Electronic device with display apparatus having light-emitting device and light-receiving device over insulating layer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12386174-B2
Application number	US-202218558214-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 25, 2022
Priority date	May 7, 2021
Publication date	Aug 12, 2025
Grant date	Aug 12, 2025

Abstract

An electronic device capable of detecting a user's body movements is to be provided. The electronic device is display equipment worn in front of the user's eye and capable of detecting the blinking action. The electronic device includes a display apparatus and a light source in a housing, and the display apparatus includes a light-emitting device and a light-receiving device in a display portion. Light emitted by the light source is incident on the user's eye and the vicinity thereof through a mirror and reflected, and the reflected light is detected by the light-receiving device. The amount of light reflected by the eyelid and that by the eyeball are different from each other, which enables the blinking action to be detected. The detection of the blinking action enables the user's fatigue state to be estimated.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a display apparatus;
a lens;
a mirror;
a light source; and
an optical window,
wherein the display apparatus comprises a pixel comprising a light-emitting device and a light-receiving device over an insulating layer,
wherein the lens is between the display apparatus and the optical window,
wherein the mirror is between the lens and the optical window to have a reflective surface on the optical window side,
wherein the light source is provided at a position overlapping with neither the display apparatus nor the optical window so that emitted light is incident obliquely on the reflective surface of the mirror,
wherein the emitted light reflected at the mirror is incident on a target object through the optical window, and
wherein light reflected by the target object enters the display apparatus through the optical window and the lens.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising a light-transmitting plate between the lens and the optical window,
wherein the mirror is on a surface of the light-transmitting plate.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the mirror is on a surface of the lens.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the mirror is a dielectric multilayer film transmitting visible light and reflecting infrared light.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the light source is a laser device or a light-emitting diode emitting infrared light.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the optical window is a lens.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the light-receiving device comprises a photoelectric conversion layer comprising an organic compound.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the light-receiving device has a light-receiving sensitivity peak in an infrared light range.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising a filter blocking visible light at a portion overlapping with the light-receiving device.

10. The electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the light-emitting device comprises a first electrode over the insulating layer, a second electrode, and an EL layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and
wherein the light-receiving device comprises a third electrode over the insulating layer, the second electrode, and an active layer between the third electrode and the second electrode.

11. The electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the target object is a user's eyeball or eyelid, and
wherein the electronic device is configured to detect a blinking action or a movement of the eyeball.

12. The electronic device according to claim 11 , wherein the electronic device is configured to estimate a user's fatigue level or perform an input operation with detection of the blinking action or the movement of the eyeball.

13. A goggle-type electronic device comprising two electronic devices in a housing, each of the electronic devices being the electronic device according to claim 1 .

14. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the reflected light is detected by the light-receiving device.

Assignees

• Semiconductor Energy Lab

Inventors

• Ikeda Hisao
• Tsukamoto Yosuke
• Yoshizumi Kensuke
• Kusumoto Naoto

Classifications

• G06F3/017

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title

• G06F3/013 Primary

  Eye tracking input arrangements (G06F3/015 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G02B27/0172

  characterised by optical features · CPC title

• G02B27/0093 Primary

  with means for monitoring data relating to the user, e.g. head-tracking, eye-tracking · CPC title

• G02B27/02

  Viewing or reading apparatus (stereoscopic systems G02B30/00) · CPC title