Electronic devices having displays with openings
First Claim
1. An electronic device, comprising:
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a display mounted in the housing, wherein the display has an active area, an inactive area, and at least first and second pixels in the active area;
a light source that illuminates a user'"'"'s finger on the display; and
a light sensor located behind the display, wherein the light sensor receives light that reflects off of the user'"'"'s finger and passes between the first and second pixels in the active area.
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Abstract
An electronic device may have a display. The display may have an active region in which display pixels are used to display images. The display may have one or more openings and may be mounted in a housing associated with the electronic device. An electronic component may be mounted in alignment with the openings in the display. The electronic component may include a camera, a light sensor, a light-based proximity sensor, status indicator lights, a light-based touch sensor array, a secondary display that has display pixels that may be viewed through the openings, antenna structures, a speaker, a microphone, or other acoustic, electromagnetic, or light-based component. One or more openings in the display may form a window through which a user of the device may view an external object. Display pixels in the window region may be used in forming a heads-up display.
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19 Claims
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1. An electronic device, comprising:
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a housing; a display mounted in the housing, wherein the display has an active area, an inactive area, and at least first and second pixels in the active area; a light source that illuminates a user'"'"'s finger on the display; and a light sensor located behind the display, wherein the light sensor receives light that reflects off of the user'"'"'s finger and passes between the first and second pixels in the active area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An electronic device, comprising:
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a polymer substrate; an array of pixels on the polymer substrate; a light source that illuminates a user'"'"'s finger; and an array of light detectors behind the polymer substrate, wherein the light detectors detect light that reflects off of the user'"'"'s finger and wherein the array of pixels comprises organic light-emitting diode pixels. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. An electronic device, comprising:
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a housing; a display mounted in the housing; an array of photodiodes behind the display, wherein the array of photodiodes detect light that reflects off of a user'"'"'s finger and passes through the display; and control circuitry that controls the display based at least partly on data from the array of photodiodes. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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