US 12,189,225 B2
Display device
Sung-hwan Bae, Yongin-si (KR); Seungki Song, Goyang-si (KR); and Chansol Yoo, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/543,559.
Application 17/543,559 is a continuation of application No. 15/711,268, filed on Sep. 21, 2017, granted, now 11,194,187.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2016-0129296 (KR), filed on Oct. 6, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0091454 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); G09G 3/36 (2006.01)
CPC G02F 1/13336 (2013.01) [G09G 3/3648 (2013.01); G02F 1/133388 (2021.01); G09G 2300/026 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0413 (2013.01); G09G 2310/0232 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device, comprising:
a plurality of display panels that display one image adjacent to each other, each having a display area, an intermediate area adjacent to the display area, a peripheral area spaced apart from the display area with the intermediate area interposed therebetween;
wherein each of the plurality of display panels comprises,
a base substrate;
a pixel circuit disposed on the base substrate and overlapping the display area and the intermediate area;
a color filter disposed over the pixel circuit;
a sealing member disposed on the base substrate and overlapping the peripheral area; and
a black matrix disposed on the sealing member and disposed only in the peripheral area;
wherein a first width of the black matrix is greater than a second width of the sealing member,
wherein an inner surface of the sealing member and an inner surface of the black matrix are aligned with each other,
wherein each of the plurality of display panels comprises at least one dummy electrode disposed on the base substrate and overlapping the intermediate area including portions bordering the display area and the peripheral area, and not overlapping the black matrix or the color filter within the intermediate area, and
wherein the intermediate area is configured to display an image generated based on a gradation level of an image displayed in the display area and the peripheral area.