An electro-optic display comprising at least two separate layers of electro-optic material, with one of these layers being capable of displaying at least one optical state which cannot be displayed by the other layer. The display is driven by a single set of electrodes between which both layers are sandwiched, the two layers being controllable at least partially independently of one another. Another form of the invention uses three different types of particles within a single electrophoretic layer, with the three types of particles being arranged to shutter independently of one another.

The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes: a first switch circuit, a second switch circuit, a driving circuit, a first gate line, a first data line, a second gate line, and a second data line. The first switch circuit has a control terminal connected to the first gate line, a first terminal connected to the first data line, and a second terminal connected to a control terminal of the driving circuit; the second switch circuit has a control terminal connected to the second gate line, a first terminal connected to the second data line, and a second terminal connected to the control terminal of the driving circuit; and the first gate line and the second data line extend along a first direction, the second gate line and the first data line extend along a second direction.

A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes a reflective region for performing display in a reflection mode. The first substrate includes a reflective electrode including a first region located within each of the plurality of pixels and a second region located between any two pixels, of the plurality of pixels, adjacent to each other, a transparent insulating layer provided to cover the reflective electrode, and a pixel electrode formed from a transparent conductive material and provided on the transparent insulating layer in each of the plurality of pixels. The second substrate includes a counter electrode. Voltage of the same polarity is applied to the liquid crystal layer of any two pixels, of the plurality of pixels, adjacent to each other along a row direction, any two pixels, of the plurality of pixels, adjacent to each other along a column direction, or all of the plurality of pixels. A time average of voltage applied between the pixel electrode and the reflective electrode is substantially the same between a maximum gray scale display state and a minimum gray scale display state.

A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes a reflective region for performing display in a reflection mode. The first substrate includes a reflective electrode including a first region located within each of the plurality of pixels and a second region located between any two pixels, of the plurality of pixels, adjacent to each other, a transparent insulating layer provided to cover the reflective electrode, and a pixel electrode formed from a transparent conductive material and provided on the transparent insulating layer in each of the plurality of pixels. The second substrate includes a counter electrode provided to be opposite to the pixel electrode and the reflective electrode. Voltage of the same polarity is applied to the liquid crystal layer of any two pixels, of the plurality of pixels, adjacent to each other along a row direction, any two pixels, of the plurality of pixels, adjacent to each other along a column direction, or all of the plurality of pixels. The counter electrode and the reflective electrode are provided with potentials different from each other.

The present disclosure provides a gray scale setting method, a display substrate and a display apparatus, and relates to the field of display technology. The gray scale setting method of the present disclosure applied to a display substrate. The display substrate has a display area and a non-display area. The display substrate includes an edge pixel on a boundary between the display area and the non-display area, and the edge pixel includes a first sub-area pixel within the display area and a second sub-area pixel within the non-display area. The method includes: acquiring an area ratio of the first sub-area relative to the edge pixel; determining a relative transmittance of the edge pixel according to the area ratio of the first sub-area relative to the edge pixel; and determining a display gray scale for the edge pixel according to the determined relative transmittance.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. In the liquid crystal display, orthographic projections of each of the light shielding structures and a corresponding light source on the lower substrate overlap. Light emitted from each of the light sources is incident into the liquid crystal layer in a collimated manner, and the first electrode and the second electrode are configured to form an electric field in response to voltages applied to the first electrode and the second electrode, so that liquid crystal molecules within an area of the electric field are deflected to form a convex lens structure.

A display panel includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array and a plurality of data lines. The pixel units in two adjacent rows in two adjacent columns form a grayscale combined pixel. The grayscale combined pixel comprises three sub-pixels corresponding to the high grayscale and nine sub-pixels corresponding to the low grayscale.

A display device according to an embodiment of the present inventive concept includes: a substrate including a first region and a second region; and a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate, wherein the plurality of pixels each include a first data line and a second data line overlapping a pixel electrode, a first capacitance between the first data line and the pixel electrode is smaller than a second capacitance between the second data line and the pixel electrode in a pixel disposed in the first region, and the first capacitance between the first data line and the pixel electrode is larger than the second capacitance between the second data line and a pixel electrode in the pixel disposed in the second region.

There is provided a polymer network liquid crystal display device for image display according to an input image signal. The device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether an image for display according to the image signal is a moving image or a still image, and a correction unit configured to correct a hysteresis of the image for display, based on a result of the determination by the determination unit.

A display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a back light module; a light transmission direction controller on a light emitting side of the back light module; and a plurality of subpixels on a side of the light transmission direction controller away from the back light module, each individual one of the plurality of subpixels including a light transmissive part and a light blocking part. The back light module is configured to emit light toward the plurality of subpixels. The light transmission direction controller is configured to independently adjust a grayscale of each individual one of the plurality of subpixels by independently controlling a light distribution ratio between a first portion of light transmitted through the light transmissive part and a second portion of light blocked by the light blocking part in each individual one of the plurality of subpixels.