Abstract: An illumination unit includes: a light source section including a laser light source; an optical-path branching device outputting light incident from the light source section, by branching the light into an outgoing optical path of illumination light and other optical path; a photodetector receiving a light flux that travels on the other optical path; a control section controlling an emitted light quantity in the laser light source, based on a quantity of the light flux received by the photodetector; and a light-quantity-distribution control device disposed between the optical-path branching device and the photodetector on the other optical path, the light-quantity-distribution control device controlling a light quantity distribution in the light flux to be incident upon the photodetector.

Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a gate line in the display area and a gate pad in the non-display area, the gate line extending in a first direction; a data line in the display area, the data line extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a thin film transistor at an intersection point among the gate line and the data line; a step-difference pattern on the gate pad; and a protective layer including a first protective layer on the thin film transistor and a second protective layer on the step-difference pattern and the gate pad. The second protective layer has a height less than a height of the first protective layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display panel in which a black matrix is formed on an upper substrate, which is disposed so as to face a lower substrate, so as to delimit each pixel area, a plurality of light control partitions is provided in the pixel area of the upper substrate, a color filter is provided in the pixel area of the upper substrate, and an overcoat layer is provided over the entire surface of the upper substrate. The light control partitions are formed in the pixel area simultaneously with the formation of the black matrix, which enables the omission of an existing light control film. Thereby, a narrow viewing angle is realized without increasing the thickness or manufacturing cost of a product.

Abstract: A phase modulator for polarized light, comprising a first substrate with a first surface and a second substrate with a second surface, a liquid crystal layer between the two substrates and an electrode arrangement. The phase modulator is usable as a variable deflection grating, and liquid crystal materials which are currently conventional are usable for its production. A phase modulator has an out-of-plane angle of the liquid crystal molecules next to the two surfaces whose magnitude is greater than 0 but less than or equal to 45 degrees, and an electrode arrangement controllable such that an in-plane component of the liquid crystal molecule orientation is adjustable in an angle range of up to 180 degrees, and the rotation sense of the liquid crystal molecules next to the first surface is opposite to the rotation sense of the liquid crystal molecules next to the second surface.

Abstract: A display apparatus including a round portion is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel; a light guide plate configured to guide light toward the display panel, the light guide plate comprising a flat portion and a round portion; and a printed circuit board (PCB) including a first area configured to radiate light toward the round portion, and a second area configured to radiate light toward the flat portion, wherein a width of the first area is less than a width of the second area.

Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. Each of pixels in the display panel includes a pixel area; a switch element located near an intersection of a data line and a scan line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switch element; and a common electrode located on the first substrate. The common electrode comprises first common electrodes superposing data lines or scan lines and having the same first width; and second common electrodes overlapping with respective pixel areas and having the same second width, the first width is the same as the second width. Alternatively, the common electrode comprises first slits, which have the same first slit width, located above data lines and scan lines, and second slits, which have the same second slit width and are located in respective pixel areas. The first slit width is the same as the second slit width.

Abstract: A curved display device includes a main display unit; a corner portion positioned at a corner of the main display unit; a first light blocking member positioned in the main display unit; and a second light blocking member positioned in the corner portion, wherein a first flat shape of the first light blocking member is different from a second flat shape of the second light blocking member.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a polarizer, a manufacturing method thereof, a liquid crystal display panel and a display device.

Abstract: A blue phase liquid crystal module, a blue phase LCD and the manufacturing are disclosed. The blue phase liquid crystal module includes an up substrate; a down substrate opposite to the up substrate; and blue phase liquid crystals between the up substrate and the down substrate. The down substrate includes at least one wave-shaped insulation layer being arranged with respect to the up substrate and the down substrate. The reflective layer is arranged in a portion of the down substrate. Pixel electrodes and common electrodes are arranged alternately at valleys and at peaks of the wave-shaped insulation layer, and the blue phase liquid crystals are driven by at least one slant electrical field generated between the pixel electrode and the common electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first display panel displaying a color image, and a second display panel displaying a black-and-white image. The first display panel includes a first pixel corresponding to a first transmission area transmitting light having first color, a second pixel corresponding to a second transmission area transmitting light having second color, and a third pixel corresponding to a third transmission area transmitting light having third color. The second display panel includes a fourth pixel overlapping the first pixel, and a fifth pixel overlapping the second pixel and the third pixel. An area of the fourth pixel is different from an area of the fifth pixel.

