Patent ID: 8198805

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a substrate; a plurality of light emitting elements provided on said substrate and each formed from a lower electrode, a light emitting function layer and an upper layer stacked; a partition for element isolation provided on said substrate and having a plurality of apertures individually corresponding to said light emitting elements; and a black matrix disposed on the light extraction side of said light emitting elements and having a shape with which said black matrix covers over portions between said light emitting elements; wherein each of said apertures of said partition having a side wall is formed in such a tapering shape that the aperture width increases toward the light extraction side of said light emitting elements, said black matrix is provided in such a manner as to cover over a most inclined portion of the tapering shape on at least one side which defines each aperture of said partition, and wherein shapes of the black matrix and shapes of the apertures are different in at least two of the light emitting elements; and wherein the black matrix is provided to cover at least upper edge portions of the tapering shape on a first side of the aperture for at least a first one of the light emitting elements and a second side of the aperture for at least a second one of the light emitting elements, the first side being different than the second side.