US 11,914,258 B2
Electronic apparatus incorporating a liquid crystal element
Akio Takimoto, Tokyo (JP); Toshiki Kaneko, Tokyo (JP); Takuo Kaitoh, Tokyo (JP); Kazuhiro Nishiyama, Tokyo (JP); and Hiroyuki Kimura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Japan Display Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Japan Display Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/148,072.
Application 18/148,072 is a continuation of application No. 17/126,475, filed on Dec. 18, 2020, granted, now 11,599,001.
Application 17/126,475 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/020783, filed on May 24, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-123159 (JP), filed on Jun. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0137206 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. G09G 3/36 (2006.01); G02F 1/137 (2006.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G02F 1/1335 (2006.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01)
CPC G02F 1/137 (2013.01) [G02B 6/0055 (2013.01); G02F 1/133528 (2013.01); G09G 3/36 (2013.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); G09G 2360/145 (2013.01)] 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
a camera;
a liquid crystal element including a first region and a second region that are overlaid on the camera;
a memory storing a program for controlling opening of the liquid crystal element;
a driver driving the liquid crystal element; and
a controller controlling the memory and the driver,
wherein
the program includes a first opening mode of transmitting light through the first region and the second region, and a second opening mode of making a quantity of the light transmitted through the first region smaller than a quantity of the light transmitted through the second region,
the program causes an annular first pattern to be displayed in a third region surrounding the first region outside the camera, in the first opening mode,
the program causes an annular second pattern to be displayed in the third region, in the second opening mode, and
a first area of an opening pattern displayed inside the second pattern is smaller than a second area of an opening pattern displayed inside the first pattern.