公开(公告)号：US10891882B1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-12

申请号：US15910886

申请日：2018-03-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Xiang Lu ,  Bo Yang ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Henry C. Jen ,  Hopil Bae

IPC: G09G3/00 ,  G09G3/36

Abstract: The present techniques are capable of identifying and pinpointing defective microdrivers and/or row/column drivers either before or after any μLEDs have been placed on the display. Using the architectures described herein, test data may be delivered in a parallel fashion to the drivers from support circuitry, such as a timing controller and/or a main board, and outputs based on the test data may be similarly delivered back to the support circuitry do determine which drivers are defective. This yields access to the output of every microdriver and row drier, thus enabling the identification of specific defective elements.

公开(公告)号：US10762836B1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-01

申请号：US15275023

申请日：2016-09-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hopil Bae ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Yafei Bi ,  Xiaofeng Wang ,  Thomas Charisoulis ,  Hasan Akyol ,  Henry C. Jen ,  Derek K. Shaeffer

IPC: G09G3/3233

Abstract: An electronic display row drivers or column drivers that send reference currents or voltages to microdrivers to be used to drive micropixels to particular levels. The microdrivers, in turn, ship current to micropixels that display images based at least in part on the shipped current.

公开(公告)号：US10691235B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-23

申请号：US14256849

申请日：2014-04-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Weijun Yao ,  Wei Hsin Yao ,  Yingxuan Li ,  Hopil Bae ,  Ahmad Al-Dahle

IPC: G06F3/045 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044

Abstract: Integrated touch screens are provided including drive lines formed of grouped-together circuit elements of a thin film transistor layer and sense lines formed between a color filter layer and a material layer that modifies or generates light. The common electrodes (Vcom) in the TFT layer can be grouped together during a touch sensing operation to form drive lines. Sense lines can be formed on a separate layer dedicated to only touch hardware.

公开(公告)号：US10650737B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-12

申请号：US15754107

申请日：2016-09-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Yafei Bi ,  Kapil V. Sakariya ,  Hopil Bae ,  Shinya Ono ,  Thomas Charisoulis ,  Chin-Wei Lin

IPC: G09G3/3216

Abstract: Systems and apparatuses for hybrid micro-driver architectures having time multiplexing for driving displays are described. In one embodiment, a display (e.g., hybrid display architecture) includes a backplane and a micro-driver circuitry that is coupled to the backplane. The backplane includes circuitry (e.g., sample and hold circuitry) for sampling and holding analog data and for time multiplexing analog data. The micro-driver circuitry includes at least a capacitor of a ramp generator for generating a ramp voltage based on the analog data of the backplane and drive circuitry to cause at least one emission pulse for emitting a display element.

公开(公告)号：US10394359B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-27

申请号：US15669869

申请日：2017-08-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Manu Agarwal ,  Erno H. Klaassen ,  Hopil Bae ,  Kingsuk Brahma

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G01R31/00 ,  G02B5/20 ,  G02F1/133

Abstract: A sensing device can be included in a display of an electronic device. Various techniques can be used to reduce display noise in the signals output from the sensing device. The techniques include the use of a filtering layer in a display stack, the use of a non-uniform sampling scheme, averaging together noise signal samples sampled over multiple display frames, and inverting a phase of the sampling of the noise signal over multiple display frames.

公开(公告)号：US10360826B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-23

申请号：US15273458

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 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  G09G3/3291 ,  G09G3/00

Abstract: An electronic device includes one or more unit pixels with a first node, a second node, and a third node. The device includes light-emitting-diode (LED) voltage (Vled) sensing circuitry, that senses Vled 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 Vled based upon a change in the charge of the capacitor, such that an operation of the unit pixel may be modified based upon the Vled.

公开(公告)号：US10277119B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-30

申请号：US15798193

申请日：2017-10-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Weijun Yao ,  David A. Stronks ,  Hopil Bae ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Wei Hsin Yao ,  Yafei Bi ,  Yingxuan Li

IPC: G06F3/044 ,  H02M3/07 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F1/3234 ,  H01L23/64

Abstract: A charge pump that can be configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode is disclosed. The charge pump can comprise a charging capacitor coupled to a first node and configured to transfer a first DC voltage to the first node. The charge pump can also comprise a first output node and a second output node coupled to the first node. During the first mode, the first output node can be configured to output a second DC voltage based on the first DC voltage, and the second output node can be configured to output a third DC voltage based on the first DC voltage. During the second mode, the first output node can be configured to output the second DC voltage, and the second output node can be configured to output an AC voltage, the AC voltage being offset by the third DC voltage.

公开(公告)号：US20190088204A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-21

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

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：US10200059B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-05

申请号：US15697233

申请日：2017-09-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Baris Cagdaser ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Hopil Bae ,  Jesse Aaron Richmond ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Shingo Hatanaka ,  Yafei Bi ,  Yuichi Okuda

IPC: H03M1/78 ,  H03M1/76 ,  H03M1/74 ,  H03M1/68

Abstract: A device includes a resistor string that includes a plurality resistors with voltage taps disposed therebetween. The device may select one particular voltage tap of the plurality of voltage taps based on received gray level data for a pixel of a display. The device also includes a first amplifier that may be coupled to a first terminal end of the resistor string. The device additionally includes a second amplifier that may be coupled to a second terminal end of the resistor string, wherein the plurality of voltage taps may each supply a tap voltage derived from a voltage between the first amplifier and the second amplifier, wherein any tap amplifier of the device coupled to a voltage tap of the plurality of voltage taps provides a reference voltage thereto.

公开(公告)号：US20180286300A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-04

申请号：US15764257

申请日：2016-09-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad B Vahid Far ,  Hopil Bae ,  Mahid Farrokh Baroughi ,  Xiaofeng Wang

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G11C19/28 ,  G09G3/3208 ,  G09G3/00

Abstract: An electronic display includes an active area including multiple pixels. The electronic display also includes a first row driver set including a first column of row drivers and a second column of row drivers. A first active row driver in the first column of row drivers drives a first portion of the multiple pixels, and a first spare row driver in the second column of row drivers is in an inactive state. The electronic display also includes a second row driver set including a third column of row drivers and a fourth column of row drivers. A third active row driver in the third column of row drivers drives a second portion of the multiple pixels, and a second spare row driver in the fourth column of row drivers is inactive.