公开(公告)号：US20240012515A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-11

申请号：US18212099

申请日：2023-06-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Pablo Moreno Galbis ,  Xiang Lu ,  Bin Huang ,  Ling Zhang ,  Nikhil Acharya ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Stanley B. Wang ,  Yongjie Jiang ,  Hopil Bae ,  Jiayi Jin ,  Ce Zhang ,  Young Don Bae ,  Giovanni Azzellino ,  Wooseung Yang ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Weijun Yao ,  Rajesh Velayuthan ,  Eric A. Hildebrandt ,  Henry C. Jen

IPC: G06F3/041

CPC classification number: G06F3/0418 ,  G06F2203/04107 ,  G06F3/044

Abstract: Touch sensitive display technologies (e.g., integrated touch-display pixel-based systems) are evolving to contain more analog and digital circuits inside the panel itself instead of the traditionally simple thin-film transistors. This improves the display characteristics but makes those circuits more vulnerable to the impact of external ESD strikes, which can degrade the user experience. This disclosure describes a series of circuits and techniques to mitigate the impact of these discharges on front of screen artifacts and potential false touches. These circuits and techniques may include: performing configuration-only panel updates independently of the image refresh rate, improving the in-panel memory circuits to make them resistant to unexpected pin toggles via disabling of a write path in response to a read clock, implementing a pin corruption detector and implementing a supply injection detector.