A display case door for a product storage device includes a transparent unit through which products within the product storage device are visible. The transparent unit includes a transparent LCD panel configured to present visual media content. The display case door further includes an electrical hinge pin rotatably coupling the display case door to the product storage device and one or more electrical conductors extending through the electrical hinge pin. The electrical conductors deliver the visual media content to the transparent LCD panel from a remote data source.

A tunable, optical metasurface can include an optically reflective surface to reflect optical radiation, such as infrared laser light. An array of optical resonant antennas may, for example, extend from or otherwise be positioned on the reflective surface with sub-wavelength spacings of, for example, less than one-half of a wavelength. Voltage-controlled liquid crystal may be positioned in the optical field region of each of the optical resonant antennas. A controller may apply a voltage differential bias pattern to the liquid crystal of optical resonant antennas, that may be arranged in tiled, interleaved, or randomly arranged subsets of optical resonant antennas to attain one-dimensional beam steering, two-dimensional beam steering, and/or spatial beam shaping.

A polarized light irradiation device of the present disclosure has: a light source unit which continuously emits polarized light; a light shaping unit which shapes the polarized light emitted from the light source unit into a preset shape to irradiate an irradiation target object with the shaped polarized light; a transport mechanism which transports the irradiation target object relative to the light source unit; and an interlocking mechanism which periodically and continuously changes a direction of linearly polarized light applied to the irradiation target object or an azimuthal angle of elliptically polarized light applied to the irradiation target object according to an amount of transport of the irradiation target object relative to the light source unit by the transport mechanism.

Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to modulating a number roundtrips that light travels within a cavity to modulate optical depth. In one implementation, a display system includes: a display configured to emit light corresponding to an image; a first optical component positioned in front of the display, the first optical component configured to pass the light to a field evolving cavity (FEC); and the FEC, where the FEC includes a cavity entrance and a cavity exit, the cavity entrance configured to receive the light passed by the first optical component, the FEC configured with a polarization clock that modulates a number of round trips the light travels within the FEC, between the cavity entrance and the cavity exit, by changing a polarization of the light during each round trip.

A liquid crystal projector includes a liquid crystal panel configured to generate a modulated image, a sensor configured to detect a temperature of the liquid crystal panel, an optical shift element configured to shift an emission optical path of the modulated image generated by the liquid crystal panel, and a control circuit configured to control a velocity of a shift in the optical shift element according to the temperature detected by the sensor.

An electronic device including a transfer layer, a method of manufacturing the electronic device, and an electronic apparatus including the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a substrate having a thickness less than 0.7 mm; a first transfer layer provided on a first surface of the substrate, the first transfer layer including an organic material; and a first stack provided on the first transfer layer.

According to one embodiment, an image processing device includes a hardware processor implemented by one or more processors. The hardware processor acquires a first image of a first object and a second image of a second object which is different from the first object, the images captured by an image capture processing device including an image capturing element and an optical system which images an object image on an image capturing surface of the image capturing element. The hardware processor measures a point spread function of the optical system based on the first image and the second image.

There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.

The present disclosure provides a phase shifter and a manufacturing method thereof, and an antenna. The phase shifter includes a first substrate including a reference electrode, and a second substrate including a delay line and a bias line. An orthographic projection of the bias line on the first substrate and that of the delay line, at least partially overlap with that of the reference electrode respectively. The orthographic projection of the bias line on the first substrate does not overlap with that of the delay line. The delay line is used for transmitting a microwave signal and defining a microwave transmission region. When electrical signals are applied to the reference electrode, the delay line and the bias line, electric field areas formed respectively between the reference electrode and the delay line, and between the reference electrode and the bias line, cover the microwave transmission region.

A beam deflector includes a first electrode layer including a plurality of line electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged parallel to each other in a second direction crossing the first direction; a second electrode layer separated from the first electrode layer by a predetermined distance to face the first electrode layer; and a deflection layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer and having a plurality of optically anisotropic molecules controlled by an electric field formed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. Each of the optically anisotropic molecules has an ellipse shape having a major axis and a minor axis, wherein the major axis is arranged to head for the first direction.