A liquid crystal writing film includes: a first conductive layer, a liquid crystal layer and a second conductive layer, which are arranged in sequence. At least one of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer is divided into two or more conductive regions that are insulated from each other; and the positioning of a to-be-erased region is achieved by the positioning system, a set voltage is applied to the set conductive region, and the voltage forms a set electric field in the to-be-erased region to erase the to-be-erased region. According to the present invention, the partial erasing of the liquid crystal writing film can be realized by using a local electric field formed between two upper and lower conductive layers, the erasing speed is high, a partial erasing region can be accurately positioned, and meanwhile the storage and reproduction of a writing trajectory can be achieved.

A liquid crystal eWriter device with user adjustable select erase includes a front substrate formed of a flexible, polymeric material. Electrically conductive layers are spaced apart from each other. A dispersion layer includes a dispersion of cholesteric liquid crystal material and polymer disposed between the electrically conductive layers, wherein pressure applied to the front substrate changes a reflectance of the cholesteric liquid crystal material forming an image. Electronic circuitry is adapted to fully and selectively erase the image by applying a full erase voltage waveform and a select erase voltage waveform, respectively, to the electrically conductive layers. The image is select erased by applying the select erase voltage waveform to the electrically conductive layers while applying pressure to the front substrate and tracing a portion of the image. At least one SELECT ERASE actuator is included in the electronic circuitry and enables the user to adjust the select erase voltage waveform so as to adjust select erasing of the image. Also featured is a method of making select erase adjustments on the eWriter.

A liquid crystal device (LCD) includes from the viewing side: a first electrode layer; a viewing side first liquid crystal (LC) alignment layer; an LC layer; a non-viewing side second LC alignment layer; and a second electrode layer; wherein one of the electrode layers is a common electrode layer and the other of the electrode layers is a segmented electrode layer, and at least one of the first and second LC alignment layers is a bistable alignment layer that is switchable between a first alignment state and a second alignment state. The LCD is operated by applying a first voltage pulse to the segmented electrode layer and applying a second voltage pulse to the common electrode layer (Vcom pulse), the first and second voltage pulses combining to form a resultant voltage pulse. The bistable alignment layer switches from the first alignment state to the second alignment state when a magnitude of the resultant voltage pulse exceeds a switching voltage threshold.

A method, device of compensating viewing angle chromatic aberration of a display device, and a display device are provided, wherein the method includes the steps as follows: receiving an inputted image, looking-up each of pixel driving signals of the inputted image and obtaining a first driving signal and a second driving signal corresponded to each of pixels within two adjacent frames of the image individually, computing a mean value of the first driving signals and a mean value of the second driving signals individually, computing a mean value of the first the second driving signals in the same frame of the image individually, computing a brightness compensation signal required in a backlight module of a backlight region based on the computed mean values and a predetermined standard brightness signal; and compensating viewing angle chromatic aberration of post frames of the image based on the brightness compensation signal.

A display may include illumination optics, a ferroelectric liquid crystal on silicon (fLCOS) panel, and a waveguide. The illumination optics may produce illumination that is modulated by the fLCOS panel to produce image light. The waveguide may direct the image light towards an eye box. The fLCOS panel may include a ferroelectric liquid crystal (fLC) layer and a backplane. In order to maximize the reflectance of the fLCOS panel and thus the optical performance of the display, the backplane may be a silver backplane or a dielectric mirror backplane. In addition, the backplane may have a cell gap that is equal to a wavelength divided by four times the birefringence of the fLC layer. In order to further optimize the optical performance of the display module, the wavelength used in determining the cell gap may be a green wavelength between 500 nm and 565 nm.

A liquid crystal display panel (100) comprises a first polarizer (110) and a second polarizer (170), a first liquid crystal layer (130) disposed between the first polarizer (110) and the second polarizer (170), and an optical compensation layer (140) disposed between the first liquid crystal layer (130) and one of the first polarizer (110) and the second polarizer (170). A transmission axis of the first polarizer (110) is perpendicular to a transmission axis of the second polarizer (170). The first liquid crystal layer (130) includes first liquid crystal molecules (130). An included angle () between an orthographic projection of an optical axis of a first liquid crystal molecule (130) on the first polarizer (110), which is perpendicular to an orthographic projection of an optical axis of the optical compensation layer (140) on the first polarizer (110), and the transmission axis of the first polarizer (110) is an acute angle.

When binary pixel data is written to a pixel circuit, of an H-level (3V) and a L-level (0V), a voltage of the level indicating the binary pixel data is held at a first node, and a voltage of the inverted level thereof is held at a second node. The first and second nodes are connected to a third node via N-channel transistors, respectively, and first and second selection control signals are supplied to gate terminals of the transistors, respectively. Voltage levels of the first and second selection control signals are periodically switched between 5V indicating the H-level and 0V indicating the L-level in a mutually inverted manner. As a result, the voltage of the first node and the voltage of the second node are alternately selected and applied to a pixel electrode of a display element.

Provided is a display module. The display module includes: a base substrate, and a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in an array, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in an array, a liquid crystal layer, and a light source that are disposed on a side of the base substrate and successively arranged along a direction away from the base substrate; wherein the pixel circuit at least comprises a drive transistor, the drive transistor comprising a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode; and the pixel electrode at least comprises a reflective electrode.

A structured illumination microscope includes a spatial light modulator containing ferroelectric liquid crystals, an interference optical system for illuminating a specimen with an interference fringe generated by making lights from the spatial light modulator interfere with each other, a controller for applying a voltage pattern having a predetermined voltage value distribution to the ferroelectric liquid crystals, an image forming optical system for forming an image of the specimen, which has been irradiated with the interference fringe, an imaging element for generating an image by imaging the image formed by the image forming optical system, and a demodulating part for generating a demodulated image using a plurality of images, wherein the controller applies an image generation voltage pattern for generating the demodulated images and a burn-in prevention voltage pattern calculated based on the image generation voltage pattern to the ferroelectric liquid crystals.

A semiconductor device with low power consumption is provided. The semiconductor device includes a controller, a register, and an image processing portion. The image processing portion has a function of processing image data using a parameter. The image processing portion takes the image data from a frame memory and takes the parameter from the register. The frame memory has a function of retaining the image data while power supply is stopped. The register has a function of retaining the parameter while power supply is stopped. The controller has a function of controlling power supply to the register, the frame memory, and the image processing portion.