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US 2014/0192257 A1Published application
Electro-optic aperture device
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsJeffrey Nathan Gleason, Henry H. Yang
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Abstract
An electro-optic aperture has a stack that includes a front transparent conductor medium, an active electro-chromic medium, and a rear transparent conductor medium. The front and rear transparent conductor mediums are directly connected to each other by a conductive section located within the imaging path. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Claims20
A portable consumer electronics device comprising:
- a handheld portable device housing;
- and
- 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 through an imaging path,
- 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, and wherein the front and rear transparent conductor mediums are directly connected to each other by a conductive section that is located within the imaging path.
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A portable consumer electronics device comprising:
- a handheld portable device housing;
- and
- 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.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.