On-chip clock calibration systems and methods for electronic device displays

    公开(公告)号:US10235927B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-19

    申请号:US15367143

    申请日:2016-12-01

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G09G3/36 G09G3/20

    摘要: Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices with displays. A display may include display control circuitry including an internal oscillator and one or more counters. The counters may be used to calibrate a display line time to a system line time to ensure that each displayed frame is synchronized with received display data frames from system circuitry for the electronic device. The counters may include a first counter that maintains a current-row count during operation of a current row of display pixels during a current display frame and a second counter that maintains a current-frame count that indicates a number of counts accumulated during the current display frame. The current-row count and the current-frame count may be referenced to the system line time during operation of each pixel row to remove any errors accumulated during operation of the previous pixel rows.

    COLLISION AVOIDANCE SCHEMES FOR DISPLAYS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190027114A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-24

    申请号:US15716708

    申请日:2017-09-27

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G09G5/00 G06T1/60 G09G5/36

    摘要: In situations with reduced image changes, display panels, such as the ones disclosed herein, may reduce their power consumption by performing self-refresh cycles, in which they may display locally stored data in the display panel instead of retrieving it from an image buffer. Methods and circuitry for management of the self-refresh cycle may reduce jitter, luminance errors, and/or flickers that may be caused by untimely self-refresh cycles that may occur as a result of latency in the image buffer. In some implementations, the display panel may have a dedicated low latency input that notifies an arrival of an incoming image. In some implementations, the self-refresh cycles of the panel may be managed by a host or a buffer that is responsible for sending the images.

    DISPLAY SCAN TIME COMPENSATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20180322823A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-08

    申请号:US15711696

    申请日:2017-09-21

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G09G3/20

    摘要: Systems and methods for improving perceived image quality of an electronic display communicatively coupled to an image data source that outputs a synchronization control signal, which indicates when an image frame is expected to stop being written, based on a source clock signal. The electronic display includes a display pixel row, a display driver, and a timing controller. The timing controller determines a target scan time to be used to write the image frame to the display pixel row and instructs the display driver to write the image frame to the display pixel row based on the target scan time and a display block signal, in which the timing controller instructs the display driver to continue writing the image frame to display pixel row after the electronic display receives the synchronization control signal when the synchronization control signal is received before the target scan time is reached.