Abstract: An eyewear apparatus is provided that includes a lens structure having a lens panel, and a battery structure on the lens panel. The battery structure may include an anode, a separator and a cathode, and may also include a solar panel.

Abstract: This invention relates to particles comprising a pigment core particle encapsulated by a polymer, a process for their preparation, electrophoretic fluids comprising such particles, and electrophoretic display devices comprising such fluids.

Abstract: An optical filter comprising a variable transmittance layer having a first spectrum in a dark state, and a second spectrum in a faded state; and a color balancing layer having a third spectrum; each of the first, second and third spectra comprising a visible portion; the first and third spectra combining to provide a dark state spectrum approximating a dark state target color, and the second and third spectra combining to provide a faded state spectrum approximating a faded state target color. The optical filter may further comprise a light attenuating layer. The optical filter may further comprise part of a laminated glass.

Abstract: An optical module includes: a substrate; a first terminal; a plurality of second terminals; a plurality of third terminals; and a plurality of wirings. The plurality of second terminals are on the substrate. The plurality of third terminals are disposed closer to an electrode than the plurality of second terminals on the substrate. The plurality of wirings extend from the plurality of second terminals through a side opposite to the first terminal and reach the electrode.

Abstract: The optical device includes a waveguide positioned on a base and a modulator positioned on the base. The modulator includes an electro-absorption medium. The waveguide is configured to guide a light signal through the modulator such that the light signal is guided through the electro-absorption medium. A heater is positioned on the electro-absorption medium such that the electro-absorption medium is between the base and the heater.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical isolator which includes a planar lightwave circuit, a magneto-optic thin film and a metal thin film with a magnetic field. A channel for transmitting an optical signal is configured in the planar lightwave circuit. The magneto-optic thin film is disposed on the planar lightwave circuit, and a plane on which the magneto-optic thin film is located is parallel to the channel. The metal thin film is disposed on the magneto-optic thin film.

Abstract: A method for assembling a liquid crystal display includes fixing a liquid crystal panel and a touch panel together to form a touch display screen; inspecting the touch display screen; if no defect is identified in inspecting the touch display screen, fixing the touch display screen and a backlight unit together to form a touch display backlight module screen; and inspecting the touch display backlight module screen. The method for assembling the liquid crystal display helps reduce waste of backlight units and increases yield rate.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof, and the device comprises a plurality of data lines; a plurality of gate lines; a plurality of common lines; at least one dummy gate line; a plurality of gate line trigger circuits; and a plurality of common line trigger circuits; wherein, one end of the last gate line is connected with the last gate line trigger circuit; one end of each of remaining gate lines are connected with a gate line trigger circuit corresponding to said each of remaining gate lines, and the other end of said each of the remaining gate lines are connected with the succeeding gate line trigger circuit; the first common line trigger circuit is connected with one dummy gate line, and each of remaining common line trigger circuits is connected with one or more preceding gate line trigger circuits. Latency to the charging time is effectively reduced with the liquid crystal display device of this invention.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a rear face housing, and a slender support member. The display panel is configured to display image. The rear face housing is disposed on a rear side of the display device with respect to the display panel. The support member is disposed between a peripheral edge portion of the display panel and a peripheral edge portion of the rear face housing. The support member supports the peripheral edge portion of the display panel from the rear side. The support member has a protruding portion that protrudes in a direction intersecting a lengthwise direction of the support member. The rear face housing includes an insertion component at the peripheral edge portion of the rear face housing, with the protruding portion of the support member being engaged with the insertion component of the rear frame housing.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate; a gate line and a data line on the substrate, and insulated from and crossing each other; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; an interlayer insulating layer on the thin film transistor; a coating member on the interlayer insulating layer, the coating member elongated to overlap the data line; a common electrode on the interlayer insulating layer, the common electrode overlapping the coating member; a planarization layer covering the common electrode; and a pixel electrode on the planarization layer.

