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.

Inventor： Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Chieh-Wei Chen ,  Cheng-Ho Yu

IPC: H01L27/32 ,  H01L51/52

CPC classification number: H01L27/3276 ,  G09G3/3225 ,  G09G2300/0426 ,  G09G2320/0223 ,  G09G2320/0242 ,  G09G2330/00 ,  H01L27/3218 ,  H01L27/3262 ,  H01L51/5209

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.

公开(公告)号：US20180075808A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-15

申请号：US15384096

申请日：2016-12-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Keitaro Yamashita ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Shin-Hung Yeh ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  Shih-Chang Chang ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Ki Yeol Byun ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis

IPC: G09G3/3266

CPC classification number: G09G3/3266 ,  G09G2300/0413 ,  G09G2310/0205 ,  G09G2310/0213 ,  G09G2310/0221 ,  G09G2310/0267 ,  G09G2310/0286 ,  G09G2310/04 ,  G09G2340/0414 ,  G09G2340/0435

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display such as a light-emitting diode display. The electronic device may be a head-mounted device that provides a virtual reality or augmented reality environment to a user. To reduce artifacts in the display, a display may be operable in both a normal scanning mode and a partial scanning mode. In the normal scanning mode, every row of the display may be enabled to emit light in each frame. In the partial scanning mode, only a subset of the rows of the display may be enabled to emit light in each frame. The display may have a higher refresh rate in the partial scanning mode than in the normal scanning mode. To ensure uniform transistor stress across the display, the scanning driver for the display may scan the disabled rows in the partial scanning mode even though the rows will not be used to emit light.

公开(公告)号：US20250008799A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-02

申请号：US18667776

申请日：2024-05-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shyuan Yang ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Gihoon Choo ,  Jae Won Choi ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Jonglo Park ,  Kyounghwan Kim ,  Ricardo A. Peterson ,  Sungki Lee ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Yi Qiao ,  Yuchi Che ,  Yue Cui ,  Yue Jack Chu ,  Zhizhen Ma

IPC: H10K59/131 ,  H10K59/121 ,  H10K59/65

Abstract: A display may include an active area with a first region and a second region. The first region may overlap an input-output component such as a camera and may have a higher transparency than the second region. The first region may have a lower pixel density than the second region. Signal lines that pass through the first region may have transparent portions that overlap the first region and opaque portions that overlap the second region. To mitigate artifacts caused by high resistance of the transparent portions of the signal lines, the signal lines may include supplemental opaque portions that are electrically connected in parallel to the transparent portions and that are routed through the second region around the first region.

公开(公告)号：US12101426B1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-24

申请号：US17526869

申请日：2021-11-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tyler R. Kakuda ,  Hao Dong ,  Ian T. Clark ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Michael J. Brown ,  Paul C. Kelley ,  Shaorui Yang ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Yi Qiao ,  Ying-Chih Wang

IPC: H04M1/02 ,  G02B6/06 ,  H10K50/84 ,  H10K50/858 ,  H10K77/10 ,  H10K102/00

CPC classification number: H04M1/0269 ,  G02B6/06 ,  H10K50/841 ,  H10K50/858 ,  H10K77/111 ,  H10K2102/311

Abstract: An electronic device may have pixels that form an active area for a flexible display layer. An inactive area that is free of pixels may surround the active area. One or more edges of the flexible display layer may be bent around respective bend axes. The display layer may also have one or more unbent edges in which the inactive area and active area of the display have a planar shape. An image transport layer may have an input surface that receives the image and an output surface to which the image is transported. The image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or a layer of Anderson localization material. The coherent fiber bundle may have straight fibers that run parallel to each other in a vertical direction that is parallel to a surface normal of a central portion of the display layer.

公开(公告)号：US12038659B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-16

申请号：US18182222

申请日：2023-03-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shin-Hung Yeh ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Chien-Ya Lee ,  Lun Tsai

IPC: G02F1/1362 ,  G09G3/20 ,  H10K59/122 ,  H10K59/131

CPC classification number: G02F1/136286 ,  G09G3/20 ,  H10K59/122 ,  H10K59/131 ,  G02F1/13629 ,  G09G2300/0404 ,  G09G2300/0426

Abstract: To minimize the width of a non-light-emitting border region around an opening in the active area, data lines may be stacked in the border region. Data line portions may be formed using three metal layers in three different planes within the border region. A metal layer that forms a positive power signal distribution path in the active area may serve as a data line portion in the border region. A metal layer may be added in the border region to serve as a data line portion in the border region. Data line signals may also be provided to pixels on both sides of an opening in the active area using supplemental data line paths. A supplemental data line path may be routed through the active area of the display to electrically connect data line segments on opposing sides of an opening within the display.

