IP Library Granted Patent US 12,287,937
Granted Patent B2
US 12,287,937 · App. 18/408,766 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Electronic device, image display method, program, and display system

Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo, JP); Kensuke Yoshizumi (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 12,287,937
App. No.
18/408,766
Granted
Apr 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A convenient electronic device or the like is provided. The power consumption of an electronic device or the like is reduced. An electronic device or the like having high visibility regardless of the brightness of external light is provided. An electronic device or the like that can display both a smooth moving image and an eye-friendly still image is provided. Such an electronic device is an electronic device including a first display portion, a second display portion, and a control portion. The control portion is configured to make the first display portion and the second display portion individually display two or more of a first image, a second image, and a third image at a time. The first image is displayed with reflected light, the second image is displayed with emitted light, and the third image is displayed with light including both reflected light and emitted light.

Claims (16)

1. An electronic device comprising:

a first housing comprising a first display portion;

a second housing comprising a second display portion;

a control portion; and

a viewpoint detection portion,

wherein the first display portion or the second display portion comprises a first region at which a user looks fixedly and a second region outside the first region,

wherein the control portion is configured to make the first display portion and the second display portion individually display two or more of a first image, a second image, and a third image at the same time,

wherein the first image is displayed with reflective light,

wherein the second image is displayed with emitted light,

wherein the third image is displayed with both the reflective light and the emitted light,

wherein the viewpoint detection portion is configured to detect the first region at which the user looks fixedly and output positional data of the first region to the control portion,

wherein a frame frequency of the second region is lower than a frame frequency of the first region, and

wherein the first housing and the second housing are joined together to be capable of deforming in a mode of being folded with the first display portion and the second display portion overlapping with each other and in a mode of being opened with the first display portion and the second display portion exposed.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 ,

wherein at least one of the first display portion and the second display portion comprises a transistor, and

wherein the transistor comprises a channel formation region comprising an oxide semiconductor.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 10, 2024
From: YAMAZAKI, SHUNPEI; YOSHIZUMI, KENSUKE
To: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 066078/0662 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-173343 · Sep 6, 2016 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17838388 · Jun 13, 2022
Continuation 15685075 · Aug 24, 2017
Related Publication 20240143109A1 · May 2, 2024
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