Abstract: A method of controlling tint of a tintable window to account for occupant comfort in a room of a building. The tintable window is between the interior and exterior of the building. The method predicts a tint level for the tintable window at a future time based on a penetration depth of direct sunlight through the tintable window into the room at the future time and space type in the room. The method also provides instructions over a network to transition tint of the tintable window to the tint level.

Abstract: Laminated glass for vehicles comprising an interior glass plate and an exterior glass plate, an interlayer film between the interior glass plate and the exterior glass plate, and a light control element sealed in the interlayer film, wherein the light control element has a pair of substrates and a light control layer between the pair of substrates, and the interlayer film includes an interior portion on the vehicle-interior side of the light control layer, and an exterior portion on the vehicle-exterior side of the light control layer, when the transmittance of the exterior glass plate, the exterior portion of the interlayer film, and the substrate on the vehicle-exterior side, of the light control layer, is Tout, and the transmittance of the interior glass plate, the interior portion of the interlayer film, and the substrate on the vehicle-interior side, of the light control layer, is Tin, a relation Tout<Tin is satisfied.

Abstract: A light-emitting window element includes a transparent first carrier layer, a transparent second carrier layer, a substrate with a plurality of light-emitting semiconductor chips arranged thereon, and an optical layer having an adjustable transparency. The substrate with the plurality of light-emitting semiconductor chips and the optical layer are arranged between the first and second carrier layers, and the first and second carrier layers, the substrate with the plurality of light-emitting semiconductor chips and the optical layer form a laminate composite.

Abstract: Provided is a dimming laminate which can effectively suppress occurrence of color unevenness and light omission. The dimming laminate according to the present invention includes a first transparent base material, a second transparent base material, and a dimming layer disposed between the first transparent base material and the second transparent base material. In this dimming laminate, the dimming layer includes a resin spacer, the resin spacer is a plurality of resin particles, and the resin spacer does not contain resin particles having a particle diameter of 1.4 times or more an average particle diameter of the resin particles or contains 0.0006% or less of the resin particles having a particle diameter of 1.4 times or more the average particle diameter of the resin particles, relative to 100% of the whole number of the resin particles.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body having a cabin, a first seat and a second seat arranged in the cabin, a planar transparent member placed on a side surface of the cabin, and that separates an interior of the cabin and a vehicle exterior from each other, and a display device placed on the side surface of the cabin and arranged along the planar transparent member, the display device having a plurality of pixels. At least a part of the display device is placed on the side surface and between the first seat and the second seat.

Abstract: Light-control panels including layered optical components are described in this application. An example of a light-control panel includes a first glazing layer, a second glazing layer, a third glazing layer, and a fourth glazing layer, a first switchable component extending between the first glazing layer and the second glazing layer, a thermal coating extending between the first glazing layer and the first switchable component, and a second switchable component extending between the third glazing layer and the fourth glazing layer. The second glazing layer and the third glazing layer have an air gap therebetween, such that the air gap forms a space between the second glazing layer and the third glazing layer.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for emitting light from a header reel are disclosed. More particularly, systems, methods, and apparatuses for emitting light from one or more apertures formed in a reel finger are disclosed. The reel fingers included on a reel may include a cavity through which light is transmitted. The emitted light provides for illumination and operator visualization during, for example, agricultural operations performed at night or during low ambient light conditions.

Abstract: A laminated pane, includes, in this order, an outer pane, an intermediate layer, a functional element with electrically controllable optical properties that is selected from among a PDLC functional element, a PNLC functional element, or an SPD functional element, an intermediate layer, a holographic display element, an intermediate layer, and an inner pane.

Abstract: To provide a laminated glass in which color shading of an optical member is reduced, and a method for producing it. A laminated glass comprising a first glass plate, a second glass plate facing the first glass plate, and between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, a light control member to which a power feeder is connected, a bonding portion and a sealing member, wherein the sealing member overlaps with at least a part of the periphery of the first glass plate, in a plan view, the bonding portion is in contact with the first glass plate, the second glass plate, and a first principal surface, a second principal surface and side surfaces of the light control member, and the bonding portion contains a curable transparent resin.

Abstract: An Automated Transaction Machine (ATM) is associated with a beacon. The beacon may communicate with an electronic device running a software application that is configured to detect the beacon. The software application may have a reaction based upon the detection of the beacon. The ATM or related systems may respond to data directly or indirectly from the software application to make a customization or take other action based there on.