公开(公告)号：US20240194106A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-13

申请号：US18476892

申请日：2023-09-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shyuan Yang ,  Cheng-Chih Hsieh ,  Jonathan H. Beck ,  Yuchi Che ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Shih Chang Chang ,  Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran ,  Jae Won Choi ,  Kyounghwan Kim

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  H10K59/131

CPC classification number: G09G3/20 ,  H10K59/131 ,  G09G2300/0452 ,  G09G2300/0465 ,  G09G2320/0233 ,  G09G2320/0242

Abstract: A light emitter that operates through a display may cause display artifacts, even when the light emitter operates using non-visible wavelengths. To mitigate artifacts caused by a light emitter operating through a display, the display may have a higher density of thin-film transistor sub-pixels than emissive sub-pixels. This allows for a region in the display to include emissive sub-pixels but be free of thin-film transistor sub-pixels. The light emitter may operate through this region in the display. Additionally, to reduce the amount of space occupied in the inactive area of a display by gate driver circuitry, at least a portion of the gate driver circuitry may be positioned in the active area of the display. To accommodate the gate driver circuitry, emissive sub-pixels may be laterally shifted relative to corresponding thin-film transistor sub-pixels.

公开(公告)号：US11895883B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-06

申请号：US17513643

申请日：2021-10-28

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: H10K59/131 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  H10K59/40 ,  H10K59/88 ,  H10K59/10 ,  G06F3/044

CPC classification number: H10K59/131 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  H10K59/40 ,  H10K59/88 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G09G2300/0426 ,  G09G2300/0809 ,  G09G2310/0232 ,  G09G2320/0223 ,  G09G2320/0233 ,  H10K59/10

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.

公开(公告)号：US11886246B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-30

申请号：US17900266

申请日：2022-08-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tyler R. Kakuda ,  Christopher E. Glazowski ,  Elizabeth C. Porter ,  Hao Dong ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G04G17/04 ,  G02B6/04

CPC classification number: G06F1/163 ,  G02B6/04 ,  G04G17/045 ,  G06F1/1637

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a display. The display may be overlapped by an image transport layer such as a coherent fiber bundle or layer of Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is transported. The input surface and output surface may have different shapes. A wristwatch device may, as an example, have a rectangular or hexagonal input surface and may have an output surface such as a rectangular output surface with rounded corners or a circular output surface. A region of the output surface may have compound curvature. A portion of the image transport layer may protrude laterally over an inactive portion of the display.

公开(公告)号：US20230337467A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-19

申请号：US18006519

申请日：2021-07-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yuchi Che ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Majid Esfandyarpour ,  Sebastian Knitter ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai

IPC: H10K59/121 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  H10K59/35 ,  H10K59/90

CPC classification number: H10K59/1213 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  H10K59/353 ,  H10K59/90

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The electronic device may include a plurality of transparent windows that overlap the optical sensor. The resolution of the display panel may be reduced in some areas due to the presence of the transparent windows. To mitigate diffraction artifacts, a first sensor (13-1) may sense light through a first pixel removal region having transparent windows arranged according to a first pattern. A second sensor (13-2) may sense light through a second pixel removal region having transparent windows arranged according to a second pattern that is different than the first pattern. The first and second patterns of the transparent windows may result in the first and second sensors having different diffraction artifacts. Therefore, an image from the first sensor may be corrected for diffraction artifacts based on an image from the second sensor.

公开(公告)号：US20230247867A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-03

申请号：US18299207

申请日：2023-04-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chin-Wei Lin ,  Stephen S. Poon ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Cheng-Ho Yu ,  ChoongHo Lee ,  Doh-Hyoung Lee ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  Vasudha Gupta ,  Younggu Lee

IPC: H10K59/123 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  H10K50/824 ,  H10K59/122 ,  H10K59/131 ,  G09G3/00 ,  G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/3291

CPC classification number: H10K59/123 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  H10K50/824 ,  H10K59/122 ,  H10K59/131 ,  H10K59/1315 ,  G09G3/006 ,  G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/3291 ,  G09G2300/0426 ,  G09G2310/0297

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. The display and substrate may have rounded corners. A pixel definition layer may be formed on the thin-film transistor circuitry. Openings in the pixel definition layer may be provided with emissive material overlapping respective anodes for organic light-emitting diodes. A cathode layer may cover the array of pixels. A ground power supply path may be used to distribute a ground voltage to the cathode layer. The ground power supply path may be formed from a metal layer that is shorted to the cathode layer using portions of a metal layer that forms anodes for the diodes, may be formed from a mesh shaped metal pattern, may have L-shaped path segments, may include laser-deposited metal on the cathode layer, and may have other structures that facilitate distribution of the ground power supply.