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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Eric L. Benson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bryan W. Posner, La Selva Beach, CA (US);
Christopher L. Boitnott, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Dinesh C. Mathew, Fremont, CA (US);
Jun Qi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Y. Cao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Victor H. Yin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
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.