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.

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.

公开(公告)号：US12159574B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US18295619

申请日：2023-04-04

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 ,  G09G3/20 ,  H05B45/20 ,  H10K59/17

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.

公开(公告)号：US20220208091A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-30

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

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.

公开(公告)号：US20220076599A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-10

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

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.

公开(公告)号：US20210056930A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-25

申请号：US16928882

申请日：2020-07-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jaeyoung Kang ,  Jesse Aaron Richmond ,  Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi ,  Hopil Bae ,  John T. Wetherell ,  Kingsuk Brahma ,  Yuichi Okuda ,  Shingo Hatanaka ,  Baris Cagdaser ,  Myungjoon Choi ,  Jie Won Ryu ,  Hyunwoo Nho ,  Yafei Bi ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Henry C. Jen ,  Derek Keith Shaeffer

IPC: G09G5/10 ,  G09G3/20

Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display having multiple display pixels. The display pixels may illuminate at a target luminance based at least in part on a first analog voltage signal. The electronic device may also include an electrical bus configured to generate multiple analog voltage signals including the first analog voltage signal, which is output on an output of the electrical bus. The electrical bus may include a digital to analog converter to generate at least some of the analog voltage signals and multiple output buffers to buffer the analog voltage signals. The outputs may be buffered by an output buffer of the output buffers.

公开(公告)号：US20210056904A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-25

申请号：US16905895

申请日：2020-06-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shingo Hatanaka ,  Derek Keith Shaeffer ,  John T. Wetherell ,  Nobutaka Shimamura ,  Yuichi Okuda ,  Jaeyoung Kang

IPC: G09G3/3258 ,  H03F3/30

Abstract: A system includes a pixel that emits light based on a signal provided to the pixel. The system may also include a buffer circuit having a differential pair stage, a cascade stage, and an output stage. The differential pair stage may receive a common mode voltage signal via a first switch in response to the first switch receiving a first signal that causes the first switch to close. The differential pair stage may couple a capacitor to the output stage via a second switch that operate based on a second signal, such that the capacitor reduces an offset provided by one or more circuit components in the differential pair stage, the cascade stage, the output stage, or any combination thereof. The differential pair stage may output the common mode voltage to the pixel via the output stage in response to the first signal being present.

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.

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.

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.