Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hiroyuki Watatani

Jin Nakamura

Nobuhisa Nakajima

Isao Takahashi

Disposing a functional device such as a camera on a display surface widens a frame. A display device () includes a display panel (DP) including a first substrate (). The display panel has a transparent section (TS) from which display light does not go out and which has a partial region () of the first substrate. In plan view, the transparent section which is larger than a pixel (PX) is disposed on an inner side of an edge of a display area () or is disposed to cut out the display area. The display panel has a back surface on which a functional device (FD) configured to perform at least one of light reception or light emission is disposed to overlap the transparent section.

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Sakai, Japan

Hiroyuki Watatani