An image sensor configured to resolve intensity and polarization has multiple pixels each having a single microlens adapted to focus light on a central photodiode surrounded by at least a first, a second, a third, and a fourth peripheral photodiodes, where a first polarizer at a first angle is disposed upon the first peripheral photodiode, a third polarizer at a third angle is disposed upon the third peripheral photodiode, a second polarizer at a second angle is disposed upon the second peripheral photodiode, and a fourth polarizer at a fourth angle is disposed upon the fourth peripheral photodiode, the first, second, third, and fourth angles being different. In embodiments, 4 or 8 peripheral photodiodes are provided, and in an embodiment the polarizers are parts of an octagonal polarizer.

According to some embodiments, a transparent screen includes a first transparent substrate having a first transparent substrate index of refraction and including a surface relief pattern, a partially reflective coating formed on the surface relief pattern, and a second transparent substrate bonded over the partially reflective coating with an optical adhesive having the first transparent substrate index of refraction.

A display panel and a manufacturing method therefor, a drive method and a display device. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged opposite to each other. The first substrate includes a first base substrate, and a plurality of first wire grid polarizers and a plurality of pixel units, which are successively located on a side of the first base substrate facing the second substrate in an array arrangement; polarization directions of two adjacent first wire grid polarizers are perpendicular to each other. The second substrate includes: a second base substrate, and a plurality of second wire grid polarizers in an array arrangement which are located on a side of the second base substrate facing the first substrate, and polarization directions of two adjacent second wire grid polarizers are perpendicular to each other.

A plasmonic device is disclosed, the plasmonic device having a base substrate and an electrically conductive film formed on the base substrate. The base substrate has a reference upper surface and an arrangement of chiral nanostructures formed in relief from the reference upper surface. Each chiral nanostructure has a nanostructure upper surface which is disposed at a distance of at least 30 nm from the reference upper surface in a thickness direction. The electrically conductive film is formed on the nanostructure upper surface of each chiral nanostructure and on at least part of the reference upper surface of the base substrate. Also disclosed is a method of analysis of a biological material using the plasmonic device, by depositing the biological material onto the plasmonic device and irradiating the plasmonic device and the biological material with electromagnetic radiation. The arrangement of chiral nanostructures and electrically conductive film generates a superchiral electromagnetic field, the effect of the presence of the biological material on the superchiral electromagnetic field then being detected.

This polarizing plate is a polarizing plate having a wire grid structure including a transparent substrate and a plurality of protrusions formed on the first surface of a transparent substrate, extending in a first direction, and periodically arranged apart from each other at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light in a use band, wherein each of the plurality of protrusions includes a reflective layer, a dielectric layer, and an absorption layer in order from the transparent substrate, and the top surface and the side surface of each of the plurality of protrusions are coated with a protective film made of a dielectric material, and wherein the protective film has a cross-sectional area that gradually increases from the top surface side to the transparent substrate side when viewed from a cross section obtained by cutting the protrusion along a plane perpendicular to the surface of the transparent substrate and perpendicular to the first direction.

A stereoscopic imaging method where a pixel matrix is divided into groups such that parallax information is received by one pixel group and original information is received by another pixel group. The parallax information may, specifically, be based on polarized information received by subgroups of the one pixel, group and by processing all of the information received multiple images are rendered by the method.

A light emitting device is composed of a light source, including a plurality of LEDs, and a polarizing element that receives rays of light emitted from the light source and causes at least in part the rays of light to transmit therethrough and be then incident on a work. Besides, each of the plurality of LEDs has an optical axis tilting at a first angle θ1 with respect to the work, whereas a second angle θ2, defined as half of a light distribution angle of the rays of light emitted from each of the plurality of LEDs, is set to be less than the first angle θ1. Moreover, an illuminance and a cumulative illuminance of the rays of light incident on the work or an exposure surface are adjusted by changing electricity to be inputted to the plurality of LEDs.

A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a first substrate, including a plurality of pixel units, each pixel unit including a plurality of sub-pixels with different colors; a second substrate, disposed opposite to the first substrate; and a light splitting film, configured to decompose white light incident thereon into a plurality of monochromatic lights which respectively correspond to the plurality of sub-pixels of each pixel unit in color and respectively project the plurality of monochromatic lights onto the plurality of sub-pixels of each pixel unit.

A display device includes a transparent substrate; a plurality of electro-conductive polarizers disposed on the transparent substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the plurality of electro-conductive polarizers; and a plurality of gate lines disposed on the insulating layer, wherein each of the plurality of electro-conductive polarizers is coupled to each of the plurality of gate lines.

Methods and apparatus provide for: capturing an image of a subject from a position; capturing a plurality of images of the subject from a plurality of further positions around the position such that the plurality of captured images of the subject are different in image quality or view angles than the image of the subject from the position; and generating data to be output on a basis of the image captured from the position and the plurality of images captured from the plurality of further positions, where at least one of: the capturing the image or the plurality of images includes pixels capable of detecting light in an infrared wavelength band, and the generating includes synthesizing the image from the position and the images captured from the further positions and changing a synthesis ratio according to an image synthesis position.