公开(公告)号：US10950182B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-16

申请号：US16567972

申请日：2019-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Junhua Tan ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Shiping Shen ,  Majid Gharghi ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Injae Hwang ,  Kavinaath Murugan ,  Sun-Il Chang ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Rui Zhang ,  Jesse Aaron Richmond ,  Yun Wang ,  Hung Sheng Lin ,  Alex H. Pai ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Wei H. Yao

IPC: G09G3/3283 ,  G09G3/3241 ,  G09G3/3258 ,  G09G3/3291

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods that may reduce a reduction in visual artifacts related to hysteresis of a light emitting diode (LED) electronic display. In one example, an electronic device may include a controller. The controller is may provide a signal to a pixel of a display of the electronic device while at least a portion of the display is turned off. The signal may include a first current and a second current. The first current may be designed to increase an ambient temperature corresponding to the pixel. The second current may be generated as part of an active panel conditioning operation. By applying the first current and the second current, hysteresis settling times from the pixel may improve, therefore improving speeds of sensing and compensation operations of the electronic device.

公开(公告)号：US20200335046A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-22

申请号：US16850936

申请日：2020-04-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Won Ryu ,  Myungjoon Choi ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Shiping Shen ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Shinya Ono ,  Alex H. Pai ,  Hassan Edrees

IPC: G09G3/3291

Abstract: Techniques for implementing and/or operating an electronic device, which includes a display pixel that emits light to facilitate displaying an image during an emission period and a data driver coupled to the display pixel via a data line. The data driver generates a data line voltage signal based on image data that indicates target luminance of the display pixel in the image and supplies the data line voltage signal to the data line during a non-emission period preceding the emission period to facilitate writing the image to the display pixel. Additionally, the data driver supplies an intermediate voltage greater than a ground voltage to the data line during the emission period in which the image is displayed to facilitate reducing luminance variation in the image resulting from a leakage current flowing between an internal node of the display pixel and the data line during the emission period.

公开(公告)号：US10755618B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-25

申请号：US16389899

申请日：2019-04-19

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 Aaron Richmond ,  Yafei Bi ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Myungjoon Choi ,  Shiping Shen

IPC: G09G3/00

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for differential sensing (DS), difference-differential sensing (DDS), correlated double sampling (CDS), correlated-correlated double sampling (CDS-CDS) and/or programmable capacitor matching to reduce display panel sensing noise. An electronic device may include one or more processors that generate image data according to sensing operations. The one or more processors may reference a sensing pattern as part of sensing operations. Applying test sensing signals based on the sensing pattern may help reduce error associated with sensing operations.

公开(公告)号：US10565923B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-18

申请号：US15700971

申请日：2017-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shiping Shen ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Hung Sheng Lin ,  Injae Hwang ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Hyunsoo Kim ,  Junhua Tan ,  Rui Zhang ,  Shengkui Gao ,  Mohammad B Vahid Far ,  Jesse A. Richmond ,  Sun-Il Chang

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/36

Abstract: Electronic devices and methods for compensating for noise in a display that includes sensing a current in a sensing channel of the display. Compensating for the noise also includes sensing an observation current from noise in an observation channel of the display and scaling the observation current to generate a scaled observation current. The scaled observation current is subtracted from the sense current to generate a compensated output. The compensated output is used to drive compensation operations of the display based at least in part on the compensated output to reduce effects of the noise.

公开(公告)号：US10541280B1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-21

申请号：US15706411

申请日：2017-09-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Christoph H. Krah ,  Kingsuk Brahma

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  H01L27/32 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/041 ,  H01L51/52 ,  G06F3/042

Abstract: A touch screen configured for optical touch sensing and user identification using organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) is disclosed. In some examples, one or more OLEDs can be used to display one or more images on the device, can be configured to emit light for optical touch sensing, and/or can be configured to detect a reflection of the emitted light. The touch screen can include a spatial filter configured to focus light emitted from the OLEDs and/or reflected light detected by the OLEDs for improved optical touch sensing. Using optical touch sensors, the touch screen can be capable of discerning between water and an object (e.g., finger) and/or noise (e.g., ambient light) and an object. The touch screen can also be capable of identifying (e.g., authenticating) a user using the active area of the device.

