公开(公告)号：US11842708B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-12

申请号：US18160495

申请日：2023-01-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Koorosh Aflatooni ,  Minhyuk Choi ,  Mohammad Ali Jangda ,  Sang Y. Youn ,  Yafei Bi ,  Jean-Pierre Guillou ,  Wei H. Yao

IPC: G09G5/10 ,  G06V40/13

CPC classification number: G09G5/10 ,  G06V40/13 ,  G06V40/1318 ,  G09G2320/0626 ,  G09G2360/144 ,  G09G2360/148

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.

公开(公告)号：US20230087088A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-23

申请号：US17894935

申请日：2022-08-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Sandeep Chalasani ,  Xiang Lu ,  Anurag Mehta ,  Hopil Bae ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Rajesh Velayuthan ,  Steven E. Molesa ,  Yaser Azizi ,  Young Don Bae ,  Sunmin Jang ,  Haitao Li ,  Hari P. Paudel ,  Anatole Huang ,  Tyler R. Kakuda ,  David A. Doyle ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Majid Gharghi ,  Vaibhav D. Patel

IPC: H01L27/15 ,  H01L33/62 ,  G09G3/32 ,  H01L33/38

Abstract: A display may be formed by an array of light-emitting diodes mounted to the surface of a display substrate. The light-emitting diodes may be inorganic light-emitting diodes formed from separate crystalline semiconductor structures. An array of pixel control circuits may be used to control light emission from the light-emitting diodes. Each pixel control circuit may be configured to control one or more respective passive matrices. To control partial pixel cells in the display, a donor pixel control circuit in a partial pixel cell may control the pixels in a receptor partial pixel cell without a pixel control circuit. To mitigate the size of an inactive area of the display, fanout signal lines for the display may be formed in the light-emitting active area of the display. The fanout signal lines may be formed between a row of pixel control circuits and a bottom edge of the light-emitting active area.

公开(公告)号：US11348554B1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-31

申请号：US17002680

申请日：2020-08-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yingying Tang ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Wei H. Yao

IPC: G09G5/10 ,  G06T1/20

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. A protective display cover layer for the display may tend to dim pixels near the edge of the display. Control circuitry in the electronic device may boost luminance for pixels in an edge region of a displayed image relative to a center region of the image. This ensures that image brightness does not vary across the image. The control circuitry may include a graphics processing unit, a pixel pipeline implemented in a system-on-chip circuit block, and a display drive circuit block. Luminance compensation may be implemented in the system-on-chip block and/or in the display driver circuit block.

公开(公告)号：US10714011B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-14

申请号：US16132322

申请日：2018-09-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sheng Zhang ,  Chih-Wei Yeh ,  Yunhui Hou ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Henry C. Jen ,  Shingo Hatanaka ,  Hasan Akyol ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Hopil Bae

IPC: G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/3233

Abstract: A mobile electronic device includes a display having an active array and a reference array. The active array includes a pixel and the reference array includes a reference pixel. The mobile electronic device also includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the display. The processing circuitry is configured to instruct the active array to drive the pixel based at least in part on a current-voltage relationship of the pixel and a reference current-voltage relationship of the reference pixel.

公开(公告)号：US10672320B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-02

申请号：US16132116

申请日：2018-09-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hung Sheng Lin ,  Soojin Park ,  Bhadrinarayana L. Visweswaran ,  Chieh-Wei Chen ,  Anshi Liang ,  Marc Albrecht ,  Pierre-Yves Emelie ,  Sean C. Chang ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Mohammad Hajirostam ,  Myung-Je Cho ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Yafei Bi

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3208

Abstract: A display device may include a processor that may receive image data, such that the image data may include gray level data and display brightness value (DBV) data for a first pixel of a display. The processor may then determine a gain compensation factor associated with the first pixel based on a correction spatial map, a brightness adaptation lookup table (LUT), the gray level data, and the DBV data. The processor may then determine an offset compensation factor associated with the first pixel based on the correction spatial map, the brightness adaptation lookup table (LUT), the gray level data, and the DBV data. The processor may generate compensated gray level data by applying the gain compensation factor and the offset compensation factor to the gray level data and transmit the compensated gray level data to pixel driving circuitry associated with the first pixel.

