Displays with Gate Driver Circuitry Having Shared Register Circuits

    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.

    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.

    Displays with multiple scanning modes

    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.

    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.

    Light-Emitting Diode Displays
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    发明申请

    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.

    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.

    Sensing for compensation of pixel voltages

    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.

    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.

    Organic light-emitting diode display with pulse-width-modulated brightness control

    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.

    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.

    Encapsulation design for narrow border

    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.

    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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