公开(公告)号：US20220059010A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-24

申请号：US17465056

申请日：2021-09-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Kapil V. Sakariya ,  Tore Nauta ,  Hopil Bae ,  Henry C. Jen

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/32

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relating to controlling an emission of a display panel. In one embodiment, a display driver hardware circuit includes row selection logic to select a number of rows in an emission group of a display panel, wherein the number of rows is adjustable from a single row to a full panel of the display panel, column selection logic to select a number of columns in the emission group of the display panel, wherein the number of columns is adjustable from a single column to the full panel of the display panel, and emission logic to select a number of pulses per data frame to be displayed, wherein the number of pulses per data frame is adjustable from one to a plurality and a pulse length is adjustable from a continuous duty cycle to a non-continuous duty cycle.

公开(公告)号：US11056041B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-06

申请号：US16688750

申请日：2019-11-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Kapil V. Sakariya ,  Tore Nauta ,  Hopil Bae ,  Henry C. Jen ,  James E. Pedder ,  Sunggu Kang ,  Shingo Hatanaka ,  Xiang Lu ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Hasan Akyol ,  Saif Choudhary ,  Ion Bita

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/32

Abstract: Display panel redundancy schemes and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, and display panel includes an array of drivers (e.g. microdrivers), each of which including multiple portions to independently receive control and pixel bits. In an embodiment, each driver portion is to control a group of redundant emission elements.

公开(公告)号：US20210166609A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-03

申请号：US17088809

申请日：2020-11-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiang Lu ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Xiaofeng Wang ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Henry C. Jen ,  Hopil Bae

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3216 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  H01L27/32

Abstract: Hybrid architectures and method methods of operating a display panel are described. In an embodiment, row driver and pixel driver functions are combined in a group of backbone hybrid pixel driver chips, wherein global signal lines are distributed to the backbone hybrid pixel driver chips, where the global signals are manipulated and distributed to a row of pixel driver chips.

公开(公告)号：US11023995B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-01

申请号：US16542004

申请日：2019-08-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hopil Bae

IPC: G09G5/00 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G06T1/60

Abstract: Methods and systems for reducing power consumption of a display link by compacting image data to allow the display link to be deactivated for a longer duration. For instance, pixels that correspond to a preset or default value for a display may be omitted from pixel data sent over the display link. Additionally or alternatively, the display link may be divided into multiple lanes that function independently so that a lane of the display link may be deactivated while other lanes are actively transmitting image data.

公开(公告)号：US10997899B1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-04

申请号：US15275173

申请日：2016-09-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hopil Bae ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Mohammad B. Vahid Far

IPC: G09G3/32 ,  G09G3/20

Abstract: An electronic display includes emission clock routing without the use of repeaters. This may be accomplished by providing row drivers for each emission clock signal on opposing edges of the display panel, so that each set of row drivers may provide the emission clock signal to only a portion of the micro-drivers in each row. The array of micro-drivers may be further segmented (e.g., into four or more sections, an alternating pattern, uneven sections, etc.) to provide similar advantages. Furthermore, rather than using multiplexors to provide the emission clock signals to the row drivers, the emission clock may be hardwired to the row drivers. This may reduce the number of pins and support the provision of more phases.

公开(公告)号：US20210056930A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-25

申请号：US16928882

申请日：2020-07-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jaeyoung Kang ,  Jesse Aaron Richmond ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Hopil Bae ,  John T. Wetherell ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Yuichi Okuda ,  Shingo Hatanaka ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  Myungjoon Choi ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Yafei Bi ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Henry C. Jen ,  Derek Keith Shaeffer

IPC: G09G5/10 ,  G09G3/20

Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display having multiple display pixels. The display pixels may illuminate at a target luminance based at least in part on a first analog voltage signal. The electronic device may also include an electrical bus configured to generate multiple analog voltage signals including the first analog voltage signal, which is output on an output of the electrical bus. The electrical bus may include a digital to analog converter to generate at least some of the analog voltage signals and multiple output buffers to buffer the analog voltage signals. The outputs may be buffered by an output buffer of the output buffers.

公开(公告)号：US10923015B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-16

申请号：US16335148

申请日：2017-09-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Hopil Bae ,  Yafei Bi ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Xiaofeng Wang

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3225 ,  G06F1/06 ,  G09G3/3266

Abstract: A display device may include a plurality of pixels that may display image data on a display. The display device may also include a circuit that may receive pixel data including a gray level for at least one pixel of the plurality of pixels. The circuit may then receive an emission clock signal using a clock circuit based on the pixel data, such that the emission clock signal may cause the at least one pixel to receive a current for an amount of time based on the gray level. The circuit may then gate off the clock circuit after the amount of time.

公开(公告)号：US20200302871A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-24

申请号：US16893373

申请日：2020-06-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sheng Zhang ,  Chih-Wei Yeh ,  Yunhui Hou ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Henry C. Jen ,  Shingo Hatanaka ,  Hasan Akyol ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Hopil Bae

IPC: G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/3233

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display having an active array and a reference array. The active array includes a pixel and the reference array includes a reference pixel. The electronic device also includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the display. The processing circuitry is configured to instruct the active array to drive the pixel based at least in part on a set of degradation ratios and gamma tap points for each brightness setting of the display based at least in part on a reconstructed current-voltage curve.

公开(公告)号：US10650741B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-12

申请号：US16132320

申请日：2018-09-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sheng Zhang ,  Chengrui Le ,  Hopil Bae ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  David W. Lum ,  Adam Adjiwibawa ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov ,  Michael Slootsky ,  Giovanni Carbone ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Henry C. Jen ,  Shingo Hatanaka ,  Hasan Akyol

IPC: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/3208

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display having a reference array that includes a first pixel. The display also includes a first emission power supply coupled to the first pixel. The display further includes an active array having a second pixel. The display also includes a second emission power supply coupled to the second pixel.

公开(公告)号：US09952265B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-24

申请号：US14993711

申请日：2016-01-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Kingsuk Brahma ,  David A. Stronks ,  Hopil Bae ,  Wei H. Yao

IPC: G01R27/20 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/36 ,  G09G3/00

CPC classification number: G01R27/205 ,  G09G3/006 ,  G09G3/2092 ,  G09G3/2096 ,  G09G3/3607 ,  G09G3/3696 ,  G09G2300/0426 ,  G09G2310/08 ,  G09G2320/0223

Abstract: A display may have a substrate layer to which a display driver integrated circuit and flexible printed circuit are bonded. The display driver integrated circuit may be provided with switches and control circuitry for controlling the operation of the switches during bond resistance measurements. Test equipment may apply currents to pads in the display driver integrated circuit through contacts in the flexible printed circuit while controlling the switching circuitry. Based on these measurements and the measurement of trace resistances in a dummy flexible printed circuit, the test equipment may determine bond resistances for bonds between the display driver integrated circuit and the display substrate and between the flexible printed circuit and the display substrate. Displays may have master and slave display driver integrated circuits that share coarse reference voltages produced by the master from raw power supply voltages.