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公开(公告)号:US10304378B2
公开(公告)日:2019-05-28
申请号:US15996366
申请日:2018-06-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Chin-Wei Lin , Shyuan Yang , Chuang Qian , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Ting-Kuo Chang
IPC: G09G3/32 , G09G3/3225
Abstract: A display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode display pixels operating at a low refresh rate. Each display pixel may have six thin-film transistors and one capacitor. One of the six transistors may serve as the drive transistor and may be compensated using the remaining five transistors and the capacitor. One or more on-bias stress operations may be applied before threshold voltage sampling to mitigate first frame dimming. Multiple anode reset and on-bias stress operations may be inserted during vertical blanking periods to reduce flicker and maintain balance and may also be inserted between successive data refreshes to improve first frame performance. Two different emission signals controlling each pixel may be toggled together using a pulse width modulation scheme to help provide darker black levels.
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公开(公告)号:US20190148465A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-16
申请号:US16224607
申请日:2018-12-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Cheng-Ho Yu , Chin-Wei Lin , Shyuan Yang , Ting-Kuo Chang , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis , Shih-Chang Chang , Yu Cheng Chen , John Z. Zhong
IPC: H01L27/32 , G09G3/3266 , G06F3/044 , G09G3/3233
Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. Display driver circuitry may supply data and control signals to the pixels. Each pixel may have seven transistors, a capacitor, and a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. The seven transistors may receive control signals using horizontal control lines. Each pixel may have first and second emission enable transistors that are coupled in series with a drive transistor and the light-emitting diode of that pixel. The first and second emission enable transistors may be coupled to a common control line or may be separately controlled so that on-bias stress can be effectively applied to the drive transistor. The display driver circuitry may have gate driver circuits that provide different gate line signals to different rows of pixels within the display. Different rows may also have different gate driver strengths and different supplemental gate line loading structures.
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公开(公告)号:US10210801B2
公开(公告)日:2019-02-19
申请号:US15012378
申请日:2016-02-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Hung Sheng Lin , Mohammad Ali Jangda , Chin-Wei Lin , Hyunwoo Nho , Vasudha Gupta
IPC: G06F1/00 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3258 , G09G3/3275 , G09G3/36 , G09G3/3225
Abstract: An electronic device includes a display and a controller. The controller is configured to receive one or more operational characteristics of the display. The controller is also configured to calculate a blank time voltage level for a data line of the display based on the one or more operational characteristics, wherein the blank time voltage level corresponds to a voltage transmitted along the data line of the display immediately subsequent to image data being transmitted along the data line.
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公开(公告)号:US10186200B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-22
申请号:US15271115
申请日:2016-09-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Chin-Wei Lin , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Vasudha Gupta
IPC: G09G3/3258 , G09G3/3266 , G09G3/3291
Abstract: A display device may include rows of pixels that displays image data on a display. The display device also includes a circuit that performs a progressive scan across the rows of pixels to display the image data using a plurality of pixels. The circuit may then supply test data to at least one pixel of a plurality of pixels that corresponds to a first row of the rows of pixels during the progressive scan, determine one or more sensitivity properties associated with the at least one pixel based on the performance of the at least one pixel when the test data is provided to the at least one pixel, and resume the progressive scan at the at least one pixel to display the image data for the at least one pixel and a remaining portion of the plurality of pixels in the first row and remaining rows of pixels.
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公开(公告)号:US10186187B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-22
申请号:US14687081
申请日:2015-04-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tsung-Ting Tsai , Chin-Wei Lin , Shih Chang Chang
IPC: G09G3/20 , G09G3/32 , G09G3/3266 , G09G3/3258 , G09G3/3233
Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Display driver circuitry may load data into the pixels via data lines that extend along the columns. The display driver circuitry may include gate driver circuitry that supplies horizontal control signals to rows of the pixels. The horizontal control signals may include emission enable signals for controlling emission enable transistors and scan signals for controlling switching transistors. During an emission phase of operation for the display, the emission enable signal may be pulse-width modulated by the emission control gate driver circuits in the gate driver circuitry to control the output of the light-emitting diodes. The emission control gate driver circuits may be controlled using an emission start signal and a pair of two-phase clocks.
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公开(公告)号:US20180247586A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-30
申请号:US15754107
申请日:2016-09-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Mohammad B. Vahid Far , Yafei Bi , Kapil V. Sakariya , Hopil Bae , Shinya Ono , Thomas Charisoulis , Chin-Wei Lin
IPC: G09G3/3216
CPC classification number: G09G3/3216 , G09G3/2003 , G09G3/2014 , G09G2300/06 , G09G2310/0235 , G09G2310/0272 , G09G2310/0294 , G09G2310/0297 , G09G2310/066 , G09G2320/064
Abstract: Systems and apparatuses for hybrid micro-driver architectures having time multiplexing for driving displays are described. In one embodiment, a display (e.g., hybrid display architecture) includes a backplane and a micro-driver circuitry that is coupled to the backplane. The backplane includes circuitry (e.g., sample and hold circuitry) for sampling and holding analog data and for time multiplexing analog data. The micro-driver circuitry includes at least a capacitor of a ramp generator for generating a ramp voltage based on the analog data of the backplane and drive circuitry to cause at least one emission pulse for emitting a display element.
