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.

A display unit includes a display region and a border region. The display region is configured to include a dark state. A diffusing member is positioned adjacent to the border region such that the diffusing member is coextensive with the border region. A first electromagnetic ray bundle incident on the display region in the dark state produces a first bidirectional reflection distribution function. A second electromagnetic ray bundle incident on the border region produces a second bidirectional reflection distribution function. The diffusing member is configured such that the first bidirectional reflection distribution function is substantially identical to the second bidirectional reflection distribution function. The diffusing member may include a base layer and a surface hologram recorded onto the base layer. The surface hologram is configured to encode a spatial pattern in at least one of the opacity, density, and surface height of the base layer.

The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a second substrate and a polarizer which are stacked sequentially; a light reflection layer and a plurality of organic light-emitting units being provided on the first substrate, wherein the plurality of organic light-emitting units are located at a side of the light reflection layer close to the liquid crystal layer; the second substrate is configured to control deflections of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer, and the second substrate comprises a plurality of sub-pixel regions. The display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure achieves a transmission-type displaying in a case that the display signal is input to the first substrate, and achieves a reflection-type displaying in a case that the display signal is input to the second substrate.

A curved display panel, a method for fabricating the same, and a curved display device are disclosed. The curved display panel includes a first substrate, an oppositely arranged second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates. The first substrate is an array substrate, and includes a first light shielding layer in a light non-transmission region. The second substrate comprises color resists of at least three different colors, and the second substrate is arranged closer to a back light source than the first substrate. After assembling, the first and second substrates have an arc-shaped cross section in an extending direction of a side of the second substrate, the arc-shaped cross section has a bending direction opposite to an incident direction of light from the back light source, and the first and second substrates have a same bending direction.

A mirror display is described. The mirror display includes a plurality of first electrodes disposed on a first substrate, a plurality of sensor lines disposed on the first substrate, the plurality of sensor lines connected to the plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes disposed on a second substrate, the plurality of second electrodes facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of mirror driving lines on the second substrate, the plurality of mirror driving lines connected to the plurality of second electrodes, and a reflective polarizing film attached to the second substrate.

A liquid crystal display device, which comprises: a backlight source (1); a first handedness cholesteric liquid crystal film layer (2), located at an upper side of the backlight source (1) as a light emitting surface; an array substrate (3), located at an upper side of the first handedness cholesteric liquid crystal film layer (2); a color filter substrate (5), located at an upper side of the array substrate (3); and a second handedness cholesteric liquid crystal layer (4), sandwiched between the array substrate (3) and the color filter substrate (5), the first handedness being opposite to the second handedness. The liquid crystal display device greatly improves light efficiency and transmittance of the display and saves the processing steps and manufacturing costs.

The present invention provides an optical film including a light reflection layer, in which the light reflection layer is a layer in which alignment of liquid crystal molecules is immobilized, the liquid crystal molecule forms a helical structure in a film thickness direction of the light reflection layer, and a tilt angle of the liquid crystal molecule is 15° to 55°. The present invention also provides a manufacturing method of the optical film including curing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound and a chiral agent interposed between a support and another support. In the optical film according to the present invention, an absolute value of oblique retardation is smaller. In the liquid crystal display device including the optical film, front surface brightness is high and an oblique change in the shade is suppressed.

A laminate includes: a substrate layer; and an optical function layer that is layered on one surface of the substrate layer, and has a plurality of light transmission parts which are arranged in a row along a surface of the substrate layer so as to be light-transmissive, and light absorption parts in a row, each of which is arranged between adjacent ones of the light transmission parts so as to be light-absorptive, wherein on a cross section of the optical function layer in the layer thickness direction, a cross-sectional area of one of the light transmission parts to the total cross-sectional area of one of the light transmission parts and one of the light absorption parts which are adjacent to each other is 78.2% to 88.5%, and optical diffuse reflectances thereof satisfy predetermined values.

A display device includes a liquid crystal display device that has a display area and a hidden area surrounding the display area; a liquid crystal shutter that is layered on the liquid crystal display device and has a first area corresponding to the display area and a second area corresponding to the hidden area; and a control unit that sets the first and second areas to a transparent state and an opaque state, respectively, when the display area is active, and sets the first and second areas to the opaque state when the display area is not active.

In a step of forming an element substrate of an electro-optical device, a layered structure, which includes a plurality of films having a film that forms pixel switching elements and a film that forms holding capacitors, is formed on one surface of the substrate, and, thereafter, a lens surface and a lens layer are formed on a second surface of the layered structure. Subsequently, after the substrate is removed by polishing and etching, pixel electrodes are formed on a side of a first substrate, on which the substrate is located, of the layered structure. Therefore, the holding capacitors are provided on a side opposite to a side of the pixel electrodes (side of a counter substrate) for the pixel switching elements.