SCREEN CAMERA

• US 20130286152A1
• Filed: 04/26/2013
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hojer, Henrik
• Granted Patent: US 9,055,188 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/144 camera and display on the same optical axis, e.g. optically multiplexing the camera and display for eye to eye contact

Abstract

A communication terminal comprising: a communication part, a display portion, comprising one of an AMOLED type comprising a white pixel or pixels arranged in RGBW (Red/Green/Blue/White) pattern and having a number of light emitting devices; at least one of the light emitting devices being configured to have a first state and a second operational state, wherein in said first operational state said light emitting device emits light and in a said second operational state said light emitting device is transparent, an image capturing sensor arranged behind said display and aligned with the light emitting device and configured to continuously capture images and generate signals corresponding to said captured image, and a processing unit to receive the signals from the image capturing sensor and process said signals and produce an image comprising images captured by selecting between images captured during said first state.

Claims

1. A communication terminal comprising:

a communication part,

a display portion, comprising one of an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode, AMOLED, type comprising a white pixel or having pixels arranged in RGBW (Red/Green/Blue/White) pattern and having a number of light emitting devices;

at least one of said number of light emitting devices being configured to have a first state and a second operational state, wherein in said first operational state said light emitting device emits light and a said second operational state said light emitting device is transparent,

an image capturing sensor arranged behind said display and aligned with said one light emitting device having the first and the second operational states and configured to continuously capture images and generate signals corresponding to said captured image, and

a processing unit configured to receive the signals from the image capturing sensor and process said signals from image capturing sensor and produce an image comprising images captured by selecting between images captured during said first state.

2. The communication terminal of claim 1, wherein said image capturing sensor and said light emitting device are arranged in a position, which corresponds to a position of image of a face of a conferencing party.

3. The communication terminal of claim 1, wherein said display is in transparent organic light emitting diode, OLED, technology.

4. The communication terminal of claim 1, further comprising a controlling arrangement for synchronizing between transparent state of said light emitting device and image capturing state of said sensor.

5. The communication terminal of claim 1, being one of radiotelephone, a personal communications system (PCS) terminal, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a computer, a camera having communication ability, and any other computation or communication device capable of transceiving radio signals.