Abstract: There is provided a high-definition liquid crystal display device that can prevent flicker due to a reduction in the pixel potential in a low-frequency drive of about 10 Hz to reduce power consumption. The pixel has a TFT formed of Poly-Si as a switching element. In the pixel, a capacitance insulating film is formed on a planar first electrode on which a comb-shaped second electrode is formed. When the film thickness of the insulating film is d and the dielectric constant at 10 Hz frequency is ?, it is given that ?d?5×10?6 m at 10 Hz frequency. The capacitance insulating film does not have a hysteresis characteristic. The refractive index of the capacitance insulating film with respect to a light of a wavelength of 632.8 nm is 1.7 to 2.0.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate; a pixel electrode connected with the thin film transistor; and a roof layer disposed facing the pixel electrode, wherein a plurality of microcavities are disposed between the pixel electrode and the roof layer, and a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules is disposed in the plurality of microcavities, and wherein each microcavity includes a first area and a second area partitioned by a liquid crystal injection hole formation area, and a first alignment layer in the first area and a second alignment layer in the second area are formed of different materials.

Abstract: A touch display panel includes a color film (CF) substrate and a TFT substrate disposed opposite to each other, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the CF substrate and the TFT substrate. A common electrode having a comb-shaped structure and/or a pixel electrode having a comb-shaped structure are disposed on the TFT substrate close to the liquid crystal layer. The touch display panel further includes a touch layer disposed on the CF substrate close to the liquid crystal layer and having a driving line and a detecting line insulated from each other. The driving line and/or the detecting line have a comb-shaped structure that is at least partially misaligned with respect to the comb-shaped structure of the common electrode and/or the comb-shaped structure of the pixel electrode.

Abstract: The present application relates to a liquid crystal cell, a method for preparing a liquid crystal cell and a display device. An exemplary liquid crystal cell may be applied to various types of display devices so as to control a viewing angle or light transmittance of the display device.

Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display and a diffractive optical element (DOE). The display is used to show an image. When a user looks at the image within a first viewing angle range, he can see a first observed image, and when he looks at the image within a second viewing angle range, he can see a second observed image. The diffractive optical element is disposed in the lighting direction of the display to diffract the light constructing the first observed image to the second viewing angle range, thereby converting the first observed image into a third observed image and converting the second observed image into a fourth observed image at the same time.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display may have a thin-film transistor layer with an array of pixel electrode structures for applying electric fields to a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display may also have a color filter layer with an array of color filter elements. The color filter elements may allow the display to display color images. The color filter layer may be interposed between the thin-film transistor layer and a backlight. The liquid crystal layer may be sandwiched between the thin-film transistor layer and the color filter layer. The color filter layer may have a transparent substrate on which the color filter elements are formed. Black masking structures may be formed on a transparent overcoat layer that covers the color filter elements. Black column spacers may be formed from the same layer of material that forms the black masking structures.

Abstract: A surface light source device includes a laser beam source, a laser beam guide rod for converting a laser beam into first linear light, an LED light source, an LED light guide rod for converting LED light into second linear light, a reflecting bar having a reflecting region for reflecting part of the first linear light and the second linear light and a transmitting region for transmitting a residual part of the first linear light and the second linear light, and a light reflecting portion formed in a box shape and having an opening portion with an emission side opened and a reflecting surface on an inside of the box shape. In the first linear light and the second linear light, part thereof is reflected by the reflecting region and the reflecting surface and a residual part is transmitted through the transmitting region and is emitted from the opening portion.

Abstract: A sub-wavelength thin-film metal grating is placed inside a liquid crystal variable optical retarder at a selected distance from a reflective electrode to form a reflective half wave plate, thereby reducing polarization dependence of the optical retardation generated by the variable optical retarder. The approach enables to form within the device the reflective half wave plate that is suitably thin without modifying the reflective electrode of the device.

