Patent ID: 7817106

Claim:
A display device, comprising: image display device arranged to display an image; and a display switching device, provided on a front surface side of the image display device, and arranged to electrically switch between (i) an image to be seen in a single image display mode in which a main image displayed by the image display device is viewable from both a front direction and an oblique direction and (ii) an image to be seen in a multiple image display mode in which the main image displayed is viewable from the front direction and an image different from the main image is viewable from the oblique direction; wherein the display switching device is a liquid crystal layer provided between a pair of substrates; and the display switching device further includes (a) a first polarizing device provided between the display switching device and the image display device and (b) a second polarizing device provided on a front surface side of the display switching device, the first polarizing device being a reflective polarization plate.