Abstract:
A directional backlight and a 3D image display apparatus including the directional backlight are provided. The directional backlight includes a light guide plate guiding light emitted from a light source; a diffractive device configured to adjust the direction of light exiting the light guide plate; and an aperture adjusting layer including a plurality of apertures. The aperture adjusting layer may adjust the optical output efficiency of the diffractive device.
Abstract:
A directional backlight unit and a three-dimensional image display apparatus including the directional backlight unit are provided. The directional backlight unit includes a light source, a light guide plate guiding light emitted from the light source, and a diffraction device including a plurality of sections. Each of the sections includes a grating pattern set configured to adjust the direction of light incident from the light guide plate.
Abstract:
Provided is a case accommodating at least one electrical part and including: a first panel and a second panel coupled to each other, a space between the first and the second panels accommodating the at least one electrical part; a first facing surface provided along surrounding edges of an area, the area being exposed when the second panel is separated from the first panel; a second facing surface corresponding to the first facing surface and provided on the second panel; and hydrophobic pattern formed on at least one of the first and the second facing surfaces.
Abstract:
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a flexible display, one or more sensors including at least one biometric recognition sensor, memory storing one or more computer programs, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the flexible display, the one or more sensors and the memory, wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to receive a first input for recognizing biometric information through the at least one biometric sensor, identify, in response to the first input, whether the first input is an input related to user authentication in a running application, perform, in response to the first input not being an input related to the user authentication in the running application, user authentication related to a state of the electronic device, based on success of the user authentication associated with the state of the electronic device, display, on the flexible display a user interface comprising at least one menu available for an execution request by receiving a second input while the first input is being held, and perform function corresponding to a menu selected using the user interface, based on the receiving of the second input while the first input is being held.
Abstract:
A light emitting device includes a metal reflective layer including a phase modulation surface on which oblong phase modulation elements are formed; a first electrode provided on the metal reflective layer; an organic emission layer that is provided on the first electrode and that emits light; and a second electrode provided on the organic emission layer, wherein the oblong phase modulation elements are arranged to form a geometric phase lens.
Abstract:
A light emitting device includes a first electrode; a white organic light emission structure provided on the first electrode; a second electrode provided on the white organic light emission structure; and a reflective layer provided on an opposite side of the first electrode from the white organic light emission structure and including a first reflective region, a second reflective region, and a third reflective region having different heights from one another and forming different separation distances from the second electrode. A plurality of recesses may be provided in at least one of the first reflective region, the second reflective region, and the third reflective region on a surface of the reflective layer, and thus the color purity of the light emitting device may be improved.
Abstract:
Provided are a grating device, a screen including the grating device, a method of manufacturing the screen, and a display apparatus including the screen. The grating device includes a transparent substrate and a diffraction grating arranged on the transparent substrate, the diffraction grating includes a plurality of meta-diffraction patterns, and each meta-diffraction pattern has a curved shape with a center of curvature provided in a direction parallel to the substrate. The screen includes a first polarizer, a second polarizer arranged next to the first polarizer, and a diffraction grating that is transparent to polarized light that has passed through the second polarizer and reflects polarized light having a polarization direction perpendicular to the polarized light, wherein the diffraction grating includes a plurality of meta-diffraction patterns, each meta-diffraction pattern having a curved shape with a center of curvature positioned in a travelling direction of incident light.
Abstract:
Provided are head-up display apparatuses and operating methods thereof. The head-up display apparatus simultaneously outputs a plurality of object images on different regions from each other on a screen, generates, by using an optical characteristic, depth information with respect to the object images to sequentially change depth information of at least two of the object images, and converges the object images having depth information and the reality environment into a single region by changing at least one of an optical path of the object images having the depth information and an optical path of the reality environment.
Abstract:
Provided are a directional backlight unit and an image display apparatus including the same. The directional backlight unit includes at least one light source, a light guide plate arranged at a side of the at least one light source and configured to guide light emitted from the at least one light source by total reflection, a plurality of diffraction gratings arranged in a pattern at a surface of the light guide plate and configured to diffract the light and to emit the light diffracted by the plurality of diffraction gratings at a predetermined angle from a front surface; and a mirror arranged at a rear surface of the light guide plate and configured to reflect the light diffracted by the plurality of diffraction gratings toward the light guide plate, the rear surface of the light guide plate being opposite to the front surface of the light guide plate.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a pattern structure includes preparing a wafer that has a plurality of fine patterns, generating a first trench by processing the wafer from a first surface to a first depth, and generating a second trench connected to the first trench by processing the wafer from a second surface which is opposite to the first surface to a second depth, thereby cutting the wafer.