Display device
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorYong Seok Kim
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Abstract
A display device includes a display module that includes a plurality of light emitting areas and a non-light emitting area that surrounds the light emitting areas, a first polarizer disposed on the display module, a second polarizer disposed on the first polarizer, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarizer. A plurality of openings are defined in the first polarizer or the second polarizer, and the openings overlap the light emitting areas. The display device is switchable between public and private viewing modes via an external input, in which a viewing angle of the display device in the private viewing mode is narrower than in the public viewing mode.
Claims20
A display device comprising:
- a display module having a plurality of light emitting areas and a non-light emitting area that at least partially surrounds the plurality of light emitting areas and that emit light towards a first direction;
- a phase difference layer disposed on the display module,
- a first polarizer disposed on the phase difference layer;
- a second polarizer disposed on the first polarizer;
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- a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarizer,
- wherein the phase difference layer is disposed closer to the display module than the first polarizer in the first direction, and
- wherein a plurality of openings are defined in the first polarizer or the second polarizer, and the plurality of openings overlap the plurality of light emitting areas.
A display device comprising:
- a display module having a plurality of light emitting areas and a non-light emitting area that at least partially surrounds the plurality of light emitting areas and that emit light towards a first direction;
- a phase difference layer disposed on the display module;
- a liquid crystal layer disposed on the phase difference layer;
- an in-cell polarizer disposed between the phase difference layer and the liquid crystal layer and in contact with the liquid crystal layer;
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- a polarizer disposed on the liquid crystal layer,
- wherein the phase difference layer is disposed closer to the display module than the in-cell polarizer in the first direction, and
- wherein a plurality of openings are defined in the in-cell polarizer, and each of the openings overlaps a respective one of the plurality of light emitting areas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.