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公开(公告)号:US11645976B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-09
申请号:US17648074
申请日:2022-01-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Derek K. Shaeffer , Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi , Xiaofeng Wang , Sam S. Li , John T. Wetherell , Henry C. Jen , Xiang Lu , Hasan Akyol , Hopil Bae , Xiang Fang , Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema , Tore Nauta
IPC: G09G3/3216 , H01L27/32 , G09G3/20 , H05B45/20
CPC classification number: G09G3/3216 , G09G3/2003 , H01L27/3281 , H05B45/20 , G09G2310/0243 , G09G2310/0264
Abstract: Local passive matrix displays and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, the display includes a pixel driver chip coupled with a matrix of rows and columns of LEDs. The pixel driver chips may be arranged in rows across the display with separate portions to operate separate matrices of LEDs.
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公开(公告)号:US11620946B1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-04
申请号:US17686227
申请日:2022-03-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Hasan Akyol , Xuebei Yang
IPC: G09G3/3233
Abstract: A sensing circuit includes at least a first gain stage and a controller for controlling the operation of the first gain stage. The first gain stage includes an amplifier having at least one input and one output, and a feedback loop coupled between the input and the output of the amplifier. The feedback loop includes a first capacitor coupled between the input and the output of the amplifier, and a second capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the input of the amplifier through a first switch and a second terminal coupled to the output of the amplifier through a second switch. The second capacitor is configured to be coupled in parallel to the first capacitor during a first portion of a measurement cycle, and disconnected from the first capacitor during a second portion of the measurement cycle.
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公开(公告)号:US20220101772A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-31
申请号:US17376131
申请日:2021-07-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: John T. Wetherell , Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi , Jaeyoung Kang , Shingo Hatanaka , Hasan Akyol , Hopil Bae
IPC: G09G3/20
Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display panel having multiple display pixels for displaying an image based on analog voltage signals. The electronic device may also include interpolation circuitry to generate the analog voltage signals based on digital image data corresponding to the image. The interpolation circuitry may also receive analog reference voltages and interpolate between sets of the analog reference voltages to generate intermediate voltages, which may be a part of the analog voltage signals. Interpolating between the sets analog reference voltages may include performing a first level interpolation of a first set of the analog reference voltages to generate a first intermediate voltage and performing a second level interpolation of a second set of the analog reference voltages to generate a second intermediate voltage, wherein the first level interpolation is different from the second level interpolation.
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公开(公告)号:US10762836B1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-01
申请号:US15275023
申请日:2016-09-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Hopil Bae , Wei H. Yao , Mohammad B. Vahid Far , Yafei Bi , Xiaofeng Wang , Thomas Charisoulis , Hasan Akyol , Henry C. Jen , Derek K. Shaeffer
IPC: G09G3/3233
Abstract: An electronic display row drivers or column drivers that send reference currents or voltages to microdrivers to be used to drive micropixels to particular levels. The microdrivers, in turn, ship current to micropixels that display images based at least in part on the shipped current.
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公开(公告)号:US20190088204A1
公开(公告)日:2019-03-21
申请号:US16132322
申请日:2018-09-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Sheng Zhang , Chih-Wei Yeh , Yunhui Hou , Chaohao Wang , Wei H. Yao , Paolo Sacchetto , Derek K. Shaeffer , Henry C. Jen , Shingo Hatanaka , Hasan Akyol , Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi , Hopil Bae
IPC: G09G3/3258
Abstract: A mobile electronic device includes a display having an active array and a reference array. The active array includes a pixel and the reference array includes a reference pixel. The mobile electronic device also includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the display. The processing circuitry is configured to instruct the active array to drive the pixel based at least in part on a current-voltage relationship of the pixel and a reference current-voltage relationship of the reference pixel.
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公开(公告)号:US20240105525A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-28
申请号:US18358559
申请日:2023-07-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Imran Hashim , Xiang Lu , Stanley B. Wang , Xuchun Liu , Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi , Yongjie Jiang , Hopil Bae , Hasan Akyol , Baris Posat , John T. Wetherell , Lei Wu
IPC: G09G3/32 , H01L25/075 , H01L33/62
CPC classification number: G09G3/32 , H01L25/0753 , H01L33/62 , H01L2933/0066
Abstract: Test structures and methods of testing pixel driver chip donor wafers are described. In an embodiment, a redistribution layer is formed over a pixel driver chip donor wafer and probed to determine known good dies, followed by removal of the RDL. In other embodiments, test routing is formed in the pixel driver chip using a polycide material or doped region in the semiconductor wafer.