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公开(公告)号:US10043997B2
公开(公告)日:2018-08-07
申请号:US15339324
申请日:2016-10-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Shinya Ono , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Chin-Wei Lin
IPC: H01L29/08 , H01L51/00 , H01L51/52 , G09G3/3266 , H01L27/32
Abstract: Display panels and encapsulation structures are described for OLED display panels, in particular. In an embodiment, a display panel includes a gate driver in panel (GIP) region, a GIP clock region within the GIP region, a pixel area region, and a VSSEL contact region laterally between an outer edge of the GIP region and the pixel area region. In some embodiments, structures are described in which capacitive coupling with the GIP clock region can be mitigated, and overlapping inorganic layers form a barrier to moisture outside of the pixel area region.
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公开(公告)号:US20180204889A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-19
申请号:US15919057
申请日:2018-03-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Cheng-Ho Yu , Chin-Wei Lin , Shyuan Yang , Ting-Kuo Chang , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis , Shih-Chang Chang , Yu Cheng Chen , John Z. Zhong
IPC: H01L27/32 , G09G3/3233 , G06F3/044
CPC classification number: H01L27/3223 , G06F3/044 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3266 , G09G2300/0426 , G09G2300/0809 , G09G2310/0232 , G09G2320/0223 , G09G2320/0233 , H01L27/323 , H01L27/3276 , H01L2227/32
Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. Display driver circuitry may supply data and control signals to the pixels. Each pixel may have seven transistors, a capacitor, and a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. The seven transistors may receive control signals using horizontal control lines. Each pixel may have first and second emission enable transistors that are coupled in series with a drive transistor and the light-emitting diode of that pixel. The first and second emission enable transistors may be coupled to a common control line or may be separately controlled so that on-bias stress can be effectively applied to the drive transistor. The display driver circuitry may have gate driver circuits that provide different gate line signals to different rows of pixels within the display. Different rows may also have different gate driver strengths and different supplemental gate line loading structures.
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公开(公告)号:US09953581B2
公开(公告)日:2018-04-24
申请号:US14988594
申请日:2016-01-05
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Hung Sheng Lin , Chin-Wei Lin , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Sang Y. Youn , Hyunwoo Nho
IPC: G09G3/32 , G09G3/3266 , G09G3/20 , G11C19/00
CPC classification number: G09G3/3266 , G09G3/2022 , G09G3/2092 , G09G2300/0408 , G09G2310/0286 , G11C19/00
Abstract: This application sets forth a circuit configuration for a light emitting diode (LED) or organic light emitting diode (OLED) display. The circuit configuration allows for the pulse-width modulation (PWM) of each emission signal sent to each line of the display. The PWM of each emission signal is accomplished using a gate-in-panel (GIP) controller of the display. The GIP controller uses an arrangement of shift register outputs and a programmable clock input to control an output of an inverter that provides the emission signal. The programmable clock input can be programmed according to a desired timing or duty cycle for the emission signal. In this way, by limiting the duty cycle of the emission signal, dimming and other display features can be exhibited by the LED or OLED display.
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公开(公告)号:US09940873B2
公开(公告)日:2018-04-10
申请号:US14535604
申请日:2014-11-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Vasudha Gupta , Chin-Wei Lin , Shih Chang Chang , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Young Bae Park
IPC: G09G5/10 , G09G3/32 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3225 , G09G3/3266 , G11C19/18 , G11C19/28 , G09G3/20 , H03K5/15
CPC classification number: G09G3/3233 , G09G3/2011 , G09G3/2014 , G09G3/2081 , G09G3/3225 , G09G3/3266 , G09G2310/0286 , G09G2310/08 , G09G2320/0233 , G09G2330/028 , G09G2360/16 , G11C19/184 , G11C19/28 , H03K5/15093
Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have an array of pixel circuits. Each pixel circuit may contain an organic light-emitting diode that emits light, a drive transistor that controls current flow through the diode, and additional transistors such as switching transistors for loading data into the pixel circuit and emission transistors for enabling and disabling current flow through the drive transistor and diode. Gate driver circuitry may produce emission control signals that control the emission transistors. Display driver circuitry may generate a start signal with a digitally controlled pulse width. The start signal may be applied to shift register circuitry in the gate driver circuitry. The pulse width of the start signal may be adjusted to adjust the luminance of the display.
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