Abstract: A display device substrate includes a substrate, a common electrode, a pixel electrode, and an interlayer insulating film. The common electrode is disposed on an upper layer side of the substrate. The pixel electrode is disposed on a layer different from the common electrode to from an electric field between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The interlayer insulating film is disposed between layers of the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The insulating alignment film covering the pixel electrode, interlayer insulating film, and the common electrode. The pixel electrode includes a contact part in contact with the alignment film.

Abstract: There is provided a light control laminate in which the gap between base materials can be controlled with high precision. The light control laminate according to the present invention includes a first transparent base material, a second transparent base material, and a light control layer arranged between the first transparent base material and the second transparent base material, and the light control layer contains plural resin spacers.

Abstract: Disclosed are a pixel structure, a display panel and a display apparatus, used for reducing the risk of poor display caused due to the fact that horizontal stripes, vertical stripes or diagonal stripes occur in a pure-colour picture, thereby improving the display quality of a product and enhancing the user experience. Provided is a pixel structure. The pixel structure comprises: different colours of sub-pixels, and photo spacers arranged in regions of the sub-pixels, wherein the photo spacers comprise main photo spacers, and the main photo spacers are arranged in regions of the sub-pixels of at least two colours.

Abstract: A stretchable electrooptical device includes a liquid crystal cell disposed between first and second ionic conducting gel layers; and first and second electronic conductors in electrical contact with the first and second ionic conducting gel layers, respectively, said first and second electronic conductors connectable to an external voltage source.

Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, at least one flexible circuit board connected to one side of the display panel and including a first portion and a second portion around the first portion, a source driving chip on the first portion, and a plurality of adhesion patterns on the second portion and extending in a set or predetermined direction.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image. A first mold is disposed under the display panel and includes a plurality of sidewall portions. A second mold is disposed adjacent to one of the sidewall portions and is coupled to the first mold. At least one flexible circuit board is connected to the display panel and is disposed between the first and second molds. The second mold includes a bottom mold covering one edge area of a bottom surface of the first mold. A cover mold covers the one sidewall portion of the first mold. A first distance between an inner side surface of the cover mold and an outer side surface of the one sidewall portion of the first mold is substantially constant.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for an electronic device including a light module is provided. The heat exchanger includes an internal heat exchange portion configured to be adjacently attached to the light module. The internal heat exchange portion has at least one internal heat dissipation channel. The internal heat dissipation channel is connected with a device space of the electronic device. A high temperature gas flow generated by the light module is enabled to pass through the device space and the internal heat dissipation channel.

Abstract: A light shielding layer overlapping with a peripheral region of a display device includes extension portions each extending along a Y direction, bent portions located between the extension portions, and another extension portion located between the bent portions. In a region overlapping with the another extension portion, an enable line (first potential supply line), which supplies a potential to a plurality of scanning signal lines via a driving circuit (first driving circuit), goes through a wiring layer (first wiring layer) and another wiring layer (second wiring layer) made of a material having resistivity lower than that of the wiring layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a color filter substrate and a fabricating method thereof, and a display panel. The method includes: forming a black matrix on a base substrate; forming an auxiliary electrode on a side of the black matrix away from the base substrate, an orthographic projection of the black matrix on the base substrate covering an orthographic projection of the auxiliary electrode on the base substrate; and forming color filters on the base substrate and in a space defined by the black matrix on which the auxiliary electrode is formed.

Abstract: An electronic device including a base substrate and an optical substrate is provided. The optical substrate is disposed opposite to the base substrate and includes an optical region with a plurality of polarizing wires formed therein. A transmittance of the optical region in a wavelength range from 510 nm to 550 nm is ranged from 34% to 57%, or a transmittance of the optical region in a wavelength range from 610 nm to 650 nm is ranged from 37% to 57%.