Abstract: An electrical characteristic of a privacy glazing structure and indicative of a health of the privacy glazing structure can be measured at a first time and at a second time later than the first time. In response to detecting a change in the electrical characteristic indicating a change in the health of the privacy glazing structure, one or more parameters of an electrical drive signal can be adjusted to compensate for the change in the health of the privacy glazing structure. The electrical characteristic can be measured at a plurality of times after the second time and compared to the electrical characteristic measured at the first time. If, at any of the plurality of times, the measured electrical characteristic differs from the electrical characteristic measured at the first time by more than a threshold amount, one or more parameters of the electrical drive signal can be adjusted.

Abstract: A laminated glazing comprising first and second panes of glazing material, first and second plies of adhesive interlayer material and an electrical device therebetween is described. The electrical device comprises a substrate having a first major surface and a second opposing major surface wherein on the first major surface of the substrate are one or more electrically conductive pathways in electrical communication with at least one electrically operable light source mounted on the substrate and on at least a portion of the second major surface of the substrate is an infrared radiation reflecting film for reducing the amount of infrared radiation that passes from the second major surface of the substrate to the first major surface of the substrate. An electrical device for use in such a laminated glazing is also described.

Abstract: Light-control panels including layered optical components are described in this application. An example of a light-control panel includes first and second glazing layers and first and second switchable components extending between the first and second glazing layers. The light-control panel also includes a thermal coating extending between the first switchable component and the first glazing layer and a filter extending between the first and second switchable components.

Abstract: A display module and a display device are provided. The display module includes: a display panel; and a polarizer disposed on a light emitting side of the display panel, and the polarizer includes a polarizer body and an atomizing layer disposed on a side of the polarizer body distal to the display panel, and the atomizing layer includes an uneven surface.

Abstract: A driving warning method applied to a vehicle-mounted device is provided. The method includes detecting a moving object and a moving direction of the moving object by using at least one external sensor when a vehicle is moving. A driving behavior of a driver of the vehicle is monitored by using at least one internal sensor when the moving object and the moving direction of the moving object are detected. Once the moving direction of the moving object is not parallel to a moving direction of the vehicle and a sight direction of the driver does not cross the moving direction of the moving object, a first warning is transmitted.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light adjusting glass, which includes at least one liquid crystal cell, each liquid crystal cell including two substrates disposed opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the two substrates; where each of the substrates includes a base, an electrode layer disposed on a side of the base proximal to the liquid crystal layer; at least one electrode layer of at least one liquid crystal cell includes a plurality of electrode blocks which are disposed at intervals, and the electrode blocks are respectively controlled by separate driving circuits.

Abstract: The invention relates to a switchable optical device (10) having a layer structure comprising at least one switchable layer (15) and at least one optical layer (20, 22). The at least one switchable layer (15) comprises a liquid-crystalline material and at least one dye. The at least one optical layer (20, 22) has at least one reflection band (32) which includes at least a first part of the visible spectrum and has at least one transmission band (30, 34) which includes at least a second part of the visible spectrum. The absorption spectrum of the at least one switchable layer (15) is adjusted by means of the at least one dye such that the light transmission through the switchable optical device (10) for incident light in the visible light spectrum for at least one of the states of the switchable layer (15) is set to a predetermined transmission spectrum.

Abstract: The present invention describes a liquid crystal composite tunable device for fast polarisation-independent modulation of an incident light beam comprising: (a) two supporting and functional panels, at least one of them coated with a transparent conductive electrode layer and with optionally at least one additional layer selected from an alignment layer, antireflective coating layer, thermochromic or electrochromic layer, photoconductive or photosensitive layer, and (b) a composite structure sandwiched between said two panels and made of a liquid crystal and porous microparticles infiltrated with said liquid crystal. The porous microparticles have an average refractive index approximately equals to one of the liquid crystal principal refractive indices, matching that of the liquid crystal at one orientational state (for example, parallel n?), and exhibiting large mismatch at another orientational state (for example, perpendicular n?).

Abstract: A window assembly includes an electro-optic element which has a first substantially transparent substrate defining first and second surfaces. The second surface includes a first electrically conductive layer. A second substantially transparent substrate defines third and fourth surfaces. The third surface includes a second electrically conductive layer. A primary seal is disposed between the first and second substrates. The seal and the first and second substrates define a cavity therebetween. An electro-optic medium is disposed in the cavity. The electro-optic medium is switchable such that the electro-optic element is operable between substantially clear and darkened states. An absorptive layer is positioned on the fourth surface of the electro-optic element and a reflective layer is positioned on the absorptive layer.

