A light guide element includes: a light guide plate; and a diffraction element that is disposed on a main surface of the light guide plate, in which the diffraction element includes a liquid crystal layer that is formed of a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound and has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, a refractive index of the light guide plate is 1.70 or higher, and in a case where the refractive index of the light guide plate is represented by n.sub.d and a refractive index of the liquid crystal layer is represented by n.sub.k, n.sub.k−n.sub.d≥0 is satisfied.

A method and an apparatus for providing a matte affect while enhancing an output of a display that comprises multiple display pixels, the apparatus may include a first array of microlenses that is configured to scatter ambient light; a second array of microlenses; wherein first array of microlenses is parallel to the second array of microlenses; wherein microlenses of the first array of microlenses and the microlenses of the second array have a dimension of tens of microns; and wherein the first array of microlenses and the second array of microlenses are shaped and positioned to pass through the image from the display, when the apparatus is attached to the display.

The present specification relates to a film for compensating for a viewing angle, which comprises a base substrate; a pattern layer; and an optical layer, and in which the pattern layer has a first surface comprising a flat surface and a second surface facing the first surface, and the second surface comprises a plurality of protrusions comprising a curved surface, thereby improving a contrast ratio and a viewing angle and decreasing a color band phenomenon, and a polarizing plate comprising the same, and a display device comprising the same.

An optical element includes a light guide plate, an incidence portion, and an emission portion, in which each of the incidence portion and the emission portion includes diffraction portions, the diffraction portion includes diffraction elements, the diffraction element includes a liquid crystal diffraction layer in which a direction of an optical axis of a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in one in-plane direction, and in a case where the direction in which the direction of the optical axis changes is set as an in-plane rotation direction and a length over which the optical axis rotates by 180° is set as an in-plane period, in-plane rotation directions of liquid crystal diffraction layers of incidence diffraction elements in at least two of a plurality of the incidence diffraction portions are different from each other.

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device includes: a display panel, including a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region; a back plate, arranged opposite to the display panel, where the back plate comprises a bottom wall and a side wall extending from the bottom wall to one side of the display panel; a backlight source, arranged between the display panel and the back plate, where the backlight source comprises a light source arranged on the bottom wall of the back plate and a diffusion plate arranged on a light emitting side of the light source; and a middle frame, where the middle frame comprises a first support part, and a second support part connected with one side, deviating from the display panel, of the first support part.

A light guide plate which includes a light incident surface, a light conversion element, an accommodation through hole and a diffusion element, the accommodation through hole is formed in the light guide plate and is adjacent to the light incident surface, the light conversion element is accommodated in the accommodation through hole, and the diffusion element is disposed on the light incident surface. Also disclosed is a light having a backlight module and a liquid crystal display having the light guide plate. A light conversion element is accommodated in the light guide plate, so as to avoid over-heating the light conversion element to further avoid reducing the color gamut of the product.

A backlight includes a substrate, a plurality of light sources, a reflective layer, a light guide plate, a pattern of light extractors, a plurality of patterned reflectors, and a diffusive layer. The plurality of light sources are proximate the substrate. The reflective layer is on the substrate. The light guide plate is proximate the plurality of light sources. The pattern of light extractors is on the light guide plate. The plurality of patterned reflectors are on the light guide plate. Each patterned reflector is aligned with a corresponding light source. The diffusive layer is on the light guide plate.

A method of manufacturing a planar light source includes: providing a wiring substrate; locating a light guide plate on a first principal face of the wiring substrate, wherein the light guide plate includes a plurality of unit regions arranged in one dimension or two dimensions, and a plurality of through holes that are open at the a principal face and a second principal face of the light guide plate, wherein at least one of the through holes is located in the unit regions; locating light sources in the through holes in the unit regions on the first principal face of the wiring substrate; locating a first light transmissive member in a first of the through holes; and locating a second light transmissive member in the first through hole.

A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display device, the backlight unit including: an light emitting diode (“LED”) light source; a light conversion layer disposed separate from the LED light source to convert light emitted from the LED light source to white light and to provide the white light to the liquid crystal panel; and a light guide panel disposed between the LED light source and the light conversion layer, wherein the light conversion layer includes a semiconductor nanocrystal and a polymer matrix, and wherein the polymer matrix includes a first polymerized polymer of a first monomer including at least two thiol (—SH) groups, each located at a terminal end of the first monomer, and a second monomer including at least two unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds, each located at a terminal end of the second monomer.

A light control member includes a light control substrate including a surface, and a scalene prism disposed on the light control substrate. The scalene prism includes a first side surface extended at a first angle with respect to the surface of the light control substrate, and a second side surface extended at a second angle with respect to the surface of the light control substrate, the second angle being greater than the first angle. The light control member includes an etching stopper disposed on the scalene prism, and at least one absorption pattern disposed on the etching stopper on the second side surface of the scalene prism.