Display apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSang-Don PARK, Soon-Hyung Kwon, Seung-Gyu Lee, Deog-Jin Lee
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Abstract
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a front side that is exposed the outside. A refractor or set of refractors is positioned so as to minimize the appearance of a shield member to a viewer, thus causing a non-display region of the display apparatus to appear to be smaller than its actual size, thus increasing a size of an image display region of the display apparatus.
Claims26
A display apparatus, comprising:
- a display module configured to output an image;
- a front panel provided at a front side of the display module;
- a shield layer positioned at a rear side of the front panel ;
- a back cover coupled to the rear side of the front panel;
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- first and second optical refractors provided on a rear side of the front panel, wherein the first optical refractor overlaps an outer edge of the shield layer and the second optical refractor overlaps an inner edge of the shield layer.
A display apparatus, comprising:
- a display module configured to output an image;
- a front panel coupled to a front side of the display module, wherein the front panel comprises a transparent region configured to transmit an image output by the display module, and an opaque region that borders a periphery of the transparent region;
- a back cover coupled to a rear side of the front panel;
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- first and second optical refractors provided on a rear side of the front panel at positions corresponding to an outer edge region and an inner edge region of the opaque region, respectively.
A display apparatus, comprising:
- a display module configured to output an image;
- a front panel coupled to a front side of the display module, wherein the front panel comprises a transparent region configured to transmit an image output by the display module, and an opaque region disposed around the transparent region;
- a back cover coupled to a rear side of the front panel;
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- optical refractors provided on the front panel so as to substantially completely cover the opaque region of the front panel and change an optical path of light transmitted therethrough, wherein the optical refractors extend symmetrically from an outer edge portion and an inner edge portion of the opaque region and intersect at a predetermined position within the opaque region.
A display apparatus provided with a flat panel display module, wherein the display apparatus comprises:
- a first optical refractor configured to direct an optical path of light in a first direction;
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- a second optical refractor configured to direct the optical path of the light in a second direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.