Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus having the same
AssigneeSanyo Epson Imaging Devices Corporation
InventorKatsumi Yamada
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Abstract
An electro-optical device includes: a first optical panel having a pair of substrates with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween; a second optical panel that has a pair of substrates with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween, is disposed so as to overlap the first optical panel in plan view, and is smaller than the first optical panel in plan view; an illumination unit having a light source from which light is emitted and a light guiding member that is disposed between the first and second optical panels so as to make the light emitted from the light source incident on the first and second optical panels; and an optical absorber provided in a region other than a display area of the second optical panel between the first and second optical panels.
Claims6
An electro-optical device comprising:
- a first optical panel having a pair of substrates with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween;
- a second optical panel that has a pair of substrates with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween, the second optical panel being disposed so as to overlap the first optical panel in plan view and being smaller than the first optical panel in plan view;
- an illumination unit having a light source from which light is emitted and a light guiding member that is disposed between the first and second optical panels so as to direct the light emitted from the light source incident on the first and second optical panels;
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- an optical absorber provided in a region other than a display area of the second optical panel between the first and second optical panels.
An electro-optical device comprising:
- a first optical panel having a pair of substrates with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween;
- a second optical panel that has a pair of substrates with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween, the second optical panel being disposed so as to overlap the first optical panel in plan view and being smaller than the first optical panel in plan view;
- an illumination unit having a light source from which light is emitted and a light guiding member that is disposed between the first and second optical panels so as to make the light emitted from the light source incident on the first and second optical panels;
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- an optical absorber provided in a region other than a display area of the second optical panel between the first and second optical panels, the optical absorber being formed with an opening portion, light emitted from the light guiding member being incident on a display area of the second optical panel through the opening portion in the optical absorber, an edge of the opening portion defining an inner edge of a light shielding area located in a peripheral portion of the second optical panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.