In a display assistant device, a display panel assembly has a plurality of first retention elements, and each first retention element is formed on a rear surface of the display panel assembly and adjacent to a respective first edge of the display panel assembly. A back cover is configured to hold the display panel assembly using a plurality of second retention elements. Each second retention element is arranged adjacent to a respective second edge of the back cover. When mated to each other, the first and second retention elements are configured to control an in-plane displacement of each second edge of the back cover in response to an impact of a force on the second edges, thereby limiting an out-of-plane displacement of each second edge of the back cover and protecting the first edges of the display panel assembly from falling apart from the second edges of the back cover.

A display panel and a method for manufacturing a display device are provided. The display panel includes an array substrate, a color film substrate assembled with the array substrate, and liquid crystal molecules sealed between the array substrate and the color film substrate. The array substrate comprises a pixel electrode and a common electrode, orthographic projections of the pixel electrode and the common electrode on the base substrate of the array substrate have an overlapping region, and the liquid crystal molecules have an azimuth angle of 90 degree. As a result, the display panel can have a faster response speed and is applicable to scenarios that require fast and frequent image switching.

A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display panel includes vertically irradiating a first substrate and a second substrate with ultraviolet light for alignment. An energy compensation device is formed and/or placed in an irradiation direction of the ultraviolet light. An angle difference of pretilt angles between liquid crystal molecules inside the first substrate and liquid crystal molecules inside the second substrate is greater than a preset angle. An energy intensity inside the first substrate or inside the second substrate is controlled by the energy compensation device, so that pretilt angle difference between the liquid crystal molecules inside the first substrate and the liquid crystal molecules inside the second substrate is large.

A wearable display system includes an eyepiece stack having a world side and a user side opposite the world side. During use, a user positioned on the user side views displayed images delivered by the wearable display system via the eyepiece stack which augment the user's field of view of the user's environment. The system also includes an optical attenuator arranged on the world side of the of the eyepiece stack, the optical attenuator having a layer of a birefringent material having a plurality of domains each having a principal optic axis oriented in a corresponding direction different from the direction of other domains. Each domain of the optical attenuator reduces transmission of visible light incident on the optical attenuator for a corresponding different range of angles of incidence.

A liquid crystal display is formed by arraying a plurality of pixels 10, and the pixel 10 includes a first substrate 20, a second substrate 50, a first electrode 120 formed on the first substrate 20, a second electrode 52 formed on the second substrate 50, and a liquid crystal layer 60. A pretilt angle is provided to a liquid crystal molecule 61, and the first electrode 120 is formed of a transparent conductive material layer and a foundation layer 150 including a plurality of projecting portions 130 and recessed portions 140. A first transparent conductive material layer 135 connected to a first power feeding unit is formed on a projecting portion top surface 151 of the foundation layer 150, and a second transparent conductive material layer 145 connected to a second power feeding unit is formed on a recessed portion bottom surface 152 of the foundation layer 150.

A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate section that includes a first substrate and pixel electrodes (102). Each pixel electrode (102) includes: a first slitted region (111) in which a plurality of first slits (112A to 112G) extending along a direction parallel to the alignment azimuth of liquid crystal molecules in the first domain are formed; a second slitted region (121) in which a plurality of second slits (122A to 122H) extending along a direction parallel to the alignment azimuth of liquid crystal molecules in the second domain are formed; and a boundary region (131) provided between the first slitted region (111) and the second slitted region (121). No slits are formed in the first and second end portions (131a, 131c) of the boundary region (131), and at least one third slit (132) is formed in the central portion (131b) of the boundary region (131).

This application is directed to a speaker assembly in which a speaker is mounted in an enclosure structure. The enclosure structure exposes a speaker opening of the speaker and provides a sealed enclosure for a rear portion of the speaker, and further includes an electrically conductive portion. One or more electronic components are coupled to the electrically conductive portion of the enclosure structure (which is grounded in some implementations). The electrically conductive portion of the enclosure structure is configured to provide electromagnetic shielding for the electronic components and forms part of the sealed enclosure of the speaker. In some implementations, the electrically conductive portion of the enclosure structure is thermally coupled to the electronic components and acts as a heat sink that is configured to absorb heat generated by the electronic components and dissipate the generated heat away from the electronic components.

Architecture and designs of modulating both amplitude and phase at the same time in spatial light modulation are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, light propagation is controlled in two different directions (e.g., 0 and 45 degrees) to perform both amplitude modulation and phase modulation at the same time in liquid crystals. In one embodiment, a mask is used to form a pattern, where the pattern includes an array of alignment cells or embossed microstructures, a first group of the cells are aligned in the first direction and a second group of the cells are aligned in the second direction. Depending on applications, two cells from the first group and the second group may correspond to a single pixel or two neighboring pixels, resulting in amplitude modulation and phase modulation within the pixel or within an array of pixels.

A liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate including multiple pixel electrodes; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate including a common electrode. In at least 30 pixels consecutive in a row direction, arrays of the domains are identical, the domains in the display unit region located in an nth row are arranged in an order of a first domain, a second domain, a third domain, and a fourth domain, and each of the pixel electrodes includes a first pixel electrode having a configuration in which fine slits parallel to an alignment vector of the corresponding domain are provided in at least one of a region superimposed on the first domain, a region superimposed on the second domain, a region superimposed on the third domain, or a region superimposed on the fourth domain while the fine slits are not provided in the remaining regions.

An optical device, comprising: —a first electrode layer; —a second electrode layer provided at a distance from the first electrode layer; —the first and second electrode layer being light transmitting; wherein the optical device further comprises, in between the first and the second electrode layers: o a diffractive optical element adjacent to the first electrode layer and comprising at least one sloped surface; and o a liquid crystalline material filling a space between the sloped surface and the second electrode layer; the liquid crystalline material having a pretilt that compensates for a slope angle of the at least one sloped surface.