Patent ID: 7810935
Filing Date: 2010-10-12
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A display unit, comprising: a light modulation unit that includes an effective area and an illumination area, and modulates an illumination light entering the effective area without modulating an illumination light entering the illumination area, a plurality of effective image modulation areas being set in the effective area, with each effective image modulation area being surrounded by a portion of the illumination area; a light-emitting unit that includes a plurality of light-emitting areas that can be made to emit a light or stop emitting a light, the plurality of light emitting areas being substantially similar in outline shape to the plurality of effective image modulation areas set in the effective area; a critical illumination system that guides, as the illumination light, a luminous flux as a result of light emission of the light-emitting unit onto the effective image modulation areas in the effective area of the light modulation unit and their respective illumination areas, wherein: