Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Jongho Chong

Eunjung Lee

Suyoung Kim

Sun A Yang

Minjae Kim

Dong-wook Choi

A display apparatus includes a first panel including a plurality of pixel areas configured to provide an image, and a non-pixel area around the plurality of pixel areas, a lens unit on the first panel and configured to enlarge the image by a magnitude of N to generate a display image, a second panel on the lens unit, the second panel being larger than the first panel by a magnitude of N, and including a plurality of non-active areas corresponding to the plurality of pixel areas, and an active area around the plurality of non-active areas, and corresponding to the non-pixel area, a first substrate including a first electrode at the active area, a second substrate including a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a light transmission adjusting layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein N is a rational number greater than 1.

Display apparatus

A display apparatus includes a display panel and a folding part. The display panel includes an edge part curving in a first direction and a flat part connected the edge part. The folding part is below the flat part and is used to fold the display panel. The edge part includes a groove in a central portion of the edge part in a second direction crossing the first direction, and the groove extends in the first direction.

A portable display device including a display unit, the display unit including a light-emitting surface that displays an image and a non-light-emitting surface opposite to the light-emitting surface; a drive unit, the drive unit controlling the display unit; and a flexible film, the flexible film electrically connecting the display unit and the drive unit, wherein the drive unit includes a first surface on which the flexible film is disposed, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and wherein the portable display device is embodied in a first folding mode in which the flexible film is bent in such a way that the non-light-emitting surface and the second surface face each other, or a second folding mode in which the flexible film is bent in such a way that the light-emitting surface and the first surface face each other.

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Jongho Chong