Abstract: In a design stage of post spacers of a display panel, the present application generates a post spacer array pattern that meets requirements of a user according to a drawing layer data, a ratio data, and a positioning mode data of each of types of the post spacers determined by the user. This realizes an intelligent design of the post spacers of the display panel and eliminates manual judgments and modifications, thereby increasing efficiency and accuracy of a design process of the post spacers of the display panel.

Abstract: To suppress a phenomenon where an optical axis of the optically anisotropic layer is tilted when the optically anisotropic layer is produced by using a liquid crystalline compound showing smectic phase as a materials showing a higher level of orderliness. An optically anisotropic layer wherein a polymerizable composition, containing one or more polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compound showing a smectic phase, is fixed in a state of smectic phase, and a direction of maximum refractive index of the optically anisotropic layer is inclined at 10° or smaller to the surface of the optically anisotropic layer, a method for manufacturing the same, a laminate and a method for manufacturing the same, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic EL display device.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid crystal display device includes: a first panel configured to display an image; a backlight configured to irradiate the first panel with light; and a second panel configured to limit an emission area of the light. The second panel includes a plurality of first electrodes whose potentials are individually controllable and a second electrode provided at a position opposite to the first electrodes with liquid crystal between the first and second electrodes. The first electrodes are arranged in a first direction along the second panel. The first electrodes are provided with such a potential that liquid crystal in a first state and liquid crystal in a second state alternately occur in the first direction. The first state is a state of blocking light. The second state is a state of transmitting light and changing refractive index distribution of light incident from the backlight side.

Abstract: A barrier panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate having block region and transmission region; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, the liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules aligned in a predetermined direction; a plurality of barrier electrodes in the block region and the transmission region of the first substrate; a common electrode on the second substrate to apply an electric field to the liquid crystal layer with the plurality of barrier electrodes; a diffraction unit in the plurality of barrier electrodes to diffract the light transmitting therethrough; and a polarization plate over the second substrate, wherein an optical axis direction of the polarization plate is parallel to the alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecule to transmit an image through an area where the electric field is not applied.

Abstract: A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first display substrate, a second display substrate, and a third display substrate; the second display substrate and the first display substrate are assembled to form a first liquid crystal cell; the third display substrate and the second display substrate are assembled to form a second liquid crystal cell; the display panel further includes a first wire grid polarizer on the second display substrate and a first bonding portion at a side of the second display substrate close to the first display substrate, and the first bonding portion is located outside the first liquid crystal cell; and an orthographic projection of the first wire grid polarizer on the second display substrate is not overlapped with an orthographic projection of the first bonding portion on the second display substrate.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix having a row-column configuration; and a light control panel configured to control light traveling from the display panel to a plurality of viewpoints such that the light varies from viewpoint to viewpoint. The pixels include a first pixel configured to output light in a first color and a second pixel configured to output light in a second color. The first and second pixels are arranged in a column direction orthogonal to an arrangement direction of the viewpoints. A width of each pixel in a row direction along the arrangement direction of the viewpoints is greater than a width of the pixel in the column direction.

Abstract: A display module includes a display panel, a first optical adhesive layer disposed on a side of a display surface of the display panel, a touch panel disposed on a side of the first optical adhesive layer away from the display panel, and at least one isolation film between the display panel and the touch panel. The display panel includes a display region and a peripheral region that is provided with at least one alignment mark. The touch panel includes a plurality of peripheral signal lines. An orthographic projection of the peripheral signal lines on a plane where the display panel is located at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the at least one alignment mark on the plane. An orthographic projection of each isolation film on the plane covers an alignment mark.

Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have a display that produces a display image. The head-mounted device may have an optical system that merges real-world images from real-world objects with display images. The optical system provides the real-world images and display images to an eye box for viewing by a user. The optical system may use time interleaving techniques and/or polarization effects to merge real-world and display images. Switchable devices such as polarization switches and tunable lenses may be controlled in synchronization with frames of display images. Geometrical phase lenses may be used that exhibit different lens powers to different polarizations of light.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a first liquid crystal layer having a first side and a second side opposite thereto; a second liquid crystal layer disposed on the first liquid crystal layer and having a third side and a fourth side opposite thereto; a first alignment layer disposed on the first side and having a first alignment direction; a second alignment layer disposed on the second side and having a second alignment direction opposite to the first alignment direction; a third alignment layer disposed on the third side and having a third alignment direction; and a fourth alignment layer disposed on the fourth side and having a fourth alignment direction opposite to the third alignment direction. The second alignment layer is between the first liquid crystal layer and the third alignment layer. The third alignment layer is between the second liquid crystal layer and the second alignment layer.

