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公开(公告)号:US11145249B1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-12
申请号:US16930204
申请日:2020-07-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Wanglei Han , Akshay Bhat , Michael H. Lim , Kyung Hoae Koo , Jiayi Jin , David A. Doyle , Tae-Wook Koh , Jared S. Price , Yifan Zhang , Mahdi Nezamabadi
IPC: G09G3/3225 , G09G3/00
Abstract: A display may include pixels (such as light-emitting diode pixels) that are susceptible aging effects (burn-in). To help avoid visible artifacts caused by burn-in during operation of the display, compensation circuitry may be used to compensate image data for the display. An optical sensor may be included behind the pixels to directly measure pixel brightness levels. The optical sensor may provide optical sensor data from testing operations to the compensation circuitry. The optical sensor may gather data during burn-in testing operations. During the burn-in testing operations, pixel groups including both high-usage pixels and low-usage pixels may sequentially emit light while the optical sensor gathers data. Brightness differences between the high-usage pixels and low-usage pixels may be used to characterize pixel aging in the display and compensate image data to mitigate visible artifacts caused by burn-in. The optical sensor may also gather data during global brightness testing operations.
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公开(公告)号:US10983482B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-20
申请号:US16277842
申请日:2019-02-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tae-Wook Koh , Yiqiang Nie , Yifan Zhang , Giovanni M. Agnoli , Paul S. Drzaic , David A. Doyle
IPC: G06F1/00 , G04G9/00 , G09G3/20 , G09G3/3225
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch device or other device may have a display. The display may be used to continuously display information such as watch face information. A watch face image on the display may contain watch face elements such as watch face hands, watch face indices, and complications. To reduce burn-in risk for watch face elements, control circuitry in the electronic device may impose burn-in constraints on attributes of the watch face elements such as peak luminance constraints, dwell time constraints, color constraints, constraints on the shape of each element, and constraints on element style. These constraints may help avoid situations in which static elements such as watch face indices create more burn-in than dynamic elements such as watch face hands.
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公开(公告)号:US20200218204A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-09
申请号:US16277842
申请日:2019-02-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tae-Wook Koh , Yiqiang Nie , Yifan Zhang , Giovanni M. Agnoli , Paul S. Drzaic , David A. Doyle
IPC: G04G9/00 , G09G3/20 , G09G3/3225
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch device or other device may have a display. The display may be used to continuously display information such as watch face information. A watch face image on the display may contain watch face elements such as watch face hands, watch face indices, and complications. To reduce burn-in risk for watch face elements, control circuitry in the electronic device may impose burn-in constraints on attributes of the watch face elements such as peak luminance constraints, dwell time constraints, color constraints, constraints on the shape of each element, and constraints on element style. These constraints may help avoid situations in which static elements such as watch face indices create more burn-in than dynamic elements such as watch face hands.
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公开(公告)号:US10559251B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-11
申请号:US15900733
申请日:2018-02-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Abhinav Pathak , Conor J. O'Reilly , Shashi K. Dua , Udaykumar R. Raval , Christopher W. Chaney , Amit K. Vyas , Albert S. Liu , Roberto Alvarez , Rohit Mundra , Vladislav Sahnovich , Patrick Y. Law , Paul M. Thompson , Paolo Sacchetto , Chaohao Wang , Arthur L. Spence , Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou , Mohammad Ali Jangda , Christopher Edward Glazowski , Yifan Zhang
IPC: G09G3/3208
Abstract: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that may estimate the power being consumed by an OLED display screen of an electronic device, may provide further information about that power usage, may modify or change functions performed by the electronic device based on that power usage, and may inform an application's developer about the amount of power being used by the electronic device while the electronic device is running the application. One example may estimate the power being used by an OLED display screen of an electronic device by determining the content of images being displayed during a duration. The estimated power may then be presented to a user. The estimated power may be used in decisions to modify or change parameters of the screen or other device components.
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公开(公告)号:US11688363B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-27
申请号:US17376125
申请日:2021-07-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Maofeng Yang , Jiayi Jin , David A. Doyle , Yifan Zhang , Weijun Yao , Jiye Lee , Tae-Wook Koh , Mathew K. Mathai , Chuang Qian , Tsung-Ting Tsai , James P. Landry , Kiran S. Pillai , Injae Hwang , Yongjun Li
CPC classification number: G09G5/10 , G09G3/20 , G09G2320/046 , G09G2330/028 , G09G2360/145
Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display including display pixels to display an image based on compensated image data. The electronic display may also include a stressed reference pixel to exhibit burn-in related aging in response to one or more stress sessions and a non-stressed reference pixel configured to not undergo the one or more stress sessions. Additionally, the electronic device may include image processing circuitry to determine a panel-specific aging profile based on a comparison between one or more properties of the stressed reference pixel and the one or more properties of the non-stressed reference pixel. The image processing circuitry may also generate one or more gain maps based on the panel-specific aging profile and generate the compensated image data by applying the one or more gain maps to input image data.
