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Granted Patent B2
US 11,380,260 · App. 16/603,189 · Granted Jul 5, 2022

Device and method for panel conditioning

Inventors: Junhua Tan (Saratoga, CA); Kingsuk Brahma (Mountain View, CA); Jie Won Ryu (Santa Clara, CA); Shengkui Gao (San Jose, CA); Shiping Shen (Cupertino, CA); Majid Gharghi (San Carlos, CA); Hyunwoo Nho (Palo Alto, CA); Injae Hwang (Cupertino, CA); Kavinaath Murugan (Scarborough, CA); Sun-Il Chang (San Jose, CA); Chin-Wei Lin (San Jose, CA); Hyunsoo Kim (Mountain View, CA); Rui Zhang (Sunnyvale, CA); Jesse Aaron Richmond (San Francisco, CA); Yun Wang (Cupertino, CA); Hung Sheng Lin (San Jose, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
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Patent No.
US 11,380,260
App. No.
16/603,189
Granted
Jul 5, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device comprises a controller. The controller is configured to provide a first signal to a display of the electronic device to turn off the display. The controller is also configured to provide a second signal to the display to alter a gate source voltage of a drive transistor coupled to a light emitting diode (LED) of a pixel of the display while the display is turned off.

Claims (29)

1. An electronic device, comprising a controller configured to:

provide a first signal to a pixel of a display of the electronic device when the displayed is to be turned off to disconnect a drive transistor coupled to a light emitting diode (LED) of the pixel from a power source; and

provide a second signal to the display to alter a gate-to-source voltage of the drive transistor while the display is turned off, wherein the controller is configured to provide the second signal as a waveform signal.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to provide the second signal to alter a gate-to-source voltage of a second drive transistor coupled to a second LED of second pixel of the display while the display is turned off.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to prevent emission of light from the display during a period of time in which the second signal is provided to the display.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to determine the waveform signal provided based on a characteristic of the electronic device.

5. The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein the controller is configured to determine the waveform signal by determining at least one of an amplitude of a waveform, a frequency of the waveform, or a duty cycle of the waveform based on the characteristic of the electronic device.

6. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to determine the waveform signal provided based on stored image data of the display.

7. The electronic device of claim 6 , wherein the controller is configured to determine the waveform signal by determining at least one of an amplitude of a waveform, a frequency of the waveform, or a duty cycle of the waveform based on the stored image data of the display.

8. A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store instructions executable by a processor of an electronic device to:

deactivate a first portion of a display of the electronic device;

provide a first control signal to the first portion of the display to prevent emission of light from the first portion of the display during a period of time in which the first portion of the display is deactivated; and

while providing the first control signal:

provide a second control signal to the display to modify a gate-to-source voltage of a drive transistor coupled to a light emitting diode (LED) of the first portion of the display; and

provide a third control signal to modify an additional gate-to-source voltage of an additional drive transistor coupled to an additional LED of an additional pixel of the display.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , comprising instructions to control an output of a power supply coupled to the drive transistor to prevent the emission of light from the LED during the period of time in which the display is deactivated.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , comprising instructions to control a switch coupled to the drive transistor to prevent the emission of light from the LED during the period of time in which the display is deactivated.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , comprising instructions to sense at least one of an operational characteristic of the display, an attribute affecting the display, and an input to the display.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , comprising instructions to transmit image data for display on a second portion of the display of the electronic device during the period of time in which the first portion of the display is deactivated.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , comprising instructions to modify a second gate-to-source voltage of a second drive transistor coupled to a second LED of the first portion of the display while the display is deactivated.

14. A method, comprising:

deactivating a first portion of a display of an electronic device after presenting image data via the first portion of the display; and

modifying a gate-to-source voltage of a drive transistor coupled to a light emitting diode (LED) of the first portion of the display based at least in part on a control signal generated based on the image data while the display is deactivated.

15. The method of claim 14 , comprising sensing at least one of an operational characteristic of the display, an attribute affecting the display, and an input to the display while the display is deactivated.

16. The method of claim 14 , comprising sensing at least one of an operational characteristic of the display, an attribute affecting the display, and an input to the display while the gate-to-source voltage of the drive transistor is being modified.

17. The method of claim 14 , comprising generating the control signal as a waveform signal.

18. The method of claim 14 , comprising generating the control signal as a fixed bias voltage value.

19. The method of claim 18 , comprising determining the fixed bias voltage value based on a characteristic of the electronic device.

20. The method of claim 18 , comprising determining the fixed bias voltage value based on stored image data of the display.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 15699424 · Sep 8, 2017
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