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公开(公告)号:US20240065057A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-22
申请号:US18328427
申请日:2023-06-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Shin-Hung Yeh , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Chien-Ya Lee , I-Cheng Shih , Shyuan Yang , Tsung-Ting Tsai
IPC: H10K59/131 , H10K59/126 , H10K59/121
CPC classification number: H10K59/131 , H10K59/126 , H10K59/1213
Abstract: A display may include pixels arranged in rows and columns in an active area and display driver circuitry in an inactive area. Data lines for the pixels may be positioned in the active area. Fanout lines may be routed through the active area. Each fanout line may electrically connect the display driver circuitry to a respective data line. One or more pixels may include a drive transistor and a light-emitting diode that are connected in series between a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal. A conductive layer may form a first terminal (such as the source terminal, the gate terminal, or the drain terminal) for the drive transistor. A conductive shielding layer may be interposed between the conductive layer and a fanout line to mitigate capacitive coupling between the terminal of the drive transistor and the fanout line.
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公开(公告)号:US20230389384A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-30
申请号:US18449611
申请日:2023-08-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Warren S. Rieutort-Louis , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Yuchi Che , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Jiun-Jye Chang , Shih Chang Chang , Ting-Kuo Chang
IPC: H10K59/131 , G09G3/3225 , G06F3/041
CPC classification number: H10K59/131 , G09G3/3225 , G06F3/0412 , H10K77/10
Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having display pixels formed in an active area of the display. The display further includes display driver circuitry for driving gate lines that are routed across the display. A hole such as a through hole, optical window, or other inactive region may be formed within the active area of the display. Multiple gate lines carrying the same signal may be merged together prior to being routed around the hole to help minimize the routing line congestion around the border of the hole. Dummy circuits may be coupled to the merged segment portion to help increase the parasitic loading on the merged segments. The hole may have a tapered shape to help maximize the size of the active area. The hole may have an asymmetric shape to accommodate multiple sub-display sensor components.
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公开(公告)号:US11665933B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-30
申请号:US17724306
申请日:2022-04-19
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
CPC classification number: H01L27/3248 , G09G3/006 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3258 , G09G3/3291 , H01L27/3246 , H01L27/3276 , H01L27/3279 , H01L51/5228 , 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.
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公开(公告)号:US11366558B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-21
申请号:US16862327
申请日:2020-04-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tiffany Tang Moy , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Warren S. A. Rieutort-Louis , Aleksandr N. Polyakov , Chuang Qian , Sabino Joseph Pietrangelo, II , Abbas Jamshidi-Roudbari , Rui Liu , Yurii Morozov
IPC: G06F3/044
Abstract: Visibility of the metal mesh touch electrodes can be mitigated using one or more mitigation techniques. In some examples, the boundary between touch electrodes and/or the boundary between a touch electrode and a routing trace of another touch electrode and/or the boundary between two routing traces can be non-linear. In some examples, dummy cuts can be made within an area of a touch electrode region (e.g., while maintaining the same electrical potential for the touch electrode region). In some examples, notches can be made in the metal mesh. In some examples, the location of cuts and/or notches can be optimized to mitigate visibility of the metal mesh. In some examples, some or all of the visibility mitigations may be used in combination in a touch screen.
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公开(公告)号:US11342395B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-24
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:US10896642B1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-19
申请号:US16828052
申请日:2020-03-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Chuang Qian , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Shyuan Yang , Cheng-Chih Hsieh , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Ting-Kuo Chang , Shih-Chang Chang
IPC: G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3266 , G09G3/3275 , G11C19/28
Abstract: Electronic devices may include displays having organic light-emitting diode pixels, display driver circuitry, and gate driver circuitry. To reduce the amount of space occupied in the inactive area of a display by the gate driver circuitry, one or more of the shift registers in the gate driver circuitry may include register circuits that are shared by multiple rows of pixels. Different drivers may use different clock frequencies to ensure synchronous operation of the display even when some register circuits share pixel rows. For increased flexibility in the arrangement of the register circuits in the shift registers, one or more of the shift registers may be split across the active area of the display. In some cases, one of the emission drivers may be omitted from the gate driver circuitry and a single emission driver may provide multiple emission control signals for the pixels.
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公开(公告)号:US20200258950A1
公开(公告)日:2020-08-13
申请号:US16859904
申请日:2020-04-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Minhyuk Choi , Rui Liu , Cheng Chen , Chin-Wei Lin , Sang Y. Youn , Shih Chang Chang , Tsung-Ting Tsai
IPC: H01L27/32 , H01L31/0232 , H01L51/52 , G09G3/3233
Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. Each pixel may have a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. The organic light-emitting diodes may each have an anode that is coupled to a thin-film transistor pixel circuit for controlling the anode. Transparent windows may be formed in the display. The windows may be formed by replacing data storage capacitors and other pixel circuit structures in a subset of the pixels with transparent window structures, by selectively removing portions of light-emitting diode anodes, and by shifting anodes. An array of electrical components such as an array of light sensors may be aligned with the transparent windows and may be used to measure light passing through the transparent windows.
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公开(公告)号:US10573229B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-25
申请号:US16425604
申请日:2019-05-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Chin-Wei Lin , Hung Sheng Lin , Vasudha Gupta , Shinya Ono , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Shyuan Yang
IPC: G09G3/32 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3291
Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display and a controller. The controller is configured to provide a first frequency refresh rate to the display. The controller is also configured to generate a control signal configured to control emission of a light emitting diode of a display pixel of the display at a second frequency based on whether the first frequency refresh rate of the display is less than a predetermined threshold value.
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公开(公告)号:US10438540B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-08
申请号:US15701342
申请日:2017-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Shyuan Yang , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Ting-Kuo Chang , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis
IPC: G09G3/3266 , G09G3/3225 , G09G3/20
Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to display circuitry. The display circuitry includes gate-in-panel (GIP) control circuitry on opposing sides of a display pixel array. The GIP control circuitry can include scan drivers for each pixel row on both sides of that pixel row, the scan drivers on either side configured for enablement or disablement for single-sided reduced-power operations. The GIP control circuitry can include a single scan driver and a single emission controller for each pixel row, in which the scan driver and emission controller for each row are disposed on opposing sides of the row. The scan drivers for a first subset of the pixel rows can be interleaved with the emission controllers for a different subset of the pixel rows.
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公开(公告)号:US20190279559A1
公开(公告)日:2019-09-12
申请号:US16425604
申请日:2019-05-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Chin-Wei Lin , Hung Sheng Lin , Vasudha Gupta , Shinya Ono , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Shyuan Yang
IPC: G09G3/32 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3291
Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display and a controller. The controller is configured to provide a first frequency refresh rate to the display. The controller is also configured to generate a control signal configured to control emission of a light emitting diode of a display pixel of the display at a second frequency based on whether the first frequency refresh rate of the display is less than a predetermined threshold value.
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