公开(公告)号：US20230089942A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-23

申请号：US17889242

申请日：2022-08-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yao Shi ,  Wei H Yao ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Li-Xuan Chuo ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Myungjoon Choi ,  Ce Zhang ,  Alex H Pai ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Rungrot Kitsomboonloha ,  Shatam Agarwal ,  Vehbi Calayir ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Steven N Hanna ,  Pei-En Chang

IPC: G09G3/20

Abstract: This disclosure provides various techniques for providing fine-grain digital and analog pixel compensation to account for voltage error across an electronic display. By employing a two-dimensional digital compensation and a local analog compensation, a fine-grain and robust pixel compensation scheme may be provided to the electronic display.

公开(公告)号：US11688364B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-27

申请号：US17714805

申请日：2022-04-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hari P Paudel ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Hopil Bae ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Wei Chen ,  Wei H Yao ,  Seung B Rim ,  Sunmin Jang

IPC: G09G5/10

CPC classification number: G09G5/10 ,  G09G2300/026 ,  G09G2320/0686 ,  G09G2340/12 ,  G09G2354/00 ,  G09G2360/16

Abstract: An electronic device may display image content via a tile-based display by controlling light emission from display pixels of the tile-based display. Based on image data associated with the image content, a processing circuitry of the tile-based display may receive a potential tile boundary. The processing circuitry may resample the image data based on geometry of the tile boundary and positions of the display pixels on the tile-based panel. After resampling the image data, the processing circuitry may adjust gain of the tile boundary display pixels according to a gain mask to compensate for the tile boundary.

公开(公告)号：US11967291B1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-23

申请号：US18328250

申请日：2023-06-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad Tofighi ,  Meng Cao ,  Pierre-Yves Emelie ,  Duane M Petrovich ,  Shuo Han ,  Zhendong Hong ,  Tobias Jung ,  Marc Albrecht ,  Jiulong Shan ,  Wei H Yao

IPC: G09G3/34 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/13357 ,  G06V10/764 ,  G06V10/82

CPC classification number: G09G3/3426 ,  G02F1/133603 ,  G02F1/133612 ,  G06V10/764 ,  G06V10/82 ,  G09G2320/0613 ,  G09G2320/0626 ,  G09G2320/066 ,  G09G2360/16

Abstract: A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated by a backlight unit that includes an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The backlight unit may determine the type of content in the image data. The backlight unit may decide to prioritize either mitigating halo or mitigating clipping based on the type of content. The determination of the type of content in the image data may be used to determine the brightness values for the LEDs in the LED array. If the content is determined to be a first type of content, at least one given LED in the LED array may have a different brightness value than if the content is determined to be a second, different type of content. Classifying content in the image data may be useful in optimizing visible artifacts such as visible halo and clipping.

公开(公告)号：US20230368718A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-16

申请号：US18296934

申请日：2023-04-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sunmin Jang ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Saif Choudhary ,  Hopil Bae ,  Gautam Agrawal ,  Ionut A Mirel ,  Hari P Paudel ,  Haitao Li ,  Wei H Yao ,  Mahesh B Chappalli

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/32

CPC classification number: G09G3/2007 ,  G09G3/32 ,  G09G2300/0426 ,  G09G2320/0626 ,  G09G2360/16 ,  G09G2320/02 ,  G09G2310/0264 ,  G09G2310/08

Abstract: To reduce image artifacts and non-uniformity associated with a display pixel of an electronic display, processing circuity may adjust a luminance value corresponding to a display pixel according to a per-pixel gain mask, a per-pixel anode mask, or both. To further correct for the non-uniformity, the processing circuitry may convert the luminance value to a digital code based on a curve associated with an anode on which the display pixel is located.

公开(公告)号：US11468809B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-11

申请号：US14591354

申请日：2015-01-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hyunwoo Nho ,  Wei Chen ,  Wei H Yao ,  Yafei Bi

IPC: G09G3/20

Abstract: An electronic device may have a variable refresh rate display. Static content may be displayed on the display at a lower refresh rate than moving content to conserve power. The display may include an array of pixels. Display driver circuitry in the display may load image data into rows of the pixels. The display driver circuitry may have digital-to-analog converter circuitry that supplies data signals to the array. The display driver circuitry may respond to a variable refresh rate control signal that is asserted and deasserted depending on whether static or moving image content is to be displayed. The display driver circuitry may use the digital-to-analog converter circuitry to apply a time-varying scaling factor to the image data. The magnitude of the scaling factor may be adjusted during transitions between refresh rates to help suppress luminance variations that might otherwise result in flickering on the display.

