Abstract: A rearview mirror having a display instrument function and a control system thereof are provided. The rearview mirror includes LED lights, glass and a glue-filled fluorophor located between the LED lights and the glass. Light rays emitted from the LED lights pass through the glue-filled fluorophor and are directed towards the glass. The glue-filled fluorophor includes a body and an extension portion, the body is flush with the LED lights, the extension portion is above the body and higher than the LED lights. Light-emitting areas are formed on outer surfaces of the body and the extension portion. The control system of the rearview mirror includes an OBD, an MCU and LED lights. The OBD is configured to acquire information on rpm and vehicle speed, and transmits it to the MCU. The MCU receives the information, generates control information and transmits it to a corresponding LED light for display.

Abstract: A photochromic system wherein: there are provided a photochromic film and a drive power source; the photochromic film has a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a first and second laminate, the photochromic film controlling the liquid crystal molecules' orientation of the liquid crystal layer by a VA scheme to control transmitted light; the first laminate is provided with at least a first substrate and electrode; the second laminate is provided with at least a second substrate and electrode; each of the first and second electrode has a sheet resistance of 50-300 ?/?; the distance from a power feed point to the farthest-away position in the surface of the photochromic film is 1,500 mm or less; and the drive power source supplies a power source for driving by a rectangular wave having a frequency of 240 Hz or less.

Abstract: An example system includes a patterned light projector operable to direct first and second portions of patterned light toward first and second surfaces, respectively, in an environment. The first and second surfaces may be at first and second distances, respectively, from the structured light projector. A graduated optical filter may be situated along an optical path of the patterned light. The graduated optical filter includes first and second regions to attenuate an intensity of the first and second portions of the patterned light, respectively, by first and second amounts, respectively. The first amount is greater than the second amount. The system additionally includes an image sensor operable to generate image data based on at least the first and second portions of the patterned light and a processor configured to determine first and second values indicative of an estimate of the first and second distances, respectively, based on the image data.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a glass panel of a display screen, of which each side bulges outwards gradually with respect to a connection line of opposing ends of the side, with a vertical distance from a point on the side between an end and a midpoint of the side to the connection line of the opposing ends of the side increasing gradually in a direction from the end to the midpoint.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a bracket that is fixed to a side face of a backlight unit and bonded to the rear main surface of a front surface panel by an adhesive portion. The bracket includes: a side wall that is fixed to a the side face of the backlight unit, rises from rear to front along the side face, and extends along a side face of the front surface panel; and a beam portion in front of the side wall. The beam portion has at least a portion that is continuous with the side wall, protrudes to outside the side wall along the rear main surface of the front surface panel, extends along the side face of the front surface panel, and is bonded to the rear main surface of the front surface panel by the adhesive portion.

Abstract: Liquid crystal lenses of different apertures with suppressed chromatic aberration utilizing twisted vertical alignment configuration are demonstrated. A plurality of substrates are provided with electrodes, including a patterned electrode to generate a lens effect. The liquid crystal material is homeotropically aligned, such as via alignment layers. Setting the ratio between cell thickness and chiral pitch of the cholesteric liquid crystals provides correction of axial chromatic aberrations of electrically-tunable focal lengths in the device.

Abstract: A display device includes a display portion including sub-pixels, and a light control portion overlapping the display portion. The display portion includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, and a blue sub-pixel, each of the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel, and the blue sub-pixel is shaped in a parallelogram, and inclined at a first angle of greater than or equal to 4° and less than or equal to 16° with respect to the second direction. The light control portion is inclined at a second angle substantially equivalent to arctan (2/9) with respect to the second direction.

Abstract: A phase modulation device includes an image data generator, a controller, a light reception signal detector, and a liquid crystal element. The image data generator generates image data. The controller generates a gradation control signal based on the image data. The liquid crystal element includes a first substrate and a light receiver. The first substrate has a pixel region in which a plurality of pixel electrodes constituting pixels are arranged. The light receiver photoelectrically converts light with which the pixel region is irradiated to generate a light reception signal. The light reception signal detector generates a drive control signal based on the light reception signal. The liquid crystal element changes an inclination angle of a wavefront of the light with which the pixel region is irradiated by applying different driving voltages to the plurality of pixel electrodes based on the gradation control signal.

