A light modulating device including: a light transmissive plate having a curved surface; a light modulating cell; and an optically transparent adhesive film which is disposed between the curved surface of the light transmissive plate and the light modulating cell and attaches one side of the light modulating cell to the curved surface of the light transmissive plate.

The present invention discloses a display device and a method of controlling the same, dedicated spectacles and a display system, thereby enabling switching between secrecy display and normal display. The display device comprises a display panel, in which two adjacent sub-pixels located in the same row are configured to display different image information, and which only displays one image of information when in a first display state displays at least two images of information when in a second display state; the display device further comprises a control panel located at a light exit side of the display panel and comprises first regions and second regions which are alternately arranged and is configured so that when the display panel is in the second display state, a polarization direction of light emitted from the display panel after passing through the first regions is different from that of light emitted from the display panel after the light passes through the second regions. The dedicated spectacles used with the display device are configured to only allow one of light passing through the first regions and light passing through the second regions to pass therethrough.

Methods and systems for an electro-optic filter that operates in two modes-a homogeneous mode and a heterogeneous mode. The homogeneous mode maintains a relatively homogeneous shading/attenuation range across specified viewing angles in both the vertical and horizontal directions. The heterogeneous mode provides for relatively homogeneous shading/attenuation range across specified viewing angles in the horizontal direction but allows for gradual and a more varying (e.g., wider) range of shading/attenuation changes across the specified viewing angles in the vertical direction, e.g., as compared to the horizontal direction.

A display panel includes an upper plate including a first substrate, a first electrode layer formed on an inner surface of the first substrate, and an absorptive polarizing film formed on an outer surface of the first substrate and having a first polarization axis, a lower plate including a second substrate, a second electrode layer formed on an inner surface of the second substrate, and a reflective polarizing film formed on an outer surface of the second substrate and having a second polarization axis perpendicular or parallel to the first polarization axis, an LC layer filled between the upper plate and the lower plate, and an LC driving power supply connected between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer and configured to selectively provide an LC driving voltage to the LC layer changing a polarization direction of incident light in the LC layer.

The invention relates to a method of producing a phase device operating at at least one wavelength () comprising a cell containing a liquid crystal possessing a helical structure, inserted between two alignment layers possessing rubbing axes and means for applying a voltage to said cell, said helical structure exhibits a number of helical turns k, said liquid crystal exhibiting a defined angle of twist between the rubbing axes of the two alignment layers, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: the determination of a compensation angle satisfying the following equation: (formula) with: N the integer closest to (formula) the angle of twist =2Kn: the birefringence of the liquid crystal; d: the thickness of the liquid crystal cell; : the wavelength of the light beam which passes through the liquid crystal cell; the rubbing of one of the faces in a direction of alignment of said liquid crystal molecules, defining the angle of twist: =2K. $\mathrm{.Math.}=2k-N\sqrt{1-\frac{d^2{n}^2}{N^2{}^2}})$

The present application provides a retardation element, having a first birefringent layer; and a second birefringent layer which has approximately the same average thickness as that of the first birefringent layer and contacts the first birefringent layer such that an angle formed between a first line segment representing the principal axis of refractive index anisotropy of the first birefringent layer and a second line segment representing the principal axis of refractive index anisotropy of the second birefringent layer is neither 0 nor 180 when the first line segment and the second line segment are projected on the transparent substrate such that an end A of the first line segment at a side of the transparent substrate and an end B of the second line segment at a side of the transparent substrate coincide with each other.

A display device includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a reflective liquid crystal portion and a self-luminous element portion, in the reflective liquid crystal portion, a first substrate does not include a switching element, a reflector, a pixel electrode, a liquid crystal layer, and an opposite electrode form a reflective liquid crystal display element that operates in bistable liquid crystal display mode, in the self-luminous element portion, the first substrate includes: a switching element; a self-luminous display element including a first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode; and a coating layer disposed on a side of the liquid crystal layer of the self-luminous display element, and the coating layer is provided contiguously across the reflective liquid crystal portion and the self-luminous element portion.

A display device includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a reflective liquid crystal portion and a self-luminous element portion, in the reflective liquid crystal portion, a first substrate does not include a switching element, a reflector, a pixel electrode, a liquid crystal layer, and an opposite electrode form a reflective liquid crystal display element that operates in bistable liquid crystal display mode, in the self-luminous element portion, the first substrate includes: a switching element; a self-luminous display element including a first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode; and a coating layer disposed on a side of the liquid crystal layer of the self-luminous display element, and the coating layer is provided contiguously across the reflective liquid crystal portion and the self-luminous element portion.

A light modulating device is disclosed herein. The light modulating device is applied to a sunroof and/or glass of an automobile. In some embodiments, a light modulating device configured to be disposed in a sunroof of an automobile includes a light modulation film layer, wherein the light modulation film layer includes a first anisotropic substrate, a second anisotropic substrate, and a liquid crystal layer, wherein each of the first and second anisotropic substrates has a first surface, wherein the first surfaces of the first and second anisotropic substrates face each other; wherein the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first surfaces of the first and second anisotropic substrates, and wherein a slow axis of the first or second anisotropic substrate is disposed parallel to a width direction of the automobile.

A liquid-crystalline media having a negative dielectric anisotropy and a high clearing point as specified herein, is suitable for use of in switchable optical cells in window elements, in particular laminated window elements.