Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a display device, and a driving method for the display device, and relates to the field of display technology. The display device includes a display panel, a polarization conversion layer, and a lens layer. The display panel is used to display multiple depth-of-field images in a time-division way during a frame. The polarization conversion layer is arranged on the light exit side of the display panel, and is used to convert light for different depth-of-field images into polarized light of different polarization states. The lens layer is arranged on the side of the polarization conversion layer away from the display panel, and includes a plurality of lens units, each lens unit including a metasurface lens.

Abstract: The present application provides an aperture assembly. The aperture assembly is used in an optical lens system. The aperture assembly includes a plate including a hollow portion and a non-hollow portion. The hollow portion is configured to define an aperture of the optical lens system, wherein the contour of the hollow portion has a non-circular shape. The aperture assembly can prevent the size of the aperture from being reduced as the size of the plate is reduced in a case that a circular aperture is applied to the plate. The present application also realizes an aperture adjustment for a non-circular aperture.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic image device, which includes a barrel-shaped container, a conductive liquid, an insulating liquid, an electronic image element, a light-transmissive window, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a voltage source. The conductive liquid and the insulating liquid have the same density and different optical refractive indices, are immiscible with each other, and are filled into the barrel-shaped container. The electronic image element is disposed at a first end of the barrel-shaped container and in contact with the conductive liquid. The light-transmissive window is disposed at a second end of the barrel-shaped container and in contact with the insulating liquid. The first electrode is in contact with the conductive liquid and the second electrode forms a capacitive coupling with the conductive liquid. A variable voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: An optical device including an acousto-optic modulator (AOM), a laser, an upstream optical fibre extending between the laser and the AOM, a downstream optical fibre located downstream of the AOM and a reflector connected to the fibre downstream of the AOM. The optical device including the upstream fibre is a polarisation-maintaining optical fibre, and/or the downstream fibre is arranged so that a transit time of the optical beam through said downstream fibre from the AOM to the reflecting means is nonzero and shorter than or equal to half an open duration of the AOM, and/or the AOM includes a crystal in which the entrance/exit faces are planar and are at a nonzero angle to each other, and/or at least one of the two entrance/exit faces is at a nonzero angle to a direction of propagation of the acoustic wave in the crystal.

Abstract: A display system includes a display screen, a light source to generate a light beam to be modulated in accordance with image data, and a beam scanning module to receive the light beams and to direct the light beam onto an associated display region of the display screen. The beam scanning module includes a resonant mirror configured to scan the light beam along a first scanning direction across the associated display region, and a linear scanning mirror to scan the light beam along a second scanning direction across the associated display region. The beam scanning module also includes an integral fold mirror positioned to reflect the light beam from the light source to the resonant mirror.

Abstract: An optical scanner includes a substrate, an optical phased array, a shape sensor, a deviation calculation unit, and a control unit. The optical phased array includes an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. The deviation calculation unit calculates an amount of positional deviation of each antenna element based on an amount of deformation of the substrate detected by the shape sensor, and calculates an amount of phase deviation of light emitted from each antenna element. The control unit corrects the phase of light emitted from each antenna element based on the amount of phase deviation calculated by the deviation calculation unit, and controls the phase of the antenna element so that the antenna array emits the light in a target direction.

Abstract: A triple glazing unit is disclosed. The triple glazing unit can include a first pane, a second pane, a third pane between the first pane and the second pane, an electrochemical device coupled to the third pane and between the third pane and the second pane, a first cavity between the first pane and the third pane, and a second cavity between the second pane and the third pane, wherein a distance between the first pane and the third pane is greater than a distance between the second pane and the third pane.

Abstract: A security device includes an array of lenses and a plurality of first and second segments disposed under the array of lenses. At a first viewing angle, the array of lenses presents a first image for viewing without presenting the second image for viewing, and at a second viewing angle different from the first viewing angle, the array of lenses presents for viewing the second image without presenting the first image for viewing. At least one first or second segment can include one or more microstructures or one or more nanostructures configured to produce one or more colors for the first or second image.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with positive refractive power, a third lens with negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens with positive refractive power, a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, wherein said first lens is formed in a meniscus shape having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, said second lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, said sixth lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and said seventh lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.

Abstract: Substrate are disclosed for use in a light modulator. The substrate may comprise at least one driving electrodes applied to the substrate. The driving electrode is arranged in a pattern across the substrate. The pattern of multiple driving electrodes across the substrate comprises multiple repeated building blocks. Electrodes in the building blocks forming the at least one driving electrode.

