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公开(公告)号:US20210072428A1
公开(公告)日:2021-03-11
申请号:US17005191
申请日:2020-08-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Yi-Pai Huang , Manjap Singh , Cheng-Ho Yu , ByoungSuk Kim , Yi Huang , Hitoshi Yamamoto , Mathew K. Mathai , Chieh-Wei Chen , Ping-Yen Chou , Donghee Nam , Chaohao Wang , Hao Chen
Abstract: A lenticular display may be formed with convex curvature. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film with lenticular lenses that extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display. To enable more curvature in the display while ensuring satisfactory stereoscopic display performance, the display may have stereoscopic zones and non-stereoscopic zones. A central stereoscopic zone may be interposed between first and second non-stereoscopic zones. The non-stereoscopic zones may have more curvature than the stereoscopic zone. To prevent crosstalk within the lenticular display, a louver film may be incorporated into the display. The pixel array may have a diagonal layout and may be covered by vertically oriented lenticular lenses.
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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:US10224386B2
公开(公告)日:2019-03-05
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
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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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:US20190043418A1
公开(公告)日:2019-02-07
申请号:US15975390
申请日:2018-05-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Warren S. Rieutort-Louis , Shyuan Yang , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Cheng-Ho Yu , Jae Won Choi , Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Ting-Kuo Chang
IPC: G09G3/3216 , G09G3/3283 , G09G3/3266 , H01L27/32
Abstract: A display may have rows and columns of pixels that form an active area for displaying images. A display driver integrated circuit may provide multiplexed data signals to demultiplexer circuitry in the display. The demultiplexer circuitry may demultiplex the data signals and provide the demultiplexed data signals to the pixels on data lines. Gate lines may control the loading of the data signals into the pixels. The display may have a length dimension and a width dimension that is shorter than the length dimension. The data lines may extend parallel to the width dimension and the gate lines may extend parallel to the length dimension such that there are more data lines than gate lines in the display. A notch that is free of pixels may extend into the active area. Data lines extending parallel to the width dimension of the display may be routed around the notch.
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公开(公告)号:US20180204895A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-19
申请号:US15922727
申请日:2018-03-15
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: H01L27/32 , G09G3/3291 , G09G3/3258 , G09G3/00
CPC classification number: H01L27/3248 , G09G3/006 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3258 , G09G3/3291 , G09G2300/0426 , G09G2310/0297 , H01L27/3246 , H01L27/3276 , H01L27/3279 , H01L51/5228
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.
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公开(公告)号:US09965063B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-08
申请号:US14174471
申请日:2014-02-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Shih-Chang Chang , Ting-Kuo Chang , Cheng-Ho Yu
IPC: G06F3/041 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/136 , G02F1/1362
CPC classification number: G06F3/041 , G02F1/13338 , G02F1/13624 , G02F1/136286 , G02F2001/13606 , G06F3/0412 , G06F3/0416
Abstract: A touch screen display may have a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be located between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor (TFT) layer. The TFT layer may include thin-film transistors formed on top of a glass substrate. Each display pixel in the TFT layer may include first and second TFTs coupled in series between a data line and a storage capacitor. The first TFT may have a gate that is coupled to a gate line. The second TFT may have a gate that is coupled to a control line that is different than the gate line. A global enable signal may be provided on the control line, where the enable signal is asserted during display intervals and is deasserted during touch intervals. The second TFT may be formed using a top-gate TFT or a bottom-gate TFT arrangement.
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公开(公告)号:US09685557B2
公开(公告)日:2017-06-20
申请号:US13801261
申请日:2013-03-13
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor: Cheng-Ho Yu , Young Bae Park , Shih Chang Chang , Ting-Kuo Chang , Shang-Chih Lin
IPC: H01L29/786 , H01L29/66 , H01L27/12
CPC classification number: H01L29/78651 , H01L27/1288 , H01L29/6675 , H01L29/78621 , H01L29/78645
Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating thin-film transistors (TFTs) for an LCD having an array of pixels. The method includes depositing a first photoresist layer over a portion of a TFT stack. The TFT stack includes a conductive gate layer, and a semiconductor layer. The method also includes doping the exposed semiconductor layer with a first doping dose. The method further includes etching a portion of the conductive gate layer to expose a portion of the semiconductor layer, and doping the exposed portion of the semiconductor layer with a second doping dose. The method also includes removing the first photoresist layer, and depositing a second photoresist layer over a first portion of the doped semiconductor layer in an active area of the pixels to expose a second portion of the doped semiconductor layer in an area surrounding the active area. The method further includes doping the second portion of the doped semiconductor layer with a third doping dose, the first dose being higher than the second dose and the third dose.
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