gap. The GH liquid crystal layer is configured to transition the LC assembly between darkened and lightened states depending on the voltage across the conductive layers. The flexible films allow the LC assembly to conform to the surface of a window or other rigid surface to which the LC assembly is attached. The LC assembly can be attached via a liquid or film-based adhesive.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal element includes a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, and a first liquid crystal layer cured. The first liquid crystal layer contains first cholesteric liquid crystal and has a reflective surface which reflects first circularly polarized light having a first wavelength. A first helical axis of the first cholesteric liquid crystal is tilted in a uniform direction over an entire area of the first liquid crystal layer. Each of a first outer surface of the first transparent substrate and a second outer surface of the second transparent substrate forms an interface which totally reflects the first circularly polarized light reflected in the first liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes: a display panel having a display region and a peripheral region; a front cover; a first buffer member; a panel holder; and a second buffer member. The peripheral region includes four corner portions and four central portions. At least one buffer member of the first buffer member and the second buffer member includes a plurality of cushion members and at least one resin sheet. The at least one buffer member does not include a cushion member formed of a resin between the four corner portions and the front cover or between the four corner portions and the panel holder.

Abstract: The display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer and a light source, the PDLC layer containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components dispersed in the polymer network, the light source being apart from the liquid crystal panel with an air layer, and configured to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel from an oblique direction, the end portion and the central portion of the PDLC layer each having, in the scattering state, an angle dependence which changes a transmittance of light to be emitted from a front surface based on an angle at which light is incident on a back surface of the PDLC layer, with the angle dependence of the end portion being different from the angle dependence of the central portion, the light source irradiating the end portion and the central portion with light at different angles.

Abstract: A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a direct-lit backlight unit. The backlight unit may include an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on a printed circuit board. The display may have a notch to accommodate an input-output component. Reflective layers may be included in the notch. The backlight may include a color conversion layer with a property that varies as a function of position. The light-emitting diodes may be covered by a slab of encapsulant with recesses in an upper surface.

Abstract: A display module is provided that includes a curved back panel including a bottom board and a side frame disposed on the bottom board; a display assembly located in an accommodation space enclosed by the side frame and the bottom board; a cover board located on a side, away from the bottom board, of the display assembly and supported by the side frame; and a bonding layer including a first bonding portion and a second bonding portion, which are located between the cover board and the side frame. Both the first bonding portion and the second bonding portion are configured to bond the cover board to the side frame to enable the cover board to be curved. The second bonding portion has a smaller elasticity modulus than the first bonding portion. A method for manufacturing the display module, and a display apparatus are further provided.

Abstract: A backlight includes a substrate, a plurality of light sources, a reflective layer, a light guide plate, a pattern of light extractors, a plurality of patterned reflectors, and a diffusive layer. The plurality of light sources are proximate the substrate. The reflective layer is on the substrate. The light guide plate is proximate the plurality of light sources. The pattern of light extractors is on the light guide plate. The plurality of patterned reflectors are on the light guide plate. Each patterned reflector is aligned with a corresponding light source. The diffusive layer is on the light guide plate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first and second base substrates, a liquid crystal layer and an optical compensation layer. In the liquid crystal layer, a first alignment film is configured to make a part of second liquid crystal molecules proximate to the first alignment film have a first pretilt angle, a second alignment film is configured to make a part of second liquid crystal molecules proximate to the second alignment film have a second pretilt angle. In the optical compensation layer, a third alignment film is configured to make first liquid crystal molecules proximate to the third alignment film have a third pretilt angle. A direction of orthogonal projections of long axes of the first liquid crystal molecules is parallel to or perpendicular to a direction of orthogonal projections of long axes of second liquid crystal molecules anchored by the first alignment film and the second alignment film.