Abstract: A method for controlling a display device is for a display device having, as an operation mode, a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode. The method includes: detecting, in the first mode, a trigger for an event executed in the second mode; switching the operation mode from the first mode to the second mode, based on a switching operation to switch the operation mode from the first mode to the second mode; and executing the event after the operation mode is switched from the first mode to the second mode.

Abstract: An apparatus for imaging an anatomical structure(s) can be provided. For example, a housing arrangement can have a shape of a pill and can be to be delivered to the anatomical structure(s). An imaging arrangement can be configured to generate a microscopic image of the anatomical structure(s), wherein the imaging arrangement can include a variable focus lens, and can be provided in the housing arrangement.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal optical modulation device that performs light control drive of a liquid crystal panel, the device including an optical modulation control section that switches and sets a frequency of a drive voltage in the form of a rectangular wave applied to the liquid crystal panel in accordance with a range of the drive voltage.

Abstract: A method of performing a complex Fourier transform of an input function including amplitude and phase information, including decomposing the input function into a plurality of sub-functions, wherein the Fourier transform of each sub-function includes an amplitude function and a phase function in which the phase is constrained to a plurality of possible phase values. The phase function of the Fourier transform of each sub-function is determined with an optical system that measures the amplitude function of an optical Fourier transform of the sub-function and changes in the amplitude function of the optical Fourier transform caused by applying a perturbation function to the sub-function. The determined phase functions and the measured amplitude functions are combined for each of the sub-functions to form the complex Fourier transform of the input function.

Abstract: A polyhedron type display device includes: a plurality of liquid crystal panels connected to each other to constitute a polyhedral shape; a light source housing at a center of mass of the polyhedral shape; a light source unit accommodated in the light source housing, the light source unit emitting a light to supply the light to the plurality of liquid crystal panels; a light source supporting pillar connecting and supporting the light source housing and the plurality of liquid crystal panels; a structure supporting pedestal supporting the light source supporting pillar; a supporting panel supporting the plurality of liquid crystal panels; a radiating pillar connected to the light source unit and emitting a heat of the light source unit; and a protecting cover covering and protecting the radiating pillar.

Abstract: With the conventional optical deflection elements using polarization gratings (PGs), it has been difficult to independently switch multiple optical beams at one time in a variety of angular ranges and angular steps at high speed on the ?-second time scale, and it has been impossible to achieve a highly reliable optical deflection element module capable of operating at different ambient temperatures. Provided is an optical deflection element including: a polarization grating plate having a rectangular or circular segment structure, in which the cycles ? of PGs are not uniform within the plate plane and the cycle and/or the rotational direction of a birefringence axis varies; and a phase panel having a segment structure that is accordingly segmented within the same plane are bonded together, wherein their corresponding segments overlap with each other, and optical switches of the polarization gratings are controlled by a voltage change in the phase panel.

Abstract: A camera includes one or more spectral illuminators, a tunable optical filter optically intermediate the one or more spectral illuminators and a scene, and a sensor array. The one or more spectral illuminators are configured to emit active spectral light. The tunable optical filter is dynamically adjustable to change a selected sub-band of the active spectral light that illuminates the scene. The sensor array includes a plurality of sensors each configured to measure spectral light reflected from the scene in the selected sub-band.

Abstract: An on-board display device installable in a vehicle cabin of a vehicle includes a liquid crystal panel and a light source. The liquid crystal panel displays an image of an outside of the vehicle, the image having been captured by a camera. The light source illuminates the liquid crystal panel. A direction of maximum luminance of the light source is a direction passing through an inside of an eye range preset in the vehicle. An equi-luminance line has a shape longer in a second direction that intersects a first direction than in the first direction in a luminance distribution map that represents luminance of the light source in each direction represented by a polar angle and an azimuth angle.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a display substrate, a fabricating method thereof, and a display panel. The display substrate includes a substrate, a display structure layer disposed on the substrate, and an alignment layer. A grating polarizing layer is disposed in the display structure layer, and an optical alignment direction of the alignment layer is parallel to or perpendicular to a transmission axis direction of the grating polarizing layer.

