US 2026/0282567 A1 · Displays with Pinhole Openings

Abstract

An electronic device may include a camera or other sensor that operates through a display. The display may include an array of pixels, and each pixel may include an emissive subpixel and a thin-film transistor (TFT) subpixel that drives the emissive subpixel of that pixel. To minimize interference with the light that passes through the display, the display may be modified to have one or more holes/windows. The hole(s) may be formed by removing the TFT subpixel of one or more pixels in the display, while retaining the emissive subpixel(s) of the one or more pixels. Anodes of the emissive subpixel(s) may be formed from transparent material to improve the transparency of the hole. In this way, light may pass through the hole, but the hole may maintain the uniformity of the display.

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Dependent claims

An electronic device, comprising:

a plurality of pixels arranged in a light-emitting area, wherein each one of the plurality of pixels includes an emissive subpixel and a thin-film transistor subpixel that controls the emissive subpixel of that pixel;
a hole in the plurality of pixels that includes a subset of the emissive subpixels, including anodes of the subset of the emissive subpixels, and that is free of thin-film transistor subpixels, wherein a central one of the emissive subpixels in the hole comprises a central anode at a center of the hole, and surrounding emissive subpixels of the emissive subpixels in the hole comprise surrounding anodes that are shifted away from the center of the hole;
and
an optical sensor that operates through the hole in the plurality of pixels.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Displays with Pinhole Openings

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Displays with Pinhole Openings

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Abstract

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