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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Essential Products, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
David John Evans, V, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xinrui Jiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew E. Rubin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Matthew Hershenson, Los Altos, CA (US);
Xiaoyu Miao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joseph Anthony Tate, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason Sean Gagne-Keats, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rebecca Schultz Zavin, Portolla Valley, CA (US);
ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments include a mobile device with a light sensor overlaid under a display (e.g., a touchscreen). The mobile device can identify a command to capture an image. The mobile device can adjust at least a target portion of an opaqueness adjustable region of the display directly over the light sensor. The opaqueness adjustable region is capable of transforming from substantially opaque to substantially transparent. The mobile device can capture the image utilizing at least the light sensor while the target portion of the opaqueness adjustable region is substantially transparent.