Patent ID: 11892721
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A device comprising:
a camera;
a liquid crystal display having a display region and a non-display region, wherein the camera is disposed in the non-display region, and wherein the liquid crystal display comprises:
a first set of electrodes coupled to a thin-film transistor layer in the non-display region;
a second set of electrodes coupled to the thin-film transistor layer in the display region;
a first polyimide layer coupled to the thin-film transistor layer and comprising an aligned structure in the display region and an unaligned structure in the non-display region;
a second polyimide layer comprising the aligned structure in the display region and the unaligned structure in the non-display region;
a liquid crystal layer coupled to the first polyimide layer and the second polyimide layer, wherein a first portion of the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the display region is characterized by a first alignment and a second portion of the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the non-display region is characterized by a second alignment; and
a non-display region driver circuit coupled to the thin-film transistor layer and configured to apply a voltage to the first set of electrodes in the non-display region, wherein an application of the voltage is operable to transition the second portion of the liquid crystal layer to the first alignment.