Abstract: Provided is a light shaping device including: an intensity modulation unit that modulates a spectrum intensity of an optical pulse that is input light, and outputs the optical pulse of which a temporal width is narrowed as output light. The intensity modulation unit modulates the spectrum intensity of the optical pulse with a mask expressed by a starting end wavelength from a central wavelength of the input light and a wavelength width.

Abstract: A privacy glazing structure may be fabricated from multiple panes of transparent material that hold an optically active material and also define a between-pane space that is separated from a surrounding environment for thermal insulating properties. The privacy glazing structure may include various functional coatings and intermediate films to enhance the performance and/or life span of the structure. For example, the privacy glazing structure may include a low emissivity coating and a laminate layer positioned between an optically active layer and an exterior environment exposed to sunlight. The low emissivity coating and laminate layer may work in combination to effectively protect the optically active layer from sunlight degradation. Additionally or alternatively, the laminate layer may impart safety and impact resistance properties to the structure.

Abstract: A VCM is disclosed, the VCM including a rotor having a first driving unit and arranged therein with a lens, a stator having a second driving unit wrapping the first driving unit and being opposite to the first driving unit, a base supporting the stator and having an opening formed at a position corresponding to that of the lens, a connection terminal including a pair of first and second connection terminals arranged at an upper surface of the base, and an elastic member including a first elastic member coupled to the rotor and electrically connected the first connection terminal and a second elastic member coupled to the rotor and electrically connected the second connection terminal.

Abstract: A head-mounted display configured to be worn by a user includes a housing and a headband configured to secure the housing to a head of the user. The headband includes a proximal end coupled to the housing and a distal end that is free from connection to the housing. The head-mounted display includes an adjustment mechanism configured to change a fit of the headband relative to the head of the user.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens which has refractive power, a second lens which has refractive power, a third lens which has a convex object-side surface, and an inflection point is formed on an image-side surface thereof, a fourth lens which has refractive power, a fifth lens which has a convex object-side surface, and a sixth lens which has refractive power and an inflection point is formed on an image-side surface thereof, and wherein the first to sixth lens are sequentially disposed from an object side.

Abstract: An optical arrangement converts a laser beam into a line-type beam having a line-type beam cross-section that extends along a line direction with a non-vanishing intensity. The arrangement has: reshaping optics having: an input aperture through which the laser beam is radiated in; and an elongate output aperture, the reshaping optics being configured such that the laser beam radiated in is converted into a beam packet with beam segments that emerge through the output aperture; homogenization optics, which contribute to the conversion of the beam packet into the line-type output beam, and by which different beam segments are mixed and superposed along the line direction; and redirection optics configured to redirect the laser beam such that an incidence position/direction of laser beam on the input aperture is changed in dependence on time.

Abstract: A mirror replacement system includes a camera having a frontal lens on an outer surface of the camera. The frontal lens includes an inner surface and an outer surface. A nano-etched coating is deposited on at least one of the inner and outer surfaces of the lens.

Abstract: An electrophoretic particle according to an embodiment contains carbon black, and the electrophoretic particle comprises: a core portion; and a shell portion disposed to surround the outer surface of the core portion, wherein a protrusion portion is formed on the surface of the core portion, the core portion has a chromaticity index of 2 or less, the core portion has a light absorption rate of 90% to 99%, and the particle diameter of the electrophoretic particles is 50 nm to 800 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a thin film electrode for an electrochromic device, and an electrochromic device manufactured thereby. Specifically, a method of manufacturing a thin film electrode for an electrochromic device includes: synthesizing insoluble Prussian blue nanoparticles; adding a surfactant to the insoluble Prussian blue nanoparticles to form water-soluble Prussian blue nanoparticles; adding a solvent and a binder to the water-soluble Prussian blue nanoparticles to form a mixed solution; applying the mixed solution onto an electrode; and performing a drying process on the electrode applied with the mixed solution, wherein the drying process may be performed at 15° C. to 30° C.

Abstract: An optical imaging system sequentially includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens has positive refractive power, with an object-side surface being convex at the optical axis; the second lens has refractive power, with an image-side surface being convex at the optical axis; the third lens has refractive power; the fourth lens has positive refractive power, with an image-side surface being convex at the optical axis; the fifth lens has negative refractive power, with an object-side surface being convex at the optical axis and an image-side surface being concave at the optical axis; a diaphragm is arranged between the object side of the optical imaging system and the fifth lens.