Patent ID: 8456444

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate disposed in an opposing relationship to each other; a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed adjacent one of two mutually opposing faces of said first and second substrates, with the one being of said first substrate; a displaying function layer adapted to exhibit an image displaying function based on an image signal supplied to said pixel electrodes; a driving electrode disposed in an opposing relationship to said pixel electrodes adjacent one of the two faces of said first and second substrates; a plurality of detection electrodes disposed on a face of said second substrate on the opposite side to said driving electrode and separated from each other in one direction so as to cooperate with said driving electrode to form capacitance therebetween; and an electrode neighboring layer disposed in contact with said second substrate and said detection electrodes and covering said detection electrodes; said electrode neighboring layer having a refractive index within a range from a refractive index equal to that of said second substrate to a refractive index equal to that of said detection electrodes, wherein, where a wavelength when a refractive index is defined is 550 nm, the refractive index of said electrode neighboring layer is within a range defined by −21% to +14% of the magnitude of the entire refractive index difference from the center of the refractive index difference between the refractive index of said second substrate and the refractive index of said detection electrode.