Patent ID: 9041620
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: G02B,G02F,G09G

Abstract:
1. A display device, comprising: a display panel including a display region in which pixels are aligned in at least one direction and a frame region which is a non-display region positioned outside the display region; and a light guide element, positioned on a display surface of the display panel, for guiding a part of light emitted from the display region toward above the frame region so that an image on the display region is displayed above the frame region, the light guide element including a plurality of light guide sections each including a transmissive layer and being parallel to each other, the plurality of light guide sections being designed such that an interface between adjacent ones of the plurality of light guide sections is inclined with respect to an incident surface and an emission surface of the light guide element so that an incident surface of at least a part of the plurality of light guide sections overlaps a part of the display region and an emission surface of said at least a part of the plurality of light guide sections overlaps at least a part of the frame region above which an image on the display region is to be displayed, and when a distance between interfaces of adjacent ones of the plurality of light guide sections on the incident surface of the light guide element is referred to as a pitch p in a case of P being met, and in a case of P being met.