JP2009015100A5 - - Google Patents

Claims (6)

An EL panel having a configuration in which a light emitting layer is interposed between a pair of electrodes facing each other, and the light emitting layer emits light due to a potential difference between the one set of electrodes;
A plurality of pixels that are irradiated with light from the EL panel in a state of being overlapped with the EL panel in plan view, and an image is formed by controlling switching between transmission and blocking of the light for each of the plurality of pixels An image forming panel,
An optical element interposed between the EL panel and the image forming panel and restricting the traveling direction of the light from the EL panel;
An electro-optical device in which the plurality of pixels of the image forming panel are irradiated with the light from the EL panel through the optical element,
In the EL panel, a plurality of light emitting regions extending in a strip shape along the first direction in a plan view are juxtaposed in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and the light emitting layer is independent for each light emitting region. Is configured to emit light,
The optical element has a length that spans a contour of a region where the EL panel and the plurality of pixels overlap in a third direction intersecting the second direction in plan view, and along the third direction. A plurality of cylindrical lenses extending is composed of lenticular lenses arranged in the second direction,
Each of the cylindrical lenses has an arc shape in which a cross section when the EL panel, the lenticular lens, and the image forming panel are cut along the second direction is convex toward the image forming panel side, and An electro-optical device characterized in that a portion corresponding to an arcuate string has a length corresponding to 4n (n is a natural number of 1 or more) light emitting regions. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , wherein the EL element constituting the EL panel is an organic EL element. The electro-optical device according to claim 2 , wherein the organic EL element constituting the EL panel is a top emission type. The lenticular lens has a configuration in which the plurality of cylindrical lenses are formed on a sheet-like base,
The electro-optical device according to claim 3 , wherein the EL panel is sealed on the image forming panel side with the lenticular lens. Each of the light emitting regions includes a red region emitting the light exhibiting a red color, a green region emitting the light exhibiting a green color, and a blue region emitting the light exhibiting a blue color. Are arranged in the second direction, and the one set of electrodes is provided for each of the red region, the green region, and the blue region. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 . An electronic apparatus comprising the electro-optical device according to claim 1 as a display unit.