US Patent 11594172 Display device having an enlarged display area

Disclosed is a display device. The display device includes a display panel having a base layer, a circuit element layer disposed on the base layer, a display panel including a plurality of first pixels disposed in a first display area, and a plurality of second pixels disposed in a second display area adjacent to the first display area. The display device further includes a gate driver disposed in the second display area of the display panel and configured to drive the first and second pixels and a diffraction pattern layer including a plurality of second diffraction patterns disposed on the second pixels.