公开(公告)号：US10755640B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-25

申请号：US15701030

申请日：2017-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jiayi Jin ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Maofeng Yang ,  Weijun Yao

IPC: G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3233

Abstract: Electronic devices, storage medium containing instructions, and methods pertain to determining a target boosted threshold voltage level based at least in part on a target emission threshold voltage level. Using the determined target boosted threshold voltage level, a light emitting diode (LED)-controlling transistor is submitted to voltage stress to boost a threshold voltage of the transistor to the target boosted threshold voltage level during a first portion of a refresh period between first and second emission periods. During a second portion of the refresh period, the voltage stress is de-asserted to settle the threshold voltage to a target emission threshold voltage level for the second emission period. After the voltage is settled, the LED-controlling transistor is driven based at least in part on the target emission threshold voltage level.

公开(公告)号：US20210304673A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-30

申请号：US17191009

申请日：2021-03-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shengkui Gao ,  Haifeng Li ,  Sinan Alousi ,  Marc Joseph DeVincentis ,  Yafei Bi ,  Hung Sheng Lin ,  Yi Qiao ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Weijun Yao ,  Pierre-Yves Emelie ,  Maofeng Yang ,  Yue Jack Chu

IPC: G09G3/3233

Abstract: A system may include an electronic display panel having pixels, where each pixel may emit light based on a respective programming signal. The system may include a memory storing a map. The processing circuitry may determine a function for each pixel from the map. The processing circuitry may determine a respective control signal based on the function and a target brightness level for each pixel to generate multiple control signals, where the respective control signal is used to generate the respective programing signal for each pixel. The processing circuitry may determine a scaling factor based at least in part on the first map and may scale at least a subset of the multiple control signals based at least in part on the scaling factor.

公开(公告)号：US20240404445A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-05

申请号：US18328661

申请日：2023-06-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Vincent Z. Young ,  Mahesh B. Chappalli ,  Maofeng Yang ,  Weijun Yao

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/36

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel comprising a plurality of display pixels, an image source configured to store image data, and image processing circuitry. The image processing circuitry may receive the image data configured to be displayed by the plurality of display pixels, wherein the image data comprises gray level data for a first display pixel of the plurality of display pixels, convert the gray level data to first voltage data, and select a plurality of compensation maps based on a brightness level of the display panel. The image processing circuitry may also determine a voltage offset value based on the input voltage and the plurality of compensation maps, apply the voltage offset value to the first voltage data to generate compensated voltage data, and convert the compensated voltage data into compensated gray level data for the first display pixel.

公开(公告)号：US20220076629A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-10

申请号：US17528183

申请日：2021-11-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Maofeng Yang ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Weijun Yao ,  Yongjun Li ,  Jiayi Jin

IPC: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/34 ,  G09G3/36

Abstract: A system may include an electronic display panel having pixels, where each pixel emits light based on a respective programming signal applied to the pixel. The system may also include processing circuitry to determine a respective control signal upon which the respective programing signal for each pixel is based. The processing circuitry may determine each respective control signal based at least in part on approximations of respective pixel brightness-to-data relationship as defined by a function having variables stored in memory accessible to the processing circuitry.

公开(公告)号：US20200243012A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-30

申请号：US16283481

申请日：2019-02-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jiayi Jin ,  David A. Doyle ,  Kyung Hoae Koo ,  Maofeng Yang ,  Michael H. Lim ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Timothy M. Johnson ,  Venkatesh Rajendran ,  Weijun Yao ,  Yue Jack Chu

IPC: G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/3266

Abstract: A display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode display pixels. Each display pixel may include a drive transistor coupled in series with one or more emission transistors and a respective organic light-emitting diode (OLED). A semiconducting-oxide transistor may be coupled between a drain terminal and a gate terminal of the drive transistor to help reduce leakage during low-refresh-rate display operations. To compensate for variations in the threshold voltage of the semiconducting-oxide transistor, the magnitude of a high voltage level of a scan control signal provided to the gate terminal of the semiconducting-oxide transistor may be adjusted. Sensing circuitry may be used to sense a display current while displaying a calibration image. The sensed display current may be compared to an expected display current associated with the calibration image. Processing circuitry may update the high voltage level based on the actual display current compared to the expected display current.

