Noise reduction in LED sensing circuit for electronic display

    公开(公告)号:US10460642B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-29

    申请号:US15199315

    申请日:2016-06-30

    申请人: APPLE INC.

    摘要: Systems, methods, and devices are provided to reduce noise present in sensing circuits used for calibrating light emitting diodes (e.g., organic light emitting diodes) in electronic display devices. Such a system may include a display that renders image data using self-emissive pixels. Values on the pixels may be sensed using a current source that outputs a current and a comparator that receives the current. The comparator changes states when a voltage signal output by the capacitor crosses a first threshold voltage or a second threshold voltage. A controller receives a first time when the comparator component changes states based on the voltage signal, receives a second time when the comparator component changes states based on the voltage signal, determines a current value based on the first time and the second time, and calibrates a pixel based on the current value.

    Power cycle display sensing
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10388201B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-20

    申请号:US15697132

    申请日:2017-09-06

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G09G3/00 G09G3/20 G09G5/00

    摘要: Electronic devices and methods pertain to reducing artifacts resulting from a thermal profile preexisting a boot up of an electronic device are disclosed. Scanning driving circuitry of the electronic device scans at least a portion of one or more pixels of an active area of a display using a boot up scan before a boot up sequence of at least a portion of an electronic device completes. The results of the boot up scan are stored in local buffers and transferred to one or more processors upon connection to the one or more processors. The results of the boot up scan cause the one or more processors to modify image data to reduce or eliminate artifacts that may result during boot up due to thermal profiles or other parameters that may cause artifacts.

    Display With Localized Brightness Adjustment Capabilities

    公开(公告)号:US20190228740A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-25

    申请号:US16222492

    申请日:2018-12-17

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G09G5/10 G06K9/00

    摘要: An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.

    NOISE MITIGATION FOR DISPLAY PANEL SENSING
    7.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190221146A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-18

    申请号:US16361018

    申请日:2019-03-21

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G09G3/00

    摘要: Systems and methods are provided for differential sensing (DS), difference-differential sensing (DDS), correlated double sampling (CDS), and/or programmable capacitor matching to reduce display panel sensing noise. An electronic device may include one or more processors and an electronic display. The one or more processors may generate image data and adjust the image data based at least in part on display sensing feedback. The electronic display may employ sensing circuitry that obtains the display sensing feedback at least in part by applying test data to a pixel of a column of an active area of the display and differentially senses an electrical value of the pixel in comparison to a reference signal from a different column. This reference signal may provide a common mode noise reference, which is removed by the differential sensing and thereby enhances a quality of the sensed electrical value of the pixel.

    System and method for data sensing for compensation in an electronic display

    公开(公告)号:US10223965B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-05

    申请号:US15272170

    申请日:2016-09-21

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: Provided herein are systems and methods for measurement and compensation of display panel current leakage and/or display panel noise. A pixel data signal is received at sensing and compensation circuitry. Current leakage compensation circuitry compensates for current leakage of the display panel in the data signal, while panel noise mitigation circuitry configured to reduce panel noise from the data signal. After compensating for the current leakage and reducing the panel noise, the data signal is provided to downstream circuitry for subsequent processing.

    Display with localized brightness adjustment capabilities

    公开(公告)号:US10157590B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-18

    申请号:US15257448

    申请日:2016-09-06

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.

    Display with continuous profile peak luminance control

    公开(公告)号:US10089959B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-02

    申请号:US14869437

    申请日:2015-09-29

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: A display may have an array of display pixels. Digital display data may be received by a digital-to-analog converter that converts the digital display data to analog display data. The magnitudes of the analog display data signals can be controlled by a regulated voltage received by the digital-to-analog converter. A brightness controller may have multiple peak luminance control (PLC) profiles. In accordance with an embodiment, a brightness setting may be processed by a lookup table to identify a pair of PLC profiles that is interpolated in order to obtain the desired regulated voltage. In accordance with another embodiment, a single PLC profile may be used that is a function of a combined parameter that takes into account both average frame luminance and the brightness setting. In accordance with yet another embodiment, a lookup table that specifies brightness setting offset values may be used to directly modulate the brightness setting.