公开(公告)号：US20250131885A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-24

申请号：US18407578

申请日：2024-01-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shinya Ono ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Chen-Ming Chen ,  Hassan Edrees

IPC: G09G3/3266 ,  G11C19/28

Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels that receive control signals from a chain of gate drivers. The pixels can be formed using semiconducting oxide transistors, whereas the gate drivers can be formed using silicon transistor. Each gate driver may include a shift register subcircuit and an output buffer subcircuit. The shift register subcircuit may include a first set of transistors at least partially controlled by one or more shift register clock signals. The output buffer subcircuit may include a second set of transistors at least partially controlled by one or more output buffer clock signals. The output buffer clock signals can toggle independently from the shift register clock signals. Operated in this way, the shift register clock signals can have pulse widths optimized for stability while the output buffer clock signals can have pulse widths optimized for speed.

公开(公告)号：USRE50396E1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-22

申请号：US17855551

申请日：2022-06-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shinya Ono ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Ching-Sang Chuang ,  Jiun-Jye Chang ,  Keisuke Omoto ,  Shang-Chih Lin ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Takahide Ishii

IPC: H01L27/12 ,  H01L29/786 ,  H10K59/121 ,  H10K59/123 ,  H10K59/124 ,  H10K59/131

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels, that include hybrid thin-film transistor structures formed using semiconducting-oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. A drive transistor in the display pixel may be a top-gate semiconducting-oxide thin-film transistor and a switching transistor in the display pixel may be a top-gate silicon thin-film transistor. A storage capacitor in the display may include a conductive semiconducting-oxide electrode.

公开(公告)号：US12014686B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-18

申请号：US17970842

申请日：2022-10-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chin-Wei Lin ,  Shinya Ono ,  Zino Lee

IPC: G09G3/3266

CPC classification number: G09G3/3266 ,  G09G2300/0809 ,  G09G2300/0852 ,  G09G2320/0233

Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels. Each pixel in the array may include a drive transistor, emission transistors, a data loading transistor, a gate voltage setting transistor, an initialization transistor, an anode reset transistor, a storage capacitor, and an optional current boosting capacitor. A data refresh may include a initialization phase, a threshold voltage sampling phase, and a data programming phase. The threshold voltage sampling phase can be substantially longer than the data programming phase to decrease a current sampling level during the threshold voltage sampling phase, which helps reduce the display luminance sensitivity to temperature variations.

公开(公告)号：US11922887B1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-05

申请号：US17368472

申请日：2021-07-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shinya Ono ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Chuan-Jung Lin ,  Gihoon Choo ,  Hassan Edrees ,  Hei Kam ,  Jung Yen Huang ,  Pei-En Chang ,  Rungrot Kitsomboonloha ,  Szu-Hsien Lee ,  Zino Lee

IPC: G09G3/3275 ,  H10K59/121 ,  H10K59/126 ,  H10K59/131

CPC classification number: G09G3/3275 ,  H10K59/1213 ,  H10K59/1216 ,  H10K59/126 ,  H10K59/131 ,  G09G2320/0214

Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels. Each pixel in the array includes an organic light-emitting diode coupled to associated thin-film transistors. The diode may be coupled to drive transistor circuitry, a data loading transistor, and emission transistors. The drive transistor circuitry may include at least two transistor portions connected in series. The data loading transistor has a drain region connected to a data line and a source region connected directly to the drive transistor circuitry. The data line may be connected to and overlap the drain region of the data loading transistor. The data line and the source region of the data loading transistor are non-overlapping to reduce row-to-row crosstalk.

公开(公告)号：US20240036680A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-01

申请号：US18323659

申请日：2023-05-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shinya Ono ,  Suhwan Moon ,  Dong-Gwang Ha ,  Jiaxi Hu ,  Hao-Lin Chiu ,  Kwang Soon Park ,  Hassan Edrees ,  Wen-I Hsieh ,  Jiun-Jye Chang ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Kyung Wook Kim

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G09G3/3208 ,  G06F3/044

CPC classification number: G06F3/04184 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G09G3/3208 ,  G06F3/0446 ,  G06F3/0444 ,  G06F2203/04107 ,  G06F2203/04112

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with touch sensors. One or more shielding layers may be interposed between the display and the touch sensors. The display may include transistors with gate conductors, a first planarization layer formed over the gate conductors, one or more contacts formed in a first source-drain layer within the first planarization layer, a second planarization layer formed on the first planarization layer, one or more data lines formed in a second source-drain layer within the second planarization layer, a third planarization layer formed on the second planarization layer, and a data line shielding structure formed at least partly in a third source-drain layer within the third planarization layer. The data line shielding structure may be a routing line, a blanket layer, a mesh layer formed in one or more metal layers, and/or a data line covering another data line.

