BACKLIGHT UNIT AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE
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1. A backlight unit comprising:
- a light source; and
a lens that includes an incident surface facing the light source and an emission surface that is a surface on an opposite side to the incident surface and faces a liquid crystal display unit of a light transmission type, and has a shape of condensing light incident on the incident surface from the light source toward the liquid crystal display unit, whereinthe lens is configured with a transparent layer and a diffusion layer that diffuses light placed on top of each other between the incident surface and the emission surface, andthe diffusion layer covers an entire surface of the transparent layer on the liquid crystal display unit side.
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A backlight unit includes a light source and a lens that has an incident surface facing the light source and an emission surface that is a surface on the opposite side to the incident surface and faces a liquid crystal display unit of a light transmission type, and has a shape of condensing light incident on the incident surface from the light source toward the liquid crystal display unit. The lens is configured with a transparent layer and a diffusion layer for diffusing light placed on top of each other between the incident surface and the emission surface. The diffusion layer covers an entire surface of the transparent layer on the liquid crystal display unit side.
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1. A backlight unit comprising:
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a light source; and a lens that includes an incident surface facing the light source and an emission surface that is a surface on an opposite side to the incident surface and faces a liquid crystal display unit of a light transmission type, and has a shape of condensing light incident on the incident surface from the light source toward the liquid crystal display unit, wherein the lens is configured with a transparent layer and a diffusion layer that diffuses light placed on top of each other between the incident surface and the emission surface, and the diffusion layer covers an entire surface of the transparent layer on the liquid crystal display unit side. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A head-up display device comprising:
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a liquid crystal display unit of a light transmission type; and a backlight unit, wherein the backlight unit includes a light source, and a lens that includes an incident surface facing the light source and an emission surface that is a surface on an opposite side to the incident surface and faces the liquid crystal display unit, and has a shape of condensing light incident on the incident surface from the light source toward the liquid crystal display unit, the lens is configured with a transparent layer and a diffusion layer that diffuses light placed on top of each other between the incident surface and the emission surface, and the diffusion layer covers an entire surface of the transparent layer on the liquid crystal display unit side.
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