Electro-optic aperture device
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsJeffrey Nathan Gleason, Henry H. Yang
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Abstract
A portable consumer electronics device has a handheld portable device housing, and an electronic camera module integrated in the housing. The module has a focusing lens to focus light from a scene, an imaging sensor to receive the focused light, and an electro-optic variable aperture to allow different amounts of the light from the scene to reach the imaging sensor. The aperture has a stack that includes a front transparent conductor medium, an electrolyte medium, an active electro-chromic medium, and a rear transparent conductor medium. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Claims19
A portable consumer electronics device comprising:
- a handheld portable device housing;
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- an electronic camera module integrated in the housing, the module having a focusing lens to focus light from a scene, an imaging sensor to receive the focused light, and an electro-optic variable aperture to allow different amounts of the light from the scene to reach the imaging sensor,
- wherein the aperture has a stack that includes a front transparent conductor medium, an electrolyte medium, an active electro-chromic medium, and a rear transparent conductor medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.