Displays with integrated touch and improved image pixel aperture
    21.
    发明授权
    Displays with integrated touch and improved image pixel aperture 有权
    显示器具有集成的触摸和改进的图像像素孔径

    公开(公告)号:US09298300B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-29

    申请号:US14226710

    申请日:2014-03-26

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A display may be provided with integral touch functionality. The display may include a common electrode layer having row electrodes arranged in rows and column electrodes interposed between the row electrodes of each row. The row electrodes may be electrically coupled by conductive paths. The row and column electrodes may be coupled to touch sensor circuitry that uses the row and column electrodes to detect touch events. Each electrode of the common electrode layer may cover a respective portion of an array of pixels. Each pixel of the display may have a respective aperture. The conductive paths that electrically couple row electrodes of the common electrode layer may cover or otherwise block some light from passing through pixels, resulting in reduced apertures. Dummy structures may be provided for other pixels that modify the apertures of the other pixels to match the reduced apertures associated with the conductive paths.

    Abstract translation: 可以提供具有整体触摸功能的显示器。 显示器可以包括具有排列成行和列电极的行电极的公共电极层,其插入在每行的行电极之间。 行电极可以通过导电路径电耦合。 行和列电极可以耦合到使用行电极和列电极的触摸传感器电路来检测触摸事件。 公共电极层的每个电极可以覆盖像素阵列的相应部分。 显示器的每个像素可以具有相应的孔径。 电耦合公共电极层的行电极的导电路径可以覆盖或以其它方式阻挡通过像素的一些光,导致减小的孔径。 可以为修改其他像素的孔径以匹配与导电路径相关联的缩小的孔的其他像素提供虚拟结构。

    Thin Film Transistor with Increased Doping Regions
    22.
    发明申请
    Thin Film Transistor with Increased Doping Regions 审中-公开
    具有增加掺杂区域的薄膜晶体管

    公开(公告)号:US20140225117A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-08-14

    申请号:US14258945

    申请日:2014-04-22

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A transistor that may be used in electronic displays to selectively activate one or more pixels. The transistor includes a metal layer, a silicon layer deposited on at least a portion of the metal layer, the silicon layer includes an extension portion that extends a distance past the metal layer, and at least three lightly doped regions positioned in the silicon layer. The at least three lightly doped regions have a lower concentration of doping atoms than other portions of the silicon layer forming the transistor.

    Abstract translation: 可用于电子显示器中以选择性地激活一个或多个像素的晶体管。 晶体管包括金属层,沉积在金属层的至少一部分上的硅层,硅层包括延伸距离金属层的延伸部分和位于硅层中的至少三个轻掺杂区域。 所述至少三个轻掺杂区域具有比形成晶体管的硅层的其它部分更低的掺杂原子浓度。

    Hydrogenation and Crystallization of Polycrystalline Silicon
    23.
    发明申请
    Hydrogenation and Crystallization of Polycrystalline Silicon 审中-公开
    多晶硅的氢化和结晶

    公开(公告)号:US20140070225A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-03-13

    申请号:US14020620

    申请日:2013-09-06

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A TFT stack for a liquid crystal display is provided. The TFT stack includes a silicon layer that includes a heavily doped region, a non-doped region, and a lightly doped region between the heavily doped region and the non-doped region. The heavily doped region is hydrogenated. The TFT stack also includes an insulation layer that includes a first portion formed over the lightly doped region and a second portion disposed over the non-doped region and a gate metal electrode layer formed over the second portion of the non-doped region. The TFT stack also includes a first dielectric layer disposed over the gate metal electrode and over the first portion of the insulation layer. The heavily doped region is hydrogenated to reduce the dependence of the capacitance between the gate metal electrode and the conductive layer Cgd upon a bias voltage being applied between the gate metal electrode and the conductive layer.

    Abstract translation: 提供了一种用于液晶显示器的TFT堆叠。 TFT堆叠包括硅层,其包括重掺杂区域,非掺杂区域和重掺杂区域和非掺杂区域之间的轻掺杂区域。 重掺杂区被氢化。 TFT堆叠还包括绝缘层,其包括形成在轻掺杂区域上的第一部分和设置在非掺杂区域上的第二部分,以及形成在非掺杂区域的第二部分上的栅极金属电极层。 TFT堆叠还包括设置在栅极金属电极上方并在绝缘层的第一部分之上的第一介电层。 氢化重掺杂区域,以便在施加在栅极金属电极和导电层之间的偏置电压时,减小栅极金属电极和导电层Cgd之间的电容的依赖性。

    Pixel layouts for electronic device displays

    公开(公告)号:US11754886B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-12

    申请号:US17516499

    申请日:2021-11-01

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G02F1/134309 G02F1/133514 G02F1/133553

    Abstract: Increasing resolution of liquid crystal displays may result in small distances between adjacent liquid crystal display pixels. This tight pixel spacing may reduce transmission through the liquid crystal display pixels and may result in cross-talk between the liquid crystal display pixels. To increase transmission and, correspondingly, display efficiency, a reflective layer may be included in the liquid crystal display. The reflective layer recycles backlight that may otherwise be absorbed, improving transmittance and efficiency. To reduce color shift and color mixing caused by cross-talk, the pixels may have their pixel electrodes arranged in a zigzag layout. Each pixel electrode may have a height that is less than or equal to the total height of the pixel divided by two. The pixel electrodes in a given row are also alternatingly coupled to first and second gate lines. This zigzag layout results in an increased distance between adjacent pixel electrodes, mitigating pixel cross-talk.

    Narrow border touch screen
    26.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10852876B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-01

    申请号:US15313942

    申请日:2014-09-23

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A touch screen is disclosed that includes conductive elements in a display area and connecting traces for routing the conductive elements to other locations. The connecting traces can be routed underneath or over existing opaque structures in the display area, instead of in border areas adjacent to the display area, to minimize the effect of the connecting traces on the display aperture ratio. The lengths and/or widths of these connecting traces as well as the number of parallel connecting traces used to connect to a particular element can be selected to balance the load on the drive and/or sense circuitry and on display pixels caused by the connecting traces.

    Light-Emitting Diode Displays
    27.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190148465A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-16

    申请号:US16224607

    申请日:2018-12-18

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. Display driver circuitry may supply data and control signals to the pixels. Each pixel may have seven transistors, a capacitor, and a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. The seven transistors may receive control signals using horizontal control lines. Each pixel may have first and second emission enable transistors that are coupled in series with a drive transistor and the light-emitting diode of that pixel. The first and second emission enable transistors may be coupled to a common control line or may be separately controlled so that on-bias stress can be effectively applied to the drive transistor. The display driver circuitry may have gate driver circuits that provide different gate line signals to different rows of pixels within the display. Different rows may also have different gate driver strengths and different supplemental gate line loading structures.

    Display With Power Supply Mesh
    29.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180090553A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-29

    申请号:US15370297

    申请日:2016-12-06

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have an array of pixels. The pixels may each have an organic light-emitting diode with a respective anode and may be formed from thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. A mesh-shaped path may be used to distribute a power supply voltage to the thin-film circuitry. The mesh-shaped path may have intersecting horizontally extending lines and vertically extending lines. The horizontally extending lines may be zigzag metal lines that do not overlap the anodes. The vertically extending lines may be straight vertical metal lines that overlap the anodes. The pixels may include pixels of different colors. Angularly dependent shifts in display color may be minimized by ensuring that the anodes of the differently colored pixels overlap the vertically extending lines by similar amounts.

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