Abstract: A display device and a method of manufacturing a display device are capable of preventing an alignment layer from being lumped in a microcavity. The display device includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor formed on the substrate; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a roof layer formed on the pixel electrode; microcavities interposed between the pixel electrode and the roof layer; an injection hole formed in the roof layer, the injection hole configured to expose at least a portion of the microcavities; a first valley extended in one direction between the microcavities; an alignment layer formed on the pixel electrode, under the roof layer, and in the first valley; a liquid crystal layer filled in the microcavities; and an encapsulation layer formed on the roof layer, the encapsulation layer configured to cover the injection hole and to seal the microcavities.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, where a first cutout having a cross shape is defined in the common electrode, a second cutout is defined in the pixel electrode to be adjacent to and along an edge of the pixel electrode, and the pixel electrode has a step structure, a boundary line of which is in a rhombus shape.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a first pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate, a second pixel electrode overlapping the first pixel electrode, having an insulating layer disposed therebetween, wherein the second pixel electrode includes a plate-like part having an integrated shape, a plurality of branch electrodes extending from the plate-like part, and a cruciform cutout including a horizontal part and a vertical part intersecting each other at a center of the plate-like part, and the first pixel electrode includes a cruciform stem electrode having a horizontal stem and a vertical stem intersecting each other at the center.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display panel having a display region and a non-display region, comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate oppositely provided and a layer of liquid crystal molecule located between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate each are provided with an alignment film at a position corresponding to the display region, and each are provided with a sealant region for applying sealant at a position corresponding to the non-display region, wherein: the sealant region on a surface of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal molecule layer is provided with a first raised layer by which the sealant region of the first substrate is higher than the display region thereof; and the sealant region on a surface of the second substrate facing the liquid crystal molecule layer is provided with a second raised layer by which the sealant region of the second substrate is higher than the display region thereof.

Abstract: A curved liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a column spacer fixedly anchored to and protruding therefrom. The second substrate includes a stepless preliminary contact area corresponding to a contact-making free end of the column spacer where the preliminary contact area is part of a larger and also non-stepped area. The second substrate is combined with the first substrate to receive the liquid crystal layer therebetween. The non-stepped area is dimensioned to account for shift of the where the contact-making free end of the column spacer makes contact due to the curvature of the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, including: an array substrate including: a first pixel electrode, first and second source lines arranged in a first direction and extending in a second crossing direction, a first gate line, an auxiliary capacitance line, a second gate line arranged in the second direction and extending in the first direction, and a switching element including a semiconductor layer which includes a first portion overlapping the first source line and extending in the second direction and a second portion overlapping the auxiliary capacitance line and extending in the first direction. The auxiliary capacitance line includes a branch portion extending along the first source line toward the second gate line and formed on a layer between the first source line and the semiconductor layer. The array substrate includes first and second shield layers, and the first shield layer formed larger than the second shield layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an insulation substrate, a plurality of pixels disposed on the insulation substrate, where each pixel has a shape elongated in a horizontal direction, and includes a thin film transistor formation region and a display area; and a reference voltage line extending in a vertical direction along a center of the display area, where the display area includes a single high-gray subpixel area and two low-gray subpixel areas, and the single high-gray subpixel area is positioned between the two low-gray subpixel areas.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel structure, a manufacturing method of a pixel structure, an array substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel structure includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of pixel units and a pixel electrode in each pixel unit including a plurality of slits. An end of the slit includes at least one corner. The white pixel unit includes a first TFT and a second TFT. In a row of pixel units, a first TFT of each white pixel unit is electrically connected to a pixel electrode of the white pixel unit, and a second TFT of each white pixel unit is electrically connected to a pixel electrode of a pixel unit adjacent to the white pixel unit. The corner of the slit in the pixel electrode electrically connected with the second TFT extends toward the second TFT.

