Patent ID: 7956940

Claim:
A display system comprising a display device, said display device comprising: a backlight; a liquid crystal display panel; and a separate viewing angle control liquid crystal panel for controlling a viewing angle of the liquid crystal display panel, said display system further comprising a reflected light amount relative increasing section for increasing an illuminance of external light to be received at the display device, so as to cause an amount of the external light reflected in the display device to be relatively larger than an amount of light leaked from the backlight in the display device, which amount of the light is obtained after the light has been transmitted through the liquid crystal display panel and the separate viewing angle control liquid crystal panel, the reflected light amount relative increasing section including a lighting section for turning on a light for increasing the amount of light reflected in the display device, the lighting section including the light provided on at least one of four sides surrounding, along a display surface of the display device, the display surface.