公开(公告)号：US11875745B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US18172049

申请日：2023-02-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chin-Wei Lin ,  Hung Sheng Lin ,  Shih Chang Chang ,  Shinya Ono

IPC: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  H01L29/786 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  H01L27/12

CPC classification number: G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  H01L27/1225 ,  H01L29/7869 ,  H01L29/78651 ,  G09G2300/0842 ,  G09G2300/0861 ,  G09G2310/0202 ,  G09G2320/0295 ,  G09G2320/043

Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels each of which has a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. A drive transistor and an emission transistor may be coupled in series with the light-emitting diode of each pixel between a positive power supply and a ground power supply. The pixels may include first and second switching transistors. A data storage capacitor may be coupled between a gate and source of the drive transistor in each pixel. Signal lines may be provided in columns of pixels to route signals such as data signals, sensed drive currents from the drive transistors, and predetermined voltages between display driver circuitry and the pixels. The switching transistors, emission transistors, and drive transistors may include semiconducting-oxide transistors and silicon transistors and may be n-channel transistors or p-channel transistors.

公开(公告)号：US20230014107A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-19

申请号：US17749045

申请日：2022-05-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Rungrot Kitsomboonloha ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Shinya Ono ,  Gihoon Choo ,  Hao-Lin Chiu ,  Kyung Wook Kim ,  Pei-En Chang ,  Szu-Hsien Lee ,  Zino Lee

IPC: G09G3/3225

Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels that receive control signals from a chain of gate drivers. Each gate driver may include a logic sub-circuit and an output buffer sub-circuit. The output buffer sub-circuit may include depletion mode semiconducting oxide transistors with high mobility. The logic sub-circuit may include semiconducting oxide transistors, some of which can be depletion mode transistors and some of which can be enhancement mode transistors with lower mobility. The logic sub-circuit may include at least a carry circuit, a voltage setting circuit, an inverting circuit, a discharge circuit.

公开(公告)号：US11462608B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-04

申请号：US17143939

申请日：2021-01-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shinya Ono ,  Chin-Wei Lin ,  Akira Matsudaira ,  Jiun-Jye Chang ,  Jung Yen Huang ,  Pei-En Chang ,  Rungrot Kitsomboonloha ,  Szu-Hsien Lee

IPC: G09G3/3225 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  H01L27/32 ,  H01L29/786 ,  H01L27/12 ,  H01L29/49

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display with pixels formed using light-emitting diodes, thin-film silicon transistors, thin-film semiconducting-oxide transistors, and capacitors. The silicon transistors, semiconducting-transistors, and capacitors may have control terminals that are coupled to gate or routing lines that extend across the face of the display and that are formed in a low resistance source-drain metal routing layer. Forming routing/gate lines using the low resistance source-drain metal routing layer dramatically reduces the resistance of the gate lines, which enables better timing margins for large display panels operating at higher refresh rates.

公开(公告)号：US11462163B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-04

申请号：US17555694

申请日：2021-12-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chin-Wei Lin ,  Hung Sheng Lin ,  Shih Chang Chang ,  Shinya Ono

IPC: G09G3/3266 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  H01L29/786 ,  H01L27/12

Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels each of which has a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. A drive transistor and an emission transistor may be coupled in series with the light-emitting diode of each pixel between a positive power supply and a ground power supply. The pixels may include first and second switching transistors. A data storage capacitor may be coupled between a gate and source of the drive transistor in each pixel. Signal lines may be provided in columns of pixels to route signals such as data signals, sensed drive currents from the drive transistors, and predetermined voltages between display driver circuitry and the pixels. The switching transistors, emission transistors, and drive transistors may include semiconducting-oxide transistors and silicon transistors and may be n-channel transistors or p-channel transistors.

公开(公告)号：US20220284860A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-08

申请号：US17317128

申请日：2021-05-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chin-Wei Lin ,  Shinya Ono ,  Zino Lee

IPC: G09G3/3266

Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels. Each pixel in the array may include a drive transistor, emission transistors, a data loading transistor, a gate voltage setting transistor, an initialization transistor, an anode reset transistor, a storage capacitor, and an optional current boosting capacitor. A data refresh may include a initialization phase, a threshold voltage sampling phase, and a data programming phase. The threshold voltage sampling phase can be substantially longer than the data programming phase to decrease a current sampling level during the threshold voltage sampling phase, which helps reduce the display luminance sensitivity to temperature variations.