公开(公告)号：US10529053B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-07

申请号：US15711831

申请日：2017-09-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shengkui Gao ,  Hung Sheng Lin ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Katherine W. Song ,  Mohammad Hajirostam ,  Myung-Je Cho ,  Rui Zhang ,  Sang Y. Youn ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Yafei Bi

IPC: G06T3/40 ,  G06T7/90 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T5/00

Abstract: A display device may include a display having a pixels and a processor. The processor may receive image data, determine a digital offset value for a pixel based on a location of the pixel, such that the digital offset value compensates for one or more non-uniformity properties of the pixel. The processor may determine a scale factor associated with the pixel based on at least two of a luminance setting for the display, a driving mode of the display, and a gray level value for the pixel. The processor may then generate correction image data by applying the scale factor to the digital offset value, generate compensated image data based on the correction image data and the image data, and provide the compensated image data to the display.

公开(公告)号：US10460642B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-29

申请号：US15199315

申请日：2016-06-30

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Hung Sheng Lin ,  Jiayi Jin ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Guangmao Xing ,  Weijun Yao ,  Xiaofeng Wang ,  Yafei Bi ,  Haifeng Li

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3208 ,  G09G3/3233

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided to reduce noise present in sensing circuits used for calibrating light emitting diodes (e.g., organic light emitting diodes) in electronic display devices. Such a system may include a display that renders image data using self-emissive pixels. Values on the pixels may be sensed using a current source that outputs a current and a comparator that receives the current. The comparator changes states when a voltage signal output by the capacitor crosses a first threshold voltage or a second threshold voltage. A controller receives a first time when the comparator component changes states based on the voltage signal, receives a second time when the comparator component changes states based on the voltage signal, determines a current value based on the first time and the second time, and calibrates a pixel based on the current value.

公开(公告)号：US20180268758A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-20

申请号：US15964662

申请日：2018-04-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hung Sheng Lin ,  Mohammad Ali Jangda ,  Injae Hwang ,  Rui Zhang ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Mohammad Hajirostam

IPC: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/3216

CPC classification number: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/3216 ,  G09G2300/0819 ,  G09G2300/0842 ,  G09G2300/0861 ,  G09G2310/0251 ,  G09G2310/061 ,  G09G2310/062 ,  G09G2320/0233 ,  G09G2320/0252 ,  G09G2320/045

Abstract: An electronic device includes processors that generate image data. The electronic device also includes an electronic display that displays the image data over a first frame duration by programming a first row of display pixels with the image data. The electronic display also displays the image data over the first frame duration by causing the first row of display pixels to emit light for an emission duration that is based at least in part on a first luminance of the image data. The electronic display further displays the image data over the first frame duration by resetting the first row of pixels at least two times before an end of the first frame duration.

公开(公告)号：US20180082634A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-22

申请号：US15701056

申请日：2017-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chaohao Wang ,  Chih-Wei Yeh ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Hung Sheng Lin ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Injae Hwang ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Junhua Tan ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Rui Zhang ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Sun-Il Chang ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Howard H. Tang

IPC: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/3275

CPC classification number: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  G09G2300/0861 ,  G09G2310/0262 ,  G09G2320/0233 ,  G09G2320/0257 ,  G09G2320/0295 ,  G09G2320/043 ,  G09G2320/0693 ,  G09G2330/02 ,  G09G2330/12 ,  G09G2340/16 ,  G09G2360/18

Abstract: An apparatus receives current image frame data and data relating to at least one previous image frame for an electronic display. One or more parameters related to hysteresis of transistors in the electronic display are sensed. A correlation device, such as a look-up table, receives the sensed parameter or parameters and the data relating to one or more image frames, and uses this information, at least in part, to output an appropriate compensation signal for the current image frame data. The compensated current image frame data may then be supplied to the electronic display to reduce or eliminate the effects of hysteresis on the displayed image.

公开(公告)号：US20170103703A1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-13

申请号：US15273470

申请日：2016-09-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yafei Bi ,  Xiaofeng Wang ,  Haifeng Li ,  Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Hopil Bae ,  Hung Shen Lin ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Wei H. Yao

IPC: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/3291 ,  G09G3/3266

CPC classification number: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/006 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  G09G3/3291 ,  G09G2300/0809 ,  G09G2300/0814 ,  G09G2300/0819 ,  G09G2310/0202 ,  G09G2310/0291 ,  G09G2310/061 ,  G09G2320/0233 ,  G09G2320/045 ,  G09G2330/12

Abstract: An electronic device includes one or more unit pixels and threshold voltage (Vth) sensing circuitry. The threshold voltage sensing circuitry senses Vth of the one or more unit pixels, by: sampling a charge of a capacitor of the one or more unit pixels, transitioning from the sampling, and reading out the threshold voltage based upon a change in the charge of the capacitor, such that an operation of the one or more unit pixels may be modified based upon the threshold voltage.