Abstract: An optically anisotropic layered body including a first optically anisotropic layer and a second optically anisotropic layer, wherein each of refractive indices of the second optically anisotropic layer, in-plane retardations of the first optically anisotropic layer, thickness direction retardations of the second optically anisotropic layer, in-plane retardations of the optically anisotropic layered body, NZ factors of the optically anisotropic layered body, and thickness direction retardations Rth of the optically anisotropic layered body satisfies specific relationships.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first polarizer disposed on a side of the first substrate away from the second substrate, a second polarizer disposed on a side of the second substrate away from the first substrate, liquid crystals, a light guiding plate disposed on a side of the first polarizer away from the first substrate, and a side-entry backlight. The reflective liquid crystal display panel further includes a third polarizer laminated on a side of the light guiding plate away from the first polarizer, a composite layer having a mixture of liquid crystals and dichroic dyes, and a third substrate. The third polarizer has the same polarization direction as the first polarizer and a light absorption axis of the third polarizer is orthogonal to a light absorption axis of the composite layer in a display dark state.

Abstract: A display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a first substrate including at least a pixel electrode and a pixel switching circuit portion, a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and configured to modulate light, the light being propagated while reflected between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a reflecting layer arranged over a liquid crystal layer side of the pixel switching circuit portion, partially superimposed with the pixel switching circuit portion, and electrically coupled with the pixel electrode, the reflecting layer having higher reflectance of the light than any members included in the pixel switching circuit portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device that can display chromatic color(s) and pattern(s) without power consumption in the non-display state (light off state) and an electronic apparatus including the display device. The display device includes a display panel and a transflective reflector disposed on a viewing surface side of the display panel. The transflective reflector includes a reflective polarizer. The reflective polarizer is chromatic and/or the transflective reflector further includes a chromatic layer on a side closer to the viewing surface than the reflective polarizer.

Abstract: A backlight module and a display terminal are disclosed. As an example, the backlight module includes at least one lamp board, a plurality of LED lamps, and at least one wire terminal. The at least one lamp board includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The plurality of LED lamps is arranged in an array on the first surface. The at least one wire terminal is disposed on the second surface and electrically connected to the plurality of LED lamps.

Abstract: A display device including a backlight plate, a first panel and a second panel is provided. The backlight plate includes a plurality of light emission modules. The first panel is disposed on the backlight plate. The second panel is disposed on the first panel. Each of the plurality of light emission modules includes at least one luminescent element. A first light emission module of the plurality of light emission modules corresponds to a region of the first panel including a plurality of first pixels. Responsive to the at least one luminescent element of the first light emission module being activated, the at least one luminescent element of a second light emission module of the plurality of light emission modules is activated. The second light emission module is adjacent to the first light emission module.

Abstract: This light-emitting device has a light-emitting element and a light flux control member. The light flux control member has an entry surface, a light control surface, a back surface, and a ring-shaped groove. The light control surface includes a first transmission portion, a total reflection portion, and a second transmission portion. The ring-shaped groove includes a first inner surface and a second inner surface. A second light beam, which is a light beam that is part of the light beam emitted from the light-emitting center of the light-emitting element, enters the interior of the light flux control member at the entry surface, is totally reflected at the total reflection portion, then internally reflected at the second inner surface, and exits from the second transmission portion to the exterior of the light flux control member.

Abstract: A direct backlight and a manufacturing method of a backlight that can prevent color unevenness are provided. A backlight includes a plurality of LEDs disposed immediately below a display panel and configured to emit white light, and an optical sheet-provided on an emitting surface side of the LEDs with an air layer interposed between the optical sheet and the LEDs. The optical sheet includes a print pattern. Chromaticity of emitted light of the LEDs and chromaticity of reflected light of the print pattern when an achromatic light source (x=0.333 and y=0.333 in a CIE-XYZ color system) is used as illumination light are equal to each other.

Abstract: A display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a first substrate including a pixel portion and a terminal portion, a second substrate arranged to face the pixel portion, a first light source device arranged in the terminal portion, and irradiating a first end surface of the second substrate with first light, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a semiconductor element arranged on a side opposite to a side of the pixel portion across the first light source device, and electrically coupled with the terminal portion, wherein the first light is propagated while reflected between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the liquid crystal layer modulates the propagated first light.