Abstract: An array substrate is provided, including a substrate, wherein the substrate is provided with a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of first signal lines, each of the electrodes being correspondingly connected with a first signal line. In some examples, the first signal lines extend in the same direction. In some examples, at least two of the plurality of first signal lines are located in different layers of an insulating spacer from each other. In some examples, orthographic projections on the substrate of at least two of the first signal lines in the different layers at least partially overlap. Accordingly, a light field display device comprising the array substrate is also provided. The array substrate can reduce a light-emitting point size and increase a density distribution of light-emitting points.

Abstract: Provided is a head-up display including a liquid-crystal panel including a display screen, a Fresnel lens which is on an opposite side of the liquid-crystal panel from the display screen, a light-diffusion structure between the liquid-crystal panel and the Fresnel lens, a backlight that emits light toward the light-transmissive member, and a mirror that forms a virtual image corresponding to an image displayed on the display screen of the liquid-crystal panel, in a target space, where the light-diffusion structure includes a plurality of fine particles and an average particle size of the plurality of fine particles is equal to or smaller than 20 um.

Abstract: An optical element including a plate-shaped substrate with a light-entrance surface and a light-exit surface, a multiplicity of imaging elements formed on the light-exit surface and a multiplicity of diaphragms formed on the light-entrance surface. Each diaphragm includes a transparent geometric region in an opaque region. The optical element can be switched between two operating modes B1 and B2 such that some of the imaging elements change their focal length between values f1 and f2 and/or, some of the diaphragms change their aperture width and/or their position. Exactly one diaphragm is associated with each imaging element in mode B1 so that light passing through the diaphragm is imaged or collimated by the associated imaging element. Consequently, light arriving in the optical element through the diaphragms and then through the light-entrance surface has, after passing through the associated imaging elements in the two operating modes B1 and B2, different propagation angles.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided, including at least one viewing angle limiting device, a display panel, and a light polarization converter disposed between the at least one viewing angle limiting device and the display panel. The light polarization converter includes first regions and second regions alternately arranged. Light beams passing through the first regions and the second regions respectively have a first light polarization direction and a second light polarization direction. The light polarization converter is overlapped with the at least one viewing angle limiting device and the display panel. The viewing angle limiting device includes light-absorbing molecules. The light-absorbing molecules have a first absorption coefficient in a thickness direction of the viewing angle limiting device and a second absorption coefficient in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction. A ratio of the first absorption coefficient to the second absorption coefficient is greater than 1.

Abstract: Liquid crystal light beam control devices and their manufacture are described. Beneficial aspects of beam broadening devices employed for controlled illumination and architectural purposes are presented including improving beam divergence control, improving beam broadening dynamic range control, beam divergence preconditioning, improving projected beam intensity uniformity.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate having a first transparent substrate and a pixel electrode, a second substrate having a second transparent substrate, a first common electrode, a second common electrode, and an insulating film disposed between the first common electrode and the second common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The first common electrode is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the insulating film, and includes a first opening and a first electrode portion. The second common electrode is disposed between the insulating film and the second transparent substrate, and includes a second electrode portion overlapping the first opening.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: a liquid crystal panel; and a control circuit. The liquid crystal panel sequentially includes an active matrix substrate, a first alignment film, a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules having a negative anisotropy of dielectric constant, a second alignment film aligning the liquid crystal molecules at an angle of 10° or greater and 30° or smaller, and a counter substrate. The active matrix substrate includes a first substrate, and a first electrode and a second electrode that are stacked via a first insulating layer or that face each other on the first substrate. The counter substrate sequentially includes a second substrate, a third electrode, a second insulating layer, and a fourth electrode. The control circuit is configured to switch between application of alternating voltage and application of constant voltage to the third and/or fourth electrode according to a display mode.

Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight module, a control circuit, a driving module, and a waveform generator. The liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of liquid crystal pixels. The backlight module generates the backlight required by the liquid crystal display panel, and the backlight module includes a plurality of backlight blocks. The control circuit determines a backlight intensity corresponding to each backlight block in a frame period according to an input display data and generates a control signal according to the backlight intensities corresponding to the backlight blocks. The driving module generates a plurality of driving signals to the backlight module in the frame period according to the control signal. The waveform generator generates a de-blur pulse signal to the backlight module. When the de-blur pulse signal is at a high voltage, the backlight blocks emit lights according to the driving signals.

Abstract: This document relates to head mounted display devices. One example can include a layer of individually controllable pixels that can be energized to emit light and a layer of lenses that are physically aligned over the pixels. The example can also include a layer of shutters interposed between the pixels and the lenses and configured to be independently transitioned between a transmissive state and an opaque state to limit paths of the emitted light that reach the layer of lenses.

Abstract: A 3D display apparatus in which lenticular lenses are disposed on a display panel is provided. The display panel can include pixel regions arranged in a pen-tile shape. For example, the display panel can include a first column of pixel regions in which a first pixel region displaying a first color and a second pixel region displaying a second color are alternatively disposed in a first direction, and a second column of pixel regions in which a third pixel region displaying a third color is disposed, and the first column and the second column can be alternatively disposed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the lenticular lenses can extend in an inclined direction. Thus, in the 3D display apparatus, the rate of color reproduction can be improved in a pen-tile shape.

Abstract: The present application provides a method for driving a display panel, including: providing data signals to M rows of sub-pixels, wherein providing data signals to an X-th row of sub-pixels includes: determining, for each sub-pixel in the X-th row, a grayscale compensation value for a data signal provided to the sub-pixel; determining, for each sub-pixel, an actual grayscale corresponding to the sub-pixel according to the grayscale compensation value and a theoretical grayscale value Lx of the sub-pixel; and providing the data signals to the X-th row of sub-pixels according to the actual grayscales corresponding to the respective sub-pixels in the X-th row. The grayscale compensation value is determined by: calculating a grayscale difference ? by a formula ?=Lx?Lx-1, where grayscale Lx-1 is a theoretical grayscale of an adjacent sub-pixel in an (X?1)-th row; and determining the grayscale compensation value according to the grayscale difference and a grayscale compensation look-up table.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel and a switching panel disposed outside the display panel. The switching panel includes a first base, a first electrode, a second electrode, a second base, a third electrode, a fourth electrode and a liquid crystal layer. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed on the first base. The first electrode has branches, and the branches of the first electrode are arranged in a first direction. The second base is disposed opposite to the first base. The third electrode and the fourth electrode are disposed on the second base. The third electrode has branches, and the branches of the third electrode are arranged in a second direction, and the first direction is interlaced with the second direction. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first base and the second base.

Abstract: A dimming panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The dimming panel includes: a first base substrate and a second base substrate opposite to the first substrate; a first electrode on the first base substrate; a second electrode on the second base substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second base substrate. The first electrode includes a plurality of first electrode strips arranged at intervals in a first direction and a plurality of second electrode strips arranged at intervals in the first direction, the plurality of first electrode strips are located in a first electrode layer, the plurality of second electrode strips are located in a second electrode layer on a side of the first electrode layer away from the first base substrate. An orthographic projection of a combination of first and second electrode strips on the first base substrate is an integrated plane without gaps.

Abstract: A holographic display device including a field lens focusing a three-dimensional (3D) image reproduced by a holographic display, wherein the field lens includes an anisotropic diffractive lens functioning as a lens with respect to a specific polarization.

Abstract: A backlight and a multiview display employ a light guide having angle-preserving scattering feature and a grating spreader. The angle-preserving scattering feature is configured to scatter a portion of guided light out of the light guide as emitted light. The grating spreader includes a diffraction grating and is configured to convert light provided by a light source into spatio-angularly homogenous light to be guided as the guided light. The multiview display includes an array of light valves as well as the angle-preserving scattering feature that includes a multibeam element having a size that is comparable to a size of a light valve of the light valve array.

Abstract: There is provided a holographic projector comprising a reflective liquid crystal display device. The reflective liquid crystal display device comprises a light-modulating layer between a first substrate and a second substrate substantially parallel to the first substrate. The light-modulating layer comprises planar-aligned nematic liquid crystals having positive dielectric anisotropy. The first substrate is substantially transparent and comprises a first alignment layer arranged to impart a first pre-tilt angle ?? on liquid crystals proximate the first substrate, wherein ?1>5°. The second substrate is substantially reflective and comprises a second alignment layer arranged to impart a second pre-tilt angle ?2 on liquid crystals proximate the second substrate, wherein ?2>5°. The reflective liquid crystal display device further comprises a plurality of pixels defined on the light-modulating layer having a pixel repeat distance x, wherein x?10 ?m.