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公开(公告)号:US20240005848A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-04
申请号:US18210060
申请日:2023-06-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jeongsup Lee , Hasan Akyol , Xiang Lu , Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi , Nikhil Acharya , Haitao Li , Hopil Bae , John T Wetherell , Shengzhe Jiao , Stanley B. Wang , Sunmin Jang , Hari P. Paudel , Eric A. Hildebrandt , Young Don Bae
IPC: G09G3/32
CPC classification number: G09G3/32 , G09G2300/0819 , G09G2300/0852 , G09G2310/08
Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display including display pixels to display an image based on compensated image data. As image data is written to a pixel in the row of pixels, capacitive coupling at a driver may lead to distortion on the driver. In particular, the capacitive coupling may cause distortion at a storage capacitor, which may lead to current droop at the pixel. The current droop may be reduced or eliminated in each pixel by performing pixel compensation. The pattern of the pixel compensation may be selected such that, over a number of subframes, an average amount of light is the same or similar to what would be emitted had pixel compensation been performed on each pixel in each subframe.
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公开(公告)号:US10714011B2
公开(公告)日:2020-07-14
申请号:US16132322
申请日:2018-09-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Sheng Zhang , Chih-Wei Yeh , Yunhui Hou , Chaohao Wang , Wei H. Yao , Paolo Sacchetto , Derek K. Shaeffer , Henry C. Jen , Shingo Hatanaka , Hasan Akyol , Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi , Hopil Bae
IPC: G09G3/3258 , G09G3/3233
Abstract: A mobile electronic device includes a display having an active array and a reference array. The active array includes a pixel and the reference array includes a reference pixel. The mobile electronic device also includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the display. The processing circuitry is configured to instruct the active array to drive the pixel based at least in part on a current-voltage relationship of the pixel and a reference current-voltage relationship of the reference pixel.
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公开(公告)号:US20250095548A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-20
申请号:US18625162
申请日:2024-04-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Baris Posat , John T Wetherell , Hasan Akyol , Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi
Abstract: Electronic displays may display a frame of image content by controlling emissions of display pixels. To this end, the electronic display may include one or more column drivers that drive the display pixels to emit light. The column drivers may be collectively compensated by common components, such as a single sampling capacitor and/or an analog buffer, which may reduce a size of the column drivers. In another example, the column drivers may include cascode transistors with increased width-to-length ratio and share a common n-well. Each transistor may be compensated by a respective capacitor, however a size of each sampling capacitor may be reduced, thereby reducing a size of the column driver. Moreover, a size of a level shifter may be reduced by operating transistors of the level shifter with sub-threshold voltage. Furthermore, a resolution of the electronic display may be improved by extending a pulse of an emission clock signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20240420615A1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-19
申请号:US18660166
申请日:2024-05-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Hasan Akyol , Henry C. Jen , Stanley B. Wang , Baris Cagdaser , Rahul Shukla , John T. Wetherell , Bin Huang , Derek K. Shaeffer , Pablo Moreno Galbis , Johan L. Piper , Lawrence C. Tan , Adam Adjiwibawa , Manu Mishra
IPC: G09G3/20
Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel and a display driver. The display panel may include multiple pixels each receiving a supply voltage and a respective data voltage to emit light. The display driver may include a low drop-out regulator (LDO) to provide the supply voltage to the pixels. The LDO may operate in a normal operation mode and a hard park mode. In the normal operation mode, the LDO may generate the supply voltage based on receiving a reference voltage and a bias voltage within a bias voltage range to operate in the normal operation mode. In the hard park mode, the LDO may become idle (e.g., shut-down mode) based on receiving a hard park mode voltages from dedicated replacement circuits. For example, including the dedicated reference voltage replacement circuit with the display driver may improve reliability and efficiency of the electronic device when de-energizing the LDO.
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