公开(公告)号：US20220413589A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：US17899607

申请日：2022-08-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Peter F. Holland ,  Brad W. Simeral ,  Lior Zimet

IPC: G06F1/3234 ,  G06F1/3293 ,  G06F1/329

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel to display images based on corresponding image data and an image source to pre-render a flip-book including a first image frame for display at a first target presentation time and a second image frame for display at a second target presentation time. The electronic device may also include a display pipeline coupled between the display panel and the image source having image data processing circuitry to process image data for display. The electronic device may also include a controller to instruct the display pipeline to process image data, to determine a power-on time based on a target presentation time, and to instruct the display pipeline to power-gate the image data processing circuitry upon completion of the processing of image data and until the power-on time is reached.

公开(公告)号：US10925164B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-16

申请号：US15702046

申请日：2017-09-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Paul A. Martinez ,  Curtis C. Mead ,  Scott D. Morrison ,  Giancarlo F. De La Cruz ,  Lin Chen ,  Albert Wang ,  Brad W. Simeral

IPC: H05K1/18 ,  H03H1/00 ,  H03H7/01 ,  H03H7/38 ,  H05K3/34 ,  H01G4/30 ,  H01G2/06 ,  H01G4/40 ,  H01G4/228 ,  H01G4/12 ,  H01F27/29

Abstract: Methods and systems for producing circuitry using stackable passive components are discussed. More specifically, the present disclosure provides designs and fabrication methods for production of stackable devices that may be used as components in circuitry such as filters and impedance matching adaptors. Such components may be used to save space in printed circuit boards. Moreover, stackable passive components may be dual components, which may be improve the electrical performance in certain types of circuits such as matched component filters.

公开(公告)号：US10825419B2

公开(公告)日：2020-11-03

申请号：US15716708

申请日：2017-09-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yue Jack Chu ,  Christopher P. Tann ,  Arthur L. Spence ,  Brad W. Simeral ,  Yafei Bi ,  Jiayi Jin ,  Ruo-Gu Huang ,  Haifeng Li ,  Weijun Yao ,  Chaohao Wang

IPC: G06F3/14 ,  G09G5/00 ,  G06T1/60 ,  G09G5/36 ,  G09G5/395

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US12271250B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-08

申请号：US17949834

申请日：2022-09-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ramana V. Rachakonda ,  Peter F. Holland ,  Rohit K. Gupta ,  Brad W. Simeral

IPC: G06F1/3234 ,  G06F1/18 ,  G06F1/3218 ,  G09G3/20

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel. When content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively higher amounts of power, a controller of the electronic device may operate a switch to change a power supply of the display panel to be a power management integrated circuit of the electronic device. However, when content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively less amounts of power, the controller may operate the switch to change the power supply of the display panel to be a power supply of an electronic display, such as a power supply used to power driver circuitry of the electronic display.

公开(公告)号：US12141016B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-12

申请号：US18476547

申请日：2023-09-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ramana V. Rachakonda ,  Rohit K. Gupta ,  Brad W. Simeral ,  Peter F. Holland

IPC: G06F1/32 ,  G06F1/3228 ,  G06F1/3287 ,  H04B17/318

Abstract: In an embodiment, a system may include one or more processors forming central processing units (CPUs) in the system, a display controller configured to display frames on a display device, a memory controller configured to control a memory, and a power management circuit. The power management circuit may be configured to establish one of a plurality of power states in the system. In a first power state, the display controller and the memory controller are powered on while the CPUs are powered off. The display controller may be configured to read a plurality of prerendered frames from the memory and display the plurality of prerendered frames at times specified for each of the plurality of prerendered frames.