Abstract: In an electro-optical device, a first ion trap electrode, a second ion trap electrode, and a third ion trap electrode are provided between a pixel region and a sealing material, the first ion trap electrode, the second ion trap electrode, and the third ion trap electrode are applied with signals whose phases are shifted by 120° from each other. Since a diffusion preventing portion in which the thickness of an electro-optical layer is thinner than the thickness of the pixel region is provided between a pixel electrode and the first ion trap electrode, ionic impurities are less likely to diffuse into the pixel region even if application of a potential to an ion trap electrode is paused.

Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate and a first sensor element disposed on the substrate. The first sensor element includes a light-shielding conductive layer, a first transparent conductive layer, a first photosensitive layer, and a first electrode electrically connected to the first photosensitive layer. The light-shielding conductive layer and the first transparent conductive layer are interposed between the first substrate and the first photosensitive layer. A transmittance of the light-shielding conductive layer is smaller than a transmittance of the first transparent conductive layer.

Abstract: A key module including a base, a circuit layer, at least one light-transmission key body, and a display panel is provided. The circuit layer is disposed at the base and has at least one input portion. The light-transmission key body has an abutting end and a pressing end opposite to each other. The abutting end abuts the base, and the light-transmission key body is adapted to be pressed downward by taking the abutting end as a rotation axis, such that the pressing end presses the input portion. The display panel is disposed at the base and has at least one display region, the display region is aligned with the light-transmission key body, and an image displayed on the display region by the display panel is changeable.

Abstract: A backlight module and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The backlight module comprises a backlight source, a beam splitter and a light beam conversion portion. The beam splitter converts light from the backlight source into a first and second polarization light beam. The light beam conversion portion converts the first polarization light beam into a third polarization light beam through total reflection, and outputs the second and third polarization light beam through a light exit side. Alternatively, the light beam conversion portion converts the first and second polarization light beam into a fourth and fifth polarization light beam through total reflection, and outputs the fourth and fifth polarization light beam through the light exit side. To this end, light from the backlight source is efficiently applied to irradiate a liquid crystal display panel, and the brightness of the liquid crystal display panel significantly improves.

Abstract: In a mirror display apparatus, a mirror optical element in which reflectance and transmittance vary in opposite directions to each other by electric driving is disposed on a front surface side of a monitor display device. An operation mode of the mirror display apparatus is switchable between a monitor mode and a mirror mode for use. A temperature sensor is installed to a mirror display apparatus. In the monitor mode, the temperature sensor is used for a temperature control of the monitor display device, or a temperature compensation control related to display quality, or the both. In the mirror mode in which the mirror optical element is in a reflectance-reduced reflection mirror state, the temperature sensor is used for a temperature compensation control of reflectance of the mirror optical element.

Abstract: A texture display device includes a display unit in which each pixel includes a condensing type element having light distribution at a first spread angle and a diffusing type element having light distribution at a second spread angle larger than the first spread angle, a pixel signal generation unit that generates a pixel signal based on image data and texture data of an object to be displayed on the display unit, and a control unit that controls light emission intensity of the condensing type element and the diffusing type element based on the pixel signal.

Abstract: Provide is a display device. The display device includes a watchcase, a first display screen and a flexible display component. The first display screen is arranged on a front side of the watchcase. The first display screen includes a first display surface. The flexible display component is arranged on a back face of the watchcase. The flexible display component may be bent along a first direction to be reused as a watchband. Moreover, in the condition that the flexible display component is reused as the watchband, a surface of the flexible display component facing away from the watchcase is a second display surface.