Abstract: A hologram display device includes a light source unit, a light guide plate, a spatial light modulator, a sensing unit, and a light source driving unit. The light source unit includes a plurality of light sources and emits light when at least one of the plurality of light sources is turned on. The light guide plate converts the light emitted thereto from the light source unit to a planar light beam. The spatial light modulator spatially modulates the planar light beam to produce a hologram image. The sensing unit senses a position of a user watching the hologram image, and the light source driving unit turns on the at least one of the plurality of light sources, based on information on the position of the user obtained by the sensing unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal cell, a method of driving a liquid crystal cell, and a liquid-crystal-based spectacle lens are provided. The liquid crystal cell includes: a ring-like electrode layer, a liquid crystal layer, and an opposite electrode layer. The second ring-like electrode region is concentric with the first ring-like electrode region and surrounds the first ring-like electrode region; the first ring-like electrode region is configured to drive corresponding liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer, so as to form a first Fresnel zone plate region in the liquid crystal cell; the second ring-like electrode region is configured to drive corresponding liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer, so as to form a second Fresnel zone plate region of the liquid crystal cell; an order of the second Fresnel zone plate region is smaller than an order of the first Fresnel zone plate region.

Abstract: An optical device (20) includes an electro-optical layer, including a liquid crystal material (24) with a heliconical structure having a pitch that is less than 250 nm and is modifiable by an electric field. An array of excitation electrodes (28) extends over the electro-optical layer. Control circuitry (23) is coupled to apply control voltage waveforms to the excitation electrodes and is configured to modify the control voltage waveforms so as to locally modify a molecule director angle of the heliconical structure and thus to generate a specified phase modulation profile in the electro-optical layer.

Abstract: Provided is a circularly polarizing plate and a display device that includes the circularly polarizing plate. The circularly polarizing plate can be applied to a display device such as an organic light emitting display device to minimize blocking of light in the visible light region affecting image quality while blocking harmful ultraviolet rays appropriately and also has excellent durability.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel is provided with a plurality of sub-pixels, the display panel including: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other, and multistable liquid crystals between the first substrate and the second substrate; wherein, each of the sub-pixels is provided with a first electrode and a second electrode to generate an electric field for the multistable liquid crystals, and the multistable liquid crystals have different optical properties under different electric fields and after an electric field disappears, the multistable liquid crystals can maintain the same optical properties as the electric field exists. The present disclosure also provides a display device, including: the above mentioned display panel.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a stereoscopic display device, a fabrication method and a stereoscopic display method. The stereoscopic display device includes a control device, a display screen and a substrate, wherein the control device is provided between the display screen and the substrate, and the control device is configured to adjust a distance between the display screen and the substrate.

Abstract: A peep-proof device, a display device and a method for driving the display device are provided. The peep-proof device includes at least one light beam adjustment layer. The light beam adjustment layer includes: a transparent base layer and a plurality of grooves formed in a surface of the transparent base layer; and a liquid crystal layer arranged within the plurality of grooves. A refractive index of the transparent base layer is same as a refractive index of the liquid crystal layer to ordinary light beam.

Abstract: A display device including a display panel and an eyepiece is provided. An image realized by the display panel can be provided to a user by passing through the eyepiece. The display device can further include a front quarter-wave plate and a rear quarter-wave plate in order to increase the path of light traveling toward the eyepiece from the display panel. A barrier can be disposed between the front quarter-wave plate and the rear quarter-wave plate. The barrier can reflect or transmit the light traveling toward the eyepiece from the display panel on a region-by-region, so that the loss of light recognized by the user through the eyepiece can be minimized.

Abstract: A system included in an augmented reality (AR) headset prevents reduction in legibility of a near-eye image display for observation in combination with an observer's visual exterior view. The system includes a near-eye image source from which emanates near-eye image-carrying light and which is positioned out of the observer's direct visual exterior view. A dimming matrix display including multiple pixels is positioned so that the observer can see though them a scene in an exterior view. A partly transparent optical element is positioned so that the observer can see the scene in the exterior view and reflect the near-eye image-carrying light to provide an image for observation by the observer. A dimming controller controls amounts of scene-carrying light propagating through the multiple pixels from the locations in the scene and thereby prevents wash-out of the near-eye image when outside illumination is very bright.