公开(公告)号：US10394359B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-27

申请号：US15669869

申请日：2017-08-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Manu Agarwal ,  Erno H. Klaassen ,  Hopil Bae ,  Kingsuk Brahma

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G01R31/00 ,  G02B5/20 ,  G02F1/133

Abstract: A sensing device can be included in a display of an electronic device. Various techniques can be used to reduce display noise in the signals output from the sensing device. The techniques include the use of a filtering layer in a display stack, the use of a non-uniform sampling scheme, averaging together noise signal samples sampled over multiple display frames, and inverting a phase of the sampling of the noise signal over multiple display frames.

公开(公告)号：US10277119B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-30

申请号：US15798193

申请日：2017-10-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Weijun Yao ,  David A. Stronks ,  Hopil Bae ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Wei Hsin Yao ,  Yafei Bi ,  Yingxuan Li

IPC: G06F3/044 ,  H02M3/07 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F1/3234 ,  H01L23/64

Abstract: A charge pump that can be configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode is disclosed. The charge pump can comprise a charging capacitor coupled to a first node and configured to transfer a first DC voltage to the first node. The charge pump can also comprise a first output node and a second output node coupled to the first node. During the first mode, the first output node can be configured to output a second DC voltage based on the first DC voltage, and the second output node can be configured to output a third DC voltage based on the first DC voltage. During the second mode, the first output node can be configured to output the second DC voltage, and the second output node can be configured to output an AC voltage, the AC voltage being offset by the third DC voltage.

公开(公告)号：US20190102599A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-04

申请号：US15720827

申请日：2017-09-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost ,  Yafei Bi ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Giovanni Gozzini ,  Mohammad Jangda

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G06K19/077 ,  G06K17/00

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and a biometric image sensor configured for biometric image sensing. The electronic device may also include a display driver coupled to the display. The display driver may include first and second memories and a processor configured to alternatingly read respective illumination pattern data from the first and second memories to drive the display during biometric image sensing.

公开(公告)号：US10235927B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-19

申请号：US15367143

申请日：2016-12-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haifeng Li ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Yafei Bi

IPC: G09G3/36 ,  G09G3/20

Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices with displays. A display may include display control circuitry including an internal oscillator and one or more counters. The counters may be used to calibrate a display line time to a system line time to ensure that each displayed frame is synchronized with received display data frames from system circuitry for the electronic device. The counters may include a first counter that maintains a current-row count during operation of a current row of display pixels during a current display frame and a second counter that maintains a current-frame count that indicates a number of counts accumulated during the current display frame. The current-row count and the current-frame count may be referenced to the system line time during operation of each pixel row to remove any errors accumulated during operation of the previous pixel rows.

公开(公告)号：US10200059B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-05

申请号：US15697233

申请日：2017-09-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Baris Cagdaser ,  Derek K. Shaeffer ,  Hopil Bae ,  Jesse Aaron Richmond ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Mohammad B. Vahid Far ,  Shingo Hatanaka ,  Yafei Bi ,  Yuichi Okuda

IPC: H03M1/78 ,  H03M1/76 ,  H03M1/74 ,  H03M1/68

Abstract: A device includes a resistor string that includes a plurality resistors with voltage taps disposed therebetween. The device may select one particular voltage tap of the plurality of voltage taps based on received gray level data for a pixel of a display. The device also includes a first amplifier that may be coupled to a first terminal end of the resistor string. The device additionally includes a second amplifier that may be coupled to a second terminal end of the resistor string, wherein the plurality of voltage taps may each supply a tap voltage derived from a voltage between the first amplifier and the second amplifier, wherein any tap amplifier of the device coupled to a voltage tap of the plurality of voltage taps provides a reference voltage thereto.