公开(公告)号：US11750795B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-05

申请号：US17231941

申请日：2021-04-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yi-Pai Huang ,  Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva ,  Ping-Yen Chou ,  Byoungsuk Kim ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Yi Huang ,  Michael J. Rockwell ,  Seung Wook Kim ,  Pretesh A. Mascarenhas

IPC: H04N13/383 ,  H04N13/305 ,  H04N13/368 ,  H04N13/133

CPC classification number: H04N13/383 ,  H04N13/133 ,  H04N13/305 ,  H04N13/368

Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. A eye and/or head tracking system may use a camera to capture images of a viewer of the display. Control circuitry in the electronic device may use the captured images from the eye and/or head tracking system to determine which viewing zones are occupied by the viewer's eyes. The control circuitry may disable or dim viewing zones that are not occupied by the viewer's eyes in order to conserve power. An unoccupied viewing zone and an adjacent, occupied viewing zone may display the same image to increase sharpness in the display.

公开(公告)号：US20230077843A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-16

申请号：US17887222

申请日：2022-08-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wanqing Xin ,  Mehmet N Agaoglu ,  Gokhan Avkarogullari ,  Jenny Hu ,  Alexander K Kan ,  Yuhui Li ,  James R Montgomerie ,  Andrey Pokrovskiy ,  Yingying Tang ,  Chaohao Wang

IPC: G09G5/36

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display. Control circuitry may operate the display at different frame rates such as 60 Hz, 80 Hz, and 120 Hz. The control circuitry may determine which frame rate to use based on a speed of animation on the display and based on a type of animation on the display. To mitigate the appearance of judder as the display frame rate changes, the control circuitry may implement techniques such as hysteresis (e.g., windows of tolerance around speed thresholds to ensure that the display frame rate does not change too frequently as a result of noise), speed thresholds that are based on a user perception study, consistent latency between touch input detection and corresponding display output across different frame rates (e.g., using a fixed touch scan rate that is independent of frame duration), and animation-specific speed thresholds for triggering frame rate changes.

公开(公告)号：US11521563B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-06

申请号：US17223903

申请日：2021-04-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Zhibing Ge ,  Chengrui Le ,  Yuechen Wu ,  Xiaokai Li ,  Lingyu Hong ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang

IPC: G09G3/34 ,  G09G3/36

Abstract: Certain embodiments are directed to techniques (e.g., a method, an apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing code or instructions executable by one or more processors) for mitigating the flicker on the displays at low driving frequencies due to drops of the voltage holding ratio of the materials for the display. The techniques to compensate for flicker in a liquid crystal display can include generating a dynamic waveform for the backlight of the display. The dynamic waveform can be synchronized with the driving rate of the liquid crystal display such that the luminosity of the backlight increases during periods when the voltage-holding ratio drops in the materials of the display. In this way, a liquid crystal material can be utilized in a display to generate reduced power consumption with liquid crystal rate minimizing the flicker in response to the drops of the voltage-holding ratio.

公开(公告)号：US11448908B1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-20

申请号：US16261408

申请日：2019-01-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang ,  Paul V. Johnson ,  Se Hyun Ahn ,  Cheng Chen ,  Yuan Chen ,  Hyungryul Choi ,  Zhibing Ge ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Hyunmin A. Song ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Jiaying Wu

IPC: G02F1/13 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G09G3/36 ,  G02F1/167 ,  G02F1/1676 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1347 ,  G02F1/1677

Abstract: A display may have display layers that form an array of pixels. An angle-of-view adjustment layer may overlap the display layers. The angle-of-view adjustment layer may include an array of adjustable louvers that move from a first position in which the angle of view of the display is restricted for a private viewing mode and a second position in which the angle of view of the display is not restricted for a normal viewing mode. The louvers may contain electrophoretic particles. The louvers may be tapered and may have a width at one end that is less than ten microns. The electrophoretic particles may form isolated clusters on a lower substrate in normal viewing mode to increase the transmittance of the display in normal viewing mode. The angle-of-view adjustment layer may be a second liquid crystal display layer that is used to block off-axis light.

