US 12,416,724 B2
Display with array of light-transmitting windows
Minhyuk Choi, San Jose, CA (US); Rui Liu, San Jose, CA (US); Cheng Chen, San Jose, CA (US); Chin-Wei Lin, San Jose, CA (US); Sang Y. Youn, Cupertino, CA (US); Shih Chang Chang, Cupertino, CA (US); and Tsung-Ting Tsai, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/887,340.
Application 17/887,340 is a continuation of application No. 16/859,904, filed on Apr. 27, 2020, granted, now 11,417,709.
Application 16/859,904 is a continuation of application No. 15/257,374, filed on Sep. 6, 2016, granted, now 10,644,077, issued on May 5, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/247,543, filed on Oct. 28, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0392965 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H10K 59/12 (2023.01); G01S 17/04 (2020.01); G09G 3/3233 (2016.01); H10F 77/40 (2025.01); H10K 50/813 (2023.01); H10K 59/121 (2023.01); H10K 59/131 (2023.01); H10K 59/35 (2023.01); H10K 59/60 (2023.01); H10K 59/80 (2023.01)
CPC G01S 17/04 (2020.01) [G09G 3/3233 (2013.01); H10F 77/40 (2025.01); H10K 50/813 (2023.02); H10K 59/1213 (2023.02); H10K 59/1216 (2023.02); H10K 59/131 (2023.02); H10K 59/352 (2023.02); H10K 59/60 (2023.02); H10K 59/80515 (2023.02); G09G 2300/0452 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0842 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a housing;
a display mounted in the housing and having an array of pixels including first and second pixels, wherein the second pixel has at least one pixel circuit element that is excluded from the first pixel to accommodate a light-transmissive window in the display; and
a light sensor located behind the array of pixels, wherein the light sensor detects light through the light-transmissive window in the display.