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Victor H Yin

Jun Qi

Dinesh C Mathew

Bryan W Posner

Rong Liu

Thomas W Wilson, Jr

John Z Zhong

Peteris K Augenbergs

Wei Chen

Chris A Ligtenberg

Adam T Garelli

Mookyung Son

Brett W Degner

Yu P Sun

Keith J Hendren

Wenyong Zhu

Daming Xu

Cheng Kai Chen

Chenhua You

Xinyu Zhu

Mikael M Silvanto

Robert Y Cao

Ziruo Hong

Mingxia Gu

ByoungSuk Kim

Joshua A Spechler

Eric Lee Benson

Zhenyue Luo

Meizi Jiao

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

Nathan K Gupta

Christopher L Boitnott

Yanming Li

Bartley K Andre

Steve Porter Hotelling

Lynn Richard Youngs

Kuo-Hua Sung

Yi Huang

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Steven M Scardato

Molly J Anderson

Shih Chang Chang

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Pedro Mari

Hung Sheng Lin

Ron Alan Hopkinson

Zhibing Ge

Craig C Leong

Michelle Rae Goldberg

Shih-Chang Chang

Glenn K Trainer

Bradford J Zercoe

Euan S Abraham

Joss Nathan Giddings

Jason N Gomez

Eugene Antony Whang

Shawn Robert Gettemy

Gabriel G Marcu

Nicolas V Scapel

Shinya Ono

Seung Wook Kim

Sunggu Kang

Kyung Wook Kim

Szu-Hsien Lee

Edward J Cooper

Ari P Miller

Young Cheol Yang

Gemma Alexandria Roper

Masato Kuwabara

Chun-Hao Tung

Adria Fores Herranz

Pei-En Chang

John Raff

Ming Xu

Li Zhang

Michael F Culbert

Stephen Robert McClure

Kapil Vinod Sakariya

Ian C Hendry

Wei Lin

Florence W Ow

Ethan Larry Huwe

Marc Albrecht

Paul J Thompson

Po-Jui Chen

Wey-Jiun Lin

Nicholas Alan Rundle

Laura M DeForest

Zhenbin Ge

Xiaokai Li

Zhen Zhang

Jean-Jacques P Drolet

Carl R Peterson

Pey-Jiun Ko

Chuan Pu

Bongsun Lee

Dhaval Chandrakant Patel

Silvio Grespan

Rungrot Kitsomboonloha

Tavys Q Ashcroft

An electronic device such as a voice-controlled speaker device may have a cylindrical shape. The electronic device may include a housing, a speaker in the housing configured to emit sound, and a display in the housing. The display may include a substrate, light-emitting components mounted on the substrate, an opaque support structure mounted on the substrate, a diffuser that is mounted to the opaque support structure and that overlaps the light-emitting components, a display cover layer that overlaps the diffuser, and foam that is interposed between the opaque support structure and the display cover layer. The light-emitting components may be arranged in groups that have the same layout and orientations that vary as a function of angular position relative to the center of the display. The foam and/or an adhesive layer may be formed from two or more discrete pieces that have footprints with complementary protrusions.

Fabric-covered electronic device with light-emitting components

An electronic device may include a projection display that has a high transparency when the display is turned off. The high off-state transparency may create the appearance of the display being invisible in the off-state, which may be desirable in certain electronic devices. The projection display may include an adjustable diffuser, a spatial light modulator that projects images onto the adjustable diffuser, a mirror that reflects the images from the spatial light modulator to the adjustable diffuser, and a light source that provides light to the spatial light modulator. The projection display may also include an adjustable opacity layer that is controlled based on detected ambient light levels. The projection display may also include an adjustable reflectivity layer. The adjustable diffuser and/or light source may be pixelated to increase contrast in the projection display.

Display with off-state transparency

A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a direct-lit backlight unit. The backlight unit may include an array of light-emitting diodes on a printed circuit board. The backlight unit may include first, second, and third light spreading layers formed over the array of light-emitting diodes. A color conversion layer may be formed over the first, second, and third light spreading layers. First and second brightness enhancement films may be formed over the color conversion layer.

