RC tuning of touch electrode connections on a touch sensor panel

    公开(公告)号:US10955947B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-23

    申请号:US15493791

    申请日:2017-04-21

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06F3/041 G06F3/044

    摘要: A touch sensor panel comprising a first touch node electrode of a plurality of touch node electrodes, the first touch node electrode coupled to a first sense connection comprising a first set of traces, the first sense connection configured to have a first resistance per unit length that varies along a length of the first sense connection, and a second touch node electrode of the plurality of touch node electrodes, the second touch node electrode coupled to a second sense connection comprising a second set of traces, the second sense connection configured to have a second resistance per unit length that varies along a length of the second sense connection differently than the first resistance per unit length varies along the length of the first sense connection. An effective resistance of the first sense connection and the second sense connection are equal.

    Displays with Gate Driver Circuitry Having Shared Register Circuits

    公开(公告)号:US20210035499A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-04

    申请号:US16828052

    申请日:2020-03-24

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: 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.

    Narrow border touch screen
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10852876B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-01

    申请号:US15313942

    申请日:2014-09-23

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06F3/045 G06F3/041 G06F3/044

    摘要: A touch screen is disclosed that includes conductive elements in a display area and connecting traces for routing the conductive elements to other locations. The connecting traces can be routed underneath or over existing opaque structures in the display area, instead of in border areas adjacent to the display area, to minimize the effect of the connecting traces on the display aperture ratio. The lengths and/or widths of these connecting traces as well as the number of parallel connecting traces used to connect to a particular element can be selected to balance the load on the drive and/or sense circuitry and on display pixels caused by the connecting traces.

    Displays with multiple scanning modes

    公开(公告)号:US10546540B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-28

    申请号:US16577597

    申请日:2019-09-20

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G09G3/3266

    摘要: An electronic device may include a display such as a light-emitting diode display. The electronic device may be a head-mounted device that provides a virtual reality or augmented reality environment to a user. To reduce artifacts in the display, a display may be operable in both a normal scanning mode and a partial scanning mode. In the normal scanning mode, every row of the display may be enabled to emit light in each frame. In the partial scanning mode, only a subset of the rows of the display may be enabled to emit light in each frame. The display may have a higher refresh rate in the partial scanning mode than in the normal scanning mode. To ensure uniform transistor stress across the display, the scanning driver for the display may scan the disabled rows in the partial scanning mode even though the rows will not be used to emit light.

    Light-Emitting Diode Displays
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190148465A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-16

    申请号:US16224607

    申请日:2018-12-18

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: A display may have an array of pixels. Display driver circuitry may supply data and control signals to the pixels. Each pixel may have seven transistors, a capacitor, and a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. The seven transistors may receive control signals using horizontal control lines. Each pixel may have first and second emission enable transistors that are coupled in series with a drive transistor and the light-emitting diode of that pixel. The first and second emission enable transistors may be coupled to a common control line or may be separately controlled so that on-bias stress can be effectively applied to the drive transistor. The display driver circuitry may have gate driver circuits that provide different gate line signals to different rows of pixels within the display. Different rows may also have different gate driver strengths and different supplemental gate line loading structures.

    Flipped panel displays with black column spacers
    9.
    发明授权
    Flipped panel displays with black column spacers 有权
    带黑色柱状垫片的翻转面板显示屏

    公开(公告)号:US09588371B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-07

    申请号:US14497252

    申请日:2014-09-25

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: A liquid crystal display may have a thin-film transistor layer with an array of pixel electrode structures for applying electric fields to a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display may also have a color filter layer with an array of color filter elements. The color filter elements may allow the display to display color images. The color filter layer may be interposed between the thin-film transistor layer and a backlight. The liquid crystal layer may be sandwiched between the thin-film transistor layer and the color filter layer. The color filter layer may have a transparent substrate on which the color filter elements are formed. Black masking structures may be formed on a transparent overcoat layer that covers the color filter elements. Black column spacers may be formed from the same layer of material that forms the black masking structures.

    摘要翻译: 液晶显示器可以具有薄膜晶体管层,其具有用于向液晶层施加电场的像素电极结构的阵列。 液晶显示器还可以具有带有滤色器元件阵列的滤色器层。 滤色器元件可以允许显示器显示彩色图像。 滤色器层可以介于薄膜晶体管层和背光源之间。 液晶层可以夹在薄膜晶体管层和滤色器层之间。 滤色器层可以具有形成滤色器元件的透明基板。 可以在覆盖滤色器元件的透明外涂层上形成黑色掩蔽结构。 黑色柱状间隔物可以由形成黑色掩蔽结构的相同材料层形成。

    Electronic Device with Compact Gate Driver Circuitry
    10.
    发明申请
    Electronic Device with Compact Gate Driver Circuitry 有权
    具有紧凑型栅极驱动器电路的电子器件

    公开(公告)号:US20140146026A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-05-29

    申请号:US13687713

    申请日:2012-11-28

    申请人: APPLE INC.

    IPC分类号: G09G5/20

    CPC分类号: G09G3/3677

    摘要: An electronic device display may have an array of display pixels that are controlled using a grid of data lines and gate lines. The display may include compact gate driver circuits that perform gate driver operations to drive corresponding gate lines. Each compact gate driver circuit may include a first driver stage and a second driver stage. The first driver stage may receive a start pulse signal and produce a control signal. The control signal may be stored by a capacitor to identify a control state of the gate driver circuit. The second driver stage may receive the control signal, a clock signal, and a corresponding inverted clock signal and drive the corresponding gate line based on the received signals. The second driver stage may include pass transistor circuitry that passes the clock signal to the corresponding gate line and may include short circuit protection circuitry.

    摘要翻译: 电子设备显示器可以具有使用数据线和栅极线的网格来控制的显示像素阵列。 显示器可以包括执行栅极驱动器操作以驱动相应的栅极线的紧凑型栅极驱动器电路。 每个紧凑型栅极驱动器电路可以包括第一驱动器级和第二驱动级。 第一驱动级可以接收起始脉冲信号并产生控制信号。 控制信号可以由电容器存储以识别栅极驱动器电路的控制状态。 第二驱动级可以接收控制信号,时钟信号和对应的反相时钟信号,并根据接收到的信号驱动相应的栅极线。 第二驱动器级可以包括传递晶体管电路,其将时钟信号传递到对应的栅极线并且可以包括短路保护电路。