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公开(公告)号:US11882752B1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-23
申请号:US17378544
申请日:2021-07-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Zhao Wang , Alexis G. Soyseven , David S. Hum , Graeme M. Williams , Ing-Jye Wang , Jae Won Choi , Jimmy H. Huang , Ming Xu , Sungki Lee , Timothy H. Ellis , Yu Cheng Chen , Yuchi Che
CPC classification number: H10K59/60 , B32B27/281 , B32B37/12 , G01J1/4204 , B32B2307/416 , B32B2457/206
Abstract: An electronic device display may have an active area with pixels. An optical sensor may be formed under a sensor region in the active area. During operation, ambient light and/or other light associated with the optical sensor may pass through the sensor region. To ensure that the light for the optical sensor can pass through the display, the display may have one or more layers with sensor openings such as a metal layer and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer that attaches the metal layer to the pixels of the display. To help minimize visibility of the openings in the sensor region, the pressure sensitive adhesive layer may be configured to have a reflectivity that matches the appearance of the display in the sensor region to surrounding areas. Undesired light output uniformity can be reduced by ensuring that the substrate material in the display has a low light absorption coefficient.
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公开(公告)号:US11722590B1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-08
申请号:US17545823
申请日:2021-12-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Ming Xu , Yu Zhang , Yu Cheng Chen , David S. Hum , Yi Qiao
CPC classification number: H04M1/0266 , H05K9/0079
Abstract: An electronic device display may have an active area with pixels. An optical sensor may be formed under a sensor region in the active area. During operation, ambient light and/or other light associated with the optical sensor may pass through the sensor region. To ensure that the light for the optical sensor can pass through the display, the display may have one or more layers with sensor openings such as a metal layer and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer that attaches the metal layer to the pixels of the display. To help minimize visibility of the openings in the sensor region, the pressure sensitive adhesive layer may be configured to have a reflectivity that matches the appearance of the display in the sensor region to surrounding areas. Undesired light output uniformity can be reduced by ensuring that the substrate material in the display has a low light absorption coefficient.
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公开(公告)号:US10797125B2
公开(公告)日:2020-10-06
申请号:US15985485
申请日:2018-05-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Cheng-Ho Yu , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Shin-Hung Yeh , Sungki Lee , Ting-Kuo Chang , Yu Cheng Chen
IPC: H01L27/32 , G09G3/3225 , H01L51/52 , G09G3/20
Abstract: A display may have display driver circuitry. Signal routing lines may supply multiplexed signals from the display driver circuitry to demultiplexer circuitry. The demultiplexer circuitry may provide corresponding demultiplexed signals to the pixels over signal routing lines. The demultiplexer circuitry may have demultiplexer circuit blocks such as 1:N demultiplexer circuit blocks. Each of the demultiplexer circuit blocks may have the same area and layout. The demultiplexer circuit blocks may run across the width of the display. A first portion of the demultiplexer circuit blocks may extend in a straight line parallel to an edge of the active area. A second portion of the demultiplexer circuit blocks may be arranged in a staircase pattern that angles away from the first portion of demultiplexer circuit blocks.
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公开(公告)号:US20200219945A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-09
申请号:US16826521
申请日:2020-03-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Cheng-Ho Yu , Chin-Wei Lin , Shyuan Yang , Ting-Kuo Chang , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis , Shih-Chang Chang , Yu Cheng Chen , John Z. Zhong
IPC: H01L27/32 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3266 , G06F3/044
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20190121183A1
公开(公告)日:2019-04-25
申请号:US16041685
申请日:2018-07-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Yu Cheng Chen , Cheng-Ho Yu , Shin-Hung Yeh , Sungki Lee
IPC: G02F1/133 , G02F1/1335 , G02F1/1345 , G06F3/044
Abstract: A display may have contacts that mate with a flexible printed circuit. The contacts may be used in providing data and control signals to pixels. A metal layer may be patterned to form metal traces for signal lines that extend outwardly towards an edge of the display from the contacts. Delamination stopper structures may be formed along the periphery of the display to inhibit delamination between layers of material on the display. The delamination stopper structures may be formed from bent portions of the metal traces, a slot-shaped inorganic layer opening that runs perpendicular to the metal traces, and a segmented trench in an organic layer. A corrosion blocker structure may be formed by creating metal trace gaps in the metal traces that are each bridged by a pair of vias that are shorted together using transparent conductive material such as a pair of indium tin oxide layers.
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公开(公告)号:US20190067407A1
公开(公告)日:2019-02-28
申请号:US15985485
申请日:2018-05-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Cheng-Ho Yu , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Shin-Hung Yeh , Sungki Lee , Ting-Kuo Chang , Yu Cheng Chen
IPC: H01L27/32 , G09G3/3225 , H01L51/52
CPC classification number: H01L27/3276 , G09G3/2092 , G09G3/3225 , G09G2310/0297 , H01L27/323 , H01L51/5237
Abstract: A display may have display driver circuitry. Signal routing lines may supply multiplexed signals from the display driver circuitry to demultiplexer circuitry. The demultiplexer circuitry may provide corresponding demultiplexed signals to the pixels over signal routing lines. The demultiplexer circuitry may have demultiplexer circuit blocks such as 1:N demultiplexer circuit blocks. Each of the demultiplexer circuit blocks may have the same area and layout. The demultiplexer circuit blocks may run across the width of the display. A first portion of the demultiplexer circuit blocks may extend in a straight line parallel to an edge of the active area. A second portion of the demultiplexer circuit blocks may be arranged in a staircase pattern that angles away from the first portion of demultiplexer circuit blocks.
