An article includes an optical transforming layer and a guide region positioned inside and adjacent to at least a portion of a perimeter of the optical transforming layer. The guide region comprises an inlet end positioned adjacent to a first surface of the optical transforming layer and an outlet end positioned adjacent a second surface of the optical transforming layer. The guide region propagates light from the inlet end to the outlet end such that the light is directed from the first surface to the second surface. The guide region includes a phase-separated glass comprising a continuous network phase and a discontinuous phase. A relative difference in index of refraction between the continuous network phase and the discontinuous phase is greater than or equal to 0.3%. The discontinuous phase comprises elongated shaped regions aligned along a common axis and having an aspect ratio greater than or equal to 10:1.

A display module, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device are provided. The display module comprises: a light guide plate; a blue light source, disposed at the light entering face of the light guide plate; and a display panel, disposed at a side of the light exiting face of the light guide plate, the display panel comprises a plurality of display units, and adjacent display units are spaced apart with a light shielding barrier wall; each display unit comprises a quantum dot unit and a liquid crystal unit arranged side by side, and the liquid crystal unit and the quantum dot unit are spaced apart with a transparent barrier wall; a side of the liquid crystal unit away from the light guide plate is provided with a first light shielding pattern.

Provided are an optical element and an image display apparatus that display an aerial image, in which the total volume of the apparatus is small, a reduction in size can realized, and a scenery can be recognized. The optical element includes: a light guide element including a light guide plate, an incidence diffraction element, and an emission diffraction element, the incidence diffraction element being disposed on a main surface of the light guide plate and the emission diffraction element being disposed on the main surface of the light guide plate; and a positive lens that is disposed at a position overlapping the emission diffraction element in a view from a direction perpendicular to the main surface of the light guide plate, in which the incidence diffraction element diffracts incident light such that the diffracted light is incident into the light guide plate, the emission diffraction element emits light propagating in the light guide plate from the light guide plate, and the positive lens collects the light that is emitted from the light guide plate by the emission diffraction element.

The present invention relates to a prism layer (10) superimposed on the front surface of a display (20), in which: a plurality of prism parts (11) are vertically arranged; the prism parts (11) each have an upper slope surface (12) and a lower slope surface (13), and have a corner part (14) which has a forward protruding triangular shape in a cross-sectional view; the angle θ1 of the upper slope surface (12) with respect to a rear surface (15) is set to 60° to 120°, and the angle θ2 of the lower slope surface (13) with respect to the rear surface (15) is set to 5° to 45°; and the pitch Pp of a groove part (16) between the prism parts (11) is made smaller than the vertical pitch Pd of a pixel (21) of the display (20).

A pixel electrode or a common electrode is a light-transmissive conductive film; therefore, it is formed of ITO conventionally. Accordingly, the number of manufacturing steps and masks, and manufacturing cost have been increased. An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device, a liquid crystal display device, and an electronic appliance each having a wide viewing angle, less numbers of manufacturing steps and masks, and low manufacturing cost compared with a conventional device. A semiconductor layer of a transistor, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode of a liquid crystal element are formed in the same step.

A lighting unit includes a glass laminate structure including a base layer formed from a first glass composition with a refractive index n.sub.base and a surface layer fused to a surface of the base layer and formed from a second glass composition with a refractive index n.sub.surface. The surface layer includes a high refractive index region with a refractive index n.sub.high and a low refractive index region with a refractive index n.sub.low. n.sub.base and n.sub.surface satisfy the equation |n.sub.surface−n.sub.base≥0.001, n.sub.high is greater than or equal to n.sub.base 1, and n.sub.low is less than n.sub.base. The high refractive index region is optically coupled to the base layer such that at least a portion of light propagating through the base layer leaks out of the base layer and into the high refractive index region. A display device or a luminaire can include the lighting unit.

Provided are: a light guide element that includes an intermediate diffraction element to expand exit pupil such that a light utilization efficiency is high and a decrease in the brightness of an image to be displayed can be suppressed; and an image display apparatus. The light guide element includes a light guide plate, an incidence diffraction element, an intermediate diffraction element, and an emission diffraction element, in which the incidence diffraction element, the intermediate diffraction element, and the emission diffraction element include a liquid crystal layer that is formed of a composition including a liquid crystal compound and has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, in a cross-section of the liquid crystal layer observed with a SEM, bright portions and dark portions derived from a liquid crystal phase are tilted with respect to a main surface of the liquid crystal layer, and in a case where an interval between the bright portions or between the dark portions is represented by a ½ pitch, the pitch P.sub.in of the incidence diffraction element and the pitch P.sub.e of the intermediate diffraction element satisfy P.sub.in<P.sub.e.

The present disclosure relates to display systems and, more particularly, to augmented reality display systems. A diffraction grating includes a plurality of different diffracting zones having a periodically repeating lateral dimension corresponding to a grating period adapted for light diffraction. The diffraction grating additionally includes a plurality of different liquid crystal layers corresponding to the different diffracting zones. The different liquid crystal layers have liquid crystal molecules that are aligned differently, such that the different diffracting zones have different optical properties associated with light diffraction.

A display device includes a light control film including a first alignment pattern. The display device further includes a display panel including a second alignment pattern. The first alignment pattern and the second alignment pattern are at least partially overlapped with one another.

A display device is provided. The display device comprises a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a first polarizing layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and including first line grid patterns, a light scattering layer disposed between the first polarizing layer and the second substrate, and color filter layers disposed between the light scattering layer and the second substrate.