公开(公告)号：US11614819B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-28

申请号：US17003680

申请日：2020-08-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Zhen Zhang ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  Chieh-Chien Lin ,  Derek Keith Shaeffer ,  Jesse Aaron Richmond ,  Suoming Zhang

IPC: G09G5/00 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G01L1/22 ,  G09G3/00 ,  G06F3/045

Abstract: A system may include a display driven using display driving circuitry to present an image via pixels. The display driving circuitry may include a sensor core compatible with one or more strain sensing circuits. The same sensor core may be used by a control system of the display to sense a stress applied to a strained region of a display using a current divider sensing circuit and/or a Wheatstone bridge sensing circuit.

公开(公告)号：US10943516B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-09

申请号：US16605484

申请日：2018-04-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Baris Cagdaser

IPC: G09G3/00 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/3225 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  G09G3/3275

Abstract: A method of adjusting a control signal to a component of an electronic display based on a temperature of the component, includes measuring current outputs of the component in response to applied gate voltages. The method also includes applying a mapping function to the current outputs to generate adapted current outputs, which are utilized to determine an intermediate value related to the temperature of the component. The intermediate value corresponds to a relationship between the applied gate voltages and the adapted current outputs. The intermediate value also enables the intermediate value to be substantially independent of hysteresis of the current outputs. The control signals to the component may be adjusted based at least in part on the determined intermediate value for the component.

公开(公告)号：US10777106B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-15

申请号：US15717755

申请日：2017-09-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hung Sheng Lin ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  Junhua Tan ,  Sun-Il Chang ,  Luigi Panseri ,  Injae Hwang ,  Jesse A. Richmond ,  Toshiaki Sawada ,  Hyuck-Jae Lee

IPC: G09G3/00 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  G09G3/36 ,  G09G3/3225

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display having a number of pixels, source driving circuitry that drives data to the pixels, and data lines that communicatively couple the source driving circuitry with the pixels. The electronic device also includes quality monitoring and calibration circuitry that identifies degradation in the source driving circuitry, one or more of the data lines, or both. The electronic device may be controlled based at least in part upon identification of the degradation.

公开(公告)号：US12112681B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-08

申请号：US17825367

申请日：2022-05-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Steven M Scardato ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  Patrick B Bennett ,  Michael Slootsky ,  Alejandro X Levander ,  Henry C Jen

IPC: G09G3/20

CPC classification number: G09G3/2092 ,  G09G2300/0408 ,  G09G2300/0426

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display may include an array of pixels formed on a silicon substrate. Display driver circuitry may be formed in a display driver integrated circuit that outputs display data and other control signals for operating the display. An interposer structure may be included in the electronic device. The interposer structure may be attached to the silicon display substrate and may only partially overlap the silicon display substrate. The display driver integrated circuit may be attached to the interposer structure and provide signals to the display pixels through the interposer structure. In another possible arrangement, the display driver integrated circuit may bridge a gap between the silicon display substrate and the flexible printed circuit. The display driver integrated circuit only partially overlaps the silicon display substrate in this arrangement.

公开(公告)号：US11657742B1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-23

申请号：US17399974

申请日：2021-08-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hasan Akyol ,  Chung-Lun Edwin Hsu ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  John T. Wetherell ,  Xuebei Yang ,  Ali Tabatabaei ,  Patrick Bryce Bennett ,  Yingkan Lin ,  Chun-Ming Tang ,  Xiaofeng Wang ,  Hopil Bae

IPC: G09G3/00 ,  G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/3275

CPC classification number: G09G3/006 ,  G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  G09G2320/04 ,  G09G2330/12

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for testing and repairing various aspects of an electronic display. The electronic display includes a reference array and an active array. The electronic display also includes test circuitry used to test individual or any combination of pixels of the electronic display. Switches may be disposed between the pixels and the test circuitry to be to repair the various components of the electronic display.