Abstract: A method for producing a liquid crystal cured film including a liquid crystal cured layer formed of a cured product of a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound capable of expressing a birefringence with reverse wavelength distribution and a polymerization initiator, the method including: a step of forming a layer of the liquid crystal composition; a step of giving orientation to the liquid crystal compound contained in the layer of the liquid crystal composition; and a step of curing the layer of the liquid crystal composition, wherein a residue content viscosity of a test composition is 800 cP or less under a condition of a temperature that is the same as a temperature of the layer in the step of giving orientation to the liquid crystal compound, the test composition being the liquid crystal composition from which the polymerization initiator is omitted.

Abstract: This application provides a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a display panel. The method for manufacturing a display panel includes: providing a substrate, coated with a component forming material, and divided into a plurality of component forming areas; arranging a light shielding board between the substrate and a light source, the light shielding board including a plurality of light transmission areas, the positions of the plurality of light transmission areas corresponding to the plurality of component forming areas respectively, and the plurality of light transmission areas having a same light transmittance, different light transmittances, or partially same light transmittances; and exposing and developing the substrate, light from the light source being irradiated onto the substrate through the light shielding board.

Abstract: In a second direction (y direction) substantially orthogonal to a first direction (x direction), a distance between a light transmission region formed on a mask and an optical axis Ax is A times as long as a distance between an exposure pattern formed on a substrate W by light that passed through the light transmission region (A is a number that is equal to or greater than 1).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal deflection control method. The liquid crystal display panel includes a color filter substrate and an array substrate which are assembled to form a cell, and liquid crystals located therebetween. The liquid crystal display panel further includes a plurality of pixel regions. Each pixel region includes a first area and a second area, the color filter substrate in each pixel region includes a black matrix covered by an orthographic projection of the second area on the color filter substrate, a light extracting member is disposed on a side of the array substrate in each pixel region adjacent to the liquid crystals and covered by an orthographic projection of the first area on the array substrate, and the light extracting member is configured to emit vertical light. Each pixel region further includes a liquid crystal deflection control device.

Abstract: This application provides a display panel. The display panel includes: an array substrate, having an outer surface; a color-filter substrate, disposed opposite to the array substrate; and an anti-electrostatic thin film, disposed on the outer surface of the array substrate. The anti-electrostatic thin film covers the outer surface of the array substrate.

Abstract: A chip serving as an individual substrate includes an internal circuit, and an external coupling terminal serving as a first coupling terminal arranged on a first side of the chip. One end side of the external coupling terminal is electrically coupled, via a first electrostatic protection circuit, to a guard line serving as a first common wiring extending along the first side, and another end side is electrically coupled to the internal circuit via a coupling wiring serving as a first coupling wiring. An internal circuit side of the coupling wiring is electrically coupled, via a second electrostatic protection circuit, to a guard line serving as a second common wiring extending along a second side intersecting the first side.

Abstract: This application provides a display panel includes: a first substrate; a first conducting layer formed on the first substrate; a first passivation layer formed on the first conducting layer, and covering the first substrate; a second passivation layer formed on the first passivation layer; and a first electrode layer formed on the second passivation layer, and covering a part of the first conducting layer and the first passivation layer; a second substrate, disposed opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer, located between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a second electrode layer formed on the second substrate, where a conductive bridge hole is formed on a wire of the first conducting layer, and the first electrode layer is covered on the first conducting layer; and a voltage signal is transmitted to the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer through the conductive bridge hole.

Abstract: An optical modulator includes: a bottom substrate layer, having a first surface; a traveling-wave electrode, being disposed on the first surface of the bottom substrate layer and including a plurality of ground electrodes and a plurality of signal electrodes between the ground electrode; an optical waveguide disposed inside the bottom substrate layer; and a shield layer, including a substrate and a metal layer, the substrate covering at least a portion of the traveling-wave electrode and the metal layer being disposed on the surface of the substrate facing away from the traveling-wave electrode. Each of the ground electrodes is electrically connected to the metal layer to provide electromagnetic shielding for the signal electrodes between the ground electrodes.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a Mach-Zehnder modulator includes: preparing a substrate product having a waveguide mesa, an embedding resin body and an inorganic insulator, the waveguide mesa being disposed on a supporting base, the inorganic insulator covering the embedding resin body to separate the embedding resin body from the waveguide mesa, the waveguide mesa having top and side faces covered with the inorganic insulator, and the embedding resin body embedding the side face of the waveguide mesa; forming an opening in the inorganic insulator by etching to form an inorganic insulating region, the opening reaching the top face of the waveguide mesa, the inorganic insulating region covering the embedding resin body and the side face of the inorganic insulator; and forming an ohmic electrode in the opening to make contact with the top face of the mesa, the inorganic insulating region separating the ohmic electrode from the embedding resin body.