Abstract: A laminated glass pane is described including a) a substrate glass, b) at least one layer structure applied to the substrate glass, c) at least one polymer layer applied to the layer structure, d) a cover glass on the polymer layer, wherein the mean coefficient of thermal expansion of the substrate glass is at most 18×10?7 K?1 greater than or at most 18×10?7 K?1 less than the mean coefficient of thermal expansion of the cover glass, and in the temperature range from ?40° C. to +90° C., the maximum mechanical stress of the laminated glass pane is less than or equal to 7 MPa. Uses of the laminated glass pane are also described.

Abstract: A dimmable window apparatus is provided. The dimmable window apparatus includes a window including a first linear polarizing film and a second linear polarizing film, the first linear polarizing film and the second linear polarizing film having respectively a first axis of polarization and a second axis of polarization, the second axis of polarization being electronically-controllable. The apparatus further includes a processor coupled to the second linear polarizing film, and configured to control the second axis of polarization to thereby control the opacity of the window that is defined by the first axis of polarization and the second axis of polarization relative to one another.

Abstract: An article includes an optical filter that comprises a wavelength selective reflective layer and at least one wavelength selective absorbing layer. The optical filter has visible transmittance between 400 nm-700 nm of less than about 30% and near infrared transmittance at 830 nm-900 nm greater than about 30%.

Abstract: A laminated glazing includes a first glass sheet; at least one interlayer sheet made of thermoplastic polymer; optionally a solar-protection sheet or functional metal layer having reflective properties in the infrared region and/or in the solar radiation region; and at least one sheet of pressure-sensitive adhesive, in direct contact with a heat-sensitive functional sheet; a second glass sheet; the first glass sheet being in direct contact with the interlayer sheet; the second glass sheet being in direct contact with the sheet of pressure-sensitive adhesive.

Abstract: An antireflective structure having multiple light absorbing units each of which has a bottomed cylindrical shape, the light absorbing unit includes a bottom portion including an outer edge portion having a substantially circular shape, and a wall portion rising along the outer edge portion, and an upper side of the bottom portion is an opening portion, the average height of the wall portions being greater than or equal to 5 ?m and smaller than or equal to 100 ?m, an average opening diameter of the opening portions being greater than or equal to 1 ?m and smaller than or equal to 10 ?m, and a pinching structure configured with minute projections that stand in a group with an average pitch greater than or equal to 10 nm and smaller than or equal to 500 nm is formed on the bottom portion.

Abstract: A window system for use in a vehicle is disclosed. The window system may include a first layer electrically controlled to fade between states including an opaque state and a transparent state. The window system may include a second layer electrically controlled to display visual imagery on the window, where the first layer and second layer are configured to derive at least a portion of energy for their operation from a solar light source.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a display panel and a polarizing plate. The display panel comprises a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a light-shielding layer arranged in the display area and the non-display area. The polarizing plate is provided on a surface of the display panel, and including an end portion located in the non-display area. In this display device, the light-shielding layer opposite to the end portion of the polarizing plate is at least partially removed.

Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of switching between a wide viewing angle and a narrow viewing angle with a simple configuration and simple control. The problem is solved by providing a display element and an optical switching element which is disposed on a visible side of the display element, in which the optical switching element has a light guiding plate and a light source for causing light to be incident on an end surface of the light guiding plate, and 80% or more of the light emitted from the light guiding plate when the light source is turned on is emitted to a region at an angle of 30° or more with respect to a normal line of the light guiding plate on a surface on the opposite side of the display element.

Abstract: An Automated Transaction Machine (ATM) is associated with a beacon. The beacon may communicate with an electronic device running a software application that is configured to detect the beacon. The software application may have a reaction based upon the detection of the beacon. The ATM or related systems may respond to data directly or indirectly from the software application to make a customization or take other action based there on.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical device and an optical device is provided. The manufacturing method is capable of minimizing or eliminating dotting unevenness that may occur when an optical device is manufactured by a dotting process. In particular, even when a large cell gap is present or a polymer substrate is applied as a substrate so that high-temperature heat treatment is impossible, such method of the present application can provide an alignment film having improved orientation by improving the dotting unevenness.

Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) device includes one or more active shutters coupled to a synchronization module. The synchronization module includes a first photodiode configured to detect a synchronization signal for controlling operation of the one or more active shutters. The one or more active shutters are configured to alternate between an open state to pass light and a closed state to block light for reducing a duty cycle of a display screen of a mobile device positioned within the HMD device. The synchronization signal provides a timing to block light from the display screen for a display update duration corresponding to a subset of pixels of the display screen.

