Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Nobuhisa Nakajima

Jin Nakamura

Tokumi Hayashi

Isao Takahashi

Hiroyuki Watatani

A method of producing a display panel sequentially includes a polarizing plate attachment process of attaching a polarizing plate to a surface of a substrate with a side surface of the polarizing plate being positioned outwardly from a side surface of the substrate, and a polarizing plate trimming process of trimming the side surface of the polarizing plate such that the side surface of the polarizing plate becomes flush with the side surface of the substrate.

Method of producing display panel

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.

Display device with hollowed part in backlight

The present invention provides a display device which allows reducing luminance unevenness around a non-display region even in a case where the non-display region is provided in a given position. A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; a front polarizer and a back polarizer each having a polarizer opening; and a backlight unit having a unit opening. The backlight unit includes: a light guide plate; a light source provided on an end surface of the light guide plate; and edge parts respectively surrounding (i) an outer periphery of the backlight unit and (ii) the unit opening. A reflection member is provided on a portion of an outer peripheral surface of the edge part surrounding the unit opening which portion is on a side opposite to the light source, the reflection member reflecting scattered light which has been scattered by the edge part.

Display device

A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention () includes: a liquid crystal panel () having a front transparent substrate (), a rear transparent substrate (), and a liquid crystal layer () provided between the front transparent substrate () and the rear transparent substrate (); a sidelight unit () mounted to the liquid crystal panel (), the sidelight unit () including a light source () provided on a lateral side of the liquid crystal panel () and a light guide plate () provided between the liquid crystal panel and the light source; and a frame () to which the light source () and the light guide plate () are mounted.

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Sakai, Japan

Nobuhisa Nakajima