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公开(公告)号:US20210035499A1
公开(公告)日:2021-02-04
申请号:US16828052
申请日:2020-03-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Chuang Qian , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Shyuan Yang , Cheng-Chih Hsieh , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Ting-Kuo Chang , Shih-Chang Chang
IPC: G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3266 , G11C19/28 , G09G3/3275
Abstract: Electronic devices may include displays having organic light-emitting diode pixels, display driver circuitry, and gate driver circuitry. To reduce the amount of space occupied in the inactive area of a display by the gate driver circuitry, one or more of the shift registers in the gate driver circuitry may include register circuits that are shared by multiple rows of pixels. Different drivers may use different clock frequencies to ensure synchronous operation of the display even when some register circuits share pixel rows. For increased flexibility in the arrangement of the register circuits in the shift registers, one or more of the shift registers may be split across the active area of the display. In some cases, one of the emission drivers may be omitted from the gate driver circuitry and a single emission driver may provide multiple emission control signals for the pixels.
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公开(公告)号:US10546540B1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-28
申请号:US16577597
申请日:2019-09-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Keitaro Yamashita , Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari , Shin-Hung Yeh , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Shih-Chang Chang , Ting-Kuo Chang , Ki Yeol Byun , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis
IPC: G09G3/3266
Abstract: An electronic device may include a display such as a light-emitting diode display. The electronic device may be a head-mounted device that provides a virtual reality or augmented reality environment to a user. To reduce artifacts in the display, a display may be operable in both a normal scanning mode and a partial scanning mode. In the normal scanning mode, every row of the display may be enabled to emit light in each frame. In the partial scanning mode, only a subset of the rows of the display may be enabled to emit light in each frame. The display may have a higher refresh rate in the partial scanning mode than in the normal scanning mode. To ensure uniform transistor stress across the display, the scanning driver for the display may scan the disabled rows in the partial scanning mode even though the rows will not be used to emit light.
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公开(公告)号:US10467964B2
公开(公告)日:2019-11-05
申请号:US15041836
申请日:2016-02-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Vasudha Gupta , Chin-Wei Lin , Yafei Bi , Hung Sheng Lin , Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Sang Y. Youn
IPC: G09G3/3258 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3266
Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a change in a refresh rate of the display from a first frequency to a second frequency. The controller is also configured to selectively generate a control signal configured to control emission of a light emitting diode of a display pixel of the display based on the first frequency.
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公开(公告)号:US10339855B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-02
申请号:US15298085
申请日:2016-10-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Chin-Wei Lin , Hung Sheng Lin , Vasudha Gupta , Shinya Ono , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Shyuan Yang
IPC: G09G3/32 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3291
Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display and a controller. The controller is configured to provide a first frequency refresh rate to the display. The controller is also configured to generate a control signal configured to control emission of a light emitting diode of a display pixel of the display at a second frequency based on whether the first frequency refresh rate of the display is less than a predetermined threshold value.
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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: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: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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