Abstract: A busbar anchoring system and method for polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) film layup that includes a plurality of mesh anchors with at least one of the plurality of electrically conductive mesh anchors interposed between and adhesively coupled to a first strip along a first section of the PDLC film layup formed by at least one of two indium tin oxide (ITO) layers flanking a PDLC layer and with at least one of the plurality of mesh anchors interposed between and adhesively coupled to a second strip along a second section of the PDLC film layup and the at least one of the two ITO layers.

Abstract: A display device capable of performing image processing is provided. Each pixel is provided with a memory circuit, and desired correction data is held in the memory circuit. The correction data is calculated in an external device and written into each pixel. The correction data is added to image data owing to capacitive coupling, and the resulting data is supplied to a display element. Thus, a corrected image can be displayed with the display element. The correction enables image upconversion or can compensate for an image quality reduction due to characteristics variations of transistors included in pixels.

Abstract: A display device includes an electronic part, a support part including a through hole overlapping the electronic part, a display part disposed above the support part and including a first area overlapping the through hole, and a second area non-overlapping the through hole, the second area being adjacent to the first area, a polarizing plate disposed above the display part and having a transmission axis parallel to a direction, and a pattern optical layer disposed on the polarizing plate and including first phase retardation parts having a first optical axis, and second phase retardation parts having a second optical axis orthogonal to the first optical axis.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a first area including a display portion, a second area adjacent to the first area, and an organic film. The second substrate has a substrate end along a boundary between the first area and the second area, and overlaps the first area. The first substrate includes an alignment film located in the display portion, terminals located in the second area and connected to a signal source, and a first groove formed in the organic film and located between the substrate end of the second substrate and the terminals in the second area. The terminals are arranged in a first direction. The first groove extends in the first direction along the terminals.

Abstract: An optical device manufacturing method and an optical device capable of forming a desired cured resin layer regardless of shapes of cover members. The method includes closely laminating a cover member having an opening onto a mold member having a fitting projection which fits to the opening so that the fitting projection is fitted to the opening to form a hollow laminated body capable of being filled with a curable resin; filling the hollow portion of the laminated body with the curable resin; curing the curable resin to form a cured resin layer on the cover member; peeling off the mold member from the cover member; and bonding the cured resin layer and an optical member.

Abstract: A film structure and a preparation method thereof are provided. The film structure is provided with pore structures; the pore structure includes a gas space and a first protective layer, the first protective layer covers the gas space, and the gas space is filled with a gas. The pore structures with the gas are provided in the film structure, a refractive index of the pore structures is close to a refractive index of air, and a refractive index of the entire film structure is reduced by the influence of the pore structures.

Abstract: A device for combining light beams which interact with adjacently arranged pixels of a light modulator, having a beam splitting component, a beam combining component, and a beam superposition component. The beam splitting component is configured such that incident light beams are split into a first subbeam and a second subbeam so that the first subbeam propagates toward a first pixel of the light modulator and the second subbeam propagates toward a second pixel of the light modulator. The beam combining component is configured and arranged so that the first subbeam and the second subbeam are combined after interaction with pixels of the light modulator. The beam splitting component and the beam combining component are configured and arranged in such a way that a sum of optical path lengths of the first subbeam and the second subbeam is respectively constant for different angles of incidence.

Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes upper and lower substrates, a liquid crystal layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The second electrode includes at least a stem electrode and a plurality of branch electrodes. A plurality of subpixel areas are provided, and each of the subpixel areas is divided into at least four liquid crystal domains by the stem electrode. The subpixel area in corresponding one of the liquid crystal domains is further divided to form a partition-like structure to increase number of liquid crystal domains, so that light transmittance and display quality can be improved.

Abstract: The present disclosure can provide a stereoscopic display device and a method for manufacturing thereof. The stereoscopic display device includes first display areas and second display areas which are alternately provided, and further includes: a base substrate; a plurality of display components located on the base substrate of the first display area and the second display area; a first polarizing film, formed on one side of the display components of the first display area facing away from the base substrate; and a second polarizing film, formed on one side of the display components of the second display area facing away from the base substrate. The absorption axis direction of the first polarizing film is perpendicular to that of the second polarizing film.