Electronic apparatus with image capturing through hole formed in display region

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10200615-B2
Application number	US-201515124399-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 15, 2015
Priority date	Jan 7, 2015
Publication date	Feb 5, 2019
Grant date	Feb 5, 2019

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose an electronic apparatus comprising a display panel having a through hole having a through hole passing therethrough in a thickness direction thereof within a display region, and an image capturing device disposed on a side of the display panel opposite to a light-exiting side and configured to capture an image through the through hole. In the electronic apparatus according to the present invention, eyes of a user can look straight at the camera while viewing the screen when taking a photo of him by himself, thereby obtaining a satisfy or desirable face image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:
a display panel having:
a display region; and
a single through hole passing through the display panel in a thickness direction of the display panel, located in the display region, and having an internal wall defining an internal space; and
an image capturing device disposed on a side of the display panel opposite to a light-exiting side of the display panel and configured to capture an image through the through hole,
wherein the image capturing device comprises a lens group disposed to face toward the through hole to capture an image through the through hole by using a pinhole imaging principle, and the lens group comprises two convex lenses and one concave lens located between the two convex lenses, and
wherein the display region comprises a pixel region in which pixels are disposed, each of the pixels has sub-pixels and a black matrix region between adjacent ones of the sub-pixels, and the single through hole is located at a position corresponding to one of the sub-pixels or the single through hole is located in the black matrix region between adjacent ones of the sub-pixels in one of the pixels.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the thorough hole is located at a center of the display region.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the display panel is a self-luminous type display panel.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the image capturing device further comprises an image acquisition and storage section for acquiring and processing the image obtained through the lens group so as to display the image on the display panel.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the image acquisition and storage section comprises an image sensor, a signal processor and a storage.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the image sensor, the lens group, a substrate, and the pixels on the substrate are arranged in this order in a light-exiting direction of the electronic apparatus.

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jing Yaoqiu
• Wang Shang

Classifications

• H04N23/57 Primary

  Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices · CPC title

• H04N23/54

  Mounting of pick-up tubes, electronic image sensors, deviation or focusing coils · CPC title

• H04N23/51

  Housings · CPC title

• H04N5/2252

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/2254

  Electricity · mapped topic