Patent ID: 8797234

Claim:
A direct-viewing type display device comprising: at least one display panel having a display region and a frame region provided outside the display region, with a boundary extending along a first direction between the display region and the frame region; and at least one light-transmitting cover disposed on a viewer's side of the at least one display panel, wherein, the at least one light-transmitting cover includes a lens portion disposed astride the boundary for refracting a portion of light going out from the display region toward the frame region; a viewer-side surface of the lens portion is a convex curved surface, and a rear-side surface of the lens portion is also a convex curved surface; and the viewer-side surface of the lens portion and the rear-side surface of the lens portion are symmetric in shape with respect to a plane that is located between and at a center of the viewer-side surface and the rear-side surface.