Abstract: A multiview backlight and mode-switchable backlight employ a planar backlight to emit scattered light and light-blocking layer having a plurality of apertures to provide a plurality of directional light beams from the scattered light. The mode-switchable backlight further includes another planar backlight configured to provide diffuse light in a two-dimensional (2D) operational mode, the plurality of directional light beams being provided in a three-dimensional (3D) mode. A 2D/3D mode-switchable display includes the mode-switchable backlight and a light valve array. A method of backlight operation includes directing scattered light from a planar backlight toward a light-blocking layer having a plurality of apertures and providing a plurality of directional light beams using an aperture of the aperture plurality.

Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel is configured such that a first luminous intensity of a first sub-pixel is greater than a second luminous intensity of a second sub-pixel at a same driving current. A light blocking structure includes a grid-shaped grid line, the shortest distance between a first orthographic projection of a first sub-pixel onto a substrate and a third orthographic projection of the grid line onto the substrate is D1H along the row direction of an array, the shortest distance between a second orthographic projection of a second sub-pixel onto the substrate and the third orthographic projection of the grid line onto the substrate is D2H along the row direction of the array, where D1H<D2H.

Abstract: A vehicle may have a light-field head-up display that produces a light-field output allowing a viewer in the vehicle to observe three-dimensional content. An array of light-field display units and corresponding lenses may be used to direct the light-field output towards the viewer. The head-up display may have a transmissive display such as a liquid crystal display or other display with an array of backlit pixels. The pixels may have subpixels of different colors and may have elongated shapes extending along a given dimension. Lenticular lenses in the transmissive display that overlap the pixels may extend along the given dimension. A directional backlight may be used to adjust the direction of the light-field output produced by a light-field display unit. The directional backlight may be adjusted to alternately provide light-field output to the left and right eyes of a viewer.

Abstract: Provided are a residual image detection method and apparatus of a display panel, and a display device. The method includes: controlling a display panel to display a chessboard picture for a preset duration, controlling the display panel to display a pure color picture having a third grayscale, the pure color picture includes multiple pure color sub-pictures, and each of pure color sub-picture includes a middle area and multiple edge areas surrounding the middle area; detecting a luminance of each of the multiple edge areas in the pure color picture; and calculating the residual image quantization value of each of the multiple edge areas according to the luminance of each of the multiple edge areas and a formula, and determining a residual image quantization value of the display panel according to residual image quantization values of the multiple edge areas.

Abstract: A holographic display device includes a backlight unit for emitting light and a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator includes a plurality of pixels and a color filter layer including a plurality of color filter groups. The pixels are arranged in a zigzag form and are configured to modulate at least one of the amplitude and phase of the light. Each of the color filter groups includes a first sub-group including a plurality of first color filters, a second sub-group including a plurality of second color filters, and a third sub-group including a plurality of third color filters, and each of the pixels is aligned with one of the first color filters, the second color filters, and the third color filters of the color filter layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate and a plurality of pixels provided on the substrate, each of the pixels includes a display region and a transparent region, a light emitting device is provided in the display region, the display panel further includes a polarization layer provided in the display region and the transparent region, and at a light exiting side of the light emitting device departing from the substrate, a portion of the polarization layer located in the display region is configured to absorb external environment light, and another portion of the polarization layer located in the transparent region is configured to transmit the external environment light.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate and light-shielding strips. The base substrate includes light-shielding regions and light-transmitting regions. The display panel further includes a backlight module including a light guide plate and light extraction gratings. The display panel further includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a liquid crystal layer. The first and second electrode layers are configured to, in response to a control signal, control the liquid crystal layer to forms a plurality of liquid crystal grating periods. The liquid crystal within each of the plurality of liquid crystal grating periods includes a plurality of segments with different refractive indices, and the refractive indices of the plurality of segments progressively increase in a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the first electrodes in the first electrode layer.