Abstract: A display device includes a transistor, a data line, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The data line is connected to a source electrode of the transistor. A geometric radius of curvature associated with the display device is perpendicular to the data line. The pixel electrode is connected to a drain electrode of the transistor and includes a plate electrode. Sides of the plate electrode are oriented at acute angles with respect to the data line in a plan view associated with the display device. The common electrode overlaps the pixel electrode and has a slit. The slit has a first edge and a second edge. The first edge is perpendicular to the data line in the plan view and is longer than the second edge. The liquid crystal layer is positioned between the pixel electrode and the common electrode.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a plurality of driving integrated circuits that provide respective driving signals to the display panel, and an accommodation unit on which the driving integrated circuits are mounted, at least two adjacent driving integrated circuits of the plurality of driving integrated circuits being arranged on the accommodation unit to define a reverse V-shape with respect to an outermost edge of the accommodation unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display, including: a first substrate and a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer; a first data line disposed on the first substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate; and a common electrode disposed on the first substrate and overlapping at least a portion of the pixel electrode and the first data line. One of the pixel electrode and the common electrode includes a plurality of branch electrodes spaced apart from each other and the other of has an at least approximately planar shape that is substantially parallel to a surface of at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate. The display can also include a passivation layer having a dielectric constant of about 3.5 or less, and including a first portion disposed between the common electrode and the first data line.

Abstract: The present invention provides a Z-inversion type display device comprising a gate line and a data line that intersect with each other to define a pixel area on a substrate, a thin film transistor that includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, and a pixel electrode that is formed in the pixel area, and is electrically connected to the drain electrode of the thin film transistor, wherein the drain electrode completely overlaps the gate line such that a drain electrode area is wholly included in a gate line area on a plan view.

Abstract: A fast testing switch device arranged on a TFT-LCD array substrate is disclosed. The fast testing switch device switches the testing signals for testing a display area of the TFT-LCD array substrate. The fast testing switch device includes at least a first switch TFT. The gate of the first switch TFT connects to one control chip and a testing block for receiving the switch control signals from the testing block or the turn-off control signals from the control chip. The source of the first switch TFT connects to one data testing line or one gate testing line, and the drain of the first switch TFT connects to the corresponding data line or gate line of the display area. In addition, a corresponding TFT-LCD array substrate is also disclosed. The above configuration not only can achieve the narrow-bezel design but also can enhance the yield rate of the TFT-LCD array substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of preventing signal delay in a display device according to the present invention includes a first substrate, a driving portion formed on the first substrate, a plurality of signal lines formed on the first substrate to transmit signals to the driving portion, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a conductive member formed on the second substrate, wherein the driving portion overlaps with the conductive member, and the signal lines and the conductive member do not overlap. Accordingly, the capacitances between the signal lines may be substantially the same.

Abstract: The array substrate according to the present disclosure may include a base substrate, gate lines and data lines arranged in a crisscross manner on the base substrate, and a common electrode; wherein the common electrode includes a transparent conductive layer and a first auxiliary conductive layer under the transparent conductive layer; the first auxiliary conductive layer of the common electrode at least partially overlaps the gate lines or the data lines.

Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing a liquid crystal display device having a high transmittance or a high viewing angle characteristic. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a pixel electrode (30) including a peripheral portion (36), an island portion (32) and a plurality of branch portions (34). The plurality of branch portions (34) are formed of a plurality of first through fourth branch portions (34A through 34D) respectively extending in first through fourth directions. By these branch portions, first through fourth regions (35A through 35D) in which liquid crystal molecules are aligned in different directions from each other at the time of voltage application are formed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a liquid crystal panel, a display device, and a process for manufacturing the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes cell-assembled array substrate and colored substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the colored substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes a dual frequency liquid crystal and a polymer network anchoring the dual frequency liquid crystal, wherein the polymer network is formed by polymerization of liquid crystalline ultraviolet polymerizable monomers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thin-film transistor, which includes a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal. The source terminal and the drain terminal are arranged side-by-aide above the gate terminal. The source terminal includes a first edge. The drain terminal includes a second edge. The first edge and the second edge face each other. The first edge and the second edge form therebetween a channel. The first edge and the second edge are both in a nonlinear form. A dimension of the channel in an extension of the first edge and the second edge is a width of the channel. The channel is narrowed from a middle thereof toward two ends in the widthwise direction of the channel. Light transmittance in each portion of the channel of the thin-film transistor is made consistent and the quality of the thin-film transistor is enhanced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel comprises an array substrate and an opposing substrate that is opposite to the array substrate; a polymer dispersed blue phase layer configured to serve as an alignment layer is formed on the array substrate; and at least two electrodes are provided on the array substrate. The liquid crystal panel can omit a rubbing process for an alignment layer on a side of an array substrate, and resolve the problem of the dark-state light leakage of the liquid crystal panel. A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel is further disclosed.

Abstract: An optical apparatus includes first and second substrates disposed to oppose each other, the first substrate having a first electrode provided on a surface of the first substrate nearer to the second substrate, and the second substrate having a second electrode provided on a surface of the second substrate nearer to the first substrate, and an electrolyte layer sandwiched between the first and the second substrates, and containing electro-deposition material including silver, wherein when potential of the first electrode is used as reference, a first voltage of positive polarity is applied in a first period to the second electrode, and a second voltage of positive polarity lower than the first voltage is applied in a second period after the first period to the second electrode.

Abstract: A planar optical waveguide circuit includes an optical modulator, such as that based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, that is followed by an in-line optical tap in the form of a 2×2 multi-mode interference coupler that is characterized a reduced tracking error as compared to Y-junction couplers.

Abstract: Systems and methods for manufacturing electro-active lenses including a peripheral edge, a discrete electro-active region, and at least two substrates. The at least two substrates include a layer of a transparent conductive material, that is laser cut to isolate regions required for establishing an electrical connection between the peripheral edge of the lens, from regions not required for establishing an electrical connection. Isolating the regions of the transparent conductive material required for establishing an electrical connection may include cutting patterns around an electrode of each of the substrates. The regions not required for establishing an electrical connection may be further cut into sections, which may be substantially band-shaped.

Abstract: A novel method for enhancing (for improved average power), stabilizing (to reduce rms noise), and wavelength tuning supercontinuum generation is described for numerous applications including but not limited to metrology, spectroscopy, and biomedical imaging. What is described is a way of enhancing only a small bandwidth portion of the optical spectrum by means of self-seeding in the supercontinuum. This cost-effective method allows for wavelength tuning while maintaining the enhancement.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for high-power multi-function millimeter-wavelength (THz-frequency) signal generation using OPO and DFG in a single cavity. In some embodiments, the OPO-DFG cavity includes an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) non-linear material that receives pump light IP having pump-light frequency and generates two different lower intermediate frequencies of light—an OPO-signal beam IS and a spatially/temporally overlapping OPO-idler beam II. A difference-frequency generator non-linear material then receives the two intermediate-frequency beams II and IS, and the DFG then generates a THz-frequency output signal that has a frequency equal to the difference between the two intermediate frequencies. In some embodiments, a single-piece crystal of non-linear material is used for both OPO and DFG functions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of laser frequency-mixing technologies, and in particular, to an all-fiber laser frequency mixer and a frequency-mixing fiber laser thereof. In the all-fiber laser frequency mixer and the frequency-mixing fiber laser thereof, a graded index fiber coupling technology is used to implement an all-fiber laser frequency mixer, and the all-fiber laser frequency mixer is further combined with a fiber laser to implement an all-fiber frequency-mixing fiber laser. The apparatus can implement all-fiber frequency doubling, sum frequency or difference frequency on any one or two of the following linearly polarized narrow linewidth fiber lasers: a 1 ?m fiber laser, a 1.5 ?m fiber laser, a 1.9 ?m thulium-doped fiber laser, a 2 ?m thulium holmium co-doped fiber laser, a Raman fiber laser, and a frequency-mixing fiber laser and implement an all-fiber fiber laser covering ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, mid-infrared bands.

