Display with integrated pressure sensing utilizing capacitive coupling to circuit elements

    公开(公告)号:US10402000B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-03

    申请号:US13784509

    申请日:2013-03-04

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A touch sensitive device that can detect the amount of pressure being applied to a touch screen from a user or other external object is provided. A spacer of the touch screen can be coated with a layer of conductive material and the change in capacitance between the spacer and various circuit elements of the touch screen can be measured. The change in capacitance can be correlated to the amount of pressure being applied to the touch screen, thus providing a method to determine the pressure being applied. During operation of the device, the system can time multiplex touch, display and pressure sensing operations so as to take advantage of an integrated touch and display architecture.

    Display With Power Supply Mesh
    15.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190189732A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-20

    申请号:US16240552

    申请日:2019-01-04

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have an array of pixels. The pixels may each have an organic light-emitting diode with a respective anode and may be formed from thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. A mesh-shaped path may be used to distribute a power supply voltage to the thin-film circuitry. The mesh-shaped path may have intersecting horizontally extending lines and vertically extending lines. The horizontally extending lines may be zigzag metal lines that do not overlap the anodes. The vertically extending lines may be straight vertical metal lines that overlap the anodes. The pixels may include pixels of different colors. Angularly dependent shifts in display color may be minimized by ensuring that the anodes of the differently colored pixels overlap the vertically extending lines by similar amounts.

    Light-emitting diode display with reduced leakage

    公开(公告)号:US10311782B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-04

    申请号:US15246345

    申请日:2016-08-24

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may contain an array of display pixels. Each display pixel may have a respective organic light-emitting diode that is controlled by a drive transistor. At low temperatures, it may be necessary to increase the amount of current through an organic light-emitting diode to achieve a desired luminance level. In order to increase the current through the light-emitting diode, the ground voltage level may be lowered. However, this may lead to thin-film transistors within the pixel leaking, which may result in undesirable display artifacts such as bright dots being displayed in a dark image. In order to prevent leakage in the transistors, the transistors may be coupled to separate reference voltage supplies or separate control lines. Additionally, the transistors may be positioned to minimize leakage even at low ground voltage levels.

    Liquid crystal displays with oxide-based thin-film transistors
    19.
    发明授权
    Liquid crystal displays with oxide-based thin-film transistors 有权
    具有氧化物基薄膜晶体管的液晶显示器

    公开(公告)号:US09564478B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-07

    申请号:US14228070

    申请日:2014-03-27

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以包括在基板上具有显示像素阵列的显示器。 显示像素可以是液晶显示器中的有机发光二极管显示像素或显示像素。 在有机发光二极管显示器中,可以形成包括半导体氧化物薄膜晶体管,硅薄膜晶体管和电容器结构的混合薄膜晶体管结构。 电容器结构可以与半导体氧化物薄膜晶体管重叠。 有机发光二极管显示像素可以具有氧化物和硅晶体管的组合。 在液晶显示器中,显示驱动器电路可以包括硅薄膜晶体管电路,显示像素可以基于氧化物薄膜晶体管。 可以在形成硅晶体管栅极和氧化物晶体管栅极中使用单层或两层不同的栅极金属层。 硅晶体管可以具有与浮动栅极结构重叠的栅极。

    Electronic device with compact gate driver circuitry
    20.
    发明授权
    Electronic device with compact gate driver circuitry 有权
    具有紧凑型栅极驱动电路的电子设备

    公开(公告)号:US09343031B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-05-17

    申请号:US13687713

    申请日:2012-11-28

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G09G3/3677

    Abstract: 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.

    Abstract translation: 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。

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