公开(公告)号：US12265248B1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US17064315

申请日：2020-10-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Erik G. de Jong ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Michael B. Wittenberg ,  Ueyn L Block ,  Vivek Venugopal

IPC: G02B6/08 ,  F21V8/00 ,  H01L31/02 ,  H01L31/0203 ,  H01L31/0256

Abstract: An electronic device may have image transport layer material such as coherent fiber bundle material or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer material may overlap optical components. Optical sensor components can emit and/or detect light passing through the image transport layer material. Optical components such as light-emitting diodes may emit light through image transport layers. An image from a display may pass through an image transport layer. Infrared light-emitting diodes, infrared photodetectors, and/or other optical sensor components may be used to form a two-dimensional optical touch sensor that is configured to gather touch input from an external object such as a finger of a user. The optical touch sensor may operate through an image transport layer.

公开(公告)号：US20250008799A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-02

申请号：US18667776

申请日：2024-05-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shyuan Yang ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Gihoon Choo ,  Jae Won Choi ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Jonglo Park ,  Kyounghwan Kim ,  Ricardo A. Peterson ,  Sungki Lee ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Yi Qiao ,  Yuchi Che ,  Yue Cui ,  Yue Jack Chu ,  Zhizhen Ma

IPC: H10K59/131 ,  H10K59/121 ,  H10K59/65

Abstract: A display may include an active area with a first region and a second region. The first region may overlap an input-output component such as a camera and may have a higher transparency than the second region. The first region may have a lower pixel density than the second region. Signal lines that pass through the first region may have transparent portions that overlap the first region and opaque portions that overlap the second region. To mitigate artifacts caused by high resistance of the transparent portions of the signal lines, the signal lines may include supplemental opaque portions that are electrically connected in parallel to the transparent portions and that are routed through the second region around the first region.

公开(公告)号：US12101426B1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-24

申请号：US17526869

申请日：2021-11-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tyler R. Kakuda ,  Hao Dong ,  Ian T. Clark ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Michael J. Brown ,  Paul C. Kelley ,  Shaorui Yang ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Yi Qiao ,  Ying-Chih Wang

IPC: H04M1/02 ,  G02B6/06 ,  H10K50/84 ,  H10K50/858 ,  H10K77/10 ,  H10K102/00

CPC classification number: H04M1/0269 ,  G02B6/06 ,  H10K50/841 ,  H10K50/858 ,  H10K77/111 ,  H10K2102/311

Abstract: An electronic device may have pixels that form an active area for a flexible display layer. An inactive area that is free of pixels may surround the active area. One or more edges of the flexible display layer may be bent around respective bend axes. The display layer may also have one or more unbent edges in which the inactive area and active area of the display have a planar shape. An image transport layer may have an input surface that receives the image and an output surface to which the image is transported. The image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or a layer of Anderson localization material. The coherent fiber bundle may have straight fibers that run parallel to each other in a vertical direction that is parallel to a surface normal of a central portion of the display layer.

公开(公告)号：USD1023009S1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-16

申请号：US29838062

申请日：2022-05-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Designer： Jody Akana ,  Molly Anderson ,  Bartley K. Andre ,  Shota Aoyagi ,  Anthony Michael Ashcroft ,  John J. Baker ,  Marine C. Bataille ,  Jeremy Bataillou ,  Abidur Rahman Chowdhury ,  Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne ,  Markus Diebel ,  Richard Hung Minh Dinh ,  Christopher E. Glazowski ,  Jonathan Gomez Garcia ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  M. Evans Hankey ,  Matthew David Hill ,  Julian Hoenig ,  Richard P. Howarth ,  Jonathan P. Ive ,  Julian Jaede ,  Duncan Robert Kerr ,  Peter Russell-Clarke ,  Benjamin Andrew Shaffer ,  Sung-Ho Tan ,  Clement Tissandier ,  Eugene Antony Whang ,  Rico Zörkendörfer

Abstract: FIG. 1 is a bottom, front and right side perspective view of a display for an electronic device showing the claimed design;
FIG. 2 is a bottom, rear and left side perspective view thereof;
FIG. 3 is a front elevation view thereof;
FIG. 4 is a rear elevation view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a left side elevation view thereof;
FIG. 6 is a right side elevation view thereof;
FIG. 7 is a top plan view thereof; and,
FIG. 8 is a bottom plan view thereof.
The broken lines in the figures show portions of the display for an electronic device that form no part of the claimed design.

