公开(公告)号：US20220413546A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

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

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：US11513554B1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-29

申请号：US16854165

申请日：2020-04-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Erik G. de Jong ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G02B5/02

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing. A pixel array may be mounted in the housing to display an image. The pixel array may have a central portion surrounded by a peripheral portion. Display cover layer structures may overlap the pixel array. A central portion of the display cover layer structures may overlap the central portion of the pixel array. A peripheral portion of the display cover layer structures may overlap the peripheral portion of the pixel array. A border structure of image transport material may be interposed between the peripheral portion of the pixel array and the peripheral portion of the display cover structures. The image transport material may be omitted from the central portion of the pixel array. The image transport material may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material.

公开(公告)号：US11493958B1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-08

申请号：US16921750

申请日：2020-07-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

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

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：US20220309980A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17840890

申请日：2022-06-15

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

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：USD960166S1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-09

申请号：US29714467

申请日：2019-11-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Designer： Jody Akana ,  Molly Anderson ,  Bartley K. Andre ,  Shota Aoyagi ,  Anthony Michael Ashcroft ,  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 ,  Julian Hoenig ,  Richard P. Howarth ,  Jonathan P. Ive ,  Julian Jaede ,  Duncan Robert Kerr ,  Paul U. Leutheuser ,  Benjamin J. Pope ,  Peter Russell-Clarke ,  Benjamin Andrew Shaffer ,  Sung-Ho Tan ,  Clement Tissandier ,  Eugene Antony Whang ,  Rico Zörkendörfer

公开(公告)号：USD951957S1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US29714455

申请日：2019-11-22

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

公开(公告)号：US10748981B1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-18

申请号：US16361933

申请日：2019-03-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Tyler R. Kakuda

IPC: H01L27/32 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G09G3/3291

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. The substrate may have rounded corners, a first tail portion along a lower edge, and a second tail portion along an additional edge. A first plurality of signal paths for the display may be routed to the first tail portion and a second plurality of signal paths for the display may be routed to the second tail portion. The second tail portion may be formed within a pixel-free notched region of the substrate. One or more data lines, power supply lines, touch sensor signal lines, and other signal lines may be routed to the second tail portion. Each tail portion of the substrate may be planar or may be bent. Vertical data lines at the edge of the display may be coupled to data line extensions that are routed through the active area of the display.

公开(公告)号：US20190073962A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-07

申请号：US15989066

申请日：2018-05-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Koorosh Aflatooni ,  Warren S. Rieutort-Louis ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Pierre-Yves Emelie ,  Myung-Je Cho ,  Marc Albrecht ,  Graeme M. Williams ,  Sean C. Chang ,  Zhao Wang

IPC: G09G3/3275

Abstract: A display may have an active area that includes display pixels. The display may include an inactive notch region that extends into the active area. Data lines may provide image data from display driver circuitry to the display pixels. The image data may include data signals that correspond to portions of the display that do not include pixels, such as the inactive notch region. The null data signals may cause nonuniformities in the displayed image. The null data signals may be adjusted to minimize the nonuniformities. Null data signals corresponding to the inactive notch region may be adjusted to have gray levels that gradually decrease with distance from the border between the inactive notch and the active area. All of the data signals corresponding to the inactive notch may be set to a uniform gray level.

公开(公告)号：US10163388B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-25

申请号：US14936343

申请日：2015-11-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yifan Zhang ,  Paul S. Drzaic ,  Chieh-Wei Chen ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Koorosh Aflatooni

IPC: G09G3/3208 ,  G09G3/20

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. A content generator may generate frames of image data to be displayed on the display. The display may have an array of pixels that emit light to display images. The pixels may contain light-emitting devices such as organic light-emitting diodes, quantum dot light-emitting diodes, and light-emitting diodes formed from discrete semiconductor dies. As a result of aging, the light producing capabilities of the light-emitting devices may degrade over time. The electronic device may have a temperature sensor that gathers temperature measurements. A pixel luminance degradation compensator may apply compensation factors to uncorrected pixel luminance values associated with the frames of image data to produce corresponding corrected pixel luminance values for the display. The compensation factors may be based on aging history information such as pixel luminance history and temperature measurements.

公开(公告)号：US10031268B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-24

申请号：US15657011

申请日：2017-07-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Erik G. de Jong ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou

IPC: G02B5/22 ,  G02B5/30

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have an active area that contains pixels and an inactive area. The inactive area of the display may be provided with opaque masking layer structures having an appearance that matches the active area of the display when the pixels are off and are not displaying images. The opaque masking layer structures may include a polymer layer coated with a layer of metal. The display may have pixels with anodes and a cathode layer. The anodes may be formed from metal pads. Dummy structures such as a dummy cathode and dummy anodes may be formed in the inactive area. A circular polarizer in the display may overlap the active area and the inactive area or may overlap the active area without overlapping some or all of the inactive area.