公开(公告)号：US12243465B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-04

申请号：US18296934

申请日：2023-04-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sunmin Jang ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Saif Choudhary ,  Hopil Bae ,  Gautam Agrawal ,  Ionut A Mirel ,  Hari P Paudel ,  Haitao Li ,  Wei H Yao ,  Mahesh B Chappalli ,  Young Don Bae

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/32

Abstract: To reduce image artifacts and non-uniformity associated with a display pixel of an electronic display, processing circuity may adjust a luminance value corresponding to a display pixel according to a per-pixel gain mask, a per-pixel anode mask, or both. To further correct for the non-uniformity, the processing circuitry may convert the luminance value to a digital code based on a curve associated with an anode on which the display pixel is located.

公开(公告)号：US20240428502A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-26

申请号：US18653567

申请日：2024-05-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fu-Chung Huang ,  ByoungSuk Kim ,  Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva ,  Hao Chen ,  Igor Kozintsev ,  Pavel V Dudrenov ,  Ping-Yen Chou ,  Seung Wook Kim ,  Sheng Zhang ,  Victor H Yin ,  Wei H Yao ,  Wei Xiong ,  Yang Li ,  Yi Huang ,  Yi-Pai Huang ,  Justin A Meiners

IPC: G06T15/06 ,  H04N13/133 ,  H04N13/305

Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may render different content layers that present different classes of content. The different classes of content may have different characteristics. As an example, a first class of content may be static content whereas a second class of content may be dynamic content. The different characteristics of each class of content may be leveraged to use a hybrid approach for content processing. The hybrid content processing may take advantage of different layers needing to be updated at different frequencies and may take advantage of sparse content in some of the layers.

公开(公告)号：US20240203332A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18509592

申请日：2023-11-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mario Miscuglio ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Yuchi Che ,  Graeme M Williams ,  Yi Qiao ,  Wei H Yao ,  Jean-Pierre S Guillou

IPC: G09G3/3208 ,  G09G3/32

CPC classification number: G09G3/3208 ,  G09G3/32 ,  G09G2300/0828 ,  G09G2320/0276

Abstract: In a display characterized by regions with different pixel responses due, for example, to local pixel density variation, voltage-to-luminance matching may be non-universal. Therefore, in order to avoid visual artifacts that may hinder a desired visualization of displayed content, it may be advantageous to compensate the different gamma responses. In some cases, such as with electronic devices having a single pixel density across the display, optical calibration may be performed to determine voltage-to-luminance matching. However, in electronic devices with local pixel density variations, it may be disadvantageous to perform optical calibrations for each region with a different pixel density. Instead of using two distinct gamma curves which may include dedicated optical calibration, a global nonlinear scaler (GNLS) compensation may be applied. Embodiments may pertain to techniques for applying a per-channel and band-global gamma-to-voltage compensation to reduce or minimize a relative luminance error amongst different responses of display regions.

公开(公告)号：US11978385B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-07

申请号：US17889242

申请日：2022-08-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yao Shi ,  Wei H Yao ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Li-Xuan Chuo ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Myungjoon Choi ,  Ce Zhang ,  Alex H Pai ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Rungrot Kitsomboonloha ,  Shatam Agarwal ,  Vehbi Calayir ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Steven N Hanna ,  Pei-En Chang

IPC: G09G3/20

CPC classification number: G09G3/2096 ,  G09G3/2007 ,  G09G2310/0291 ,  G09G2320/0223 ,  G09G2320/0233 ,  G09G2330/021 ,  G09G2360/16

Abstract: This disclosure provides various techniques for providing fine-grain digital and analog pixel compensation to account for voltage error across an electronic display. By employing a two-dimensional digital compensation and a local analog compensation, a fine-grain and robust pixel compensation scheme may be provided to the electronic display.

公开(公告)号：US20220375427A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-24

申请号：US17714805

申请日：2022-04-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hari P Paudel ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Hopil Bae ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Wei Chen ,  Wei H Yao ,  Seung B Rim ,  Sunmin Jang

IPC: G09G5/10

Abstract: An electronic device may display image content via a tile-based display by controlling light emission from display pixels of the tile-based display. Based on image data associated with the image content, a processing circuitry of the tile-based display may receive a potential tile boundary. The processing circuitry may resample the image data based on geometry of the tile boundary and positions of the display pixels on the tile-based panel. After resampling the image data, the processing circuitry may adjust gain of the tile boundary display pixels according to a gain mask to compensate for the tile boundary.