公开(公告)号：US20140062940A1

公开(公告)日：2014-03-06

申请号：US13679793

申请日：2012-11-16

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Ahmad Al-Dahle ,  Yafei Bi ,  Mir B. Ghaderi

IPC: G06F3/044 ,  G09G3/36

CPC classification number: G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G09G3/36

Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring internal resistance of a display may include supplying the display via a capacitor with a first voltage and a second voltage configured to enable the display to receive touch inputs and display image data, respectively. The method may discharge the capacitor at least three times via a first resistor, a second resistor, and the first resistor and second resistor coupled in parallel with each other. The method may monitor three discharge waveforms that corresponds to when the capacitor discharges from the first voltage to the second voltage via the first resistor, the second resistor, and the first resistor and second resistor coupled in parallel with each other. Based at least in part on the discharge waveforms, the method may determine a chip on glass resistance value and a flex on glass resistance value that correspond to an internal resistance of the display.

Abstract translation: 用于监视显示器的内部电阻的系统和方法可以包括经由电容器向显示器提供第一电压和第二电压，第二电压被配置为使得显示器能够分别接收触摸输入和显示图像数据。 该方法可以经由第一电阻器，第二电阻器以及彼此并联耦合的第一电阻器和第二电阻器至少三次放电电容器。 该方法可以监视对应于电容器通过第一电阻器，第二电阻器以及第一电阻器和第二电阻器彼此并联耦合而从第一电压放电到第二电压的三个放电波形。 至少部分地基于放电波形，该方法可以确定对应于显示器的内部电阻的玻璃电阻值的芯片和玻璃电阻值的弯曲。

公开(公告)号：US20130328847A1

公开(公告)日：2013-12-12

申请号：US13654242

申请日：2012-10-17

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Ahmad Al-Dahle ,  Hopil Bae ,  Sang Y. Youn ,  Yafei Bi ,  Wei H. Yao ,  David A. Stronks

IPC: G09G5/00

CPC classification number: G09G5/003 ,  G09G3/2092 ,  G09G2330/027 ,  G09G2330/06

Abstract: Methods and devices employing mura prevention circuitry, are provided. In one example, a method may include supplying a first voltage pathway between a common electrode driver and a common electrode of an electronic display device and supplying a second voltage pathway between the common electrode driver and ground. Mura prevention circuitry may be supplied that activates the first voltage pathway when the electronic display device is turned on and an activation gate signal is provided from a gate corresponding to the common electrode driver. Further, the mura prevention circuitry may activate the second voltage pathway when the electronic display device is turned off or no activation gate signal is provided from the gate corresponding to the common electrode driver.

Abstract translation: 提供了采用mura预防电路的方法和装置。 在一个示例中，方法可以包括在公共电极驱动器和电子显示装置的公共电极之间提供第一电压路径，并且在公共电极驱动器和地之间提供第二电压路径。 可以提供Mura防止电路，其在电子显示装置接通时激活第一电压通路，并且从对应于公共电极驱动器的门提供激活门信号。 此外，当电子显示装置关闭或从对应于公共电极驱动器的门提供激活栅极信号时，防护电路可以激活第二电压路径。

公开(公告)号：US12198656B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US18493576

申请日：2023-10-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Koorosh Aflatooni ,  Minhyuk Choi ,  Mohammad Ali Jangda ,  Sang Y. Youn ,  Yafei Bi ,  Jean-Pierre Guillou ,  Wei H. Yao

IPC: G09G5/10 ,  G06V40/13

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.

公开(公告)号：US20240363052A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-31

申请号：US18683940

申请日：2022-08-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiaofeng Wang ,  Yafei Bi

IPC: G09G3/20

CPC classification number: G09G3/2096 ,  G09G2330/026 ,  G09G2330/027 ,  G09G2370/00

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display, a display driver integrated circuit for controlling the display, and a system processor for running one or more applications on the electronic device. The display may be operated in at least a video mode and a command mode. In the video mode, the system processor operates as the primary timing circuit while the display driver integrated circuit operates as the secondary timing circuit. In the command mode, the display driver integrate circuit operates as the primary timing circuit while the system processor operates as the secondary timing circuit. The system processor may be configured to switch between video mode and the command mode without turning off the electronic device and without turning off the display driver integrated circuit. If desired, the display can be temporarily turned off during a mode switching event to hide potential front of screen artifacts.

