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公开(公告)号:US20230282165A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-07
申请号:US18117286
申请日:2023-03-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Hasan Akyol , Xuebei Yang
IPC: G09G3/3233
CPC classification number: G09G3/3233 , G09G2300/0819 , G09G2320/045
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:US11651719B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-16
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
CPC classification number: G09G3/2007 , G09G2320/0257 , G09G2320/0271 , G09G2320/0673 , G09G2330/021
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:US11645957B1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-09
申请号:US17399963
申请日:2021-08-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: John T. Wetherell , Hasan Akyol , Xuebei Yang , Xiaofeng Wang , Hopil Bae
IPC: G09G3/20 , G09G3/00 , G09G3/3283 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3266
CPC classification number: G09G3/006 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3283 , G09G3/3266 , G09G2300/0819 , 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.
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公开(公告)号:US11626047B1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-11
申请号:US17405497
申请日:2021-08-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Shengchang Cai , Hasan Akyol , Xuebei Yang , Sheng Zhang
Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for testing and compensating for pixel degradation in an electronic display based on current and voltage values sensed in a reference array. An electronic display includes an active array, a reference array, and sensing circuitry. A compensation manager obtains current data values of the reference array from the sensing circuitry. The compensation manager generates a current-voltage curve based on the current data and adjusts the current-voltage curve to compensate for variations in temperature and/or pixel brightness. In this way, the compensation manager may improve performance of the electronic display by, for example, by reducing visible anomalies.
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公开(公告)号:US20220101790A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-31
申请号:US17472322
申请日:2021-09-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: John T. Wetherell , Cheuk Chi Lo , Chun-Yao Huang , Lingtao Wang , Derek Keith Shaeffer , Henry C. Jen , Hasan Akyol , Xuebei Yang , Chung-Lun Edwin Hsu , Patrick Bryce Bennett , Chun-Ming Tang , Yingkan Lin , Sheng Zhang , Chaohao Wang , Runjie Xu , Shingo Hatanaka
IPC: G09G3/3233
Abstract: Systems and methods may reduce or eliminate image artifacts due to a defective pixel of an electronic display. An electronic display may include pixels that respectively include a self-emissive element, pixel drive circuitry that supplies a pixel drive current to drive the self-emissive element, and signal routing circuitry that reduces or eliminates a visual artifact due to a defective pixel among the pixels. The signal routing circuitry may do this by turning off the self-emissive element, supplying image data from the pixel drive circuitry to a first adjacent pixel, or receiving image data from other pixel drive circuitry from the first adjacent pixel or a second adjacent pixel.
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公开(公告)号:US11263963B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-01
申请号:US16272492
申请日:2019-02-11
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
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:US11073927B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-27
申请号:US16517513
申请日:2019-07-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Christian M. Sauer , Christoph H. Krah , Derek K. Shaeffer , Hasan Akyol , Henry C. Jen , Hopil Bae , John T. Wetherell , Thierry S. Divel , Xiang Lu
Abstract: An integrated touchscreen can include light emitting diodes or organic light emitting diodes (LEDs/OLEDs), display chiplets and touch chiplets disposed in a visible area of the integrated touch screen. For example, the LEDs/OLEDs, display chiplets and touch chiplets can be placed on a substrate by a micro-transfer tool. The integrated touchscreen can also include electrodes disposed in the visible area of the integrated touch screen. The electrodes can be capable of providing display functionality via the one or more display chiplets during display operation (e.g., operating as cathode terminals of the LEDs during the display operation) and capable of providing touch functionality via the touch chiplets during touch operation (e.g., touch node electrodes can be formed from groups of the electrodes and sensed). In some examples, the touch node electrodes can be formed and coupled to touch chiplets via the display chiplets.
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公开(公告)号:US20250095605A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-20
申请号:US18625158
申请日:2024-04-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Baris Posat , John T. Wetherell , Hasan Akyol , Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi , Hopil Bae
IPC: G09G5/00
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:US11900879B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-13
申请号:US18117286
申请日:2023-03-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Hasan Akyol , Xuebei Yang
IPC: G09G3/3233
CPC classification number: G09G3/3233 , G09G2300/0819 , G09G2320/045
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:US11783739B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-10
申请号:US17397953
申请日:2021-08-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Hasan Akyol , Xuebei Yang , Chung-Lun Edwin Hsu , Henry C. Jen , John T. Wetherell
IPC: G09G3/00
CPC classification number: G09G3/006 , G09G2310/0275 , 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.
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