Abstract: A switchable directional display apparatus comprises a spatial light modulator and a backlight comprising a waveguide, two light sources arranged to provide illumination through the edge of the waveguide and a switchable liquid crystal retarder. The light sources and switchable liquid crystal retarder may be controlled to provide a first operating state with a narrow field of view and a second operating state with a wide field of view. Image visibility in wide angle mode of operation may be maximised while visual security level may be maximised in a narrow angle mode of operation, to provide an efficient privacy mode of operation.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for enabling a head mounted display (HMD) user to view web content in 3-dimensional views. A computer-implemented method includes accessing a webpage having content items and detecting that the HMD user's field of view is being directed at one or more of the content items. The method further identifies pre-assigned depth values for one or more displayable objects of the content items, wherein the pre-assigned depth values specify an apparent depth that the one or more objects are to be displayed via the HMD. Moreover, the method applies the pre-assigned depth values to the displayable objects for rendering a 3-dimensional view with the displayable objects appearing to the HMD user at a depth corresponding to the pre-assigned depth values.

Abstract: A pair of eyeglasses may include one or more adjustable lenses that are each configured to align with a respective one of a user's eyes. The adjustable lenses may each include electrically modulated optical material such as one or more liquid crystal cells. The liquid crystal cells may include arrays of electrodes that extend along one, two, three, four, or more than four directions. Control circuitry may apply control signals to the array of electrodes in each liquid crystal cell to produce a desired phase profile. Each lens may be foveated such that portions of the lens within the user's gaze exhibit a different phase profile than portions of the lens outside of the user's gaze. The control circuitry may adjust the location of the optically distinct area so that it remains aligned with the user's gaze.

Abstract: A optical device includes: a display device configured to output a display image; a lens on one side of the display device; and a polarization control unit between the display device and the lens and configured to output the display image output from the display device as first polarized light or second polarized light, wherein the lens comprises: a first polarizing mirror configured to reflect a display image of the first polarized light and to transmit a display image of the second polarized light; and a second polarizing mirror configured to reflect a display image of the second polarized light and to transmit a display image of the first polarized light.

Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) device includes an optical stack arrangement including from the viewing side: a first electrode component; a first LC alignment layer; an LC layer; a second LC alignment layer; and a second electrode component. A voltage is applied to the LC device to create a potential difference between the first and second electrode components to switch an alignment of liquid crystals of selected portions of the LC layer from a first state when no voltage is applied to a second state when the voltage is applied. The first and second LC alignment layers are vertical alignment layers that induce a vertical alignment of the liquid crystals such that the first state when no voltage is applied is a vertical alignment state, and the liquid LC crystals switch to a planar alignment state as the second state when the voltage is applied.

Abstract: A system is provided for inductively charging the battery of an electric vehicle as it travels along a roadway. The system comprises a series of asphalt paving seam gaskets within which are embedded magnetic field generators. The magnetic field generator gaskets are arranged with opposite polarities exposed on either side of each of the charging lanes, so that induction wires within the vehicle transect the magnetic field lines and generate an electric current to charge the vehicle battery. Energy generated and/or distance travelled in the charging lanes can be metered and reported in order to impose user fees.

Abstract: A head-up display system includes a display control component, a polarization conversion member, a birefringent lens component, a scattering component, and a reflecting component; the display control component is configured to alternately output a first to-be-displayed image and a second to-be-displayed image to the polarization conversion member; the polarization conversion member is configured to convert light having different polarization states; the birefringent lens component is configured to image light of a P-polarization state and a S-polarization state; the scattering component is configured to scatter formed images onto the reflecting component, respectively; and the reflecting component is configured to reflect the images to an eye of a user.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which displays an image according to an image display mode including a first display mode and a second display mode and includes a surface on which the image is displayed, a rollable lens including a first lens array and a second lens array spaced apart from the first lens array, and a roller disposed inside the rollable lens. Here, the roller rotates the rollable lens so that the first lens array is disposed on a surface of the display panel in the first display mode, and the roller rotates the rollable lens so that the second lens array is disposed on the surface of the display panel in the second display mode.

Abstract: A display panel has a display area and a peripheral area. The peripheral area is located outside the display area. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a display medium layer. The second substrate is located above the first substrate and includes a first polarization layer, a first quarter wave plate (QWP), a reflection layer, and a pixel array. The first polarization layer is located within the display area and the peripheral area and includes a wire-grid polarizer. The first QWP is located within the peripheral area. The reflection layer is located within the peripheral area, in which the first QWP is located between the first polarization layer and the reflection layer. The pixel array is at least located within the display area. The display medium layer is located between the first substrate and the second substrate.