Abstract: An optical device includes a plurality of optical ports for receiving optical beams. The optical device also includes a plurality of toric micro lenses each receiving one of the optical beams from a respective one of the optical ports. A dispersion element is provided for spatially separating in a dispersion plane the optical beam into a plurality of wavelength components. At least one focusing element is provided for focusing the plurality of wavelength components. A programmable optical phase modulator is also provided for receiving the focused plurality of wavelength components. The modulator is configured to selectively direct the wavelength components to prescribed ones of the optical ports. The toric lenses impart positive power to the optical beams in the port plane and negative optical power to the optical beams in a plane orthogonal to the port plane.

Abstract: A time-of-flight apparatus includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a laser for providing a laser pulse and an optical phased array coupled to the laser for receiving the laser pulse and providing a plurality of beams which fan out from the optical phased array. The receiver includes an optical receiving unit for receiving scattered light from the plurality of beams and a photodetector array coupled to the optical receiving unit. The photodetector array includes a plurality of photodetectors such that at least one particular photodetector of the photodetector array is disposed for receiving scattered light from each particular beam of the plurality of beams.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a multi-layer lens stack includes first liquid crystal material enclosed between a first diffractive lens structure and a first substrate surface having a first alignment layer disposed thereon and second liquid crystal material enclosed between a second diffractive lens structure and a second substrate surface having a second alignment layer disposed thereon. The first and second liquid crystal materials assume a homeotropic alignment relative to the first and second substrate surfaces, respectively, in a first mode. The first and second alignment layers are respectively configured to align the first liquid crystal material along a first direction and the second liquid crystal material along a second direction, substantially orthogonal to the first direction, in a second mode. The multi-layer lens stack has a first optical power in the first mode and a second optical power, different from the first optical power, in the second mode.

Abstract: A camera module includes a support structure having an internal space, a first movable body movably disposed inside the support structure, a second movable body elevatably disposed in an internal space of the first movable body, and a driving unit disposed in at least one of a space between the support structure and the first movable body and a space between the first movable body and the second movable body. The driving unit includes a driving wire, formed of a shape memory alloy, and a spring disposed to overlap the driving wire. The first and second movable bodies are moved by driving force applied in one direction by the driving wire, and driving force applied in another direction by the spring.

Abstract: A camera module includes a support structure having an internal space, a movable body disposed in the internal space of the support structure, and a plurality of driving wires supporting the movable body in the internal space of the support structure and configured to move the movable body relative to the support structure, each of the driving wires being made of a shape-memory alloy and having one end connected to the support structure, and another end connected to the movable body. An angle between the movable body and each of the driving wire is maintained at 15.5° or less at all positions to which the movable body is movable by the driving wires.

Abstract: A camera module includes a housing including a lens module; a diaphragm module to form N apertures of different sizes, where N is a natural number, with blades disposed on an object side of the lens module; and a diaphragm driving unit disposed with the diaphragm module, and including a driving coil and a magnetic member disposed opposite to the driving coil, the magnetic member being movable in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis to be fixed in N positions along a movement path.

Abstract: A subject region discrimination unit 11 discriminates a desired subject region on the basis of ranging information. A subject photometric region setting unit 12 performs image signal processing of the desired subject region that is discriminated by the subject region discrimination unit 11, and sets a photometric region corresponding to the subject region after the processing as a subject photometric region. A photometric value calculation unit 13 calculates a photometric value of the desired subject region by using a photometric value of the subject photometric region that is set by the subject photometric region setting unit 12. For this reason, it is possible to accurately acquire the photometric value with respect to the desired subject region, and it is possible to perform optimal exposure control with respect to the desired subject region by using the photometric value that is calculated by the photometric value calculation unit.

