Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multiple-element light-bending structures for minimizing display borders
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Application No.: US16006714Application Date: 2018-06-12
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Publication No.: US10551874B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Christopher D. Prest , Tseng-Mau Yang , Dale N. Memering
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent G. Victor Treyz; David K. Cole
- Main IPC: G06F1/16
- IPC: G06F1/16 ; G06F3/041

Abstract:
An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of display pixels that provide image light to a user. The array of display pixels may form an active display structure with a rectangular shape. The rectangular active display structure may be surrounded by an inactive border region. Optical structures such as upper structures formed from a sheet of glass and lower optical structures that lie beneath the sheet of glass may be configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The upper optical structures may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical structures may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. The lower and upper optical structures may have curved surfaces for bending the light.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180292864A1 Multiple-Element Light-Bending Structures For Minimizing Display Borders Public/Granted day:2018-10-11
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