公开(公告)号：US11670252B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-06

申请号：US16888606

申请日：2020-05-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Simon M. Douglas ,  Ross Thompson ,  Russell A. Blaine ,  Arthur L. Spence ,  Brad W. Simeral ,  Giovanni M. Agnoli ,  Chendi Zhang ,  Jacob Z. Weiss ,  Yiqiang Nie ,  Brent W. Schorsch

IPC: G06F1/3218 ,  G09G3/36

CPC classification number: G09G3/3611 ,  G06F1/3218 ,  G09G2330/021 ,  G09G2360/18

Abstract: A device implementing a system for displaying an image includes a processor configured to, generate, during a first power state of a device, a data structure specifying image frames and a respective display time for each of the image frames, and retrieve, during a second power state of the device and from the data structure, an image frame based on the respective display time for the image frame. The at least one processor is further configured to display, during a third power state of the device, the retrieved image frame on a display of the device.

公开(公告)号：US20220075440A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-10

申请号：US17015288

申请日：2020-09-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ramana V. Rachakonda ,  Rohit K. Gupta ,  Brad W. Simeral ,  Peter F. Holland

IPC: G06F1/3287 ,  G06F1/3228

Abstract: In an embodiment, a system may include one or more processors forming central processing units (CPUs) in the system, a display controller configured to display frames on a display device, a memory controller configured to control a memory, and a power management circuit. The power management circuit may be configured to establish one of a plurality of power states in the system. In a first power state, the display controller and the memory controller are powered on while the CPUs are powered off. The display controller may be configured to read a plurality of prerendered frames from the memory and display the plurality of prerendered frames at times specified for each of the plurality of prerendered frames.

公开(公告)号：US20200081517A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-12

申请号：US16123848

申请日：2018-09-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Peter F. Holland ,  Brad W. Simeral ,  Lior Zimet

IPC: G06F1/32

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel to display images based on corresponding image data and an image source to pre-render a flip-book including a first image frame for display at a first target presentation time and a second image frame for display at a second target presentation time. The electronic device may also include a display pipeline coupled between the display panel and the image source having image data processing circuitry to process image data for display. The electronic device may also include a controller to instruct the display pipeline to process image data, to determine a power-on time based on a target presentation time, and to instruct the display pipeline to power-gate the image data processing circuitry upon completion of the processing of image data and until the power-on time is reached.

公开(公告)号：US20240077929A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-07

申请号：US17929929

申请日：2022-09-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Joseph F. Alverson ,  Brad W. Simeral ,  Daniel J. Drusch ,  Daniel P. Kumar ,  Derek J. DiCarlo ,  Ricky Wai Kit Yuen ,  Roberto G. Yepez ,  Shashi K. Dua ,  Ardra Singh ,  Gabrielle Andrea Badie Belzberg ,  Kartik Venkatraman ,  Gierad Laput ,  Archana Venkatesh ,  Jingran Zhou

IPC: G06F1/3234 ,  G06F1/3206 ,  G09G5/10

CPC classification number: G06F1/3265 ,  G06F1/3206 ,  G09G5/10 ,  G09G2360/144

Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods associated with selective powering of an electronic display in response to sensed data indicating that the electronic display is not visible. By selectively enabling the electronic display between power states based on whether the electronic display is visible, a perceivably always-on electronic display may be provided without the electronic display being always-on, thereby balancing consumer interests with technical requirements of a relatively long battery life and correspondingly low power consumption.

公开(公告)号：US11822416B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-21

申请号：US17934976

申请日：2022-09-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ramana V. Rachakonda ,  Rohit K. Gupta ,  Brad W. Simeral ,  Peter F. Holland

IPC: G06F1/32 ,  G06F1/3287 ,  G06F1/3228 ,  H04B17/318

CPC classification number: G06F1/3287 ,  G06F1/3228 ,  H04B17/318

Abstract: In an embodiment, a system may include one or more processors forming central processing units (CPUs) in the system, a display controller configured to display frames on a display device, a memory controller configured to control a memory, and a power management circuit. The power management circuit may be configured to establish one of a plurality of power states in the system. In a first power state, the display controller and the memory controller are powered on while the CPUs are powered off. The display controller may be configured to read a plurality of prerendered frames from the memory and display the plurality of prerendered frames at times specified for each of the plurality of prerendered frames.