公开(公告)号：US20180090074A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15701030

申请日：2017-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jiayi Jin ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Maofeng Yang ,  Weijun Yao

IPC: G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/20

Abstract: Electronic devices, storage medium containing instructions, and methods pertain to determining a target boosted threshold voltage level based at least in part on a target emission threshold voltage level. Using the determined target boosted threshold voltage level, a light emitting diode (LED)-controlling transistor is submitted to voltage stress to boost a threshold voltage of the transistor to the target boosted threshold voltage level during a first portion of a refresh period between first and second emission periods. During a second portion of the refresh period, the voltage stress is de-asserted to settle the threshold voltage to a target emission threshold voltage level for the second emission period. After the voltage is settled, the LED-controlling transistor is driven based at least in part on the target emission threshold voltage level.

公开(公告)号：US12142207B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-12

申请号：US17191009

申请日：2021-03-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shengkui Gao ,  Haifeng Li ,  Sinan Alousi ,  Marc Joseph DeVincentis ,  Yafei Bi ,  Hung Sheng Lin ,  Yi Qiao ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Weijun Yao ,  Pierre-Yves Emelie ,  Maofeng Yang ,  Yue Jack Chu

IPC: G09G3/3233

Abstract: A system may include an electronic display panel having pixels, where each pixel may emit light based on a respective programming signal. The system may include a memory storing a map. The processing circuitry may determine a function for each pixel from the map. The processing circuitry may determine a respective control signal based on the function and a target brightness level for each pixel to generate multiple control signals, where the respective control signal is used to generate the respective programming signal for each pixel. The processing circuitry may determine a scaling factor based at least in part on the first map and may scale at least a subset of the multiple control signals based at least in part on the scaling factor.

公开(公告)号：US11545110B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-03

申请号：US17528183

申请日：2021-11-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Maofeng Yang ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Weijun Yao ,  Yongjun Li ,  Jiayi Jin

IPC: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/34 ,  G09G3/36 ,  G09G5/10 ,  G09G3/32

Abstract: A system may include an electronic display panel having pixels, where each pixel emits light based on a respective programming signal applied to the pixel. The system may also include processing circuitry to determine a respective control signal upon which the respective programing signal for each pixel is based. The processing circuitry may determine each respective control signal based at least in part on approximations of respective pixel brightness-to-data relationship as defined by a function having variables stored in memory accessible to the processing circuitry.

公开(公告)号：US20220093059A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-24

申请号：US17376125

申请日：2021-07-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Maofeng Yang ,  Jiayi Jin ,  David A. Doyle ,  Yifan Zhang ,  Weijun Yao ,  Jiye Lee ,  Tae-Wook Koh ,  Mathew K. Mathai ,  Chuang Qian ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  James P. Landry ,  Kiran S. Pillai ,  Injae Hwang ,  Yongjun Li

IPC: G09G5/10 ,  G09G3/20

Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display including display pixels to display an image based on compensated image data. The electronic display may also include a stressed reference pixel to exhibit burn-in related aging in response to one or more stress sessions and a non-stressed reference pixel configured to not undergo the one or more stress sessions. Additionally, the electronic device may include image processing circuitry to determine a panel-specific aging profile based on a comparison between one or more properties of the stressed reference pixel and the one or more properties of the non-stressed reference pixel. The image processing circuitry may also generate one or more gain maps based on the panel-specific aging profile and generate the compensated image data by applying the one or more gain maps to input image data.

公开(公告)号：US11271181B1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-08

申请号：US16576615

申请日：2019-09-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Maofeng Yang ,  Weijun Yao ,  Jiayi Jin ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Injae Hwang

IPC: H01L27/146 ,  H01L51/50 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/14 ,  H01L27/15 ,  H01L27/28

Abstract: An electronic display having pixels and control circuitry to drive the pixels to display image data even during relatively long presentation times without visual artifacts, such as flicker, are provided. The control circuitry may cause the pixel to perform a threshold voltage sampling and pixel programming phase to store image data for the pixel while accounting for a first threshold voltage of the first transistor. Afterward, an on-bias stress phase may cause a threshold voltage of the first transistor of the plurality of transistors to reach a second threshold voltage. Following the on-bias stress phase, a first emission phase may cause the light-emitting diode to emit light in accordance with the image data, and subsequent on-bias stress phases and subsequent emission phases for the duration of the presentation time may take place without a visible flicker artifact.