Displays with camera window openings
A display may include a color filter layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may be formed in the display to accommodate a camera. The camera window may be formed by creating a notch in the thin-film transistor layer that extends inwardly from the edge of the thin-film transistor layer. The notch may be formed by scribing the thin-film transistor layer around the notch location and breaking away a portion of the thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may also be formed by grinding a hole in the display. The hole may penetrate partway into the thin-film transistor layer, may penetrate through the transistor layer but not into the color filter layer, or may pass through the thin-film transistor layer and partly into the color filter layer.
1. An electronic device comprising:
an optical sensor; and
a display comprising:
a display layer with an opening that penetrates partly into the display layer without extending completely through the display layer, wherein the optical sensor extends partially into the opening, and the optical sensor receives light through the opening and through a portion of the display layer covering the optical sensor.
2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the display has an active area and an inactive area, and wherein the opening is formed in the inactive area.
3. The electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a polarizer on the display layer.
4. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the polarizer comprises an unpolarized portion that overlaps the opening.
5. The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein the optical sensor operates through the unpolarized portion.
6. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the polarizer comprises a polarizer opening from which a portion of the polarizer has been removed, and wherein the polarizer opening overlaps the optical sensor and the opening in the display layer.
7. The electronic device of claim 6 , wherein the optical sensor receives the light through the polarizer opening.
8. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the display layer comprises:
a substrate; and
thin-film transistor circuitry formed on the substrate.
9. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the display layer has first and second parallel opposing edges and third and fourth parallel opposing edges that are perpendicular to the first and second parallel opposing edges, and wherein the opening is surrounded by the first, second, third, and fourth edges.
10. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the optical sensor comprises a camera.
11. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the display layer is a first display layer, the electronic device further comprising:
a second display layer with a through opening, wherein the optical sensor operates through the through opening.
12. An electronic device comprising:
a sensor; and
a display comprising:
a thin-film transistor layer including first and second opposing surfaces, wherein the thin-film transistor layer comprises an opening from which a first portion of thin-film transistor layer is absent, the opening extends from the first surface, a second portion of the thin-film transistor layer overlaps the opening and forms a portion of the second surface, and the sensor extends into the opening and receives light through the opening in the thin-film transistor layer and the second portion of the thin-film transistor layer.
13. The electronic device of claim 12 , wherein the display comprises an active area with an array of pixels that displays images and an inactive area that does not display images, and wherein the opening in the thin-film transistor layer is formed in the inactive area.
14. The electronic device of claim 12 , further comprising:
a polarizer layer that overlaps the opening.
15. The electronic device of claim 12 , wherein the thin-film transistor layer comprises:
a thin-film transistor substrate; and
thin-film transistor circuitry formed on the thin-film transistor substrate.
16. The electronic device of claim 12 , further comprising:
a touch sensor layer formed over the thin-film transistor layer.
17. The electronic device of claim 12 , further comprising:
a housing having a glass portion and a metal portion, wherein the display and the sensor are mounted in the housing; and
a glass cover layer that overlaps the display.