公开(公告)号：US20180315357A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-01

申请号：US15882908

申请日：2018-01-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Donghee Nam ,  Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran ,  Cheng Chen ,  Meng-Huan Ho ,  Nathan K. Gupta ,  Rui Liu ,  Sebastian Knitter ,  Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  Weibo Cheng

IPC: G09F13/22 ,  H01L51/52 ,  H01L27/32

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may have a display cover layer. The display may have an active area with pixels and an inactive area with dummy pixels. The dummy pixels may have structures that are optically matched to the pixels so that the dummy pixels and pixels have similar visual appearances when the display is off. An optical window may be formed in the inactive area. A light-based component such as an ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, or image sensor may be mounted in the electronic device in alignment with the optical window. A polarizer layer may overlap the active and inactive areas of the display. An opening in the polarizer or a bleached unpolarized portion of the polarizer may be aligned with the optical window.

公开(公告)号：US10031367B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-24

申请号：US13628811

申请日：2012-09-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Victor H. Yin ,  Jun Qi ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Shih-Chang Chang ,  Cheng Chen ,  John Z. Zhong ,  Wei Chen ,  Adam T. Garelli ,  Bryan W. Posner ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1362 ,  G02F1/1345 ,  G02F1/1333

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display that has a layer of liquid crystal material interposed between a color filter layer and a thin-film-transistor layer. The thin-film-transistor layer may have a substrate with an upper surface and a lower surface. A circular polarizer may be formed on the upper surface. Thin-film transistor circuitry such as gate driver circuitry may be formed on the lower surface. A display driver circuit may be mounted on an inactive border region of the lower surface of the thin-film transistor substrate. Display pixels may form an array in a central active region of the display. A grid of metal gate and data lines may distribute signals from the display driver circuit and gate driver circuitry to the display pixels. A grid of non-reflecting lines may be interposed between the grid of metal lines and the lower surface.

公开(公告)号：US10019926B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-10

申请号：US14862026

申请日：2015-09-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Farnaz Agahian ,  Jiaying Wu ,  Zhang Jia ,  Cheng Chen

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G01J3/46 ,  G01J3/50 ,  G01J1/42

CPC classification number: G09G3/2003 ,  G01J1/4204 ,  G01J3/50 ,  G01J3/505 ,  G01J2003/467 ,  G09G2320/0233 ,  G09G2320/0242 ,  G09G2320/0693 ,  G09G2340/06 ,  G09G2360/144

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. A color sensing ambient light sensor may measure the color of ambient light. The color sensing ambient light sensor may produce sensor output signals in a device-dependent color space. Control circuitry in the electronic device may convert the sensor output signals from the device-dependent color space to a device-independent color space using a color converting matrix. The color converting matrix may be determined using stored training data. The training data may include color data for different training light sources. The training data may be weighted to selectively control the influence of the training data on the color converting matrix. The training data may be weighted based on a distance between the training color data and a target color in the detected ambient light.

公开(公告)号：US09952642B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-24

申请号：US14500646

申请日：2014-09-29

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Chaohao Wang ,  Louis Luh ,  Jun Qi ,  Cheng Chen ,  Jun Jiang ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Marc Albrecht

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G06F1/32 ,  G09G5/00

CPC classification number: G06F1/32 ,  G09G5/003 ,  G09G2320/0247 ,  G09G2330/021 ,  G09G2340/0435 ,  G09G2360/16

Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a display by dynamically determining a refresh rate for the display. In certain implementations, a processor determines a number of pixels having medium grayscale levels from a histogram for the image. If the number does not exceed a threshold, the processor sets a refresh rate for the display to a first refresh rate. In certain implementations, if the number exceeds a threshold, the processor may set the refresh rate for the display to a second refresh rate. Moreover, the first refresh rate may be lower than the second threshold. In some implementations, the image may be analyzed by subdividing the image into blocks and determining a refresh rate based on grayscale levels or distributions in the blocks. Based on the analysis of the blocks, a corresponding refresh rate may be selected.

