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.

The polarizing plate laminate according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a polarizer; an adhesive agent layer or a bonding agent layer provided on the polarizer; a viewing angle compensation film provided on the adhesive agent layer or the bonding agent layer; and a base film provided on the viewing angle compensation film.

The present disclosure provides a display device including a liquid crystal layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, and the second surface has a light entrance region and a light outgoing region; a reflector within the liquid crystal layer and adjacent the first surface; a light absorbing layer on the first surface of the liquid crystal layer, the light absorbing layer including a first shielding layer, a second shielding layer and a filling layer therebetween, the second shielding layer is between the first shielding layer and the liquid crystal layer and has a first opening therein, and the liquid crystal layer is configured to modulate light incident from the light entrance region into first refracted light under a first voltage and modulate the light incident from the light entrance region into second refracted light under a second voltage different from the first voltage.

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a peep preventing device. The peep preventing device includes first electrodes and a transparent insulating body on a transparent substrate. The insulating body has recesses, the first electrodes are located in the recesses, respectively, and an area of a section, taken along a plane parallel to the transparent substrate, of each recess gradually reduces in a direction away from the transparent substrate. The peep preventing device further includes transparent second electrodes each of which includes a second electrode sidewall portion covering a sidewall of one of the recesses. Closed spaces are defined between the insulating body and the second electrodes and the transparent substrate, and electrophoretic liquids are contained in the closed spaces, respectively, and contain reflective charged particles adapted to adhere to the second electrodes when a first electric field is applied between the first electrodes and the second electrodes.

Provided are a display panel, a display apparatus, a driving method of the display panel, and a computer readable storage medium. The display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate being arranged in box alignment, point light sources in an array arrangement being arranged on a side of the first substrate away from the second substrate, optical coupling devices corresponding to the point light sources one by one being arranged on a side of the first substrate close to the second substrate, a grating layer being arranged on a side of the optical coupling devices away from the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer being arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; and the optical coupling devices being arranged to reflect lights emitted by the corresponding point light sources, penetrating the first substrate, and reaching the optical coupling devices, into the first substrate.

An optical module (100) includes: a polarization film (101) configured to convert incident light into first polarized light having a first polarization state and second polarized light having a second polarization state; and a phase delay layer (102) configured to convert the first polarized light and the second polarized light into third polarized light having a third polarization state and fourth polarized light having a fourth polarization state, where the first polarization state is different from the second polarization state. The phase delay layer (102) includes a control layer (360). The control layer (360) includes one or more control elements. The optical module (100) may be used in a display apparatus. In this case, display effect of the display apparatus can be improved, and usage of effective polarized light of a backlight unit can be improved, so that power consumption of the display apparatus is reduced.

In various embodiments, an apparatus comprises a composite backplane that modulates light from a light source, where the composite backplane comprises an electronics layer disposed on a substrate, a photonics integrated circuit (IC) layer disposed on the electronics layer that causes light from the light source to propagate in a first direction, and an active light modulation (ALM) interface layer disposed on the photonics IC layer controls an ALM interface layer in order to control the light propagating in the first direction.

The present disclosure relates to a display device. The display device includes a first liquid crystal cell and a second liquid crystal cell disposed opposite to each other, a first polarizer located on a side of the first liquid crystal cell away from the second liquid crystal cell, a second polarizer located on a side of the second liquid crystal cell away from the first liquid crystal cell, and a third polarizer located between the first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell, wherein the display device further includes a polarization maintaining diffusion sheet located between the first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell.

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel that includes a display portion including pixels and a non-display portion including an opening, an illumination device, and a color separation element provided between the display panel and the illumination device. The color separation element includes a first element overlapping the pixel and a second element overlapping the opening, the first element separates illumination light from the illumination device into light of a plurality of colors and irradiates the pixel with the light, and the second element separates illumination light from the illumination device into light of a plurality of colors and irradiates the opening with the light.

A display panel, a display method thereof, and a display device are provided, which are related to the field of display technology and a reflective e-book with high refresh rate is provided. The display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to each other; a liquid crystal (LC) layer located between the first substrate and the second substrate; a polarizer disposed at a side of the LC layer far away from the second substrate; and an alignment layer disposed at both sides of the LC layer, wherein the second substrate is provided with a reflective layer, the reflective layer is configured to allow incident light transmitting through the first substrate to be reflected at a predetermined color on the reflective layer.