Electronic devices with illuminated display borders
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsPaul X Wang, Dinesh C. Mathew
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AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsPaul X Wang, Dinesh C. Mathew
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An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may be mounted on a front side of the device and the housing may have a housing wall on the rear side of the device. The display may be formed from an array of pixels configured to display an image for a user. Pixel-free border areas that run along the edges of the array of pixels may be provided with an edge illuminator. The edge illuminator may provide illumination to the border areas during operation of the device. The edge illuminator may have crystalline semiconductor light-emitting diode dies, backlit liquid crystal devices or electrophoretic display components, or may have a light guide that is supplied with illumination from a light-emitting diode.
A wearable electronic device having a front, a rear, and sidewalls that extend between the front and the rear, the wearable electronic device comprising:
A wristwatch device, comprising:
A wearable electronic device, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.