Provided is a display device that can increase the quantity of light transmitted to a font surface side by improving the utilization efficiency of backlight and that can reduce stress experienced by a viewer by reducing glare on a back surface side. A first polarization wave emitted from a light guide plate to a display surface side is transmitted through first and second absorptive polarization plates to be transmitted to the front surface side as a second polarization wave. Furthermore, the first polarization wave emitted from the light guide plate to a rear surface side is also reflected to the front surface side by a third reflective polarization plate provided at the back surface and transmitted to the front surface side. Thus, the proportion of the second polarization wave transmitted to the front surface side becomes as very high as 0.5. In addition, the quantity of light transmitted to the back surface side becomes 0.

A mirror display is described. The mirror display includes a plurality of first electrodes disposed on a first substrate, a plurality of sensor lines disposed on the first substrate, the plurality of sensor lines connected to the plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes disposed on a second substrate, the plurality of second electrodes facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of mirror driving lines on the second substrate, the plurality of mirror driving lines connected to the plurality of second electrodes, and a reflective polarizing film attached to the second substrate.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels each comprising a display unit. The display unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a liquid crystal layer. A first black matrix pattern is disposed at a side of the liquid crystal layer facing the first electrode and a second black matrix pattern is disposed at a side of the liquid crystal layer facing the second electrode, the second black matrix pattern having an opening therein, the first black matrix pattern being disposed at a position corresponding to the opening.

A display device includes a display component (1), which includes a liquid crystal panel and a backlight source (11) with the liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal cell, a first polarizing sheet (12) located on a side of the liquid crystal cell near the backlight source, and a second polarizing sheet (16) located on a side of the liquid crystal cell away from the backlight source. One of the first polarizing sheet (12) and the second polarizing sheet (16) is movable.

A display device (100) includes: a display panel (1) capable of being in a transparent display state where a background scene is viewable through the display panel; a panel light source (3) that irradiates the display panel with colored light of a plurality of colors in a time division manner; a rear side light source (2) placed on a rear surface side of the display panel, the rear side light source being capable of emitting colored light of a plurality of colors in a time division manner; and a control circuit that controls emission timings of the colored light from the panel light source and from the rear side light source, wherein the panel light source and the rear side light source are synchronized by the control circuit such that colored light of different colors are not emitted at a same timing.

An electrophoretic display (EPD) and a driving method thereof. The electrophoretic display (EPD) includes: an upper substrate and a lower substrate arranged opposite to each other, and an electrophoretic medium disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; the EPD is provided with a plurality of pixels; each pixel includes at least two sub-pixels; colored charged particles of different colors are disposed in different sub-pixels of each pixel; and a first wall electrode and a second wall electrode are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of each sub-pixel.

In an embodiment, a display device comprises first and second panels, an illumination device, and first to third polarizing members. The first panel includes first and second substrates and a first liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates. The second panel includes third and fourth substrates and a second liquid crystal layer between the third and fourth substrates. The illumination device irradiates the first substrate with light. The first polarizing member is provided between the illumination device and the first substrate. The second polarizing member is provided between the first and second liquid crystal layers. The third polarizing member faces the fourth substrate.

The electro-optical glare protection filter includes a liquid crystal cell, which is a laterally extended liquid crystal cell defining a volume between two laterally extended sides. The volume containing liquid crystals and having, in a vertical direction perpendicular to lateral directions, a thickness being smaller than an extension of the volume in any lateral direction. The FFS cell includes a first electrode structure and a second electrode structure, which are arranged to change an orientation of the liquid crystals in the volume when a voltage is applied between them. Both the first and the second electrode structure are present at the same laterally extended side of the volume. The first electrode structure may include a plurality of electrically separate electrodes, and the second electrode structure may include a plurality of electrode lines.

A display panel includes an upper plate including a first substrate, a first electrode layer formed on an inner surface of the first substrate, and an absorptive polarizing film formed on an outer surface of the first substrate and having a first polarization axis, a lower plate including a second substrate, a second electrode layer formed on an inner surface of the second substrate, and a reflective polarizing film formed on an outer surface of the second substrate and having a second polarization axis perpendicular or parallel to the first polarization axis, an LC layer filled between the upper plate and the lower plate, and an LC driving power supply connected between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer and configured to selectively provide an LC driving voltage to the LC layer changing a polarization direction of incident light in the LC layer.

A display device includes a backlight module, a liquid crystal layer, a lower polarizer, an upper polarizer, and a retardation layer. The liquid crystal layer is disposed on a lighting side of the backlight module while the lower polarizer is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the backlight module. The upper polarizer is disposed on a side of the liquid crystal layer opposite to the lower polarizer, and the retardation layer is between the upper and lower polarizers. The retardation layer has a retardation area that may modulates the light passing through the lower polarizer and make the light passes through the upper polarizer.