Patent ID: 8773016

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a substrate; a plurality of light emitting elements provided over 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 over said substrate and having a plurality of apertures corresponding to said light emitting elements; and a light shielding portion disposed on the light extraction side of said light emitting elements and having a shape with which said light shielding portion 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, wherein the light shielding portion 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.