Abstract: The invention provides a manufacturing method of display module, comprising: performing a first-time dispensing on backplate bottom; providing a two-color molding middle frame comprising three connected sidewalls connected forming accommodating space, each sidewall vertically extending into the accommodating space and having a protruding portion; the sidewalls being colored, the protruding portion comprising a colorless transparent portion; placing the middle frame and backlight assembly with reflective sheet and light-guiding plate on backplate with the colorless transparent portion placed on the first-time dispensing glue, and the colorless transparent portion facing the backlight assembly, and the backlight assembly in accommodating space; performing a second-time dispensing on upper surface of colorless transparent portion; placing a display panel on backlight assembly with display panel located on the second-time dispensing; irradiating UV light on incident surface of light-guiding plate, with the UV lig

Abstract: The application relates to a device for regulating the entry of light into a room, which comprises a switchable layer of specific design comprising a twisted nematic liquid-crystalline medium and a dichroic compound.

Abstract: A privacy glazing structure may include an electrically controllable optically active material, such as a liquid crystal material, sandwiched between a flexible substrate and a rigid substrate. The flexible substrate and the rigid substrate may each have a conductive layer deposited on the surface facing the optically active material. The flexible substrate may be bonded about its perimeter to the rigid substrate and may be sufficiently flexible to conform to non-planarity of the rigid substrate. As a result, the flexible substrate may adopt the surface contour of the rigid substrate to maintain a uniform thickness of optically active material between the flexible substrate and the rigid substrate.

Abstract: Computer implemented systems and methods are provided for an automatic teller machine. In some embodiments, an automatic teller machine may comprise a display, a physical barrier configured to intersect a line of sight from a location adjacent the automatic teller machine to the display, one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to determine that a user is operating the automatic teller machine. The one or more processors may be further configured to alter a degree of opacity of the physical barrier, based on the determining.

Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator, which includes a refrigerating compartment, a freezing compartment, and a door assembly. The freezing compartment is adjacent to the refrigerating compartment. The door assembly selectively opens the refrigerating compartment and the freezing compartment. The door assembly includes a glass member defining a frontal exterior thereof and allowing an inside of the refrigerating compartment or the freezing compartment to be seen therethrough when the door assembly is closed, a deposition treated layer formed on a rear surface of the glass member to allow light to partially pass through the glass member, and a transparent plate spaced a predetermined distance from the glass member. Gas for insulation is injected in a space formed between the glass member and the transparent plate, and the space is sealed.

Abstract: A beam steering device, an optical apparatus including the beam steering device, and a beam steering method are provided. The beam steering device includes a polarization converter adjusting a polarization direction of light that is emitted from a light source, and an antenna array receiving the light from the polarization converter and emitting light in different propagating direction depending on the polarization direction of the light from the polarization converter.

Abstract: A panel for a vehicle interior including a cover layer and a mask layer, wherein the cover layer has a frontside and a backside, and the mask layer is disposed at the backside of the cover layer. The cover layer includes a semi-transparent layer. The cover layer has a light transmittance of at most 90 percent in a direction perpendicular to the frontside, wherein the mask layer comprises a transparent display region and an opaque region, wherein the opaque region is located adjacent to the display region.

Abstract: A system includes a space with at least one window separating an interior space from an exterior space; band-pass filter layers provided in the window and configured to block narrowband light; and a light source provided in the interior space and including at least red, green and blue light emitting diodes. The light source is configured to selectively provide broad spectrum white light and narrowband light blocked by the filter layers in the window, such that the interior space is visible from the exterior space through the window when illuminated by the broad spectrum light, but not visible when illuminated by the narrowband light.

Abstract: A display system for transforming sunlit and other brightly lit surfaces while being observed by viewers or an audience. The display system includes an optical element switchable between first and second operating states, and the optical element includes a pane that is opaque in the first operating state and transparent in the second operating state. The display system includes a controller operable to switch the optical element between the first and second operating states. Further, the display system includes a background image element positioned adjacent to a first surface of the pane of the switchable optical element. The pane may be a liquid crystal (LC) film, and the controller operates a power source to provide electric current to the LC film to switch the optical element to the second operating state. The display system may include a foreground image element positioned proximate to a second surface of the pane.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical composite layer structure with a built-in touch sensitive polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) structure. The optical composite layer structure comprises an upper transparent substrate, a lower transparent substrate, an upper transparent conductive layer, a lower transparent conductive layer and a PDLC layer. A PDLC circuit and a touch sensitive circuit are provided on the upper and lower transparent conductive layers. A cable region that is electrically connected to external soft circuit cables is provided at an end of the upper transparent conductive layer and the lower transparent conductive layer to electrically connect to an external control unit. With a touch sensitive operation of a touch sensitive circuit of the optical composite layer structure, a signal instruction is provided to the control unit. The corresponding PDLC circuit may drive the corresponding regions of PDLC layer to conduct the change of light transmission of local region.