公开(公告)号：US11004391B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-11

申请号：US16869329

申请日：2020-05-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hei Kam ,  Junhua Tan ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Shihchang Chang ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Yun Wang ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  Majid Gharghi ,  Yongjun Li ,  Aida Raquel Colon-Berrios ,  Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Alex H. Pai ,  Hsin-Ying Chiu ,  Jiun-Jye Chang ,  Ching-Sang Chuang ,  Xin Lin

IPC: G09G3/32 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/36 ,  G09G3/3291

Abstract: An electronic device includes an electronic display having an active area comprising a pixel. The electronic device also includes processing circuitry configured to receive image data and predict a change in threshold voltage associated with a transistor of the pixel based at least in part on the image data. Furthermore, the processing circuitry is configured to adjust the image data to generate adjusted image data based at least in part on the predicted change in threshold voltage.

公开(公告)号：US20200066205A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-27

申请号：US16605484

申请日：2018-04-04

Applicant: Apple inc.

Inventor： Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Baris Cagdaser

IPC: G09G3/3233

Abstract: A method of adjusting a control signal to a component of an electronic display based on a temperature of the component, includes measuring current outputs of the component in response to applied gate voltages. The method also includes applying a mapping function to the current outputs to generate adapted current outputs, which are utilized to determine an intermediate value related to the temperature of the component. The intermediate value corresponds to a relationship between the applied gate voltages and the adapted current outputs. The intermediate value also enables the intermediate value to be substantially independent of hysteresis of the current outputs. The control signals to the component may be adjusted based at least in part on the determined intermediate value for the component.

公开(公告)号：US20180083648A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-22

申请号：US15697233

申请日：2017-09-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Baris Cagdaser ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Hopil Bae ,  Jesse Aaron Richmond ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Shingo Hatanaka ,  Yafei Bi ,  Yuichi Okuda

IPC: H03M1/78 ,  H03M1/76 ,  H03M1/74 ,  H03M1/68

CPC classification number: H03M1/785 ,  G09G2320/0276 ,  H03M1/682 ,  H03M1/747 ,  H03M1/765

Abstract: A device includes a resistor string that includes a plurality resistors with voltage taps disposed therebetween. The device may select one particular voltage tap of the plurality of voltage taps based on received gray level data for a pixel of a display. The device also includes a first amplifier that may be coupled to a first terminal end of the resistor string. The device additionally includes a second amplifier that may be coupled to a second terminal end of the resistor string, wherein the plurality of voltage taps may each supply a tap voltage derived from a voltage between the first amplifier and the second amplifier, wherein any tap amplifier of the device coupled to a voltage tap of the plurality of voltage taps provides a reference voltage thereto.

公开(公告)号：US11705037B1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-18

申请号：US17408133

申请日：2021-08-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Omar Hafiz ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  John T. Wetherell ,  Han Zhao

IPC: G09G3/20

CPC classification number: G09G3/20 ,  G09G2320/0233 ,  G09G2320/0626 ,  G09G2330/021

Abstract: In an embodiment, an electronic display includes an active area including a plurality of pixels arranged in columns and a plurality of source drivers driving image data to columns of pixels. The electronic display also includes a first plurality of switches selectively coupling respective source drivers of the plurality of source drivers to one or more columns. Selective coupling enables the respective source drivers to, at different times, drive the image data to: a single column; and multiple columns. In another embodiment, an electronic display includes a display panel configured to operate using a reference voltage received via a resistive path having a routing resistance, a reference voltage source outputting the reference voltage, and a feedback circuit sensing an electrical parameter of the resistive path and producing a compensation voltage that, when added to the reference voltage, causes the reference voltage to remain substantially constant at the display panel.

公开(公告)号：US10565923B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-18

申请号：US15700971

申请日：2017-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shiping Shen ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Hung Sheng Lin ,  Injae Hwang ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Junhua Tan ,  Rui Zhang ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Mohammad B Vahid Far ,  Jesse A. Richmond ,  Sun-Il Chang

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/36

Abstract: Electronic devices and methods for compensating for noise in a display that includes sensing a current in a sensing channel of the display. Compensating for the noise also includes sensing an observation current from noise in an observation channel of the display and scaling the observation current to generate a scaled observation current. The scaled observation current is subtracted from the sense current to generate a compensated output. The compensated output is used to drive compensation operations of the display based at least in part on the compensated output to reduce effects of the noise.