US 12,244,748 B2
Electronic device
Yoshiro Aoki, Tokyo (JP); Hiroyuki Kimura, Tokyo (JP); and Akio Takimoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Japan Display Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Japan Display Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/874,355.
Application 17/874,355 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/044571, filed on Nov. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-011988 (JP), filed on Jan. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0368785 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04M 1/02 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); G02F 1/1335 (2006.01); G02F 1/1343 (2006.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01)
CPC H04M 1/0264 (2013.01) [G02F 1/133512 (2013.01); H04M 1/0266 (2013.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); G02F 1/13338 (2013.01); G02F 1/134309 (2013.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a light shutter panel including an incident light control area;
an optical member including a lens and facing the incident light control area; and
an imaging device configured to convert light which passed through the incident light control area of the light shutter panel and the optical member to image data,
the incident light control area comprising:
a first annular light-shielding area;
a circular incident light control area surrounded by the first annular light-shielding area; and
a plurality of annular incident light control areas located between the first annular light-shielding area and the circular incident light control area and having a multiple shape,
wherein
the light shutter panel being a liquid crystal panel, and further including a display area,
an outer periphery of the incident light control area being in contact with the display area,
the light shutter panel comprising a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and located in the display area and the incident light control area,
the first substrate comprising first and second electrodes located in each of the circular incident light control area and the annular incident light control areas, and
the liquid crystal layer being provided in the circular incident light control area and the annular incident light control areas in a one-to-one relationship, and including a plurality of control liquid crystal layers which are driven independently from each other.