Abstract: This color calibration device is a color calibration device, calibrating colors in a captured image of a first imaging device between different imaging devices using a hologram emitting diffracted light at different frequencies corresponding to an observation angle, the color calibration device includes: a diffracted light spectral distribution calculation unit that obtains respective diffracted light spectral distribution of the diffracted light from the hologram; a camera sensitivity function estimation unit that estimates spectral sensitivity of the imaging device from the respective diffracted light spectral distribution of the diffracted light and each captured image of the diffracted light; and a color calibration unit that calibrates difference in color of the first imaging device relative to a second imaging device different from the first imaging device using the estimated spectral sensitivity.

Abstract: An ultrafast omnidirectional wireless data transfer apparatus and system. The ultrafast omnidirectional wireless data transfer apparatus includes an array of laser diodes, an array of fast detectors, and a connector for connecting to a sensor, a computer, and/or a network. The array of laser diodes, and the array of fast detectors are housed in a multifaceted geometry in order to provide communication coverage in all directions. In one aspect, each laser in the array of laser diodes operates at different wavelengths. In another aspect, the ultrafast omnidirectional wireless data transfer apparatus includes field programmable gate arrays. In yet another aspect, the ultrafast omnidirectional wireless data transfer apparatus includes an array of collimators that are connected to an optical combiner.

Abstract: An embodiment of a mind-view communication apparatus includes a first portable unit and a second portable unit. The first portable unit includes an eyeglass frame, at least one first optical unit disposed on the eyeglass frame for capturing at least one scene image corresponding to a field of view of a user, and at least one second optical unit disposed on the eyeglass frame for capturing at least one eye image corresponding to at least a portion of at least one eye of the user. The second portable unit is in communication with the first portable unit and includes at least one processor configured for receiving the at least one scene image and the at least one eye image, determining a direction within the field of view to which the at least one eye is directed based upon the at least one eye image, and generating a subset of the at least one scene image based on the determined direction.

Abstract: An embodiment of an image recording apparatus includes an eyeglass frame, at least one first optical unit disposed on the eyeglass frame for capturing a main scene image, and at least one second optical unit disposed on the eyeglass frame for capturing an auxiliary scene image. The first and the second field of view of the user at least partially overlap. The image resolution of the main scene image is lower than the image resolution of the main scene image and the field of view of the main scene image is larger than the field of view of the auxiliary scene image. The image recording apparatus further includes at least one processor for receiving the main and the auxiliary scene images, and generating a modified resolution copy of the main scene image based on the auxiliary scene image.

Abstract: A light projection apparatus is provided comprising: a source of light; a switchable grating on a first substrate; and a diffractive optical element. Light is diffracted at least once by the switchable grating and is diffracted at least once by the DOE.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of preparing a light modulation element of the PS-ULH (polymer stabilised ULH) type, which allows to reduce the operational voltage and allows to improve the switching time of the light modulation element.

Abstract: A reconstruction matrix used for calculating a hyperspectral data-cube includes rows of periodic functions. Each row of the reconstruction matrix corresponds to a selected wavelength and each column corresponds to a selected retardance of an interferometer. The periodic functions have as a parameter the selected wavelength of the corresponding row and are sampled at the selected retardances of each of the corresponding columns. An interferogram data-cube is obtained and includes an array of one or more simultaneously measured interferograms. Each row of the interferogram data-cube corresponds to one of the selected retardances and each column corresponds to a different interferogram from the simultaneously measured interferograms. A set of matrix-vector products for each of the interferograms is formed by multiplying the reconstruction matrix with a column of the interferogram data-cube to form the hyperspectral data-cube.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the display panel having a display area with the pixels thereon and a peripheral area adjacent to the display area on a plane, a driving circuit part at the peripheral area and configured to provide an electrical signal to each of the pixels, a main circuit part at the peripheral area, the main circuit part having at least one portion that is spaced apart from the driving circuit part on a plane, the main circuit part being configured to provide a driving signal to the driving circuit part and the display panel, and a first partition member at a space between the main circuit part and the driving circuit part.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a pixel electrode, a light shielding member disposed along an edge of the pixel electrode in a planar view viewed in a thickness direction that is a direction perpendicular to the pixel electrode, a first insulator that is provided in a region overlapped with at least the light shielding member in the planar view, and having light transmission, and a second insulator that is provided to be in contact with the first insulator on an opening region that is an inside surrounded by the light shielding member in the planar view, and having the light transmission and a refractive index higher than that of the first insulator, in which the second insulator configures a waveguide which reflects incident light incident on the opening region at an interface between the second insulator and the first insulator, and propagates the incident light inside the second insulator.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a window for a flexible display device, including: a first film including a transparent base film and a plurality of holes passing through the transparent base film; a second film overlapping the first film; a buffer layer between the first film and the second film to attach a first side of the first film and a first side of the second film; and a hard coated layer on a second side of the second film.

Abstract: A lidar device comprises: a laser emitting unit for including a plurality of VCSEL elements emitting a laser beam; a metasurface for including a plurality of beam steering cells arranged in a form of two-dimensional array by a row direction and a column direction, wherein the plurality of beam steering cells guide the laser beam by using nanopillars; wherein the nanopillars included in the plurality of beam steering cells form a subwavelength pattern, wherein the increase of an attribute related to at least one of the width, height, and number per unit length of the nanopillars is repetitive along the direction from the center of the metasurface to the position of the row corresponding to the plurality of beam steering cells.

Abstract: A reflective holographic display apparatus and a display method thereof are provided. The reflective holographic display apparatus includes a front light source module, a display panel and a phase plate. The front light source module is configured to provide reference lights; the display panel is configured to adjust amplitude information of the reference lights, wherein the display panel includes a reflective layer and the front light source module is located at a light exit side of the display panel; and the phase plate is configured to adjust phase information of the reference lights and located at a light exit side of the reflective layer.

Abstract: An optical device is provided. The optical device includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel units, a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate, a patterned light-transmitting layer disposed on the dielectric layer and corresponding to the plurality of pixel units, and a plurality of continuous light-shielding layers disposed on the dielectric layer and located on both sides of the patterned light-transmitting layer. A method for fabricating an optical device is also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal lens and liquid crystal glasses. The liquid crystal lens includes a cell defined by a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and having a uniform thickness between the first substrate and the second substrate; a transparent pattern layer at an outside of the cell and having a curved top surface and a flat bottom surface in contact with the second substrate; and a second transparent electrode arranged at the curved top surface and at the outside of the cell.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first substrate includes a first area, a second area, a third area, a fourth area and a fifth area in a planar view. In the first substrate, an organic insulating film is present in the second and the third areas, is present neither in the third area nor in the fifth area, and forms an adjustment area. A conductive film is provided on the organic insulating film, the third area, the fourth area and a part of the fifth area. A sealing material is present in a part of the second area, the third area, the fourth area and a part of the fifth area to attach the first substrate and a second substrate. A through hole penetrates the first and the second substrates.

Abstract: A Light-Emitting Diode (LED) illuminator-condenser capable of supplying bright-field, dark-field, fluorescence, oblique, and phase-contrast illumination under Köhler-like conditions. A single lens may be permanently focused on the specimen plane. Illumination conditions may be made by a combination of uniform LEDs, collimating masks and diffusers. LEDs may be arranged in one or more ring-shaped patterns.

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a display device may display information via light emissions via a first orientation, and an anisotropic material, of the display device, may obscure the information along a first axis of the display device and within a first threshold angle. In one or more embodiments, it may be determined that the first orientation changes to a second orientation, and in response, the anisotropic material may obscure the information along a second axis of the display device and within a second threshold angle. In one or more embodiments, the anisotropic material may permit information along the first axis of the display device to be viewed by a person. In one or more embodiments, determining that the first orientation changes to the second orientation may be based at least on data from at least one of an electronic accelerometer, an electronic gyroscope, and an electronic magnetometer.

