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公开(公告)号:US20220066272A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-03
申请号:US17525118
申请日:2021-11-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Shin-Hung Yeh , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Chien-Ya Lee , Lun Tsai
IPC: G02F1/1362 , G09G3/20 , H01L27/32
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.
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公开(公告)号:US11257883B2
公开(公告)日:2022-02-22
申请号:US16797408
申请日:2020-02-21
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 , G09G3/3233 , H01L51/52 , G09G3/00 , G09G3/3258 , G09G3/3291
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:US20210273031A1
公开(公告)日:2021-09-02
申请号:US17321243
申请日:2021-05-14
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 , G09G3/3233 , H01L51/52 , G09G3/00 , G09G3/3258 , G09G3/3291
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:US20210210022A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-08
申请号:US17206425
申请日:2021-03-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Ting-Kuo Chang , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis , Shinya Ono , Shin-Hung Yeh , Chien-Ya Lee , Shyuan Yang
IPC: G09G3/3275 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3266
Abstract: A display may have rows and columns of pixels. Gate lines may be used to supply gate signals to rows of the pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data signals to columns of the pixels. The data lines may include alternating even and odd data lines. Data lines may be organized in pairs each of which includes one of the odd data lines and an adjacent one of the even data lines. Demultiplexer circuitry may be configured dynamically during data loading and pixel sensing operations. During data loading, data from display driver circuitry may be supplied, alternately to odd pairs of the data lines and even pairs of the data lines. During sensing, the demultiplexer circuitry may couple a pair of the even data lines to sensing circuitry in the display driver circuitry and then may couple a pair of the odd data lines to the sensing circuitry.
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公开(公告)号:US10763323B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-01
申请号:US16375756
申请日:2019-04-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tiffany T. Moy , Yuchi Che , Seonpil Jang , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis , Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran , Jae Won Choi , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Myung-Kwan Ryu , Hirokazu Yamagata , Keisuke Otsu
Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have rounded corners. A negative power supply path may be used to distribute a negative voltage to a cathode layer, while a positive power supply path may be used to distribute a positive power supply voltage to each pixel in the display. The positive power supply path may have a cutout that is occupied by the negative power supply path to decrease resistance of the negative power supply path in a rounded corner of the display. To mitigate reflections caused by the positive power supply path being formed over tightly spaced data lines, the positive power supply path may be omitted in a rounded corner of the display, a shielding layer may be formed over the positive power supply path in the rounded corner, or non-linear gate lines may be formed over the positive power supply path.
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公开(公告)号:US10700151B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-30
申请号:US16240552
申请日:2019-01-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Warren S. Rieutort-Louis , Ting-Kuo Chang , Chieh-Wei Chen , Cheng-Ho Yu
IPC: H01L27/32 , G09G3/3225 , H01L51/52
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:US10375278B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-06
申请号:US15711738
申请日:2017-09-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Keitaro Yamashita , Ting-Kuo Chang , Cheng-Ho Yu , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis
Abstract: Electronic devices, storage medium containing instructions, and methods pertain to cancelling noise that results from application of voltages on gates of transistors in a display. One or more compensation or dummy drivers are used to apply a compensation voltage that is an inversion of voltages applied on the gates of the transistors.
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公开(公告)号:US20190221624A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-18
申请号:US16364447
申请日:2019-03-26
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 , G09G3/00 , H01L51/52 , G09G3/3291 , G09G3/3258 , G09G3/3233
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:US10192938B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-29
申请号:US15919057
申请日:2018-03-12
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:US20170365213A1
公开(公告)日:2017-12-21
申请号:US15246345
申请日:2016-08-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Warren S. Rieutort-Louis , Keitaro Yamashita , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Yun Wang , Ting-Kuo Chang , Cheng-Ho Yu , Shinya Ono
IPC: G09G3/3233
CPC classification number: G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3266 , G09G2300/0819 , G09G2300/0842 , G09G2300/0861 , G09G2320/041 , G09G2320/045
Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may contain an array of display pixels. Each display pixel may have a respective organic light-emitting diode that is controlled by a drive transistor. At low temperatures, it may be necessary to increase the amount of current through an organic light-emitting diode to achieve a desired luminance level. In order to increase the current through the light-emitting diode, the ground voltage level may be lowered. However, this may lead to thin-film transistors within the pixel leaking, which may result in undesirable display artifacts such as bright dots being displayed in a dark image. In order to prevent leakage in the transistors, the transistors may be coupled to separate reference voltage supplies or separate control lines. Additionally, the transistors may be positioned to minimize leakage even at low ground voltage levels.
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