公开(公告)号：US20230197020A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-22

申请号：US17988721

申请日：2022-11-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shengkui Gao ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Marc J DeVincentis ,  Mohammad Ali Jangda ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Weijun Yao ,  Yafei Bi ,  Yang Xu ,  Yue Jack Chu ,  Zhe Hua

IPC: G09G3/34 ,  G09G3/36

CPC classification number: G09G3/3426 ,  G09G3/3611 ,  G09G2330/021 ,  G09G2360/16

Abstract: This disclosure provide various techniques for tracking emission profiles on an electronic display. An emission profile may be applied to the electronic display in order to illuminate certain pixels and deactivate (e.g., turn off) certain pixels in the electronic display to facilitate refreshing (e.g., programming with new image data) the deactivated pixels. A real-time row-based average pixel level or average pixel luminance calculation architecture may track the one or more EM profiles to accurately model EM profile behavior, which may enable accurate calculation of the average pixel level or average pixel luminance of the electronic display at any one point in time. The accurate average pixel level or average pixel luminance calculations effectuated by the EM profile tracking may be used to reduce the IR drop, improve real-time peak-luminance control, and improve the performance of under-display sensors, among other advantages.

公开(公告)号：US20210056930A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-25

申请号：US16928882

申请日：2020-07-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jaeyoung Kang ,  Jesse Aaron Richmond ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Hopil Bae ,  John T. Wetherell ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Yuichi Okuda ,  Shingo Hatanaka ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  Myungjoon Choi ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Yafei Bi ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Henry C. Jen ,  Derek Keith Shaeffer

IPC: G09G5/10 ,  G09G3/20

Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display having multiple display pixels. The display pixels may illuminate at a target luminance based at least in part on a first analog voltage signal. The electronic device may also include an electrical bus configured to generate multiple analog voltage signals including the first analog voltage signal, which is output on an output of the electrical bus. The electrical bus may include a digital to analog converter to generate at least some of the analog voltage signals and multiple output buffers to buffer the analog voltage signals. The outputs may be buffered by an output buffer of the output buffers.

公开(公告)号：US10923015B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-16

申请号：US16335148

申请日：2017-09-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Hopil Bae ,  Yafei Bi ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Xiaofeng Wang

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3225 ,  G06F1/06 ,  G09G3/3266

Abstract: A display device may include a plurality of pixels that may display image data on a display. The display device may also include a circuit that may receive pixel data including a gray level for at least one pixel of the plurality of pixels. The circuit may then receive an emission clock signal using a clock circuit based on the pixel data, such that the emission clock signal may cause the at least one pixel to receive a current for an amount of time based on the gray level. The circuit may then gate off the clock circuit after the amount of time.

公开(公告)号：US10573236B1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-25

申请号：US16283473

申请日：2019-02-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shengkui Gao ,  Graeme M. Williams ,  Haifeng Li ,  Mohammad Ali Jangda ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Pierre-Yves Emelie ,  Shyuan Yang ,  Sinan Alousi ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Weijun Yao ,  Yafei Bi ,  Yue Jack Chu

IPC: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3266

Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. Due to the presence of a notch in the display, the display may have some rows that are shorter than other rows in the display, and accordingly different gate line loading. To account for the gate line loading variations, the display driver circuitry may have gate driver circuits that provide different gate line signals to different rows of pixels within the display. In other arrangement, luminance adjustment circuitry may receive image data and generate corresponding compensated image data to account for gate line loading variations between rows of pixels in the display. The image data may be compensated based on the location of the pixel, the gray level of the image data, the display brightness, and/or temperature.

公开(公告)号：US10573211B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-25

申请号：US16361018

申请日：2019-03-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hung Sheng Lin ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Junhua Tan ,  Sun-Il Chang ,  Shinya Ono ,  Jesse A. Richmond ,  Yafei Bi ,  Derek K. Shaeffer

IPC: G09G3/00

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for differential sensing (DS), difference-differential sensing (DDS), correlated double sampling (CDS), and/or programmable capacitor matching to reduce display panel sensing noise. An electronic device may include one or more processors and an electronic display. The one or more processors may generate image data and adjust the image data based at least in part on display sensing feedback. The electronic display may employ sensing circuitry that obtains the display sensing feedback at least in part by applying test data to a pixel of a column of an active area of the display and differentially senses an electrical value of the pixel in comparison to a reference signal from a different column. This reference signal may provide a common mode noise reference, which is removed by the differential sensing and thereby enhances a quality of the sensed electrical value of the pixel.

公开(公告)号：US10529285B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-07

申请号：US16136076

申请日：2018-09-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Jesse A. Richmond ,  Yafei Bi

IPC: G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/3208 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  G09G3/3291 ,  G09G3/3225

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a number of pixels, each of which includes a driving thin-film-transistor (TFT) and a light-emitting diode. Compensation circuitry external to the display panel applies offset data to pixel data for each pixel of the plurality of pixels before the pixel data is provided to the plurality of pixels.