Patent 8743078 was granted and assigned to Samsung on June, 2014 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A display apparatus having an improved optical efficiency and a touch panel function, the display apparatus including a substrate; a display unit formed on the substrate and including a plurality of pixels; an encapsulation substrate disposed facing the display unit to encapsulate the display unit; an electrostatic capacitive pattern layer formed on the encapsulation substrate; and a black matrix layer formed between the substrate and the encapsulation substrate, and disposed to surround the plurality of pixels, wherein the plurality of pixels are disposed to correspond to the electrostatic capacitive pattern layer.