An electro-active lens provides simultaneous focusing at two different optical powers. It does this with a stack of electro-active lens elements aligned along the same optical axis that each focus light in different polarization states (e.g., horizontal and vertical polarization states). If a first and second electro-active lens elements have different optical powers, light in a first polarization state can be focused to one optical power and light in a second polarization state can be focused to a different optical power simultaneously. The electro-active lens can be switched between different single and multiple optical powers. People with presbyopia may use the electro-active lens mounted in eyewear in place of conventional bifocal glasses. The electro-active lens may also be used in a scope to improve target aiming.

An object of the present invention is to provide a light deflection device having a simple structure suitable for reducing the size and weight where a deflection angle can be increased. The object can be achieved with a light deflection device including: a light deflection element that deflects incident light in one direct to be emitted; a driving unit that drives the light deflection element; and a diffraction element that is disposed on a light emission side of the light deflection element in which a periodic structure pitch gradually changes from a center of deflection from the light deflection element toward an outside.

This liquid crystal display device has a plurality of pixels. Each pixel in the plurality of pixels includes first to fourth alignment regions; these first to fourth alignment regions are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the pixels, and the difference between any two alignment orientations in the first to fourth alignment regions is approximately equal to an integer multiple of 90 degrees. Of the pre-tilt angles defined by a first alignment film and a second alignment film in each of the first to fourth alignment regions, one pre-tilt angle is less than 90 degrees and the other pre-tilt angle is substantially 90 degrees. The optical alignment film is formed using a polymer having an optical alignment group in the side chain, and the content of the optical alignment group in the side chain of the polymer is less than 1.1 mmol/g.

A device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The device also includes a birefringent medium layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Orientations of directors of optically anisotropic molecules included in the birefringent medium layer varying periodically with an in-plane pitch tunable by an external field to adjust a diffraction angle of a light beam diffracted by the birefringent medium layer.

The disclosure provides a display panel including a first substrate, multiple scan lines, multiple data lines, and multiple pixel structures. The scan lines and the data lines are disposed on the first substrate and intersect each other. One of the pixel structures includes an active element, a pixel electrode, a capacitor electrode, a common electrode, and a repair pattern. The active element includes a source, a drain, and a gate. The gate is electrically connected to one of the scan lines. The source is electrically connected to one of the data lines. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the drain of the active element. The capacitor electrode is electrically connected to the pixel electrode and extends from the drain. The common electrode overlaps the pixel electrode and the capacitor electrode. The repair pattern overlaps one of the scan lines as well as the common electrode, and the pixel electrode.

The invention discloses a variable tint lens and glasses. The variable tint lens includes a first polarizer, a second polarizer, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first polarizer and the second polarizer, a first conductive film arranged between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal layer, and a second conductive film arranged between the second polarizer and the liquid crystal layer, the first conductive film and the second conductive film are also connected to a power supply device. The arrangement direction of the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer changes according to the voltage provided by the power supply device, so that the refractive index of the liquid crystal molecules to the light is changed, and the color of the light passing through the liquid crystal layer is changed. Compared with the prior art, the present invention can continuously change the color of light passing through the variable tint lens and adjust the brightness of the light. It is equipped with automatic adjustment and manual adjustment, which can adjust the color of the light according to actual needs, which improves the user experience.

A transmissive liquid crystal diffraction element includes a rod-like liquid crystal layer where a rod-like liquid crystal compound is aligned and a disk-like liquid crystal layer where a disk-like liquid crystal compound is aligned that are alternately laminated, in which each of the liquid crystal layers has a predetermined liquid crystal alignment pattern, rotation directions of optical axes in the liquid crystal alignment patterns are the same, single periods of the liquid crystal alignment patterns are the same, a thickness direction retardation |Rth| of each of the liquid crystal layers is 65 nm or less, and at an interface between the liquid crystal layers, longitudinal directions of the liquid crystal compounds match with each other.

The present disclosure provides numerous applications for the use of liquid crystal polarization gratings (LCPGs) to controllably steer light. When combined with an image sensor, light generated or reflected from different fields of view (FOV) can be steered, allowing an increase in the FOV or the resolution of the image. Further, the LCPG can stabilize the resulting image, counteracting any movement of the image sensor. The combination of LCPGs and liquid crystal waveguides (LCWGs) allows fine deflection control of light (from the LCWG) over a wild field of view (from the LCPG). Further applications of LCPGs include object tracking and the production of depth images using multiple imaging units and independently steered LCPGs. The LCPG may be used in controlling both the projection and reception of light.

A spatial light modulator for suppressing a fringe field effect includes: a transparent electrode layer; a reflective electrode layer including a pixel electrode, in which a pixel area is surrounded by a boundary of the pixel electrode; a liquid crystal layer located between the transparent electrode layer and the reflective electrode layer to establish a pixel formed by the liquid crystal layer covering the pixel area in the pixel electrode; and an alignment film having a first pattern and a second pattern and covering the pixel area. The first pattern and the second pattern in the pixel area make liquid crystals in the liquid crystal layer of the pixel generate arrangements of a first azimuth angle and a second azimuth angle, respectively, and the first azimuth angle is different from the second azimuth angle.

A display panel and a manufacturing method therefor, a drive method and a display device. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged opposite to each other. The first substrate includes a first base substrate, and a plurality of first wire grid polarizers and a plurality of pixel units, which are successively located on a side of the first base substrate facing the second substrate in an array arrangement; polarization directions of two adjacent first wire grid polarizers are perpendicular to each other. The second substrate includes: a second base substrate, and a plurality of second wire grid polarizers in an array arrangement which are located on a side of the second base substrate facing the first substrate, and polarization directions of two adjacent second wire grid polarizers are perpendicular to each other.