US 11,862,083 B2
Electronic devices with curved display surfaces
Sameer Pandya, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Daniel J. Barrett, Redwood City, CA (US); Erik G. de Jong, San Francisco, CA (US); James P. Landry, Campbell, CA (US); David A. Doyle, Cupertino, CA (US); Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Los Gatos, CA (US); Jung Yun Seuh, San Jose, CA (US); and Yi Qiao, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/374,879.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/065,421, filed on Aug. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0051622 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G02F 1/137 (2006.01); G09G 3/3233 (2016.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G04G 17/04 (2006.01); G02F 1/1335 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 3/3233 (2013.01) [G02B 6/004 (2013.01); G02B 6/0051 (2013.01); G02F 1/13737 (2013.01); G02F 1/133331 (2021.01); G04G 17/045 (2013.01); G02F 1/133541 (2021.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a housing; and
a display coupled to the housing, wherein the display comprises:
a pixel array configured to produce an image;
a display cover layer that overlaps the pixel array, wherein the display cover layer has a peripheral edge with a curved cross-sectional profile, the peripheral edge with the curved cross-sectional profile having a curved outer surface and a planar inner surface; and
an anisotropic color cast compensation layer containing a guest-host liquid crystal layer and a light diffusing layer that are configured to alter a color cast of a portion of the image viewed from an off-axis direction through the peripheral edge, wherein the light diffusing layer is between the guest-host liquid crystal layer and the display cover layer.