Patent ID: 7837343

Claim:
An illuminating device comprising: a light-condensing sheet having a plurality of light-condensing lenses with a light-condensing function ranged on a light transmittance substrate; a light-emitting portion opposed to the light-condensing sheet and having a plurality of light-emitting areas that have respective dimensions; and a control unit for switching a luminous state of each of the light-emitting areas to a non-luminous state or vice versa; wherein the light-emitting portion is composed of an electroluminescent element having a luminous layer and at least a pair of electrodes sandwiching the luminous layer therebetween, wherein the electrodes are separated into plural parts by patterning and the control unit controls to switch the luminous state to the non-luminous state or vice versa by selectively supplying each patterned, electrode part with electric power, wherein the electrodes include an upper electrode located on top of the luminous layer and a lower electrode located on the bottom of the luminous layer and shifted in position from the pattern form of the upper electrode, and the control unit causes a light-emitting area located in a crossed portion between the upper electrode and the lower electrode to emit light; and wherein said plurality of light-emitting areas comprises a small light-emitting area and a large light-emitting area, said small light-emitting area is formed plural corresponding to the plurality of lenses and located closer to the optical axis, and said large light-emitting area is formed at least partially including area between forming area of the small light-emitting area.