A smart window includes two transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer. The two transparent substrates are opposite to each other and are electrically connected to a voltage supply. A first pulse voltage or a second pulse voltage is provided between the two transparent substrates by the voltage supply. The liquid crystal layer is located between the two transparent substrates and has a liquid crystal material. The liquid crystal material has a pitch of at most 250 nanometers or at least 500 nanometers. The liquid crystal material includes a nematic liquid crystal, a rotatory molecule, and a photochromic dye mixed with each other. The liquid crystal material changes a transmittance corresponding to a specific light wavelength range when receiving a light. The liquid crystal material is switched between a planar texture and a focal-conic texture respectively according to the first pulse voltage and the second pulse voltage.

A photoelectrode with independent separate structures of an electrochromic layer and a sensitized light-absorbing layer is provided, which includes a first transparent conductive substrate, a first electrochromic layer, and a sensitized light-absorbing layer. The first electrochromic layer and the sensitized light-absorbing layer are disposed on a surface of the first transparent conductive substrate and are adjacent to each other.

An optical element includes a first boundary layer and a second boundary layer. A solution is disposed between the first boundary layer and the second boundary layer. The solution includes liquid crystals co-mingled with oblong photochromic dye molecules.

A display panel, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device are disclosed. The display panel comprises: a first substrate; a plurality of pixel structures disposed on a surface of the first substrate, each of the pixel structures comprising a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel and a white sub-pixel; and a photochromic layer, wherein an orthographic projection of the photochromic layer on the first substrate is covered by an orthographic projection of the white sub-pixel on the first substrate.

There are provided a color filter substrate and a display apparatus. The color filter substrate comprises a base substrate; a black matrix; a first color filter; a planarization layer, which is located between the base substrate and the black matrix and has an opening; and a first color cast compensation layer, which is located in the opening of the planarization layer, wherein a light of a first color passes through the first color filter in a direction deviating from the vertical direction of the base substrate at an angle a, the first color cast compensation layer at least partly converts the light of the first color passing through the first color filter to a light of a second color or a light of a third color, and the angle a is greater than or equal to 0 degree and less than 90 degrees.

A terminal is provided, and the terminal includes a housing, a front screen, a circuit board, and a power supply. The front screen is disposed on the housing, both the circuit board and the power supply are disposed inside the housing, and the power supply is connected to the circuit board. The front screen includes a toughened glass, a color changing layer, and a display screen that are sequentially stacked. The color changing layer is connected to the circuit board, and can change a color when receiving power supply. The color changing layer is disposed in the front screen, and may change a color when receiving the power supply from the circuit board. The color changing layer is configured only to change a color and cannot display a complex image, and power consumption of the color changing layer is far less than that of the display screen.

Implantable corneal and intraocular implants such as a mask are provided. The mask can improve the vision of a patient, such as by being configured to increase the depth of focus of an eye of a patient. The mask can include an aperture configured to transmit along an optical axis substantially all visible incident light. The mask can further include a transition portion that surrounds at least a portion of the aperture. This portion can be configured to switch from one level of opacity to another level of opacity through the use of a controllably variable absorbance feature such as a switchable photochromic chromophore within a polymer matrix.

A terminal is provided, and the terminal includes a housing, a front screen, a circuit board, and a power supply. The front screen is disposed on the housing, both the circuit board and the power supply are disposed inside the housing, and the power supply is connected to the circuit board. The front screen includes a toughened glass, a color changing layer, and a display screen that are sequentially stacked. The color changing layer is connected to the circuit board, and can change a color when receiving power supply. The color changing layer is disposed in the front screen, and may change a color when receiving the power supply from the circuit board. The color changing layer is configured to change only a color and cannot display a complex image, and power consumption of the color changing layer is far less than that of the display screen.

A watch case (10) including a middle (11) to which a crystal (12) and a back (13) are fastened so as to form an internal volume, the watch case (10) including, in the internal volume, an external part component (14) whereon a stack of thin layers (15) comprising a substrate layer (150), a solid-state phase switching layer (151) inserted between a transparent encapsulation layer (152) and a spacing layer (153) separating the phase switching layer (151) from the substrate layer (150) is deposited, the phase switching layer (151) being configured so as to have a refractive index capable of varying under exposure from light rays so as to impart to the stack of thin layers (15) at least two interferential colours.

An optical device (100) for forming a distribution of a three-dimensional light field comprises: an array (102) of unit cells (104), a unit cell (104) being individually addressable for switching the optical property of the unit cell (104) between a first and a second condition; wherein the unit cells (104) are configured to be selectively active or inactive and wherein the array (102) comprises at least a first and a second disjoint subset (110; 112; 114; 116), and wherein the unit cells (104) in a subset (110; 112; 114; 116) are configured to be jointly switched from inactive to active, wherein the active unit cells (104) are configured to interact with an incident light beam (106) for forming the distribution of the three-dimensional light field; and wherein the optical device (100) is configured to address inactive unit cells (104) for switching the optical property of unit cells (104).