Patent ID: 8018133

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: a front substrate having a plurality of phosphor layers and a plurality of electroconductive layers arranged above the plurality of phosphor layers; and a rear substrate having a plurality of electron-emitting devices for irradiating the plurality of phosphor layers with electrons, wherein the front substrate has a resistor arranged outside of an image display area in which the plurality of phosphor layers are disposed on the front substrate, mutually adjacent electroconductive layers, among the plurality of electroconductive layers, arranged outside of the image display area, overlap with respectively different portions of the resistor, and the resistor is electrically connected to said mutually adjacent electroconductive layers without crossing over other ones of the electroconductive layers, the resistor has first and second regions arranged such that the image display area is closer to the first region rather than to the second region, and the second region has smaller area than the first region, per unit length in a direction of increasing a distance from the image display area.