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: An electronic device display may have a color filter layer and a thin film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin film transistor layer. A layer of polarizer may be laminated onto the surface of the color filter layer. Laser trimming may ensure that the edges of the polarizer are even with the edges of the color filter layer. The thin film transistor layer may have an array of thin film transistors that control pixels of the liquid crystal material in the display. Driver circuitry may be used to control the array. The driver circuitry may be encapsulated in a planarized encapsulant on the thin film transistor layer or may be mounted to the underside of the color filter layer. Conductive structures may connect driver circuitry on the color filter layer to the thin film transistor layer.

Abstract: This liquid crystal display device (100) includes: a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer (30); first and second substrates (10, 20); first and second electrodes (11, 21) arranged on the first and second substrates to face the liquid crystal layer; and two photo-alignment films (12, 22). Each pixel region includes first and second liquid crystal domains, of which the reference alignment directions defined by the two photo-alignment films are a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction, respectively. The first electrode has a slit cut region (11R1), through which a slit (11s) has been cut to run substantially parallel to the reference alignment direction, in a part of a region allocated to each of the first and second liquid crystal domains. The width (W) of the slit is set so that when the highest grayscale voltage is applied to the first electrode, an effective applied voltage decreases by at least 0.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image, and a switching panel operated in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional mode. A viewer perceives the image of the display panel as a two-dimensional or three-dimensional image depending on the mode of the switching panel. The switching panel may include first and second substrates facing each other, a first electrode layer provided on the first substrate, a second electrode layer provided on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates. One of the first and second electrode layers may include first and second electrodes provided on a specific plane, and two opposite inner sides of the first and second electrodes may be configured in such a way that lines extending therefrom converge on at least one first position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of display technology, and particularly to a stereoscopic display device and a cell-aligning packaging method of the same. The stereoscopic display device is divided into a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area on the periphery of the display area, and comprises a conversion panel and a liquid crystal panel which are aligned to form a cell, a first polarizer is provided between the conversion panel and the liquid crystal panel, the first polarizer is arranged in the display area, and an adhesive lump is provided around the first polarizer and correspondingly to the non-display area between the conversion panel and the liquid crystal panel and is used for bonding the conversion panel and the liquid crystal panel into a whole.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a first transmissive electrode, a second transmissive electrode, a third transmissive electrode, a fourth transmissive electrode, a fifth transmissive electrode, and a reflective electrode, a second substrate including a first color filter opposed to the first transmissive electrode and the fourth transmissive electrode, a second color filter opposed to the second transmissive electrode and the fifth transmissive electrode, a third color filter opposed to the third transmissive electrode, and a fourth color filter opposed to the reflective electrode, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed employing a dielectric mirror layer, highly reflective at wavelengths below a cut off but highly transparent at wavelengths above the cut off, is placed within a display assembly. This dielectric mirror layer creates a very efficient reflecting cavity for a portion of a Light Emitting Diode (LED) pumping spectrum. Accurate dielectric filter tuning allows an increased portion of the pumping spectrum to be converted to desired wavelength spectrum and also raise the luminance ratio of the display to a useful value for display applications. Variable and active tuning of the cut off wavelength value functions to optimize system performance.

Abstract: In the electro-optical device, a pillar-shaped protrusion is formed on an insulating film (a first insulating film) provided below a pixel electrode in the downward direction, and thus a conduction section of a second electrode layer (a conductive layer) overlaps the highest surface of the pillar-shaped protrusion. An inter-layer insulating film (a second insulating film) is provided between the second electrode layer and the pixel electrode, but the conduction section is exposed on a surface of the inter-layer insulating film. For this reason, the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the conduction section, when the pixel electrode is laminated on the inter-layer insulating film.

Abstract: The invention relates to a temperature-controlled switching element for the regulation of light transmission. The invention furthermore relates to a mixture comprising at least one liquid-crystalline compound, at least one monomer compound which represents a monofunctional compound, and at least one monomer compound which represents a multifunctional compound. The invention again furthermore relates to the use of the said mixture for the production of the switching element according to the invention.