公开(公告)号：US09947259B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-17

申请号：US15331722

申请日：2016-10-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jiaying Wu ,  Lu Zhang ,  Cheng Chen ,  Gabriel Marcu ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Ming Xu ,  Ricardo Motta ,  Wei Chen ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC: G09G5/00 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G5/02 ,  G09G3/34

CPC classification number: G09G3/2003 ,  G09G3/3413 ,  G09G5/02 ,  G09G2320/0242 ,  G09G2320/0261 ,  G09G2320/0666 ,  G09G2360/144 ,  G09G2360/145

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels and having display control circuitry that controls the operation of the display. The display control circuitry may adaptively adjust the display output based on ambient lighting conditions. For example, in cooler ambient lighting conditions such as those dominated by daylight, the display may display neutral colors using a relatively cool white. When the display is operated in warmer ambient lighting conditions such as those dominated by indoor light sources, the display may display neutral colors using a relatively warm white. Adapting to the ambient lighting conditions may ensure that the user does not perceive color shifts on the display as the user's vision chromatically adapts to different ambient lighting conditions. Adaptively adjusting images in this way can also have beneficial effects on the human circadian rhythm by displaying warmer colors in the evening.

公开(公告)号：US09904502B2

公开(公告)日：2018-02-27

申请号：US14862012

申请日：2015-09-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jin Yan ,  Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov ,  Young Cheol Yang ,  Li Zhang ,  Xiaokai Li ,  Cheng Chen

IPC: G06F3/14 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H04M1/02

CPC classification number: G06F3/1423 ,  G06F1/1601 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1647 ,  G06F1/1649 ,  G09G2320/0261 ,  G09G2320/028 ,  G09G2360/144 ,  H04M1/0216

Abstract: Electronic equipment with displays may be provided. A first display may be mounted in a first housing and a second display may be mounted in a second housing that is adjacent to the first housing. The first housing may rotate relative to the second housing about a hinge axis. The first housing may be a lid and the second housing may be a base housing that is coupled to the lid by a hinge. A first display may be mounted in the first housing and a second display may be mounted in the second housing. Polarizer layers and other optical layers in the displays may be configured to provide a viewer with the ability to view images on the displays while wearing vertically polarized sunglasses and to suppress reflections of light emitted by the first display off of the second display.

公开(公告)号：US20170303365A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-19

申请号：US15334094

申请日：2016-10-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Cheng Chen ,  Jiaying Wu ,  Lu Zhang ,  David A. Doyle ,  Christopher E. Glazowski ,  Adria Fores Herranz ,  Chenhua You ,  Wei Chen ,  Jun Qi ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC: H05B33/08

CPC classification number: H05B33/0872 ,  G02F1/133621 ,  G02F2001/133614 ,  G09G3/3413 ,  G09G2320/0666 ,  G09G2360/144

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display having a backlight with light sources of different colors. The electronic device may include a color ambient light sensor that measures the color of ambient light and control circuitry that adjusts the color of light emitted from the backlight based on the color of ambient light. The light sources may include at least first and second light-emitting diodes that emit light having different color temperatures. The control circuitry may adjust the intensity of light emitted from the first light-emitting diode relative to the intensity of light emitted from the second light-emitting diode to produce a backlight color that more closely matches the color of ambient light. The first and second light-emitting diodes may include an ultraviolet light-emitting diode die and a blue light-emitting diode die that are mounted in a common semiconductor package.

公开(公告)号：US09599865B2

公开(公告)日：2017-03-21

申请号：US14702556

申请日：2015-05-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Zhibing Ge ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Cheng Chen ,  Kyung Wook Kim ,  Ming-Chin Hung ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Shih Chang Chang ,  Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang ,  Shang-Chih Lin

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  G06F3/147 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1333

CPC classification number: G02F1/134309 ,  G02F1/133514 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  G02F1/13439 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F2001/133357 ,  G02F2001/134372 ,  G06F3/147

Abstract: A display may have upper and lower display layers. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the upper and lower display layers. The display layers may have substrates. A thin-film transistor layer may have a layer of thin-film transistor structures on a substrate such as a clear glass layer. A planarization layer may be formed on the thin-film transistor structures. A transparent conductive layer may be formed on the planarization layer. The display may have a dielectric layer on the transparent conductive layer. Pixels may be formed in the display layers. The pixels may include pixel electrodes having fingers. The fingers may be formed on the dielectric layer. Trenches in the dielectric layer may be formed between the fingers. The trenches may extend to the transparent conductive layer or may be formed only partway into the dielectric layer.