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公开(公告)号:US10997914B1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-04
申请号:US16563286
申请日:2019-09-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Injae Hwang , Jiye Lee , Yifan Zhang , Hyunwoo Nho , Sun-Il Chang , Junhua Tan , Jie Won Ryu , Hyunsoo Kim , Myungjoon Choi , Shiping Shen , Kingsuk Brahma , Jesse A. Richmond
IPC: G09G5/10 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/36 , G09G3/3258
Abstract: A system may include a display panel that includes number of pixels that display image data on a display. The system may also include a circuit that measures a voltage associated with a light-emitting diode (LED) of a pixel of the number of pixels in response to the LED receiving a current. In addition to the circuit, the system may employ data processing circuitry that may generate a calibrated prediction model based at least in part on the voltage and the current, such that the calibrated prediction model predicts a change in voltage performance of the LED as the LED ages.
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公开(公告)号:US10453375B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-22
申请号:US15874791
申请日:2018-01-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Paul S. Drzaic , Tae-Wook Koh , Ross Thompson , Guy Cote , Christopher P. Tann , Jerrold V. Hauck , Yifan Zhang , Jean-Pierre Guillou , Ian C. Hendry , Vanessa C. Heppolette , Arthur L. Spence
IPC: G09G3/00 , G09G3/20 , G06F3/06 , G09G3/3208 , G06F9/4401 , G09G3/32 , G06F9/451
Abstract: A data processing system can store a long-term history of pixel luminance values in a secure memory and use those values to create burn-in compensation values that are used to mitigate burn-in effect on a display. The long-term history can be updated over time with new, accumulated pixel luminance values.
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公开(公告)号:US09947882B2
公开(公告)日:2018-04-17
申请号:US15211714
申请日:2016-07-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Zhen Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Paul S. Drzaic , Paul C. Kelley , James P. Landry
CPC classification number: H01L51/0097 , G06F1/1616 , G06F1/1652 , G06F3/0412 , G06F2203/04102 , H01L51/5253 , H01L51/5275
Abstract: An electronic device may have a hinge that allows the device to be flexed about a bend axis. A display may span the bend axis. To protect display elements such as pixel circuitry from excessive mechanical stress, the display may include one or more structural protective layers. A structural layer may be incorporated into the display stack as a supportive backing behind the pixel circuitry and/or as a protective cover over the pixel circuitry. The structural layer may include rigid portions and flexible portions. The flexible portions may contain flexible material that separates and adjoins adjacent rigid structures or that fills grooves between adjacent rigid portions. The rigid portions may be formed from thin sheets of glass or other transparent materials. The flexible material in the structural layer may be an elastomeric material having a refractive index that matches that of the glass sheets in the structural layer.
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公开(公告)号:US11817065B2
公开(公告)日:2023-11-14
申请号:US17735846
申请日:2022-05-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Xingfeng He , Byoungsuk Kim , Yifan Zhang , Hoon Sik Kim , Yun Liu , Hao Chen , Paul S Drzaic , Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi
CPC classification number: G09G5/10 , G06F1/1641 , G06F3/013 , G09G2320/0626 , G09G2380/02
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods to control brightness or color in foldable displays. An electronic device may include a foldable electronic display and processing circuitry. The foldable electronic display may have a first part and a second part that are foldable at a folding angle with respect to one another. The processing circuitry may provide image data to the foldable electronic display that varies based at least in part on the folding angle.
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公开(公告)号:US20220375428A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-24
申请号:US17735846
申请日:2022-05-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Xingfeng He , ByoungSuk Kim , Yifan Zhang , Hoon Sik Kim , Yun Liu , Hao Chen , Paul S Drzaic , Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods to control brightness or color in foldable displays. An electronic device may include a foldable electronic display and processing circuitry. The foldable electronic display may have a first part and a second part that are foldable at a folding angle with respect to one another. The processing circuitry may provide image data to the foldable electronic display that varies based at least in part on the folding angle.
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