Abstract: There are provided an imaging device and a method of controlling the imaging device that can shorten the blackout period of a live view image in a case where a front curtain and a rear curtain are moved to continuously take static images. In a case where continuous shooting is performed, a focal-plane shutter is shifted to a normally open state to allow a live view image to be displayed during the continuous shooting.

Abstract: A focal-plane shutter that has a shutter base plate that has an opening; a shutter blade that opens/closes the opening; a blade arm that pivotally supports the shutter blade; and a blade drive member that has a drive pin that is connected to the blade arm. The blade drive member rotates the blade arm so as to drive the shutter blade. The blade arm has a connection hole into which the drive pin is inserted; and a restriction member that is between an inner circumferential surface of the connection hole and an outer circumferential surface of the drive pin and that restricts the movement of the drive pin inside the connection hole.

Abstract: An illumination device generally has at least one light source and an attachment assembly that connects the light source to a computing device. The light source may be one or more LEDs or a light panel using electroluminescent lighting. The illumination device includes a power source coupled to the light source and a light control mechanism to change at least one of an operative state or an intensity of the light source. The illumination device may also be integrally connected to the computing device. A light cover is implemented to cover the light source and diffuse light emanating therefrom.

Abstract: An imaging device comprising a first camera with a controllable focus is provided. The imaging device is operative to detect that a user of the imaging device intends to capture an image of an object using the first camera, control the focus of the first camera to assume a target focal length, and capture the image. The target focal length is derived based on a measured accommodation of an eye lens of the user. Further, a contact lens comprising an eye-accommodation detector and a communications module is provided. The contact lens is operative to measure an accommodation of an eye lens to which the contact lens is attached, and transmit, to an imaging device comprising a first camera with a controllable focus, information pertaining to the measured accommodation of the eye lens and/or a focal length of the eye lens corresponding to the measured accommodation.

Abstract: A lens limiting assembly includes an elastic element including an annular elastic body and an elastic arm extending from an inner side of the elastic body inward and downward along an axial direction, and a locking ring including a flange configured to abut against the elastic arm.

Abstract: A light source device and a projection display system. The light source device comprises: a first light source (301) used for emitting a first light; a wavelength conversion unit (303) provided with at least two areas, that being a first area and a second area, the first area and the second area emitting the first light and the excited light in a time-division manner; a second light source (302) used for emitting a second light; a light splitting and merging component (304) used for guiding the first light, the excited light, and the second light, allowing the first light emitted by the wavelength conversion unit (303), the excited light, and the second light to converge and then be emitted in a same direction. The light source device increases brightness while keeping balance of the white light.

Abstract: A projector and an illumination system are provided. The projector includes an illumination system, a light valve, and a projection lens. The illumination system includes a light source configured to provide an illumination beam and a light processing module comprising a reflective wheel structure and a driving unit. The reflective wheel structure includes first and second reflective structures. The first and second reflective structures are located on a transmission path of the illumination beam. The driving unit is connected to the first reflective structure or the second reflective structure and is configured to drive the first and second reflective structures to rotate synchronously. The light valve is located on a transmission path of the illumination beam transmitted from the second reflective structure and configured to convert the illumination beam from the second reflective structure into an image beam.

Abstract: A wavelength-converting component includes a substrate, a wavelength-converting layer and a reflective layer. The wavelength-converting layer is disposed on the substrate. The reflective layer is disposed between the substrate and the wavelength-converting layer. The reflective layer includes a plurality of diffuse reflection particles and a first organic adhesive. The diffuse reflection particles are mixed in the first organic adhesive. The first organic adhesive includes an aromatic polyimide. The invention further provides a projection apparatus using the wavelength-converting component and provides a manufacturing method of the wavelength-converting component. The wavelength-converting component of the invention can improve mechanical properties such as shear strength, tensile strength and fatigue strength, temperature resistance and reflectivity, and can reduce rates of moisture absorption. The projection apparatus of the invention can reduce degradation in image brightness.