Abstract: A power conversion circuit for switching the viewing angle of an LCD, includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a switching unit, an isolating unit, an output unit, a first power supply, a second power supply, and a third power supply. When the input terminal is provided with a low level voltage, the switching unit is switched on, the voltage of the second power supply is provided as a first DC voltage to the output terminal via the switching unit and the isolating unit. When the input terminal is provided with a high level voltage, the switching unit is switched off, the voltage of the third power supply is provided as a second DC voltage to the output terminal via the output unit and the isolating unit, wherein the second DC voltage is higher than the first DC voltage.

Abstract: A method of driving a display device including a display panel that includes a color filter board is provided. The color filter board includes a light blocking section formed in a grid and color sections that are formed in areas surrounded by a pattern of the light blocking section in different colors from area to area. The color sections form display pixels on a combination basis. The display panel includes a light blocking area in at least a section of an edge along an outline of the display panel. The method includes setting the color sections that do not form the display pixels among the color sections adjacent to the light blocking area in a plan view of the display panel constantly in the black state.

Abstract: A backlight module and a display apparatus are provided. The backlight module includes: a light bar, a quantum dot encapsulated tube and a light guide plate; the light bar and light guide plate are disposed at two sides of quantum dot encapsulated tube respectively, the light bar and quantum dot encapsulated tube are disposed in parallel, the light bar and quantum dot encapsulated tube are located at a light incident surface side of light guide plate, a plurality of LED lights are disposed on the light bar at a side facing towards the quantum dot encapsulated tube, an LED light corresponding to valid area of quantum dot encapsulated tube is monochromatic LED light, an LED light corresponding to invalid area of quantum dot encapsulated tube is white LED light, and invalid area of quantum dot encapsulated tube is within irradiation range of the white LED light.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that exhibits non-deteriorated display quality in a display mode and is capable of adjusting the color of reflected light in a mirror mode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device (LCD) and a flexible circuit board are disclosed. The display panel includes a color film substrate, an array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the color film substrate and the array substrate. The flexible circuit board is configured for arranging the driving circuit. before the flexible circuit board is bonded, a common voltage of the color film substrate and the common voltage of the array substrate are disconnected. A voltage of the pixel electrode of the array substrate and the common voltage of the color film substrate are independent signals and are independently controllable to form a predetermined voltage difference for aligning the liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the color film substrate. As such, the voltage difference for aligning the liquid crystal layer between the color film substrate and the array substrate of the self-adjust Vcom LCD may be formed.

Abstract: An electro-optical device of the present embodiment includes a pair of substrates, first opening components that stipulate sizes and positions of opening sections of pixels in one of the pair of substrates, and second opening components (microlenses) that stipulate sizes and positions of opening sections of the pixels in the other of the pair of substrates. Positions of the second opening components (microlenses) of the other substrate are corrected with positions of the first opening components of the one substrate set as references, so as to gradually become more shifted in a direction that runs from a core of a pixel region, in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, toward an edge section of the pixel region, in accordance with separation from a core side of the pixel region.

Abstract: A thin film transistor substrate includes a thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode. Each of the source electrode and the drain electrode includes a wire layer and a protective layer. The protective layer includes zinc oxide in an amount greater than about 70% by weight and less than about 85% by weight and indium oxide in an amount greater than about 15% by weight and less than about 30% by weight.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first gate line and a second gate line extending in a first direction, a first data line and a second data line extending in a second direction, a pixel region surrounded by the first and second gate lines and the first and second data lines, and a first sub pixel electrode and a second sub pixel electrode disposed in the pixel region, wherein the first sub pixel electrode includes a first pattern section and a second pattern section symmetrical with each other about the second direction serving as an axis, wherein the second sub pixel electrode includes a third pattern section having a same shape as that of either the first pattern section or the second pattern section, and a fourth pattern section having a shape different from those of both the first pattern section and the second pattern section, wherein the first sub pixel electrode and the second sub pixel electrode are electrically interconnected.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display capable of reducing a texture by increasing a liquid crystal control ability. The liquid crystal display includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The first electrode includes a horizontal extension forming a boundary between adjacent subregions and a vertical extension connected to the horizontal extension, and the horizontal extension includes a portion which has a largest width at a position proximate to the vertical extension, and which has a smaller width at a position farther from the vertical extension.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, an upper electrode and a drain electrode are reliably connected to each other electrically, with preventing or suppressing an occurrence of an aperture ratio loss, or sufficiently reducing a parasitic capacitance between the scanning line and the lower electrode. An interlayer resin film is formed on a drain electrode, with a hole being formed on the interlayer resin film, and on the drain electrode exposed to a bottom portion of the hole, an island-shaped electrode is formed separately from a lower electrode. Moreover, on the island-shaped electrode, an inter-electrode insulating film is formed, a contact hole is formed in the inter-electrode insulating film, and an upper electrode is formed on the island-shaped electrode exposed to a bottom portion of the contact hole.