公开(公告)号：US11886246B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-30

申请号：US17900266

申请日：2022-08-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tyler R. Kakuda ,  Christopher E. Glazowski ,  Elizabeth C. Porter ,  Hao Dong ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G04G17/04 ,  G02B6/04

CPC classification number: G06F1/163 ,  G02B6/04 ,  G04G17/045 ,  G06F1/1637

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a display. The display may be overlapped by an image transport layer such as a coherent fiber bundle or layer of Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is transported. The input surface and output surface may have different shapes. A wristwatch device may, as an example, have a rectangular or hexagonal input surface and may have an output surface such as a rectangular output surface with rounded corners or a circular output surface. A region of the output surface may have compound curvature. A portion of the image transport layer may protrude laterally over an inactive portion of the display.

公开(公告)号：US20230337467A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-19

申请号：US18006519

申请日：2021-07-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yuchi Che ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Majid Esfandyarpour ,  Sebastian Knitter ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai

IPC: H10K59/121 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  H10K59/35 ,  H10K59/90

CPC classification number: H10K59/1213 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  H10K59/353 ,  H10K59/90

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The electronic device may include a plurality of transparent windows that overlap the optical sensor. The resolution of the display panel may be reduced in some areas due to the presence of the transparent windows. To mitigate diffraction artifacts, a first sensor (13-1) may sense light through a first pixel removal region having transparent windows arranged according to a first pattern. A second sensor (13-2) may sense light through a second pixel removal region having transparent windows arranged according to a second pattern that is different than the first pattern. The first and second patterns of the transparent windows may result in the first and second sensors having different diffraction artifacts. Therefore, an image from the first sensor may be corrected for diffraction artifacts based on an image from the second sensor.

公开(公告)号：US11747553B1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-05

申请号：US17026063

申请日：2020-09-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tyler R. Kakuda ,  Elizabeth C. Porter ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Michael J. Brown ,  Paul C. Kelley ,  Salman Karbasi ,  Shubhaditya Majumdar ,  Yi Qiao

IPC: G02B6/06 ,  G02B6/02

CPC classification number: G02B6/06 ,  G02B6/02052

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display overlapped by an image transport layer such as a coherent fiber bundle or layer of Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is transported. The input surface and output surface may have different shapes. During fabrication of the image transport layer, molding techniques, grinding and polishing techniques, and other processes may be used to deform the image transport layer and the shape of the output surface. To accommodate differences in material deformation and other factors that vary as a function of position across the image transport layer, the image transport layer may be formed from canes of fibers or other material with one or more properties that vary as a function of position.

公开(公告)号：US11436964B1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-06

申请号：US17225520

申请日：2021-04-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ying-Chih Wang ,  Michael J. Brown ,  Michael B. Wittenberg ,  Paul C. Kelley ,  Rasamy Phouthavong ,  Tyler R. Kakuda ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Marwan Rammah

IPC: G09G3/20 ,  F21V8/00 ,  G02B6/12 ,  G09F9/30

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. The pixels may be overlapped by a cover layer. The display may have peripheral edges with curved cross-sectional profiles. An inactive area in the display may be formed along a peripheral edge of the display or may be surrounded by the pixels. Electrical components such as optical components may be located in the inactive area. An image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may overlap the pixels, may have an opening that overlaps portions of the inactive area, may have an output surface that overlap portions of the inactive area, and/or may convey light associated with optical components in the electronic device.

公开(公告)号：US11068088B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-20

申请号：US16802349

申请日：2020-02-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Brijesh Tripathi ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou

IPC: G06F3/038 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G06T19/00

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be a variable frame rate display capable of adaptively adjusting a frame rate at which display frames are displayed in response to information associated with the current state of operation of the device. The information may be gathered using control circuitry in the electronic device. The control circuitry may gather the information for adjusting the frame rate by monitoring the electronic device power supply configuration, other device components, the type of content to be displayed, and user-input signals. The control circuitry may adjust the frame rate based on the gathered information by increasing or decreasing the frame rate. The control circuitry may be formed as a portion of display control circuitry for the device such as a display driver integrated circuit or may be formed as a portion of storage and processing circuitry external to the display.

公开(公告)号：US10937987B1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-02

申请号：US16428698

申请日：2019-05-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Meng-Huan Ho ,  Ming Xu ,  Rui Liu ,  Shawn R. Gettemy ,  Yi Qiao

IPC: H01L51/52 ,  H01L51/00 ,  H01L27/32

Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible organic light-emitting diode display layer. The edge of the flexible display layer may be bent. The display may have pixels formed from organic light-emitting diodes having anodes characterized by anode surface normals. For pixels in some regions of the display such as the bent edge of the display, the display may be characterized by a display surface normal for a pixel that differs from an anode surface normal for the anode of the organic light-emitting diode of that pixel. By tilting the anodes in this way, color shifts due to off-axis viewing of the pixels in the bend edge of the display can be minimized. If desired, tilted anodes may have multiple areas with different tilts. Sets of pixels with different anode tilts or other characteristics that differ may be supplied with common pixel data values.