Abstract: A transparent layered element includes two transparent external layers having substantially the same refractive index and each having a smooth external main surface, and a central layer intermediate between the external layers, the central layer including at least one transparent layer of refractive index different from that of the external layers or a metal layer. All the contact surfaces between two adjacent layers of the layered element, one of the two layers of which is a metal layer, or that are two transparent layers of different refractive indices, being textured and parallel to one another, the diffuse light reflection of the layered element on the side of at least one of the external layers having at least one maximum in a direction different from the direction of specular reflection. In addition, the surface of the layered element is divided into a plurality of pixels of same size.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent screen which is excellent in transparency and in which a reflection part contour at the time of not displaying an image is unlikely to be recognized. An optical sheet of the present invention includes a substrate; and a cholesteric liquid crystal layer on the substrate, in which the entire cholesteric liquid crystal layer is surrounded by an imaginary contour line, the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a uniform region and a modulation region that is located between the uniform region and at least a part of the imaginary contour line, a shortest distance between the imaginary contour line and the uniform region is 10 mm or longer, and a reflectance of the modulation region monotonously decreases from the uniform region side toward the imaginary contour line side.

Abstract: Coaxial video push-cables are disclosed. One embodiment includes a central conductor and a multi-dielectric stack of multiple concentric tubular layers disposed around the central conductor having one or more structural layers and one or more impedance tuning layers where the thickness of materials of each layer are selected to provide a pre-defined elastic modulus and electromagnetic impedance, an electromagnetic shielding layer, and a jacket enclosing the shielding layer, multi-dielectric stack layers, and central conductor.

Abstract: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture, and production systems therefor are disclosed. The method for forming an EUV mask blank comprises placing a substrate in a multi-cathode physical vapor deposition chamber, the chamber comprising at least three targets, a first molybdenum target adjacent a first side of a silicon target and a second molybdenum target adjacent a second side of the silicon target.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mask for curing of a sealant, and the mask comprises a support plate. The support plate has a flat structure, which includes a first plane and a second plane. The first plane is provided with a shielding layer thereon. When the mask is used, it is placed in parallel with a liquid crystal panel coated with the sealant to be cured, and light for curing the sealant transmits through the mask and irradiates the liquid display panel. The support plate is transparent, and the shielding layer allows part of light to transmit through. Under a condition that a frame of a display panel becomes narrower, the mask for curing of the sealant according to the present disclosure can have a good performance, and thus incomplete curing of the sealant and decomposition of liquid crystal can be avoided.

Abstract: A photomask blank and a photomask having favorable wafer transfer characteristics and irradiation resistance. A photomask blank is for fabricating a photomask for an exposure wavelength of 193 nm, the photomask blank comprising: a light-transmissive substrate; a phase shift film formed on the light-transmissive substrate and providing phase shift effects of a light transmittance of at least 30% with respect to exposure light; and a light-shielding film formed on the phase shift film. The phase shift film is constituted by lamination of: a first phase shift film (that uses a silicon nitride-based material, has a refractive index n1 of 2.5 to 2.7, and an extinction coefficient k1 of 0.2 to 0.4; and a second phase shift film that uses a silicon oxynitride-based material, has a refractive index n2 of 1.55 to 2.20, and an extinction coefficient k2 greater than 0 but no greater than 0.1.

Abstract: A pattern width correction system includes a pattern width measurement unit configured to measure a width of a first pattern formed at a first distance, where the first pattern is formed by irradiating first light modulated using first pattern data, a first error data calculator configured to generate first error data on the basis of the measured width of the first pattern, a regression analyzer configured to perform regression analysis on the first error data to generate a first relational expression between X-Y coordinates of the first pattern and a width error of the first pattern, a second error data calculator configured to generate second error data in a manipulation area having a second distance by using the first relational expression, and a pattern data correction unit configured to generate second pattern data by correcting the first pattern data on the basis of the second error data.