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公开(公告)号:US10101853B2
公开(公告)日:2018-10-16
申请号:US15260137
申请日:2016-09-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Yu Cheng Chen , Keitaro Yamashita , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Hirokazu Yamagata , Ting-Kuo Chang
Abstract: Thin-film transistor circuitry for a display may include conductive layers such as transparent conductive layers and metal layers and may include dielectric layers. The dielectric layers may include buffer layers, interlayer dielectric, gate insulator, and organic planarization layers. The organic planarization layers may be patterned photolithographically to form vias, trenches, and other structures. Trenches may be formed by removing the planarization layer in a strip. When planarization material is removed for forming a trench or other structure, a step is formed in the planarization material. Metal lines such as data lines and other signal lines may cross steps in the planarization material. To prevent shorts between lines, a step may have protrusions that help eliminate metal etch residue. Vias may be reduced in depth by forming metal bumps and dielectric bumps under the vias and by forming other via structures.
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公开(公告)号:US10019090B2
公开(公告)日:2018-07-10
申请号:US15238355
申请日:2016-08-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Majid Gharghi , Sungki Lee , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Shin-Hung Yeh , Ting-Kuo Chang , Yu Cheng Chen
IPC: G06F3/041 , G06F3/044 , G09G3/36 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/1362 , G02F1/1343 , G02F1/1368
CPC classification number: G06F3/0412 , G02F1/13338 , G02F1/136286 , G06F3/0416 , G06F3/044 , G06F2203/04111 , G09G3/3648 , G09G2354/00
Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. A transparent conductive layer may serve as a common voltage electrode layer and may distribute a common voltage to each of the pixels. Metal layers may be used to form routing structures. One of the metal layers may be patterned to form gate lines that distribute control signals to thin-film transistors in the pixels. Touch sensor circuitry may be coupled to horizontal and vertical capacitive touch sensor electrodes formed from the transparent conductive layer. A touch sensor signal border routing path in an inactive area of the display may have openings that run parallel to the gate lines and that each overlap one of the gate lines to reduce capacitive coupling between the gate lines and the touch sensor signal border routing path.
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公开(公告)号:US20180174505A1
公开(公告)日:2018-06-21
申请号:US15895248
申请日:2018-02-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Prashant Mandlik , Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran , Izhar Z Ahmed , Zhen Zhang , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Ki Yeol Byun , Yu Cheng Chen , Sungki Lee , Mohammad Hajirostam , Sinan Alousi
CPC classification number: G09G3/32 , G01L1/2281 , G09G3/3266 , G09G3/3677 , G09G2300/043 , G09G2310/0286 , G09G2330/12 , G09G2380/02 , G11C19/28 , H01L27/3225 , H01L27/3276 , H01L51/0031 , H01L51/0097 , H01L2251/5338
Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible display such as an organic light-emitting diode display. A strain sensing resistor may be formed on a bent tail portion of the flexible display to gather strain measurements. Resistance measurement circuitry in a display driver integrated circuit may make resistance measurements on the strain sensing resistor and a temperature compensation resistor to measure strain. A crack detection line may be formed from an elongated pair of traces that are coupled at their ends to form a loop. The crack detection line may run along a peripheral edge of the flexible display. Crack detection circuitry may monitor the resistance of the crack detection line to detect cracks. The crack detection circuitry may include switches that adjust the length of the crack detection line and thereby allow resistances to be measured for different segments of the line.
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公开(公告)号:US20170351379A1
公开(公告)日:2017-12-07
申请号:US15260137
申请日:2016-09-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Yu Cheng Chen , Keitaro Yamashita , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Hirokazu Yamagata , Ting-Kuo Chang
CPC classification number: G06F3/0418 , G02F1/136286 , G02F2001/133357 , G02F2001/13629 , G06F3/0412 , G06F3/044 , G06F2203/04103 , G06F2203/04111 , H01L27/124
Abstract: Thin-film transistor circuitry for a display may include conductive layers such as transparent conductive layers and metal layers and may include dielectric layers. The dielectric layers may include buffer layers, interlayer dielectric, gate insulator, and organic planarization layers. The organic planarization layers may be patterned photolithographically to form vias, trenches, and other structures. Trenches may be formed by removing the planarization layer in a strip. When planarization material is removed for forming a trench or other structure, a step is formed in the planarization material. Metal lines such as data lines and other signal lines may cross steps in the planarization material. To prevent shorts between lines, a step may have protrusions that help eliminate metal etch residue. Vias may be reduced in depth by forming metal bumps and dielectric bumps under the vias and by forming other via structures.
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