公开(公告)号：US11380231B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-05

申请号：US16644932

申请日：2018-08-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chin-Wei Lin ,  Hung Sheng Lin ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Injae Hwang ,  Jesse A. Richmond ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Junhua Tan ,  Kavinaath Murugan ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Shiping Shen ,  Sun-Il Chang ,  Myung-Je Cho ,  Yafei Bi ,  Myungjoon Choi ,  Weichuan Yao ,  Chaohao Wang

IPC: G09G3/00 ,  G09G3/3208

Abstract: Electronic devices and methods for compensating for aging or other effects in a display during a non-transmitting state (off state) of the display. Sensing may include emissive element sensing of the display and/or thin film transistor sensing of the display. Compensating for the effects may preserve or increase a uniformity of transmission of the display.

公开(公告)号：US11217211B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-04

申请号：US16928859

申请日：2020-07-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yingying Tang ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Christopher E. Glazowski ,  Woo Shik Jung ,  Scott R. Johnston

IPC: G09G5/391 ,  G09G5/14

Abstract: Techniques for implementing and/or operating an electronic device that includes a display panel, which displays an image and includes a first panel section implemented with a lower pixel resolution and a second panel section implemented with a higher pixel resolution, an optical sensor disposed behind the first panel section of the display panel, and image processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the display panel. The image processing circuitry receives source image data corresponding with the image, in which the source image data is indicative of target luminance of a display pixel, determines a pixel resolution surrounding the display pixel, processes the source image based at least in part on the pixel resolution surrounding the display pixel to facilitate determining display image data corresponding with the display pixel, and outputs the display image data to enable the display panel to display the image based on the display image data.

公开(公告)号：US11158259B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-26

申请号：US17088263

申请日：2020-11-03

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

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：US20210297653A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-23

申请号：US17231941

申请日：2021-04-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yi-Pai Huang ,  Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva ,  Ping-Yen Chou ,  ByoungSuk Kim ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Yi Huang ,  Michael J. Rockwell ,  Seung Wook Kim ,  Pretesh A. Mascarenhas

IPC: H04N13/383 ,  H04N13/305 ,  H04N13/368 ,  H04N13/133

Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. A eye and/or head tracking system may use a camera to capture images of a viewer of the display. Control circuitry in the electronic device may use the captured images from the eye and/or head tracking system to determine which viewing zones are occupied by the viewer's eyes. The control circuitry may disable or dim viewing zones that are not occupied by the viewer's eyes in order to conserve power. An unoccupied viewing zone and an adjacent, occupied viewing zone may display the same image to increase sharpness in the display.

公开(公告)号：US11004391B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-11

申请号：US16869329

申请日：2020-05-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hei Kam ,  Junhua Tan ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Shihchang Chang ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Yun Wang ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  Majid Gharghi ,  Yongjun Li ,  Aida Raquel Colon-Berrios ,  Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Alex H. Pai ,  Hsin-Ying Chiu ,  Jiun-Jye Chang ,  Ching-Sang Chuang ,  Xin Lin

IPC: G09G3/32 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/36 ,  G09G3/3291

Abstract: An electronic device includes an electronic display having an active area comprising a pixel. The electronic device also includes processing circuitry configured to receive image data and predict a change in threshold voltage associated with a transistor of the pixel based at least in part on the image data. Furthermore, the processing circuitry is configured to adjust the image data to generate adjusted image data based at least in part on the predicted change in threshold voltage.

公开(公告)号：US10991330B1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-27

申请号：US16428663

申请日：2019-05-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jun Li ,  Hopil Bae ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Yue Chu ,  Anshi Liang ,  Ming Xu ,  Xiaokai Li ,  Yang Xu

IPC: G09G3/36 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  G09G1/00

Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic device display circuitry and methods of operating the display. The display circuitry includes gate-in-panel (GIP) drivers for each pixel row of a pixel array, and mode selection circuitry coupled between two of the GIP drivers. The mode selection circuitry receives a select signal to switch the display between a full-screen mode of operation and a split-screen mode of operation. The mode selection circuitry allows the pixel rows to be operated in a butterfly driving mode that facilitates reduction of optical artifacts when displaying augmented-reality or virtual-reality content with a multi-function display such as a display of a smartphone or a tablet.