Patent ID: 8780015

Claim:
A direct-viewing type display device comprising: at least one display panel having a display region and a frame region formed outside the display region; and at least one light guide element having an incident face, an outgoing face, and a plurality of light guide paths formed between the incident face and the outgoing face, wherein the at least one light guide element includes a laminate of two or more types of light-transmitting layers having different refractive indices; the light-transmitting layers are stacked in a direction which is perpendicular to the direction of light propagation through the light-transmitting layers; the incident face of the at least one light guide element is disposed so as to overlap a portion of a peripheral display region adjoining the frame region of the at least one display panel along a first axis, and be parallel to a surface of the at least one display panel; and the outgoing face of the at least one light guide element has a distance from the incident face that increases away from the portion of the peripheral display region and toward the frame region along the first axis, and extends to a position overlapping the frame region.