Abstract: A matrix-addressed tile comprises a tile substrate having a two-dimensional array of pixels arranged in rows and columns defining a contiguous pixel area that includes all of the pixels. A one-dimensional array of column-data lines electrically connected to columns of pixels and a one-dimensional array of row-select lines connected to rows of pixels are disposed on the tile substrate at least partially in the pixel area. At least one column-data line contact pad electrically connected to each of the column-data lines and at least one row-select contact pad electrically connected to each of the row-select lines are disposed at least partially within the pixel area and between at least two pixels. A matrix-addressed tiled system includes two or more matrix-addressed tiles electrically connected through the column-data line contact pads and row-select line contact pads.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a display stack comprising at least one layer to generate a digital display image. A front stack includes a position encoded contrast layer to provide a pattern of light in response to non-visible light applied to the position encoded contrast layer. The pattern of light encodes spatial information across a surface of the position encoded contrast layer. A hot mirror reflects the non-visible light applied to the position encoded contrast layer of the front stack and is optically transparent to visible light generated from the display stack.

Abstract: A carrier or manufacturing unit includes a combination of a flexible semiconductor device package, adhesive disposed on the flexible semiconductor device package and a rigid substrate disposed on the adhesive. The flexible semiconductor device package may be protected during transport and/or assembly by the rigid substrate. In a method of manufacturing an electronic product such as wearable technology that requires a flexible semiconductor device package, the unit can be transported to a work station and physically and/or electrically connected to another/other component(s) of the technology. Then the rigid substrate is removed.

Abstract: A substrate for a display device and a display device including the same are disclosed. The substrate includes a first thin-film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a second thin-film transistor spaced apart from the first thin-film transistor and including a polycrystalline semiconductor layer, and a storage capacitor including at least two storage electrodes. One of the at least two storage electrodes is located in the same plane and is formed of the same material as gate electrodes of the first thin-film transistor and the second thin-film transistor, and another one of the at least two storage electrodes is located in the same plane and is formed of the same material as source and drain electrodes of the first thin-film transistor and the second thin-film transistor. Accordingly, lower power consumption and a larger area of the substrate are realized.

Abstract: A beam steering device includes a first active deflector. The first active deflector includes a first substrate with one or more electrodes, a second substrate with one or more electrodes, and liquid crystals located between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate is distinct from the first substrate. The beam steering device also includes a passive deflector positioned parallel to the first active deflector. The passive deflector includes a third substrate, a fourth substrate that is distinct from the third substrate, and liquid crystals located between the third substrate and the fourth substrate. A method for separating zeroth order leakage with the beam steering device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method, computer readable medium, and system generate a low-latency image for display. The method includes the steps of receiving a portion of an image for display, selecting a pulse-width value for displaying the portion of the image, and driving a display device to present the portion of the image using a pulse-width value and pulse density modulation value. Logic circuits for implementing the method may be included in a graphics processing unit or within a display device. The portion of the image for display may be rendered based on real-time position information associated with a head-mounted display.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a hand-portable electronic device including a detection-and-ranging element configured to provide spatial information of one or more physical objects in a space around the hand-held portable electronic device for collision avoidance, the detection-and-ranging element configured to transmit one or more electromagnetic, wireless detection signals and configured to detect one or more reflections of said one or more electromagnetic, wireless detection signals from the one or more objects.

Abstract: An example of a game controller includes a key top of an operation button, a tubular light-guiding portion surrounding a periphery of the key top, a light-shielding portion surrounding a periphery of the light-guiding portion, an elastic member placed immediately below the key top and configured to allow light to pass therethrough, a switch placed below the elastic member, and an LED. The key top and the light-guiding portion are exposed through a surface of a housing of the game controller. Light from the LED is incident on the light-guiding portion and guided to a surface of the housing through the inside of the light-guiding portion. The light-guiding portion is surrounded by the light-shielding portion, and therefore, light does not come out to the periphery of the light-guiding portion. Consequently, it is possible to cause the periphery of the operation button to emit light in a ring-shaped manner.

Abstract: An irregular shape display having a hole according to the present disclosure may apply a partial cylinder-shaped guide member to a hole region while at the same time fastening between a guide member and a lower cover through a thread, thereby securing fastenability. The present disclosure provides an effect of preventing a rattle noise due to the detachment, splitting and component floating of an optical sheet as fastenability between the guide member and lower cover is secured.