A light attenuator that provides transparent light states and absorbing dark states for use in selectively controlling light, especially for smart glass applications. The light attenuator includes abutting areas of attenuation and transparency that form a repeat pattern or a quasi-repeat pattern. The attenuating areas are visible when the light attenuator is in the light state, but the repeat pattern is sufficiently large that a viewer looks through the attenuator and sees no haze.

The present disclosure provides a light shielding plate assembly and a control method thereof, a control device, and a vehicle. The image collecting module in the light shielding plate assembly is configured to obtain image information of the transparent panel and the human eye; the control module is configured to determine target position information of a gaze point of the human eye positioned on the transparent panel according to the image information, and determine a target control area corresponding to the target position information on the transparent panel; the detection module is configured to: detect optical information when the light passes through the target control area and arrives at the human eye; the control module is further configured to: adjust the light transmittance of the transparent panel in the target control area according to the optical information, so that the optical information is within a preset range.

Examples are disclosed relating to tunable attenuation of incident light using a switchable grating. One example provides an optical attenuator comprising a switchable grating configured to diffract light within a wavelength band at a diffraction angle. The optical attenuator further comprises an electrode pair configured to apply a voltage across the switchable grating to tune a proportion of incident light diffracted at the diffraction angle, and an optical dump to receive the proportion of incident light diffracted.

A display device includes: a first panel comprising pixels; and a second panel having a plate surface provided substantially parallel to a plate surface of the first panel. The plate surface of each of the first and second panels includes a curved surface. When the curved surface is a convex portion and two pixels controlled to transmit the light through the first panel are located in the convex portion, a distance between centers of two predetermined regions to which a blurring processing is applied corresponding to the two pixels is set smaller than a distance between the two the pixels. When the curved surface is a concave portion and the two pixels controlled to transmit the light through the first panel are located in the concave portion, the distance between the centers of the two predetermined regions is set larger than the distance between the two the pixels.

A light attenuator that provides transparent light states and absorbing dark states for use in selectively controlling light, especially for smart glass applications. The light attenuator includes abutting areas of attenuation and transparency that form a repeat pattern or a quasi-repeat pattern. The attenuating areas are visible when the light attenuator is in the light state, but the repeat pattern is sufficiently large that a viewer looks through the attenuator and sees no haze.

An optical element which can be utilized in various versions and implementations of switchable light filters having, in addition, polarization filters and/or other means for varying the polarization characteristics of light, for example, liquid crystal layers. A combination of switchable light filter and imaging display device makes possible a private viewing effect that can be switched on and off. The optical element comprises a first layer or a first layer and a plurality of further layers, each layer including a material with a plurality of light-absorbing transition dipole moments. At least in a first state, each transition dipole moment is oriented, with a tolerance of 10° at the maximum, parallel to a selectable preferential direction or fluctuates around it so that light which is incident in the optical element is transmitted or at least partially absorbed depending on its incident direction.

A rearview system may comprise a light sensor assembly having: a photosensor operable to detect light and generate a signal based, at least in part, on the detected light; a dichroic filter in optical communication with the photosensor and operable to filter light; and a rearview assembly having an electro-optic element may comprise an electro-optic medium and operable to variably change the amount of light passing through the electro-optic medium based, at least in part, on the signal. The dichroic filter may be configured to substantially inhibit light having a wavelength of less than 400 nm or greater than 650 nm from transmitting therethrough.

Various embodiments of a monolithic transceiver are described, which may be fabricated on a semiconductor substrate. The monolithic transceiver includes a coherent receiver module (CRM), a coherent transmitter module (CTM), and a local oscillation splitter to feed a local oscillation to the CRM and the CTM with a tunable power ratio. The monolithic transceiver provides tunable responsivity by employing photodiodes for opto-electrical conversion. The monolithic transceiver also employs a polarization beam rotator-splitter (PBRS) and a polarization beam rotator-combiner (PBRC) for supporting modulation schemes including polarization multiplexed quadrature amplitude modulation (PM-QAM) and polarization multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying (PM-QPSK).

A display apparatus includes a backlight source, a privacy filter disposed on the backlight source, a light adjusting panel disposed on the privacy filter, and a display panel disposed on the light adjusting panel. The light adjusting panel includes a first substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first vertical alignment film disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a second vertical alignment film disposed on the second substrate, and a positive liquid crystal layer disposed between the first vertical alignment film and the second vertical alignment film. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed on the first substrate. Here, the first electrode has a plurality of first slits, and a plurality of orthogonal projections of the first slits on the first substrate overlap an orthogonal projection of the second electrode on the first substrate.

The present invention relates to a display device, which includes a backlight module, an active dimming layer, a liquid crystal display panel, and a moire elimination layer. The active dimming layer is arranged on the light emitting surface of the backlight module, and includes a plurality of dimming sub-regions that can change the light polarization directions. The liquid crystal display panel is arranged on the light exiting surface of the active dimming layer. The moire elimination layer is arranged on the outer surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The display device can improve the optical interference phenomenon through the moire elimination layer, and has a better contrast gain effect.