The present invention relates to a light guide plate including a plurality of cutting areas, the light guide plate capable of solving the problem of brightness degradation between the plurality of cutting areas by attaching a predetermined member, which is reactive to light, to at least one of the inner sides of the cutting areas.

A polarizer, a polarizer array, a polarization-controllable method and apparatus, and an electronic device are disclosed. The polarizer includes multiple types of polarization units, each polarization unit includes a first liquid crystal cell and a second liquid crystal cell that are laminated, each liquid crystal cell includes a liquid crystal layer and an alignment film, and the alignment film is connected to an electrode layer configured to apply an external voltage to the liquid crystal layer. The first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell of each polarization unit may be separately controlled as “connected” or “disconnected”, and orientations of alignment films of first liquid crystal cells between all the multiple types of polarization units are different. In a same polarization unit, when one liquid crystal cell is in an on state, emergent light of the polarization unit is polarized light in one polarization direction.

A privacy film and a display device are provided. The privacy film comprises a liquid crystal dimming cell and a first polarizer. The liquid crystal dimming cell comprises two opposed substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the two substrates. The liquid crystal layer comprises a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, and the plurality of liquid crystal molecules have the same fixed orientation angle, and an orthogonal projection of long axes of the liquid crystal molecules on the first substrate is perpendicular to an absorption axis of the first polarizer. As such, the brightness of the display screen will not be affected when looking up from the front, and the privacy-image protection effect for decreasing the brightness of the display screen when looking up from the side is achieved.

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that may realize a wide viewing angle and realize a high-speed response. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device that has upper and lower substrates and a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the upper and lower substrates, in which the lower substrate includes electrodes, the electrodes are configured with a first electrode, a second electrode in a different layer from the first electrode, and a third electrode in a same layer as the second electrode, the liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules that are horizontally aligned with respect to a main surface of the upper and lower substrates in a case where a voltage is not applied, and the liquid crystal display device is configured to execute a driving operation that causes the electrodes to generate an electric field which causes a portion of the liquid crystal molecules to rotate in a horizontal plane with respect to the main surface and causes another portion of the liquid crystal molecules to rotate in an opposite direction to the portion of the liquid crystal molecules in the horizontal plane with respect to the main surface.

A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer comprises a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. When the display panel is in a first display mode, the plurality of liquid crystal molecules rotate in a slanted plane parallel to a first direction and a second direction. The first direction is slanted with respect to a thickness direction of the display panel, and the second direction is perpendicular to the thickness direction of the display panel and the first direction.

According to the present invention, a system for manufacturing an optical display element, which manufactures an optical display element by laminating optical films on both planes of a rectangular panel according to the present invention includes: a panel supply unit supplying the panel; a first laminating unit laminating a first optical film onto the panel in a first direction selected from a long-edge longitudinal direction and a short-edge longitudinal direction of the panel at a first side selected from the two sides of the panel; a second laminating unit laminating a second optical film onto a plane opposite to the plane onto which the first optical film is laminated in a second direction selected from the long-edge longitudinal direction and the short-edge longitudinal direction of the panel and different from the first direction; and a first reverse unit reversing, when a first laminating plane onto which the first optical film is laminated is selected from between one plane and the other plane of the panel and predetermined as a process condition, the panel to reverse positional relationships of the planes of the panel if the first laminating plane is different from a plane of the panel supplied by the panel supply unit at the first side of the panel.

The present disclosure discloses a display device and a driving method thereof. The driving method includes: when an anti-peep mode is enabled, generating M-frame sub-picture information and M-frame raster picture information according to information of a current picture frame to be displayed; controlling a sub-display panel in the display device to sequentially display M sub-pictures according to the M-frame sub-picture information, controlling pixel rows of the sub-pictures to be periodically arranged and displayed as first pixel groups, and controlling the first pixel groups of the pixel rows corresponding to the sub-pictures to be mutually misaligned; and controlling a sub-raster panel in the display device to sequentially display M raster pictures according to the M-frame raster picture information, and controlling pixel rows of the raster pictures to be periodically arranged and displayed as second pixel groups.

A display module includes abase substrate including an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface; a pixel layer facing the base substrate such that the upper surface of the base substrate is between the lower surface and the pixel layer, the pixel layer including a plurality of pixels; and a window member facing the base substrate such that the pixel layer is between the window member and the base substrate, the window member in an upper surface exposed to an outside thereof and a lower surface opposite the upper surface, and the upper surface of the window member and the lower surface of the base substrate include intaglio patterns, the intaglio patterns are overlapping with a dotted area when viewed in a plan view, and the display module is configured to be torn along the dotted area when a force is applied thereto.

A liquid crystal display device (100) includes a first substrate (10), a second substrate (20) and a liquid crystal layer (30), and includes a plurality of pixels (Px). The first substrate includes a first electrode (11) and a second electrode (12) capable of generating a transverse electric field in the liquid crystal layer, and an alignment film (18) defining initial alignment axis azimuths (D1, D12), The first electrode includes at least one slit (11a). In each of the plurality of pixels, the alignment film includes a first region (18a) corresponding to the at least one slit of the first electrode and a second region (18b) corresponding to a portion of the first electrode other than the at least one slit. The initial alignment axis azimuth defined by the first region of the alignment film and the initial alignment axis azimuth defined by the second region of the alignment film are different from each other.

A display apparatus including a backlight module, first and second electrically-controlled elements, electrically-controlled first and second polarizers, a half-wave plate, and a display panel is provided. An included angle between first and second alignment directions of first and second alignment layers of the first electrically-controlled element is between 75 degrees and 105 degrees. An included angle between third and fourth alignment directions of third and fourth alignment layers of the second electrically-controlled element is between 165 degrees and 195 degrees. A first absorption axis of the first polarizer disposed between the backlight module and the first electrically-controlled element is perpendicular to a second absorption axis of the second polarizer disposed between the first and second electrically-controlled elements. The half-wave plate is disposed between the second polarizer and the second electrically-controlled element. The display panel is disposed on the second electrically-controlled element. A method of driving the display apparatus is provided.