Abstract: Provided is liquid crystal shutter glasses in which light leakage at the time when a liquid crystal shutter is closed is suppressed. The liquid crystal shutter glasses includes a first substrate and a second substrate with a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal material exhibiting a blue phase provided therebetween, a first electrode with a comb shape and a first common electrode with a comb shape which are provided between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and a second electrode with a comb shape and a second common electrode with a comb shape which are provided between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode overlaps with the second electrode. The first common electrode overlaps with the second common electrode. The first electrode is connected to the second electrode.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to an electrically-driven liquid crystal (LC) lens, which comprises: first electrodes, an electrode group arranged corresponding to each sub-pixel, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first electrodes and the electrode groups. Each electrode group includes a plurality of second electrodes; and where the voltages of the second electrodes in each electrode group are progressively increased or decreased from left to right sequentially, light passing through the sub-pixels is deflected to different directions. The electrically-driven LC lens can improve the resolution of 3D liquid crystal display. The embodiment of the present invention further discloses a display device and a 3D display method.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display device with slimness and narrowness, wherein the display device may include a liquid crystal panel; a light source for providing light to the liquid crystal panel; a light guide formed of a glass material, wherein the light source is combined with one side of the light guide; a reflector formed on at least one of one and the other surfaces of the light guide, wherein the reflector includes an organic material and a metal compound; and an adhesive member formed on the one surface of the light guide confronting the liquid crystal panel, and configured to attach the liquid crystal panel and the light guide to each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mold frame for curved displaying and a curved liquid crystal display device using the mold frame. The mold frame for curved displaying includes two opposite first side frame members (11) and two opposite second side frame members (13) respectively mounted to two ends of the two first side frame members (11). Each of the first side frame members (11) includes a plurality of first engagement slots (115) and open notches (117) between two adjacent ones of the first engagement slots (115) formed therein. The first engagement slots (115) receive and are coupled to the first projection blocks (211) of the curved backplane the first side plates (21). The first side frame members (11) are made of an elastic plastic material. The first side frame members (11) show a flat and straight configuration before being assembled to a curved backplane and show a curved configuration after being assembled to the curved backplane.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes at least a light source, a display element, and an isotropic diffusion layer.

Abstract: A crosstalk-reducing barrier panel is provided atop of a 3D-capable image panel where the image panel displays 3D imagery by alternatingly projecting left-eye imagery and right-eye imagery and where crosstalk may develop between leaked portions of the left and right-eye light rays produced by the image panel. The barrier panel includes a base substrate, odd-numbered barrier electrodes, even-numbered barrier electrodes, first through fourth signal delivering lines, and one or more signal generators that generate a first signal and a second signal. The first signal is respectively delivered to opposed ends of the odd-numbered barrier electrodes by way of a respective first “short-path” delivery route and also by way of a respective first “long-path” delivery route. The second signal is respectively delivered to opposed ends of the even-numbered barrier electrodes by way of a respective second “short-path” delivery route and also by way of a respective second “long-path” delivery route.

Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; electrode terminals for external connection; an insulating film on the respective electrode terminals, the insulating film provided with openings which expose part of the respective electrode terminals, the insulating film covering the other portion of the respective electrode terminals; surface conductive films which are disposed so as to correspond to the respective openings, and are connected to part of the respective electrode terminals; and a circuit board disposed so as to oppose the substrate, the circuit board including circuit electrode terminals which are connected to the surface conductive films through a conductive bonding member so as to oppose the respective openings, the surface conductive films extending from an inside of an opening corresponding thereto to a surface of an insulating film corresponding thereto, peripheral edges of the respective surface conductive films being positioned beyond a peripheral edge of a circuit electrode terminal correspondi

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a transparent display device, a first polarizer on a first surface of the transparent display device, a first retarder between the first polarizer and the first surface of the transparent display device, a second polarizer on a second surface of the transparent display device opposite the first surface, and a conversion retarder between the second polarizer and the second surface of the transparent display device, the conversion retarder being configured to delay a wavelength of the external light within a range from a first phase to a second phase and to transmit the wavelength-delayed light therethrough when power is supplied to the conversion retarder.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) system is provided. The LCD system includes a light source and a self-contained display unit including at least a LCD panel and a light guide plate coupled together, wherein the light guide plate is configured to guide light from the light source to the LCD panel as backlight and to structurally support the LCD panel. Further, a plurality of pre-made hollow spaces are contained in the display unit configured to host components of the LCD system. The LCD system also includes a controller contained in the plurality of pre-made hollow spaces and coupled to the LCD panel to control the LCD panel such that the light passing through the light guide plate is used as backlight for operation of the LCD panel.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD) with improved heat dissipation and reduced thickness. The LCD includes for an embodiment: a lower housing; a heat-dissipating member which is disposed in the lower housing; a plurality of point light sources which are disposed on the heat-dissipating member; a plurality of electric wires which supply power to the point light sources; and a light guide plate (LGP) which is disposed in the lower housing in such a way that side surfaces of the LGP face the point light sources.