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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2008
Masumitsu Ino, Kanagawa, JP;
Yingbao Yang, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsutomu Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazunori Yamaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaru Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Masumitsu Ino, Kanagawa, JP;
YingBao Yang, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsutomu Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazunori Yamaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaru Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a display section; a light radiating section; a plurality of light converging lenses; and a plurality of light receiving devices, wherein the display section includes pixel areas each used for creating a pixel section, and sensor areas each used for creating one of the light receiving devices; the light radiating section outputs light and radiates the output light to the display section from a particular-side surface of the display section; each of the light converging lenses is created in one of the sensor areas each located in the display section and converges light generated by the light radiating section on a focal point inside the display section, passing on the converged light to the other-side surface of the display section; and each of the light receiving devices is created in one of the sensor areas to serve as a device for receiving light which arrives at the other-side surface of the display section as light reflected by a subject of detection.