A see-through window display includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels and a drive circuit that applies a voltage according to input gray scale data to the plurality of pixels, in which the display panel includes a first substrate having a pixel electrode, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first polarizer provided on the first substrate having a first polarization axis, and a second polarizer provided on the second substrate having a second polarization axis, and when a transmittance of each of the pixels when the drive circuit applies a minimum voltage to the pixel is set to TW and a transmittance of each of the pixels when the drive circuit applies a maximum voltage to the pixel is set to TB, the display panel has a normally white characteristic satisfying TW>TB.

A liquid crystal display device comprises a first substrate; a second substrate opposite the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and an active area including: a matrix of first regions; and a plurality of second regions distributed so as not to overlap the first regions, wherein each first region includes a switching element and is supplied with a grayscale signal via the switching element, and the plurality of second regions includes no switching element and is supplied with a common signal.

A unitarily white touch display comprises: a cover lens, a viewing area, from an upper surface to a lower surface of the cover lens, formed in the middle of the cover lens; a touch module disposed under the cover lens to provide touch functions; a light valve module disposed under the touch module and filled with a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer; a microstructure optical film disposed under the light valve module, and a second surface of the microstructure optical film composed of a plurality of micro-prisms. When incident light enters the touch display, the incident light is scattered by the polymer liquid crystal module, and part of the incident light is reflected by the microstructure optical film, re-transmitted and scattered through the polymer liquid crystal module, so that a user can observe foggy white at the viewing area of the touch display.

The electro-optical glare protection filter comprises a liquid crystal cell which is a laterally extended liquid crystal cell defining a volume between two laterally extended sides, the volume containing liquid crystals and having, in a vertical direction perpendicular to lateral directions, a thickness being smaller than an extension of the volume in any lateral direction. The FFS cell comprises a first electrode structure and a second electrode structure, which are arranged to change an orientation of the liquid crystals in the volume when a voltage is applied between them, wherein both the first and the second electrode structure are present at the same laterally extended side of the volume. The first electrode structure may comprise a plurality of electrically separate electrodes and the second electrode structure may comprise a plurality of electrode lines.

The disclosure is related to an arrangement in which an electrical tinting film is arranged between the display and the cover surface to provide a dead front appearance. The electrical tinting film is opaque without an externally applied voltage and the information made available on the display is not visible, and wherein the electrical tinting film becomes transparent by the application of a voltage and the information made available on the display becomes visible.

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 comprises a first substrate; a second substrate opposite the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and an active area including: a matrix of first regions; and a plurality of second regions distributed so as not to overlap the first regions, wherein each first region includes a switching element and is supplied with a grayscale signal via the switching element, and the plurality of second regions includes no switching element and is supplied with a common signal.

A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a light reflective portion, a first polarizing plate located on a display surface-facing side, a half-wavelength plate and a first quarter-wavelength plate disposed between the liquid crystal display panel and the first polarizing plate. A liquid crystal layer corresponding to the light reflective portion exhibits a retardation which is less than one-half of a retardation of the half-wavelength plate. The first quarter-wavelength plate has a slow axis which intersects a liquid-crystal molecular orientation axis at a time of no electric field application. The expression nx1>nz1>ny1 is satisfied, where nx1, ny1 and nz1 are the refractive indices at each orientation of the half-wavelength plate, and the expression nx2>nz2=ny2 is satisfied, where nx2, ny2 and nz2 are the refractive indices at each orientation of the first quarter-wavelength plate.

A liquid crystal display device includes a display area having a plurality of first areas and a plurality of second areas arranged in a matrix in a row direction and a column direction, a plurality of first TFTs each located in one of the plurality of first areas, a plurality of pixel electrodes each located in one of the plurality of first areas, a plurality of transparent electrodes each located in one of the plurality of second areas, a plurality of gate bus lines extending in the row direction and being connected to the plurality of first TFTs, a plurality of source bus lines extending in the column direction and being connected to the plurality of first TFTs, and a plurality of dummy source bus lines each extending in the column direction and being connected to one of the plurality of gate bus lines.

According to an aspect, there is provided a display unit for generating a display output, comprising a first light source; a first back polarizer arranged to polarize light from the first light source in a first polarization direction; a second light source; a second back polarizer arranged to polarize light from the second light source in a second polarization direction that is orthogonal to the first polarization direction; a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate, second substrate and liquid crystal layer are arranged to receive light from the first light source that has been polarized by the first back polarizer and receive light from the second light source that has been polarized by the second back polarizer; and a front polarizer arranged to polarize light, the front polarizer being for polarizing light that has passed through the liquid crystal layer; wherein operating the first light source to generate light generates a positive display output, and operating the second light source to generate light generates a negative display output.