公开(公告)号：US10923022B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-16

申请号：US16692933

申请日：2019-11-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chin-Wei Lin ,  Fan Gui ,  Gihoon Choo

IPC: G09G3/296 ,  H03K19/00

Abstract: A display is provided that includes an array of display pixels that receive data signals from display driver circuitry and that receive control signals from gate driver circuitry. The gate driver circuitry may include a chain of row driver circuits. Each row driver circuit in the chain of row driver circuits may include a master driver stage, a slave driver stage, and associated control circuitry configured to receive a clock signal and a pulse signal from a preceding row driver in the chain. The master driver stage may be biased using fixed nominal power supply voltages, whereas the slave driver stage may be biased using dynamically adjustable power supply voltages that are optionally reduced relative to that of the nominal power supply voltages. One or more of the master and slave driver stages may be a bootstrapping driver stage having a bootstrapping capacitor.

公开(公告)号：US20240381724A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-14

申请号：US18783762

申请日：2024-07-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Prashant Mandlik ,  Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran ,  Xuesong Lu ,  Weixin Li ,  Wenbing Hu ,  Yuchi Che ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  Gihoon Choo ,  Shyuan Yang ,  Kuan-Yi Lee ,  An-Di Sheu ,  Chi-Wei Chou ,  Chin-Fu Lee ,  An-Hong Shen ,  Ko-Wei Chen ,  Kyounghwan Kim ,  Jae Won Choi ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Sungki Lee

IPC: H10K59/131 ,  G06F3/041 ,  H10K59/40 ,  H10K59/88 ,  H10K77/10 ,  H10K102/00

Abstract: A display may have a stretchable portion with hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands. A flexible interconnect region may be interposed between the hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands. The hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands may include organic light-emitting diode (OLED) pixels. A conductive cutting structure may have an undercut that causes a discontinuity in a conductive OLED layer to mitigate lateral leakage. The conductive cutting structure may also be electrically connected to a cathode for the OLED pixels and provide a cathode voltage to the cathode. First and second inorganic passivation layers may be formed over the OLED pixels. Multiple discrete portions of an organic inkjet printed layer may be interposed between the first and second inorganic passivation layers.

公开(公告)号：US12136387B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-05

申请号：US18355342

申请日：2023-07-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Won Ryu ,  Ing-Jye Wang ,  Alex H Pai ,  Alexandre V Gauthier ,  Ardra Singh ,  Arthur L Spence ,  Gihoon Choo ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Jenny Hu ,  Graeme M Williams ,  Jongyup Lim ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Marc J DeVincentis ,  Peter F Holland ,  Shawn P Hurley

IPC: G09G3/30 ,  G09G3/3208 ,  G09G3/36

Abstract: An electronic device may include processing circuitry configured to generate a first frame of image content and a second frame of image content. The second frame of image content is different from the first frame of image content. The electronic device may also include a display configured to display the first frame of image content at a first refresh rate. In response to receiving the second frame of image content, the electronic device may initially increase the refresh rate before tapering back to the first refresh rate while displaying the second frame of image content.

公开(公告)号：US20240332319A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-03

申请号：US18613001

申请日：2024-03-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gihoon Choo ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Guanxiong Liu ,  Jae Won Choi ,  Kyounghwan Kim ,  Shyuan Yang ,  Sungki Lee ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  Wan-Ching Hsu ,  Warren S Rieutort-Louis ,  Yishan Liu ,  Zhe Hua

IPC: H01L27/12 ,  H01L25/16 ,  H01L25/18 ,  H01L23/00 ,  H01L23/498

CPC classification number: H01L27/1248 ,  H01L25/167 ,  H01L25/18 ,  H01L27/1259 ,  H01L23/4985 ,  H01L24/16 ,  H01L24/32 ,  H01L24/73 ,  H01L27/124 ,  H01L2224/16145 ,  H01L2224/32227 ,  H01L2224/73203 ,  H01L2924/1426

Abstract: An electronic device may include a substrate, an array of display pixels formed on the substrate, first conductive contacts on the substrate, second conductive contacts on the substrate, a flexible printed circuit that is attached to the first conductive contacts, a display driver integrated circuit that is attached to the second conductive contacts, and conductive traces that electrically connect the first conductive contacts to the second conductive contacts. A dielectric layer may cover at least the sidewalls of the conductive traces to protect the conductive traces from damage by an etchant. Subsequently, some or all of the dielectric layer may be removed to prevent damage caused by moisture ingress into the cladding layer.

公开(公告)号：US12096657B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-17

申请号：US17504230

申请日：2021-10-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jung Yen Huang ,  Shinya Ono ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Akira Matsudaira ,  Cheng Min Hu ,  Chih Pang Chang ,  Ching-Sang Chuang ,  Gihoon Choo ,  Jiun-Jye Chang ,  Po-Chun Yeh ,  Shih Chang Chang ,  Yu-Wen Liu ,  Zino Lee

IPC: H01L27/32 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L29/786 ,  H10K59/121 ,  H10K59/12

CPC classification number: H10K59/1213 ,  H01L29/66742 ,  H01L29/7869 ,  H10K59/1216 ,  H10K59/1201

Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels. Each pixel in the array includes an organic light-emitting diode coupled to associated semiconducting oxide transistors. The semiconducting oxide transistors may exhibit different device characteristics. Some of the semiconducting oxide transistors may be formed using a first oxide layer formed from a first semiconducting oxide material using first processing steps, whereas other semiconducting oxide transistors are formed using a second oxide layer formed from a second semiconducting oxide material using second processing steps different than the first processing steps. The display may include three or more different semiconducting oxide layers formed during different processing steps.

公开(公告)号：US11488538B1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-01

申请号：US17213041

申请日：2021-03-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chin-Wei Lin ,  Shinya Ono ,  Gihoon Choo

IPC: G09G3/3266

Abstract: A display is provided that includes an array of display pixels that receive data signals from display driver circuitry and that receive control signals from gate driver circuitry. The gate driver circuitry may include a chain of row driver circuits. Each row driver circuit may include a scan driver circuit and a scan inverter circuit. An enable transistor may be interposed between the scan driver circuit and the scan inverter circuit and may be selectively disabled to decouple the scan inverter circuit from the scan driver circuit to allow the scan inverter circuit to operate independent from the scan driver circuit. The scan inverter circuit may include a transistor that receives a scan pulse signal from the scan driver circuit and may further include additional transistors connected in a negative feedback configuration to reduce a drain-to-source voltage across the transistor to reduce leakage across the transistor during blanking times.

公开(公告)号：US20190228726A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-25

申请号：US16369319

申请日：2019-03-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shinya Ono ,  Zino Lee ,  Gihoon Choo ,  Hassan Edrees ,  Chin-Wei Lin

IPC: G09G3/36 ,  G09G3/3225

Abstract: A display may have rows and columns of pixels. Gate lines may be used to supply gate signals to rows of the pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data signals to columns of the pixels. The data lines may include alternating even and odd data lines. Data lines may be organized in pairs each of which includes one of the odd data lines and an adjacent one of the even data lines. Demultiplexer circuitry may be configured dynamically during data loading and pixel sensing operations. During data loading, data from display driver circuitry may be supplied, alternately to odd pairs of the data lines and even pairs of the data lines. During sensing, the demultiplexer circuitry may couple a pair of the even data lines to sensing circuitry in the display driver circuitry and then may couple a pair of the odd data lines to the sensing circuitry.