公开(公告)号：US10438535B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-08

申请号：US15697172

申请日：2017-09-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Jesse A. Richmond ,  Kenichi Ueno ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Shingo Hatanaka ,  Yafei Bi

IPC: G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/36 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/20 ,  H03M1/66 ,  G09G3/3275

Abstract: A display device may include a plurality of pixels that display image data on a display, a digital-to-analog converter that outputs a voltage that corresponds to a luminance value to be depicted on a first pixel, and a circuit that amplifies the voltage and outputs an amplified voltage to the first pixel. The circuit may include a capacitor that receives the voltage via the digital-to-analog converter and an amplifier coupled to the capacitor. The amplifier generates the amplified voltage based on the voltage stored the capacitor. The circuit also include switches that couple a first terminal of the capacitor to an output of the amplifier during a first amount of time and couples a second terminal of the capacitor to the output of the amplifier after the first amount of time expires.

公开(公告)号：US20190279552A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-12

申请号：US16335148

申请日：2017-09-20

Applicant: Apple inc.

Inventor： Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Hopil Bae ,  Yafei Bi ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Xiaofeng Wang

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3225 ,  G06F1/06

Abstract: A display device may include a plurality of pixels that may display image data on a display. The display device may also include a circuit that may receive pixel data including a gray level for at least one pixel of the plurality of pixels. The circuit may then receive an emission clock signal using a clock circuit based on the pixel data, such that the emission clock signal may cause the at least one pixel to receive a current for an amount of time based on the gray level. The circuit may then gate off the clock circuit after the amount of time.

公开(公告)号：US20190057633A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-21

申请号：US16146997

申请日：2018-09-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yongjun Li ,  Jiayi Jin ,  Maofeng Yang ,  Jun Li ,  Weijun Yao ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Baris Cagdaser

IPC: G09G3/00 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3258 ,  G06F3/048

Abstract: A method of adjusting a test gray voltages applied to a component of an electronic display during a test frame between image frames, wherein the adjustment is based at least in part on the control signal to the component during a prior image frame. The method may reduce hysteresis effects on the extraction of sensed currents of the component during the test frame, which may increase the accuracy and/or consistency of determined parameters evaluated from the sensed currents. The determined parameters may include temperature and/or aging of the component. The determined parameters may be used to adjust control signals for the component and other components in a region near the component during the next image frame.

公开(公告)号：US20180342193A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-29

申请号：US15700971

申请日：2017-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shiping Shen ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Hung Sheng Lin ,  Injae Hwang ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Junhua Tan ,  Rui Zhang ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Jesse A. Richmond ,  Sun-Il Chang

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/36

CPC classification number: G09G3/2092 ,  G09G3/006 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/3648 ,  G09G2320/0209 ,  G09G2320/0219 ,  G09G2320/0233 ,  G09G2320/0285 ,  G09G2320/0295 ,  G09G2320/0693 ,  G09G2330/021 ,  G09G2330/06 ,  G09G2330/12

Abstract: Electronic devices and methods for compensating for noise in a display that includes sensing a current in a sensing channel of the display. Compensating for the noise also includes sensing an observation current from noise in an observation channel of the display and scaling the observation current to generate a scaled observation current. The scaled observation current is subtracted from the sense current to generate a compensated output. The compensated output is used to drive compensation operations of the display based at least in part on the compensated output to reduce effects of the noise.

公开(公告)号：US20180082621A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-22

申请号：US15698262

申请日：2017-09-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hung Sheng Lin ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Junhua Tan ,  Sun-II Chang ,  Shinya Ono ,  Jesse A. Richmond ,  Yafei Bi ,  Derek K. Shaeffer

IPC: G09G3/00

CPC classification number: G09G3/006 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/2092 ,  G09G2310/0291 ,  G09G2320/0209 ,  G09G2320/0219 ,  G09G2320/029 ,  G09G2320/041 ,  G09G2320/043 ,  G09G2320/0693 ,  G09G2330/06 ,  G09G2330/10 ,  G09G2330/12

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for differential sensing (DS), difference-differential sensing (DDS), correlated double sampling (CDS), and/or programmable capacitor matching to reduce display panel sensing noise. An electronic device may include one or more processors and an electronic display. The one or more processors may generate image data and adjust the image data based at least in part on display sensing feedback. The electronic display may employ sensing circuitry that obtains the display sensing feedback at least in part by applying test data to a pixel of a column of an active area of the display and differentially senses an electrical value of the pixel in comparison to a reference signal from a different column. This reference signal may provide a common mode noise reference, which is removed by the differential sensing and thereby enhances a quality of the sensed electrical value of the pixel.

公开(公告)号：US20240012515A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-11

申请号：US18212099

申请日：2023-06-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Pablo Moreno Galbis ,  Xiang Lu ,  Bin Huang ,  Ling Zhang ,  Nikhil Acharya ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Stanley B. Wang ,  Yongjie Jiang ,  Hopil Bae ,  Jiayi Jin ,  Ce Zhang ,  Young Don Bae ,  Giovanni Azzellino ,  Wooseung Yang ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Weijun Yao ,  Rajesh Velayuthan ,  Eric A. Hildebrandt ,  Henry C. Jen

IPC: G06F3/041

CPC classification number: G06F3/0418 ,  G06F2203/04107 ,  G06F3/044

Abstract: Touch sensitive display technologies (e.g., integrated touch-display pixel-based systems) are evolving to contain more analog and digital circuits inside the panel itself instead of the traditionally simple thin-film transistors. This improves the display characteristics but makes those circuits more vulnerable to the impact of external ESD strikes, which can degrade the user experience. This disclosure describes a series of circuits and techniques to mitigate the impact of these discharges on front of screen artifacts and potential false touches. These circuits and techniques may include: performing configuration-only panel updates independently of the image refresh rate, improving the in-panel memory circuits to make them resistant to unexpected pin toggles via disabling of a write path in response to a read clock, implementing a pin corruption detector and implementing a supply injection detector.

公开(公告)号：US11645976B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-09

申请号：US17648074

申请日：2022-01-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Xiaofeng Wang ,  Sam S. Li ,  John T. Wetherell ,  Henry C. Jen ,  Xiang Lu ,  Hasan Akyol ,  Hopil Bae ,  Xiang Fang ,  Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema ,  Tore Nauta

IPC: G09G3/3216 ,  H01L27/32 ,  G09G3/20 ,  H05B45/20

CPC classification number: G09G3/3216 ,  G09G3/2003 ,  H01L27/3281 ,  H05B45/20 ,  G09G2310/0243 ,  G09G2310/0264

Abstract: Local passive matrix displays and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, the display includes a pixel driver chip coupled with a matrix of rows and columns of LEDs. The pixel driver chips may be arranged in rows across the display with separate portions to operate separate matrices of LEDs.

公开(公告)号：US20220246082A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-04

申请号：US17727197

申请日：2022-04-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiang Lu ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Xiaofeng Wang ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Henry C. Jen ,  Hopil Bae

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3216 ,  G09G3/3275

Abstract: Hybrid architectures and method methods of operating a display panel are described. In an embodiment, row driver and pixel driver functions are combined in a group of backbone hybrid pixel driver chips, wherein global signal lines are distributed to the backbone hybrid pixel driver chips, where the global signals are manipulated and distributed to a row of pixel driver chips.

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.