Patent ID: 8638280

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: an active matrix display section including: a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of scan lines, arrayed in a matrix form on a substrate; and a plurality of active elements and pixels, arranged at intersections of the signal lines and the scan lines; a scan line driving circuit that is provided on the substrate and that drives the scan lines; and a signal line driving circuit that is provided on the substrate and that drives the signal lines; wherein the display section has a non-rectangular shape, the substrate being analogous in shape with the display section; and wherein at least one of the scan line driving circuit and the signal line driving circuit includes a plurality of active elements having the same configuration as the active elements constituting the active matrix; at least one of the scan line driving circuit and the signal line driving circuit including: a plurality of circuit units having the same function; the circuit units being arranged along an outer circumference of the non-rectangular display section, each at a substantially identical distance from each associated ones of respective active elements and pixels in the outer circumference, wherein the circuit units arranged along an outer circumference of the non-rectangular display section includes a trapezoid shaped circuit unit that comprises: a power supply line and a signal line, each provided in common to a plurality of the circuit units and arranged in parallel with the direction along one of upper and lower bases of the trapezoid, each laterally traversing through the trapezoid shaped circuit, the circuit units opposite to a curvilinear portion of the outer circumference of the non-rectangular display section, each having a layout of a trapezoid shape or an inverted trapezoid shape according to a curvature polarity of the curvilinear portion, with neighboring ones of the trapezoid shaped or inverted trapezoid shaped circuit units having oblique sides thereof made in contact, the circuit units opposite to the curvilinear portion of the outer circumference of the non-rectangular display section, being arranged at a substantially identical distance from the curvilinear portion of the outer circumference.