Displays with direct-lit backlight units

A display may include a color filter layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may be formed in the display to accommodate a camera. The camera window may be formed by creating a notch in the thin-film transistor layer that extends inwardly from the edge of the thin-film transistor layer. The notch may be formed by scribing the thin-film transistor layer around the notch location and breaking away a portion of the thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may also be formed by grinding a hole in the display. The hole may penetrate partway into the thin-film transistor layer, may penetrate through the transistor layer but not into the color filter layer, or may pass through the thin-film transistor layer and partly into the color filter layer.

Displays with camera window openings

An electronic device may have a display with touch sensors. One or more shielding layers may be interposed between the display and the touch sensors. The shielding layers may include shielding structures such as a conductive mesh structure and/or a transparent conductive film. The shielding structures may be actively driven or passively biased. In the active driving scheme, one or more inverting circuits may receive a noise signal from a cathode layer in the display and/or from the shielding structures, invert the received noise signal, and drive the inverted noise signal back onto the shielding structures to prevent any noise from the display from negatively impacting the performance of the touch sensors. In the passive biasing scheme, the shielding structures may be biased to a power supply voltage.

Shielding for electronic device displays with touch sensors

A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a direct-lit backlight unit. The backlight unit may include an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on a printed circuit board. The display may have a notch to accommodate an input-output component. Reflective layers may be included in the notch. The backlight may include a color conversion layer with a property that varies as a function of position. The light-emitting diodes may be covered by a slab of encapsulant with recesses in an upper surface.

Display modules with direct-lit backlight units

An electronic device housing may have upper and lower portions that are attached with a hinge. At least one portion of the housing may have a rear planar surface and peripheral sidewalls having edges. A display module may be mounted in the housing. The display module may have glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor substrate. The color filter glass layer may serve as the outermost glass layer in the display module. The edges of the display module may be aligned with the edges of the peripheral housing sidewalls to create the appearance of a borderless display for the electronic device. The display module may be provided with an opening that allows a camera or other electronic components to receive light. Traces may be provided on the underside of the thin-film transistor substrate to serve as signal paths for the electrical components.

Portable computer display structures

An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be formed from liquid crystal display pixels, organic light-emitting diode pixels, or other pixels. The display may have an active area that is bordered along at least one edge by an inactive area. The active area contains pixels and displays images. The inactive area does not contain any pixels and does not display images. The inactive area may have a layer of black ink or other masking material to block internal components from view. The active area may have an opening that contains an isolated portion of the inactive area or may contain a recess into which a portion of the inactive area protrudes. An electrical component such as a speaker, camera, light-emitting diode, light sensor, or other electrical device may be mounted in the inactive area in the recess or opening of the active area.

Electronic device display with extended active area

A privacy film may have a light-blocking layer that is interposed between first and second transparent substrates. The light-blocking layer may have a plurality of opaque portions and a plurality of transparent portions. The opaque portions may be shaped to ensure light from the display is directed only to the primary viewer of the display. Each opaque portion of the light-blocking layer may extend along a respective longitudinal axis between the first and second transparent substrates. Privacy films used to cover curved displays may have opaque portions that extend along longitudinal axes that have different angles relative to the transparent substrates. Opaque portions in the edge of the privacy film may have longitudinal axes that are at non-perpendicular angles with respect to the transparent substrates. A privacy film for a curved display may also include a light-redirecting layer such as a prism layer or a liquid crystal layer.

Privacy films for curved displays

Textured cover assemblies for electronic devices are disclosed. The textured cover assemblies may be placed over a display and may provide anti-glare and anti-reflection properties to the electronic device.

Textured cover assemblies for display applications

A system may have a display that includes a plurality of light sources such as light-emitting diodes. The display may be an exterior display that is routinely operated in daytime conditions where ambient light levels are very high. To increase contrast in an exterior display, the display may include a sunlight blocking element. A static sunlight blocking element may include a louver film with asymmetric light blocking portions. The system may include an ambient light sensor that is configured to determine ambient light levels. Based on the detected ambient light level, control circuitry in the system may adjust one or more adjustable components in the display. The display may include an adjustable diffuser that has at least two states with different haze levels. The display may include an adjustable tint layer that has at least two states with different transmission levels.

Adaptive exterior display

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Victor H Yin