COATINGS TO ELIMINATE LED HOT SPOTS
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    发明申请
    COATINGS TO ELIMINATE LED HOT SPOTS 审中-公开
    涂层消除LED热点

    公开(公告)号:US20140036538A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-02-06

    申请号:US13665678

    申请日:2012-10-31

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    CPC classification number: G09F13/0409 B82Y20/00

    Abstract: A display that contains a backlight that incorporates an optical coating either on or above the light guide in order to reduce the appearance of optical hotspots on the display is provided. The optical coating can be patterned to correspond to the position of each light emitting diode in the display and can be made, as an example, from either reflective, diffusive or dichroic material. The coating can work to overcome the hotspots created by insufficient light mixing distance in the backlight.

    Abstract translation: 提供了一种包含背光源的显示器,其包括在光导上或上方的光学涂层,以便减少显示器上的光热点的外观。 光学涂层可以被图案化以对应于显示器中每个发光二极管的位置,并且可以作为示例从反射,扩散或二向色材料制成。 该涂层可以克服背光源中不足的光混合距离所产生的热点。

    Display with holographic angle-of-view adjustment structures

    公开(公告)号:US10748969B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-18

    申请号:US15809891

    申请日:2017-11-10

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. Each pixel may have a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode or may be formed from other pixel structures such as liquid crystal display pixel structures. The pixels may emit light such as red, green, and blue light. An angle-of-view adjustment layer may overlap the array of pixels. During operation, light from the pixels passes through the angle-of-view adjustment layer to a user. The viewing angle for the user is enhanced as the angular spread of the emitted light from the pixels is enhanced by the angle-of-view adjustment layer. The angle-of-view adjustment layer may be formed from holographic structures recorded by applying laser beams to a photosensitive layer or may be formed from a metasurface that is created by patterning nanostructures on the display using printing, photolithography, or other patterning techniques.

    Backlight dimming control for a display utilizing quantum dots

    公开(公告)号:US10062334B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-28

    申请号:US13665616

    申请日:2012-10-31

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Quantum dot backlights for use in displays and processes for controlling the dimming of quantum dot backlights are provided. The backlight can include an LED (e.g., a blue LED) configured to emit a light through a sheet of quantum dots. The quantum dots can be configured to emit colored light (e.g., red and green light) in response to the light emitted from the LED. To control the relative luminance of the LED, the backlight can be controlled through the use of current dimming to adjust the brightness of the LED at high relative luminance settings to increase the light output efficiency and can include the use of pulse width modulation to adjust the brightness of the LED at low relative luminance settings to reduce the amount of wavelength shift experienced by the LED.

    Displays having polarizing structures formed using narrowband dichroic dyes

    公开(公告)号:US09685635B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-20

    申请号:US14881072

    申请日:2015-10-12

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H01L51/5281 G02B27/286

    Abstract: A display may have thin-film transistor circuitry on a substrate. An array of organic light-emitting diodes may be formed on the thin-film transistor circuitry. The organic light-emitting diodes may have anodes, cathodes, and emissive material located between the anodes and cathodes. A circular polarizer may be formed over the array of organic light-emitting diodes. The circular polarizer may include a linear polarizer and a quarter wave plate. The linear polarizer may be formed from one or more film layers having narrowband dichroic dyes so that the polarizer exhibits transmission peaks aligned with a selected subset of wavelengths and absorbance notches corresponding to the selected subset of wavelengths. The selected subset of wavelengths may cover the ranges where the light-emitting diodes are outputting light. Configured in this way, the polarizer will exhibit enhanced luminance at the desired wavelengths while suppressing ambient light reflections at other wavelengths in the visible spectrum.

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