公开(公告)号：US20240420644A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-19

申请号：US18657870

申请日：2024-05-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fan Gui ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Aida R Colon-Berrios ,  Ran Tu ,  Xuan Hu ,  Levent Erdal Aygun ,  Yi Zhao

IPC: G09G3/3266

Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels that receive control signals from a chain of gate drivers. Each gate driver may include a mix of silicon transistors, one or more semiconducting oxide transistors, and one or more capacitors. The semiconducting oxide transistors can each have a back gate terminal shorted to one of its source-drain terminals, shorted to its front gate terminal, or configured to receive a bias voltage. Configured in this way, the gate driver circuit can exhibit less threshold voltage drift and thus improved device reliability over time.

公开(公告)号：US11592873B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US16791905

申请日：2020-02-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiao Xiang ,  Tong Chen ,  Fan Gui ,  Mark T. Winkler ,  Ran Tu ,  Tsu-Hui Lin ,  Wenrui Cai ,  Yun Wang

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/041

Abstract: In some embodiments, a display stack includes a set of light-emitting elements, and a display backplane that includes a set of conductors and is electrically coupled to the set of light-emitting elements. A conductor in the set of conductors has a length, and a curved edge extending along at least a portion of the length. In some embodiments, a display stack includes a set of light-emitting elements; a set of transistors, electrically coupled to the set of light-emitting elements; and a set of conductors, electrically coupled to the set of transistors. The set of transistors may be electrically coupled to the set of conductors at a set of conductive pads. A plurality of conductive pads in the set of conductive pads is coupled to a single conductor in the set of conductors. The single conductor approaches different conductive pads in the plurality of conductive pads at different angles.

公开(公告)号：US20230081342A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-16

申请号：US17859835

申请日：2022-07-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chin-Wei Lin ,  Aida R Colon-Berrios ,  Fan Gui ,  Levent Erdal Aygun ,  Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad ,  Ran Tu ,  Xin Lin ,  Yun Wang

IPC: G09G3/3233 ,  H01L27/32

Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels. Each pixel in the array may include a drive transistor, emission transistors, a data loading transistor, a gate voltage setting transistor, an initialization transistor, an anode reset transistor, a storage capacitor, and an optional current boosting capacitor coupled in series with an isolation transistor. A data refresh may include a initialization phase, a threshold voltage sampling phase, and a data programming phase. The threshold voltage sampling phase can be substantially longer than the data programming phase to decrease a current sampling level during the threshold voltage sampling phase, which helps reduce the display luminance sensitivity to temperature variations. During a data refresh, the isolation transistor can be turned on to provide current boosting. During emission periods, the isolation transistor is turned off to prevent cathode noise from potentially coupling through to one or more direct-current voltage nodes in the pixel.

公开(公告)号：US20210255668A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-19

申请号：US16791905

申请日：2020-02-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiao Xiang ,  Tong Chen ,  Fan Gui ,  Mark T. Winkler ,  Ran Tu ,  Tsu-Hui Lin ,  Wenrui Cai ,  Yun Wang

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/042

Abstract: In some embodiments, a display stack includes a set of light-emitting elements, and a display backplane that includes a set of conductors and is electrically coupled to the set of light-emitting elements. A conductor in the set of conductors has a length, and a curved edge extending along at least a portion of the length. In some embodiments, a display stack includes a set of light-emitting elements; a set of transistors, electrically coupled to the set of light-emitting elements; and a set of conductors, electrically coupled to the set of transistors. The set of transistors may be electrically coupled to the set of conductors at a set of conductive pads. A plurality of conductive pads in the set of conductive pads is coupled to a single conductor in the set of conductors. The single conductor approaches different conductive pads in the plurality of conductive pads at different angles.

公开(公告)号：US11854490B1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-26

申请号：US17879642

申请日：2022-08-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Levent Erdal Aygun ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Yun Wang ,  Xin Lin ,  Aida R Colon-Berrios ,  Shih Chang Chang ,  Fan Gui ,  Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad ,  Ran Tu ,  Warren S Rieutort-Louis ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran ,  Cheng-Chih Hsieh ,  Ricardo A Peterson ,  Shyuan Yang ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  Yuchi Che

IPC: G09G3/3266 ,  G09G3/00 ,  H01L27/12

CPC classification number: G09G3/3266 ,  G09G3/007 ,  H01L27/124 ,  G09G2300/0452 ,  G09G2300/0861 ,  G09G2310/0286 ,  G09G2320/0626 ,  G09G2330/021

Abstract: To reduce the amount of space occupied in the inactive area of a display by gate driver circuitry, at least a portion of the gate driver circuitry may be positioned in the active area of the display. To accommodate the gate driver circuitry, emissive sub-pixels may be laterally shifted relative to corresponding thin-film transistor sub-pixels. This allows for the thin-film transistor sub-pixels to be grouped adjacent to the central area of the active area, leaving room along an edge of the active area to accommodate one or more additional display components such as gate driver circuitry or fanout portions of data lines.