A display apparatus including a backlight module, first and second electrically-controlled elements, electrically-controlled first and second polarizers, a half-wave plate, and a display panel is provided. An included angle between first and second alignment directions of first and second alignment layers of the first electrically-controlled element is between 75 degrees and 105 degrees. An included angle between third and fourth alignment directions of third and fourth alignment layers of the second electrically-controlled element is between 165 degrees and 195 degrees. A first absorption axis of the first polarizer disposed between the backlight module and the first electrically-controlled element is perpendicular to a second absorption axis of the second polarizer disposed between the first and second electrically-controlled elements. The half-wave plate is disposed between the second polarizer and the second electrically-controlled element. The display panel is disposed on the second electrically-controlled element. A method of driving the display apparatus is provided.

The present invention provides a mirror display that can be enlarged without quality deterioration. The mirror display includes, in the order from a viewing surface side, a half mirror plate including a reflective polarizer, a polarization conversion layer, and a display device including an absorptive polarizer on a side of the polarization conversion layer. The reflective polarizer includes a transmission axis parallel to the longitudinal direction of the display device and is jointless. The absorptive polarizer includes a transmission axis perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the display device and is jointless. The polarization conversion layer is configured to convert the polarization of polarized light passed through the absorptive polarizer.

Provided are a display panel, a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed oppositely, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate includes a black matrix layer and a color filter layer which are sequentially disposed on a first base substrate; at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate further includes a spacer; and the black matrix layer includes at least one first black matrix, and an orthographic projection of each first black matrix on the first base substrate covers an orthographic projection of the spacer on the first base substrate.

A curved surface LCD panel and a display device are disclosed. The curved surface LCD panel includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate parallel with each other and curved in a same direction, wherein edge zones of the array substrate and the opposite substrate having plural optical retardation zones, each of the optical retardation zones on the array substrate being corresponding to one of the optical retardation zones on the opposite substrate, and two corresponding optical retardation zones constituting a zone group; a LC layer located between the array substrate and the opposite substrate; and an optical compensation film attached at each of the optical retardation zones in at least one zone group; wherein the optical compensation film being perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical retardation zone attached with the optical compensation film and having an equal optical retardation with the optical retardation zone.

The present application relates to a liquid crystal display comprising: an upper polarizer; a lower polarizer; and a liquid crystal panel provided between the upper polarizer and the lower polarizer, in which the upper polarizer and the lower polarizer are provided such that the absorption axes thereof are parallel to each other, a wavelength plate is comprised between the upper polarizer and the liquid crystal panel which rotates linear polarized light at 85 to 90 degrees, and the liquid crystal panel is a horizontally aligned liquid crystal mode.

In an image display device including a first display panel and a second display panel, there are provided a first panel body, a first panel body emission-side polarizing plate disposed at a front-surface side with respect to the first panel body, a second panel body, a second panel body incidence-side polarizing plate disposed at a back-surface side with respect to the second panel body, at least one inter-panel polarizing plate disposed between the first panel body and the second panel body, and a back-surface irradiation light source configured to emit light toward the back-surface side. The back-surface irradiation light source is provided in one of regions between the first panel body emission-side polarizing plate and the second panel body incidence-side polarizing plate.

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a display apparatus using the same. The LCD panel comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a half wave (λ/2) retarder film, The liquid crystal layer is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate comprises a second electrode, wherein the second electrode comprises a trunk portion and plurality of branch portions, and there is a predetermined angle between the trunk portion and the branch portions, and the predetermined angle is less than or greater than 45 degrees. The λ/2 retarder film is bonded to an outer surface of the first substrate or the second substrate. The present invention can improve the color shift problem and the transmittance of the LCD panel.

A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. Each pixel of the display panel includes a transmission region and a reflection region, and the display panel includes a first polarizer, a first base substrate, a first alignment layer, a liquid crystal layer, a second alignment layer, a second base substrate, and a second polarizer. A reflection layer is provided between the second alignment layer and the second polarizer in the reflection region. The liquid crystal layer in the reflection region includes nematic liquid crystal and a polymer network. The liquid crystal layer in the transmission region includes a liquid crystal mixture including the nematic liquid crystal and polymerizable monomers. The polymer network in reflection region is formed by polymerizing the polymerizable monomers in the liquid crystal mixture.

A display device includes a rear polarizing plate having a first transmission axis, a rear panel in which a major axis of a liquid crystal molecule in an initial alignment is oriented in a first initial alignment direction, a λ/2 wavelength plate, a front panel in which a major axis of a liquid crystal molecule in an initial alignment is oriented in a second initial alignment direction different from the first initial alignment direction, the front panel being tilted at a predetermined angle with respect to the rear panel, and a front polarizing plate having a second transmission axis oriented in a direction different from the first transmission axis and tilted at the predetermined angle with respect to the rear polarizing plate. The rear polarizing plate, the rear panel, the λ/2 wavelength plate, the front panel, and the front polarizing plate are disposed in this order, the first transmission axis and the first initial alignment direction are perpendicular or parallel to each other, and the second transmission axis and the second initial alignment direction are perpendicular or parallel to each other.

Provided is a polarizing plate for a light-emitting diode and a light-emitting display device including the same, the polarizing plate comprising a polarizing film and a liquid crystal retardation film, wherein the liquid crystal retardation film comprises a laminate made of: a second retardation film having a discotic liquid crystal of which an in-plane retardation Re, in a wavelength of 550 nm, is approximately 220 nm to approximately 280 nm and a biaxial degree (NZ) is approximately 0 to approximately 0.3; and a first retardation film having a nematic liquid crystal of which an in-plane retardation Re, in a wavelength of 550 nm, is approximately 100 nm to approximately 150 nm and a biaxial degree (NZ) is approximately 0.3 to approximately 0.7.