Abstract: An optimum low-pass filter effect according to various photographing condition parameters related to photographing conditions is obtained with flexibility without forcing the user to perform a troublesome manual operation in a photographing apparatus which drives an image sensor to obtain an optical low-pass filter effect. The photographing condition parameter setters set parameters related to photographing conditions. The image sensor drive controller changes the drive range of the image sensor and the optical low-pass filter effect, which are defined by the image sensor driver, based on the photographing condition parameters set by the photographing condition parameter setters.

Abstract: There is provided with a fiber-reinforced laminate. The fiber-reinforced laminate has a first fiber-reinforced layer and a second fiber-reinforced layer. The fiber-reinforced laminate also has a metal layer provided between the first fiber-reinforced layer and the second fiber-reinforced layer.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus for film, television, video capture, motion picture and photography which includes a Fresnel lens fixed in a housing which contains a tight array of high power LEDs. The LED panel or board is mated to a heat dissipating apparatus to provide active cooling and together forming an LED engine. The LED engine is mounted to a slider allowing the LED engine to be adjusted within the housing with respect to the lens. Light shaping diffusion may be included on the housing. A power supply unit may also be included in the housing. When in electrical communication, the LED engine and power supply unit function as an integrated self-contained lighting apparatus. Optionally, the power supply may have an integrated dimmer switch, and may be capable of receiving PFC power or have an integrated battery unit.

Abstract: A strobe device including, a strobe main body including a light emitting surface; a plate-like reflector provided on the strobe main body so as to be movable between a use position in which the reflector protrudes forward from the light emitting surface of the strobe main body and a storing position in which the reflector is retracted backward from the use position; a reflector magnetic member made of ferromagnetic material or permanent magnet and attached to the reflector; and a main body magnetic member made of ferromagnetic material or permanent magnet and attached to the strobe main body, wherein when the reflector approaches at least one of the use position and the storing position, the main body magnetic member magnetically attracts the reflector magnetic member and holds the reflector at the one of the use position and the storing position by magnetic attraction.

Abstract: An operation apparatus mountable/dismountable to/from a lens apparatus including a movable optical element, including: a detector detecting a position signal corresponding to a position of the optical element in a state of being mounted to the lens apparatus; a memory storing a reference position signal; i.e., a position signal at a time when the optical element is located at a reference position while being mounted to the lens apparatus; a determiner determining whether or not being dismounted from the lens apparatus after the reference position signal is stored; and a controller switching between an adjustment mode where the reference position signal is stored in the reference memory and a normal mode where the reference position signal is not stored, and controlling the operation apparatus to operate in the adjustment mode when the determiner determines the operation apparatus being dismounted from the lens apparatus after storing the reference position signal.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting a mobile device on a tripod includes a frame with a rigid peripheral member defining an opening therethrough. The peripheral member includes a mount configured to releasably couple the frame to the tripod. An insert is sized and shaped to be placed into the opening of the frame and releasably engage at least a portion of the peripheral member in an assembled configuration. The insert has a membrane in the form of a cavity configured to releasably receive and support the mobile device. The membrane extends over at least a portion of the opening of the frame in the assembled configuration and includes at least one camera hole extending therethrough that is aligned with a camera lens of the mobile device when the mobile device is mounted in the cavity.

Abstract: A multidirectional camera mount allows quick, easy and safe rotational adjustment of camera orientation and/or position. An upper side of the multidirectional camera mount can include upper mounting tabs attached to a camera, camera housing or other device. A lower side of the multidirectional camera mount can include lower mounting tabs which can be affixed to various objects, while static or during numerous physical activities. The multidirectional camera mount can allow the upper mounting tabs to rotate relative to the lower mounting tabs.