Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic devices having displays with openings
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Application No.: US17115547Application Date: 2020-12-08
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Publication No.: US11700760B2Publication Date: 2023-07-11
- Inventor: Benjamin M. Rappoport , Jeremy C. Franklin , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Scott A. Myers , Richard P. Howarth , Julian Hoenig , Christopher Stringer , John P. Ternus , Stephen Brian Lynch
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent G. Victor Treyz; Kendall P. Woodruff
- Main IPC: G06F1/16
- IPC: G06F1/16 ; H10K59/60 ; G06F3/01 ; H10K59/40 ; H10K77/10 ; G02B27/01 ; G06F3/042 ; G06F3/044 ; G09G3/3208 ; H04R1/02 ; G02B5/20

Abstract:
An electronic device may have a display. The display may have an active region in which display pixels are used to display images. The display may have one or more openings and may be mounted in a housing associated with the electronic device. An electronic component may be mounted in alignment with the openings in the display. The electronic component may include a camera, a light sensor, a light-based proximity sensor, status indicator lights, a light-based touch sensor array, a secondary display that has display pixels that may be viewed through the openings, antenna structures, a speaker, a microphone, or other acoustic, electromagnetic, or light-based component. One or more openings in the display may form a window through which a user of the device may view an external object. Display pixels in the window region may be used in forming a heads-up display.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210091146A1 Electronic Devices Having Displays with Openings Public/Granted day:2021-03-25
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