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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2011
Young Cheol Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cheng Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Ming Xu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zhibing GE, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chia-ching Chu, San Jose, CA (US);
Mingxia Gu, San Jose, CA (US);
Young-bae Park, San Jose, CA (US);
Weimin Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Z. Zhong, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lynn R. Youngs, Cupertino, CA (US);
Young Cheol Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cheng Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Ming Xu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zhibing Ge, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chia-Ching Chu, San Jose, CA (US);
Mingxia Gu, San Jose, CA (US);
Young-Bae Park, San Jose, CA (US);
Weimin Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
EnkhAmgalan Dorjgotov, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Z. Zhong, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lynn R. Youngs, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device may have a display such as a liquid crystal display. The display may have multiple layers of material such as a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. An opaque masking layer may be formed on a display layer such as the color filter layer. In an inactive portion of the display, the opaque masking layer may form a rectangular ring that serves as a border region surrounding a rectangular active portion of the display. In the active portion of the display, the opaque masking layer may be patterned to from an opaque matrix that separates color filter elements in an array of color filter elements. The opaque masking layer and color filter elements may be formed from polymers such as photoresist. The opaque masking layer may include a black pigment such as carbon black. Color filter elements and opaque masking material may include multiple sublayers.