A light control panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate oppositely disposed, and a first liquid crystal layer therebetween; the first substrate includes: a first base substrate; and a signal transmission line on a side of the first base substrate close to the first liquid crystal layer and in the peripheral area, the second substrate includes: a second base substrate; and a first black matrix layer on a side of the second base substrate close to the first liquid crystal layer and in the dimming area and the peripheral area; the first black matrix layer has a slot in the peripheral area, and an orthographic projection of at least a part of the slot on the first base substrate is on a side of an orthographic projection of the signal transmission line on the first base substrate, close to the dimming area.

A thin film transistor, an array substrate and a display device are provided. The thin film transistor is on a base substrate and includes a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode on the base substrate. The gate electrode includes a first body portion and a first extension portion extending along the first direction, electrically connected with the first body portion, and spaced apart from the first body portion by a first spacing. The first electrode includes a first overlapping end, an orthographic projection of the first overlapping end on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the first body portion on the base substrate; a first compensation end at a side of the first overlapping end away from the first body portion, an orthographic projection of the first compensation end on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the first extension portion on the base substrate; and a first intermediate portion connecting the first overlapping end and the first compensation end, an orthographic projection of the first intermediate portion on the base substrate is within an orthographic projection of the first spacing on the base substrate.

According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal device includes a first liquid crystal cell and a second liquid crystal cell bonded to the first liquid crystal cell. The first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell each include a first substrate including first electrodes formed in a strip shape, a second substrate including second electrodes formed in a strip shape, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate. An angle of intersection of the first electrodes and the second electrodes is less than 90° in each of the first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell.

A system is described that combines spectropolarimetry with scatterometry. The system uses an annular mirror and liquid crystal devices to control the angle of the incident light cone, the polarization and wavelength, an imaging setup and one or more video cameras so that spectroseopic-polarimetric-scatterometric images can be grabbed rapidly. The system is also designed to incorporate additional imaging modes such as interference, phase contrast, fluorescence and Raman spectropolarimetric imaging.

Provided is a display module. The display module includes a first display panel including a first edge sealing region; a second display panel including a second edge sealing region, wherein the second display panel and the first display panel are disposed in a same layer and spliced with each other, and the second edge sealing region is abutted against the first edge sealing region; and a third display panel disposed on backlight sides of the first display panel and the second display panel, wherein both an orthographic projection of the first edge sealing region onto the third display panel and an orthographic projection of the second edge sealing region onto the third display panel fall within a display region of the third display panel; wherein the first display panel, the second display panel and the third display panel are all liquid-crystal display panels.

According to one embodiment, a display device includes an illumination device, a display panel, a first polarizer attached to the display panel, a second polarizer attached to the display panel, and a transmissive diffraction grating provided in a location between the illumination device and the first polarizer or in a location facing the second polarizer. The diffraction grating includes a third substrate, a fourth substrate, and a second liquid crystal layer provided between the third substrate and the fourth substrate, containing a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, and cured in a state where alignment directions of the liquid crystal molecules are fixed.

A display unit of the present invention includes a display section (10) that outputs a first linearly-polarized light as image light, and a display switching section (20) that performs switching between an image display mode and an external light reflection mode. The display section (10) includes a first absorption-type polarization member (11) that allows the first linearly-polarized light to pass through and absorbs second linearly-polarized light. The display switching section (20) includes a reflection-type polarization member (21), a switchable transmission polarization axis member (22), and a second absorption-type polarization member (23). The reflection-type polarization member (21) allows the first linearly-polarized light to pass through and reflects the second linearly-polarized light. The switchable transmission polarization axis member (22) performs switching between a first mode in which the first linearly-polarized light is converted into the second linearly-polarized light and a second mode in which the first linearly-polarized light is not converted into the second linearly-polarized light. The second absorption-type polarization member (23) allows the first linearly-polarized light to pass through and absorbs the second linearly-polarized light. The second absorption-type polarization member (23) has a hue b* value that is equal to or smaller than a hue b* value of the first absorption-type polarization member (11).

A display device includes a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region. A display element included in the first region has a function of reflecting visible light and a function of emitting visible light. A display element included in the second region has a function of emitting visible light. In an electronic device including the display device, the first region is located on a first surface (e.g., top surface) on which a main image is displayed, and the second region is located on a second surface (e.g., side surface) on which an auxiliary image is displayed.

Liquid crystal devices are described that maintain performance of polarization/amplitude modulation under high irradiance conditions. Configurations that isolate polarizing elements under high thermal load are discussed which allow other elements, such as glass, which may be sensitive to stress birefringence to remain near optimum thermal conditions.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a 3D display device, and the 3D display device, comprising: a display panel (1), configured to display an image; an optical element (2) and a liquid crystal lens (3), disposed to overlap each other and positioned at a light exiting side of the display panel (1), wherein the optical element (2) comprises a plurality of optical lens units (2a), the liquid crystal lens (3) comprises a plurality of liquid crystal lens units (3a), the plurality of liquid crystal lens units (3a) correspond to the plurality of optical lens units (2a) in a one-to-one corresponding relationship; when the 3D display device is in a 2D displaying mode, each of the plurality of liquid crystal lens units (3a) has an effect on light contrary to an effect on the light of each of the plurality of optical lens units (2a), and when the 3D display device is in a 3D displaying mode, the liquid crystal lens unit (3a) is configured to have a plane glass function. The 3D display device provided by the embodiments of the present invention can be switched between 2D and 3D displaying, and can reduce the crosstalk during 3D displaying and improve the display effect.