Electronic Device With Inverted Liquid Crystal Display

    公开(公告)号:GB2514518A

    公开(公告)日:2014-11-26

    申请号:GB201416824

    申请日:2013-03-13

    Applicant: APPLE INC

    Abstract: An electronic device may have a liquid crystal display with backlight structures. The backlight structures may produce backlight that passes through an array of display pixels. The display pixels may include electrode structures and thin-film transistor structures for controlling electric fields in a layer of liquid crystal material. The liquid crystal material may be formed between an outer display layer and an inner display layer. The inner display layer may be interposed between the backlight structures and the liquid crystal material. Thin-film transistor structures, electrodes, and conductive interconnection lines may be deposited in a layer on the inner surface of the outer display layer. A layer of color filter elements may be used to provide the display with color pixels. The color filter elements may be formed on top of the thin-film transistor layer or on a separate color filter array substrate such as the inner display layer.

    Edge-lit backlight unit with thin profile

    公开(公告)号:GB2471016B

    公开(公告)日:2013-12-04

    申请号:GB201009693

    申请日:2010-06-10

    Applicant: APPLE INC

    Abstract: An edge-lit backlight unit for a display is provided. In one embodiment, the backlight unit may include a light guide configured to receive light from a source and emit such light in a broad distribution to a turning film disposed over the light guide. The turning film may be configured to redirect light received from the light guide toward a normal of the turning film. In one embodiment, the light guide may be configured such that peak light distribution therefrom occurs at an incident angle of approximately sixty degrees, with broad light distribution substantially occurring over an angular range between incident angles of thirty-five and eighty-five degrees. Additionally, in one embodiment, the turning film may include multiple prisms that receive and redirect the light emitted from the light guide, and that include apex angles of less than or about sixty degrees. Additional edge-lit backlight units and methods are also disclosed.

    Portable computer having integral camera imaging via display screen opening

    公开(公告)号:GB2486931A

    公开(公告)日:2012-07-04

    申请号:GB201118514

    申请日:2011-10-26

    Applicant: APPLE INC

    Abstract: A portable computer, e.g. lap-top, comprises: a display (14, Figure 1) in a hinged upper housing including a colour filter (CF) layer 60, a thin-film transistor (TFT) layer 52, and at least one polarizer layer 62 having an (e.g. circular, 22, Figure 1) opening 112 from which portions of the polarizer layer have been removed, e.g. by bleaching using light (Figure 9) or liquid (118, Figure 15); a camera 102 in the upper housing receives light through the polarizer layer gap. An opaque masking layer 138 (ink, metallic, etc) may be provided in an inactive display border region, on top of the polariser or CF layer, or on a lower surface of the polariser or CF layer. Also claimed is a similar portable computer, comprising a display wherein the opaque masking layer is interposed between the CF and TFT layers, the opaque layer blocking inactive peripheral display portions from view; the opaque layer forms a border around the display, and has an opening, a camera receiving light through the opening. The display structure with integral, embedded camera inside may be applied to other portable devices, e.g. handheld devices (10, Figure 2).

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