# US 11,079,797 B1 · Electronic devices with adjustable display windows > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,079,797 B1 - Document ID: US11079797B1 - Status: Granted - Kind: B1 - Application number: 16/874,557 - Filed: 2020-05-14 - Granted: 2021-08-03 - Earliest claimed: 2020-05-14 - Assignees: Apple Inc. - Applicants: Apple Inc. - Inventors: Roei Remez; Shay Yosub; Hoon Sik Kim; Assaf Avraham; Omer Eden; Paul S. Drzaic; Rafi Ambar; Refael Della Pergola - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11079797B1 ## CPC - H04M 1/0266: {for a display module assembly} - G06F 1/1626: {with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]} - G06F 1/1637: {Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing} - G06F 1/1686: {the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera} - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - H04M 1/0268: {including a flexible display panel} - H05K 5/0226: {Hinges} - G06F 1/1652: {the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable} - H04M 1/0214: {Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position (combined with translation movement H04M1/0235)} - H04M 1/0235: {Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts} - H04M 1/026: {Details of the structure or mounting of specific components} - H04M 2250/12: including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS ## Abstract An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels for displaying images. The display may have a window region. During operation, a component such as an optical component may operate through the window region. The window region may overlap a movable portion of the display. The window region may be operated in open and closed states. In the closed state, the movable portion of the display overlaps the window region and pixels in the movable display portion emit light through the window region. In the open state, the movable portion of the display is moved away from the window region so that light for the optical component may pass through the window region. The optical component may be a camera or other component that receives light through the window region or may be an optical component that emits light through the window region. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electronic device, comprising: a housing; a display cover layer; a component; an actuator; and a display configured to display an image, wherein the display is mounted under the display cover layer and wherein the display has a window that is operable in a closed state in which a portion of the display is in the window and displays a portion of the image and an open state in which the actuator moves the portion of the display away from the window and the component operates through the window. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electronic device defined in claim 1 wherein the component comprises an optical component. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The electronic device defined in claim 2 wherein the optical component is configured to receive light that passes through a portion of the display cover layer overlapping the window. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The electronic device defined in claim 3 wherein the optical component comprises a camera. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The electronic device defined in claim 4 wherein the display comprises a flexible display and wherein the portion of the display is an integral portion of the flexible display that is configured to bend away from the window in the open state. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The electronic device defined in claim 4 wherein the portion of the display has a rigid substrate, the electronic device further comprising a hinge coupled to the rigid substrate. ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The electronic device defined in claim 4 wherein the portion of the display is configured to slide between a first position in the closed state and a second position in the open state. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The electronic device defined in claim 7 further comprising at least one roller configured to receive the display as the display slides. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The electronic device defined in claim 7 wherein the display has pixels, wherein the display is configured to slide in a first direction at a speed, and wherein the display is configured to move the image across the pixels at the speed in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction to synchronize sliding movement of the displayed image with physical sliding movement of the display. ### Claim 10 (depends on 4) The electronic device defined in claim 4 wherein the portion of the display is moved away from the window by rolling the portion of the display about a roller. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The electronic device defined in claim 1 further comprising a reflective structure on the portion of the display. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The electronic device defined in claim 11 wherein the reflective structure comprises a thin-film dielectric stack configured to reflect light received through the window to the component in the open state and wherein the component comprises a camera. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The electronic device defined in claim 1 wherein the display has a rigid portion and a flexible portion and wherein the flexible portion wraps around a roller when the portion of the display is moved away from the window. ### Claim 14 An electronic device, comprising: a housing having a transparent layer; a display overlapped by the transparent layer; and an optical component configured to receive light through a window region in the display, wherein the display has at least one movable portion that moves between a first position in which the movable portion covers the window region and a second position in which the movable portion does not cover the window region and the light passes through the window region to the optical component. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The electronic device defined in claim 14 further comprising a mirror aligned with the window region, wherein the mirror is configured to reflect the light that has passed through the window region. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The electronic device defined in claim 14 further comprising a coating on the movable portion, wherein the coating is configured to reflect the light that has passed through the window region to the optical component and is configured to pass light that is emitted from pixels in the movable portion. ### Claim 17 (depends on 14) The electronic device defined in claim 14 further comprising an actuator configured to move the optical component from a first position when the window region is covered to a second position when the window region is not covered. ### Claim 18 (depends on 14) The electronic device defined in claim 14 wherein the optical component is aligned with the window and is configured to directly receive the light that passes through the window region. ### Claim 19 (depends on 14) The electronic device defined in claim 14 wherein the optical component is configured to emit light that passes through the window region when the movable portion is in the second position. ### Claim 20 (depends on 14) The electronic device defined in claim 14 wherein the display comprises a flexible display and wherein the movable portion comprises a bendable flap of the flexible display. ### Claim 21 An electronic device, comprising: a display having an array of pixels and having a window region surrounded by pixels in the array of pixels; an actuator; and an optical component configured to operate through the window region, wherein the display has a display portion that is configured to be moved by the actuator between a first position in which pixels in the display portion emit light in the window region and a second position in which the pixels in the display portion do not emit light in the window region. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The electronic device defined in claim 21 wherein the optical component comprises a camera configured to receive light that passes through the window region while the display portion is in the second position.