There is provided a display panel including: a light guide structure layer having a light exiting side and configured to enable internal light to be emitted from a preset position; a display structure layer on the light exiting side and including a light adjusting structure, a black matrix and a reflection matrix positioned on a side, away from the light guide structure layer, of the light adjusting structure, the light adjusting structure is configured to control light emitted from the preset position to enter an area where the black matrix is positioned and/or an area where the reflection matrix is positioned; a light absorption structure layer on a side of the light adjusting structure away from the black matrix and configured to absorb light reflected by the black matrix and allow light reflected by the reflection matrix to pass through. A display device is further provided.

The present disclosure provides a backlight module, a display apparatus and an illumination apparatus. The backlight module includes: a light guide plate; a light emitting diode arranged above the light guide plate; an optical film layer arranged above the light emitting diode; a film of material with a polarization orientation arranged above the optical film layer; a liquid crystal cell arranged above the film of material; and a polarizer arranged above the liquid crystal cell. The liquid crystal cell includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode and a liquid crystal layer between the upper electrode and the lower electrode and the liquid crystal layer is capable of changing polarization state of a light passing through the liquid crystal cell, by the control of a voltage applied between the upper electrode and the lower electrode.

In an embodiment, a display panel unit includes a reflective polarizing layer, a transparent layer, and a display panel. The polarizing layer transmits a first polarized component of light incident on an incident surface to an exit surface and reflects a second polarized component of the light. The transparent layer transmits the first and second polarized component of the light incident on a second surface to a first surface adhered to the incident surface and transmits the second polarized component reflected by the polarizing layer to be incident on the first surface to the second surface. The panel faces the exit surface, and selectively transmits the light exiting from the exit surface.

A contact image sensor having an illumination source; a first SBG array device; a transmission grating; a second SBG array device; a waveguiding layer including a multiplicity of waveguide cores separated by cladding material; an upper clad layer; and a platen. The sensor further includes: an input element for coupling light from the illumination source into the first SBG array; a coupling element for coupling light out of the cores into output optical paths coupled to a detector having at least one photosensitive element.

A light emitting device includes a support having an interstice and at least one LED located in the interstice and at least one of a waveguide or an optical launch having a transparent material encapsulating the at least one LED located in the interstice.

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.

A device for producing polarized light includes a plurality of photonic crystal grid structures on a substrate. The plurality of photonic crystal grid structures includes one or more structured regions for the transmission of polarized blue light, polarized green light, and polarized red light. A green quantum dot layer is substantially positioned on the one or more structured regions for the transmission of polarized green light and a red quantum dot layer is substantially positioned on the one or more structured regions for the transmission of polarized red light. A blue light emitting diode array is disposed on the polarized light device such that the emission from the blue light emitting diode array facilitates the emission of red and green light from the red and green quantum dot layers.

An optical display system includes a polarizer, an integrated back light unit optically connected to a first face of the polarizer and a display comprising an array of pixels optically connected to a second face of the polarizer. The first face of the polarizer and the second face of the polarizer are not parallel and the polarizer is configured to direct light from the integrated back light unit to the display.

A display device includes a backlight unit and a display panel disposed on the backlight unit. The backlight unit includes a light source unit and an optical unit disposed between the light source unit and the display panel. The optical unit includes an alignment layer, quantum rods disposed on the alignment layer, and an accommodation part configured to accommodate the alignment layer and the quantum rods.

Provided is a diffusion sheet having a function for preventing warping, and having excellent optical and diffusion characteristics. A diffusion sheet 1 has a minute roughness pattern formed on the surface thereof, the pattern configured such that first protrusions 3a having a first height and second protrusions 3b having a second height lower than the first height are disposed in parallel. A portion of the first protrusions 3a is bonded to a bonding layer on the rear surface of an upper-layer sheet laminated on the surface of a diffusion sheet 2, and the second protrusions 3b are not bonded to said bonding layer. The following relationships are satisfied: h.sub.1:h.sub.2=1: 0.5-0.1, and w.sub.1:w.sub.2=1:1.0-0.1, where h.sub.1 is the height of the first protrusions 3a, w.sub.1 is the width of the first protrusions 3a, h.sub.2 is the height of the second protrusions 3b, and w.sub.2 is the width of the second protrusions 3b.