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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2019
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai, JP;
Abstract
A lighting device includes light sources arranged in a row direction and a column direction, and a reflector through which at least a part of light rays emitted by the light source. The reflector includes unit light source regions disposed at an interval from the light sources, a light reflecting pattern disposed in the unit light source regions and reflecting light, and a light transmitting pattern disposed in the unit light source regions and transmissive to the part of the light rays. The unit light source regions are disposed such that the unit light source regions adjacent to each other with respect to at least one of the row direction and the column direction have different distributions of at least one of the light reflecting pattern and the light transmitting pattern.