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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
May. 14, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Keith J. Hendren, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam T. Garelli, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Bryan W. Posner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dinesh C. Mathew, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mengyang Liang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Eric Benson, San Mateo, CA (US);
Victor Yin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jun Qi, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device such as a laptop computer or other device may have a housing. A display may be coupled to the housing. The display may have a pixel array configured to display an image. Backlight illumination for the pixel array may be provide by a backlight unit. The backlight unit may have a light guide layer. A light source may provide light to an edge of the light guide layer. The light guide layer may scatter the light outwardly to serve as the backlight illumination for the pixel array. The backlight unit may have optical films interposed between the light guide layer and the pixel array. The optical films may include flexible polymer layers such as diffuser layers and prism films. The optical films may each have a bent alignment portion that bends back on itself while wrapping around an edge of the light guide layer.