Provided are a liquid crystal diffraction element which exhibits low scattering and high sharpness of diffracted light, and a method for producing the same. A liquid crystal diffraction element having an alignment film which has a periodic pattern and also having a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, in which: the periodic pattern is imparted to the alignment film as a result of alignment elements having different tilt angles being periodically arranged in the alignment film or the alignment elements being arranged in a manner such that the azimuth direction thereof swings in one in-plane direction; the direction of the molecular axis of a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating and in at least one in-plane direction on at least one main surface among the pair of main surfaces of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer; the molecular axis of the liquid crystal compound is tilted with respect to the main surfaces of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer; and an arrangement direction of bright portion and dark portion derived from the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase observed by a scanning electron microscope in a cross section perpendicular to the main surfaces is tilted with respect to the main surfaces of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer.

Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device including a liquid crystal, the electronic device including: a piece of glass; a display disposed under a first region of the piece of glass; a power supplying module; one or more electrode films; and one or more liquid crystal layers disposed between the one or more electrode films. The electronic device may also include: a light reflection member (e.g., cholesteric liquid crystal) disposed under a second region of the piece of glass; a processor operatively connected to the display, the power supplying module, and the light reflection member; and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The processor can check the content to be displayed through the display, and can use the power supplying module to supply power to the light reflection member on the basis of at least the checked content, so that the one or more liquid crystal layers reflects at least a portion of light incident from the outside of the electronic device. In addition, other embodiments are possible.

An electronic device includes: a first light modulation assembly, including: a first substrate; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a first conductive layer disposed on the first substrate; a second conductive layer disposed on the second substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on the first substrate; and a first light modulation layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.

The present disclosure provides a light adjusting glass, including: a basic light adjusting structure and a functional light adjusting structure which are disposed in a laminated manner; the basic light adjusting structure is configured to adjust a transmittance of light rays irradiated on the basic light adjusting structure; the functional light adjusting structure is configured to reflect light rays in a specific wave band irradiated on the functional light adjusting structure.

Provided are: an image display apparatus in which the utilization efficiency of a virtual image is high and the virtual image having high brightness uniformity can be displayed to be superimposed on a real image; and AR glasses including the image display apparatus. The image display apparatus includes: a display element; one or more cholesteric liquid crystal layers that reflect a display image of the display element; and a transparent reflection element that reflects the image reflected by the cholesteric liquid crystal layer to the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, in which at least one of the cholesteric liquid crystal layers has a structure having a region where a surface pitch changes in a thickness direction.

Provided are a bandpass filter having a high light transmittance in a transmission band and a wide wavelength range showing a high transmittance in the transmission band, and a sensor. The bandpass filter is a bandpass filter including a reflective member A and a reflective member B, in which a difference between a reflection center wavelength of the reflective member A and a reflection center wavelength of the reflective member B is larger than a sum of a half width at half maximum of a reflection band of the reflective member A and a half width at half maximum of a reflection band of the reflective member B; the reflective member A has a first cholesteric liquid crystal layer and a second cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and birefringence Δn1 of the first cholesteric liquid crystal layer is larger than birefringence Δn2 of the second cholesteric liquid crystal layer; and the reflective member B has a third cholesteric liquid crystal layer and a fourth cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and birefringence Δn3 of the third cholesteric liquid crystal layer is larger than birefringence Δn4 of the fourth cholesteric liquid crystal layer.

An electronic paper display screen and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device. The electronic paper display screen includes a first electronic paper screen and a second liquid crystal display layer which are stacked; the first electronic paper screen is an electrophoretic electronic paper screen, the second liquid crystal display layer is a cholesteric liquid crystal display screen, and the second liquid crystal display layer includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a control drive circuit; the first substrate is provided with multiple first electrodes arranged in a first direction, and the second substrate is provided with multiple second electrodes arranged in a second direction; and at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate is further provided with multiple metal wires, the metal wires are respectively connected to the control drive circuit and the electrodes of the substrate to which the metal wires belong.

Provided are: a light guide element that includes an intermediate diffraction element to expand exit pupil such that a light utilization efficiency is high and a decrease in the brightness of an image to be displayed can be suppressed; and an image display apparatus. The light guide element includes a light guide plate, an incidence diffraction element, an intermediate diffraction element, and an emission diffraction element, in which the incidence diffraction element, the intermediate diffraction element, and the emission diffraction element include a liquid crystal layer that is formed of a 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, in a cross-section of the liquid crystal layer observed with a SEM, bright portions and dark portions derived from a liquid crystal phase are tilted with respect to a main surface of the liquid crystal layer, and in a case where an interval between the bright portions or between the dark portions is represented by a ½ pitch, the pitch P.sub.in of the incidence diffraction element and the pitch P.sub.e of the intermediate diffraction element satisfy P.sub.in<P.sub.e.

A liquid crystal device that is flexible and includes a cholesteric liquid crystal material erased by flexing. Totally free of electronics and electrically conductive electrodes, the liquid crystal device takes advantage of a reverse mode effect observed in cholesteric liquid crystals whereby pressure applied to the device changes a reflective texture to a transmissive texture to create an image. The image is erased and the device reinitialized by flexing to create reflective texture surroundings.

A panel for fingerprint identification and a control method thereof, and an apparatus for fingerprint identification. The panel for fingerprint identification includes: a display unit, a control unit, a unit for adjusting light transmittance and a unit for fingerprint identification which are disposed on a backlight side of the display unit, wherein an operating state of the panel for fingerprint identification includes: a display stage and a fingerprint identification stage. At the display stage, the display unit is configured to emit first light to display an image to be displayed, the unit for adjusting light transmittance is configured to transmit light transmitted through the display unit, and the control unit is connected with the unit for adjusting light transmittance and is configured to control the light transmittance of the unit for adjusting light transmittance.