Provided is a liquid crystal display device and a polarizing plate capable of improving the contrast ratio in the front direction. The polarizing plate includes a pair of polarizers including a first polarizer and a second polarizer whose transmission axes are parallel to each other; a retarder between the paired polarizers; and a diffusion layer in at least one of a region between the paired polarizers or a region on a side without the retarder of the first polarizer.

The present specification provides a multi-layer liquid crystal film including: a substrate; a first alignment film comprising an alignment material and an acrylate in which a weight ratio of the alignment material to the acrylate is 3:1 to 5:1; a first liquid crystal film provided on the first alignment film; a second alignment film provided on the first liquid crystal film; and a second liquid crystal film provided on the second alignment film, and a method for manufacturing a polarizing plate, the method including: laminating the multi-layer liquid crystal film to a polarizer and peeling off the substrate.

A liquid crystal display apparatus, includes: a light-condensing backlight unit; a liquid crystal panel including a first linear polarizer and a second linear polarizer; a light scattering film facing the second linear polarizer; and a third linear polarizer facing the light scattering film. The light scattering film includes a functional layer including an organic polymer compound and light scattering particles. The functional layer includes a particle layer in which a fraction of 60% by volume to 100% by volume of the light scattering particles included in the functional layer expands along a surface of the particle layer at which the light output from the liquid crystal panel is received, and the particle layer is concentrated to a region having a thickness of 1 to 80% of a total thickness of the functional layer, in a direction perpendicular to the contact surface.

A liquid crystal display device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The method includes: providing a liquid crystal display panel, wherein the liquid crystal display panel includes a light-incident surface and a light-emitting surface on opposite sides thereof; disposing a first polarizer on the light-incident surface or the light-emitting surface of the liquid crystal display panel; and directly forming a first anti-reflection film on a surface of the first polarizer away from the liquid crystal display panel.

An electronic device includes a backlight module, a display panel disposed on the backlight module, a viewing angle adjusting unit disposed on the backlight module, and a retardation structure disposed on the backlight module. The viewing angle adjusting unit includes a first viewing angle adjusting subunit and a second viewing angle adjusting subunit, and the first viewing angle adjusting subunit is disposed between the backlight module and the second viewing angle adjusting subunit.

A phase modulation device of the present disclosure includes: a light source; and an optical phase modulation element including a plurality of pixels in each of which liquid crystal molecules are arrayed, and including a plurality of pixel regions each including the plurality of pixels, the optical phase modulation element modulating, for each of the pixels, a phase of incident light entering the plurality of pixel regions from the light source. The optical phase modulation element includes, as the plurality of pixel regions, at least one first alignment region where an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules is a first direction parallel with a polarization axis of the incident light, and at least one second alignment region where an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules is a second direction parallel with the polarization axis of the incident light and different from the first direction by 180 degrees.

According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a liquid crystal layer held between a first substrate and a second substrate, a display region having a first region in which a plurality of pixels are provided, a non-display region provided in an island-like shape in the display region and having a second region, a first polarizer and a second polarizer that overlap the first region, and a third polarizer and a fourth polarizer that overlap the second region, wherein a transmission axis of the fourth polarizer and a transmission axis of the second polarizer form an angle other than 0° and other than 90° with each other.

A touch panel includes a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a second substrate, a first optical detection layer, and a black matrix. The first optical detection layer is over a light-emitting surface of the liquid crystal layer and includes a plurality of first optical detection components, whose orthographic projections on the first substrate are within an orthographic projection of the black matrix. A touch control can be determined based on a change of a first electric signal converted by each first optical detection component based on an intensity of a light transmitting through the liquid crystal layer. The light can be an infrared light. A plurality of second optical detection components can be further disposed over a light-incident surface of the liquid crystal layer to pairingly correspond to, and utilized to determine a touch control along with, the plurality of first optical detection components.

A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first light source and a second light source. The liquid crystal display panel is configured to provide a brightness selected from a first set or a second set, and the first light and the second light are configured to not emit light simultaneously. A driving method of the liquid crystal display panel and a display device including the liquid crystal display panel are further provided.

A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first polarizer plate, and a second polarizer plate. The first substrate includes a first dielectric substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first alignment film. The second electrode includes a plurality of slits and a conductive portion. The second substrate includes a second dielectric substrate and a second alignment film. The first substrate further includes a resin layer disposed between the second electrode and the first alignment film. The resin layer within the plurality of slits is as thick as or thicker than the second electrode. The plurality of slits are filled with the resin layer. A difference in height between the resin layer over the conductive portion of the second electrode and the resin layer within the plurality of slits of the second electrode is 10 nm or more.