Abstract: A smart optical material characterized in that when the material is at ambient temperature (?30° C.), it is opaque to at least one color light in the visible light spectrum and when the material is at an elevated temperature of at least 80° C., it is substantially transparent to the at least one color light. The smart optical material is also characterized as having before thermal aging an elongation-at-break of at least 15% and after thermal aging in air at 200° C. for seven days an elongation-at-break that is unchanged or is at least 12% and has decreased by from >0% to less than 50%. Also included are related formulations, methods, uses, articles and devices.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a display panel and a polarizing plate. The display panel comprises a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a light-shielding layer arranged in the display area and the non-display area. The polarizing plate is provided on a surface of the display panel, and including an end portion located in the non-display area. In this display device, the light-shielding layer opposite to the end portion of the polarizing plate is at least partially removed.

Abstract: A display device for a motor vehicle having at least one annular gauge (1) and a display panel (2) having a display surface (20) intended to be oriented toward the inside of a passenger compartment of the vehicle. The device comprises a transparent pane (4) positioned facing the display surface (20) and serving as a support for the annular gauge (1).

Abstract: Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to ruggedized switchable glazings, and/or methods of making the same. The PDLC stack of certain example embodiments includes an outer substrate, a low-E UV blocking coating deposited on an inner surface of the outer substrate, a first PVB or EVA laminate, a first PET layer, a first TCO layer, the PDLC layer, a second TCO layer, a second PET layer, a second PVB or EVA laminate, and an inner substrate. The substrates may be glass substrates. The low-E UV blocking coating may include at least two layers of or including silver and/or may include one or more IR layers. Thus, certain example embodiments may advantageously reduce one or more problems associated with residual haze, color change, flicker, structural changes in the polymer and/or the LC, degradations in state-switching response times, delamination, etc.

Abstract: A door (1) includes a tabular main body (2), a liquid crystal device (4) which is disposed in an aperture portion formed in the main body (2), a handheld portion (3A) which is attached to the main body (2), and a touch sensor (3) which is attached to the handheld portion (3A). Because the touch sensor (3) is attached to the handheld portion (3A), when a person's hand touches the handheld portion (3A), the touch sensor (3) senses the person's hand. The liquid crystal device (4) is capable of varying between an invisible state and a visible state reversibly, and is made into a visible state in the case where the touch sensor (3) senses a person's hand.

Abstract: Prior electrochromic devices frequently suffer from high levels of defectivity. The defects may be manifest as pin holes or spots where the electrochromic transition is impaired. This is unacceptable for many applications such as electrochromic architectural glass. Improved electrochromic devices with low defectivity can be fabricated by depositing certain layered components of the electrochromic device in a single integrated deposition system. While these layers are being deposited and/or treated on a substrate, for example a glass window, the substrate never leaves a controlled ambient environment, for example a low pressure controlled atmosphere having very low levels of particles. These layers may be deposited using physical vapor deposition.

Abstract: A lighting system comprises a light source having an exit window and an electrically controllable light processing arrangement, in the form of a grid of cells lying in a plane parallel to the exit window. Each cell has a cell wall formed as electrically switchable element which is switchable between at least two processing modes. The cell wall surrounds an opening, such that light emitted in a normal direction from the light source exit window is not processed, and light passing at an angle to the normal direction greater than a threshold angle is processed by the cell wall for color and/or intensity control.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of detection of viruses, and in particular to detection of viruses using a liquid crystal assay format. In the present invention, virus binding in a detection region is identified by changes in liquid crystal orientation caused by virus binding independent orientation caused by any topography associated with the detection region.

Abstract: An electrically-powered device, structure and/or component is provided that includes an attached electrical power source in a form of a unique, environmentally-friendly energy harvesting element or component. The energy harvesting component provides a mechanism for generating autonomous renewable energy, or a renewable energy supplement, in the integrated circuit system, structure and/or component. The energy harvesting element includes a first conductor layer, a low work function layer, a dielectric layer, and a second conductor layer that are particularly configured in a manner to promote electron migration from the low work function layer, through the dielectric layer, to the facing surface of the second conductor layer in a manner that develops an electric potential between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer. The energy harvesting component includes a plurality of energy harvesting elements electrically connected to one another to increase an electrical power output.

Abstract: A system for detecting and responding to an intruding camera. The system includes an electronic media display device having a screen configured to display content, a sensor, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to obtain information from the sensor, analyze the information to determine a presence of a camera, and edit any displayed content in response to the presence of the camera.