Fanout Lines with Shielding in an Active Area

    公开(公告)号:US20240065057A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-22

    申请号:US18328427

    申请日:2023-06-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H10K59/131 H10K59/126 H10K59/1213

    Abstract: A display may include pixels arranged in rows and columns in an active area and display driver circuitry in an inactive area. Data lines for the pixels may be positioned in the active area. Fanout lines may be routed through the active area. Each fanout line may electrically connect the display driver circuitry to a respective data line. One or more pixels may include a drive transistor and a light-emitting diode that are connected in series between a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal. A conductive layer may form a first terminal (such as the source terminal, the gate terminal, or the drain terminal) for the drive transistor. A conductive shielding layer may be interposed between the conductive layer and a fanout line to mitigate capacitive coupling between the terminal of the drive transistor and the fanout line.

    Displays with gate driver circuitry having shared register circuits

    公开(公告)号:US10896642B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-19

    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.

    Display With Array of Light-Transmitting Windows

    公开(公告)号:US20200258950A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-13

    申请号:US16859904

    申请日:2020-04-27

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. Each pixel may have a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. The organic light-emitting diodes may each have an anode that is coupled to a thin-film transistor pixel circuit for controlling the anode. Transparent windows may be formed in the display. The windows may be formed by replacing data storage capacitors and other pixel circuit structures in a subset of the pixels with transparent window structures, by selectively removing portions of light-emitting diode anodes, and by shifting anodes. An array of electrical components such as an array of light sensors may be aligned with the transparent windows and may be used to measure light passing through the transparent windows.

    Control circuitry for electronic device displays

    公开(公告)号:US10438540B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-08

    申请号:US15701342

    申请日:2017-09-11

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to display circuitry. The display circuitry includes gate-in-panel (GIP) control circuitry on opposing sides of a display pixel array. The GIP control circuitry can include scan drivers for each pixel row on both sides of that pixel row, the scan drivers on either side configured for enablement or disablement for single-sided reduced-power operations. The GIP control circuitry can include a single scan driver and a single emission controller for each pixel row, in which the scan driver and emission controller for each row are disposed on opposing sides of the row. The scan drivers for a first subset of the pixel rows can be interleaved with the emission controllers for a different subset of the pixel rows.

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