公开(公告)号：US09557850B2

公开(公告)日：2017-01-31

申请号：US14630280

申请日：2015-02-24

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Chaohao Wang ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Zhibing Ge ,  Cheng Chen ,  Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang

IPC: G09G5/10 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G09G3/20

CPC classification number: G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G09G3/2011 ,  G09G3/3648 ,  G09G5/12 ,  G09G2310/027 ,  G09G2320/0266 ,  G09G2320/0271 ,  G09G2320/103 ,  G09G2340/16

Abstract: One embodiment describes an electronic display. The electronic display includes display driver circuitry that display an image frame on the electronic device using a first display pixel and a second display pixel, touch sensing circuitry that detect user interaction with the electronic display, and a timing controller. The timing controller receives image data, in which the image data describes a target grayscale value of the first pixel and the second pixel to display the image frame, instructs the display driver circuitry to display a first portion of the image frame by writing the image data to the first display pixel, instructs the touch sensing circuitry to determine whether a user touch is present on a surface of the electronic display after the first portion of the image frame is displayed, determines grayscale value displayed by the second display pixel to display a previous image frame, and instructs the display driver circuitry to display a second portion of the image frame by writing adjusted image data to the second display pixel when the displayed grayscale value differs from the target grayscale value of the second pixel by more than a threshold amount.

Abstract translation: 一个实施例描述了电子显示器。 电子显示器包括使用第一显示像素和第二显示像素在电子设备上显示图像帧的显示驱动器电路，检测用户与电子显示器的交互的触摸感测电路以及定时控制器。 定时控制器接收图像数据，其中图像数据描述第一像素的目标灰度值和用于显示图像帧的第二像素，指示显示驱动器电路通过写入图像数据来显示图像帧的第一部分 指示触摸感测电路在显示图像帧的第一部分之后确定用户触摸是否存在于电子显示器的表面上，确定由第二显示像素显示的灰度值以显示前一个 并且当所显示的灰度值与第二像素的目标灰度值不同于阈值时，通过将调整后的图像数据写入第二显示像素来指示显示驱动器电路显示图像帧的第二部分。

公开(公告)号：US09541794B2

公开(公告)日：2017-01-10

申请号：US14502199

申请日：2014-09-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jiaying Wu ,  Wei Chen ,  Cheng Chen ,  William Mathews Riedel ,  Jun Qi ,  John Z. Zhong ,  Gabriel Marcu

IPC: G02F1/1347 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/13363 ,  G02F1/1368

CPC classification number: G02F1/13363 ,  G02F1/133514 ,  G02F1/133528 ,  G02F1/1336 ,  G02F1/13471 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F2001/133614 ,  G02F2413/13 ,  G02F2413/14

Abstract: A display may have a first stage such as a color liquid crystal display stage and a second stage such as a monochromatic liquid crystal display stage that are coupled in tandem so that light from a backlight passes through both stages. The dynamic range of the display may be enhanced by using the second stage to perform local dimming operations. The pixel pitch of the second stage may be greater than the pixel pitch of the first stage to ease alignment tolerances and reduce image processing complexity. The color stage and monochromatic stages may share a polarizer. A color filter in the color stage may have an array of red, green, and blue elements or an array of white, red, green, and blue elements. The color stage may be a fringe field display and the monochrome stage may be an in-plane switching display or a twisted nematic stage.

Abstract translation: 显示器可以具有第一级，例如彩色液晶显示级和第二级，例如单色液晶显示级，其串联耦合，使得来自背光的光通过两级。 可以通过使用第二级来执行局部调光操作来增强显示器的动态范围。 第二级的像素间距可以大于第一级的像素间距，以减轻对准公差并降低图像处理的复杂性。 彩色舞台和单色舞台可以共享偏振器。 彩色舞台中的彩色滤光片可以具有红色，绿色和蓝色元素的阵列或白色，红色，绿色和蓝色元素的阵列。 彩色舞台可以是边缘场显示，并且单色舞台可以是平面内切换显示或扭曲向列舞台。