Abstract: A touch screen display device includes a plurality of display pixels for generating an image, emitters interspersed among the display pixels and emitting light, and detectors interspersed among the display pixels for detecting light. The light from the emitters is coupled into a transparent substrate to reach the front surface which transmits light incident at an angle smaller than a critical angle and which totally internally reflects light which is incident at an angle greater than the critical angle. The display device further includes processing means coupled to the emitters and detectors for detecting the light reaching each detector from different specific emitters and determining the light that is received by each detector that may be due to direct reflection from a near-field object, and the light that is totally internally reflected and which may be frustrated by a touching object.

Abstract: An OLED lighting element comprises a substrate bearing an OLED structure extending laterally over said substrate and sandwiched between first and second electrode layers. The first electrode layer defines a plurality of electrically conductive tracks and said second electrode layer comprises a substantially continuous electrically conducting layer. The OLED lighting element has an electrical bus-bar connected to said electrically conductive tracks extending substantially completely along the or each lateral edge of said lighting element. The electrically conductive tracks run in a radial direction from a laterally central location within said lighting element towards said bus-bar along said lateral edges of said lighting element. A said track subdivides into a plurality of tracks with increasing distance from said central location. This arrangement makes more efficient use of the conductive tracks.

Abstract: An apparatus such as a touch screen display includes correlated emitter-detector pairs for determining the amount of electromagnetic radiation received at a detector from its paired emitter. The apparatus comprises an array of emitters operable to emit electromagnetic radiation, an array of detectors for detecting the electromagnetic radiation, and drive control circuitry configured to control the array of emitters so that they emit pulses of electromagnetic radiation. The amplitude of the pulses is modulated using mutually orthogonal binary vectors such as a Paley construction of the Hadamard matrix. Each emitter has a different vector associated with it. Detection circuitry is provided to detect the electromagnetic radiation reaching each particular detector in the array of detectors using the mutually orthogonal binary vector associated with the correlated emitter to produce a correlation between particular emitter-detector pairs. The arrangement can discriminate between near field and touching objects.

Abstract: This invention relates to active matrix OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays, in particular to display panels with integrated negative capacitance circuits and to active capacitance compensation. We describe an active matrix OLED display comprising a glass panel bearing a plurality of lines of OLED pixels, each with an associated active matrix driver circuit having a programming connection for programming a brightness of the associated OLED, programming connections of a line of pixels being connected to a programming line of said display, and wherein said active matrix OLED display further comprises a plurality of capacitors on said glass panel, each having a first plate connected to an end of a respective said programming line and having a second plate for connecting to a negative capacitor circuit to compensate for a capacitance of said programming line.

Abstract: An active matrix OLED pixel driver circuit comprises: a power supply connection to receive a power supply; an OLED drive connection to drive an OLED; an OLED drive transistor having an input, output and control connection, wherein said input connection is coupled to said power supply connection and said output connection is coupled to said OLED drive connection; a gate capacitor having a first plate coupled to said control connection of said OLED drive transistor and a second plate coupled to a common capacitor connection; a first select transistor having an input connection, an output connection coupled to said first plate of said gate capacitor, and a control connection coupled to a first pixel select connection of said OLED pixel driver circuit; an input capacitor having a first plate coupled to said input connection of said first select transistor and a second plate coupled to said common capacitor connection; and a second select transistor having an input connection, an output connection coupled to said

Abstract: A method of fabricating a self-aligned top-gate organic transistor comprises depositing a photoresist material over the dielectric material, and exposing the photoresist material to irradiation through the substrate using the source and drain electrodes as a mask. The exposure defines a region for deposition of the gate electrode.

Abstract: A system and method for driving pixels of an OLED display using a backplane for an active matrix device comprising a substrate arranged to electrically connect to a plurality of semiconductor elements, a plurality of first semiconductor elements mounted on the substrate, each comprising one or more circuit elements configured to drive one or more active elements of the active matrix device, and a plurality of second semiconductor elements mounted on the substrate, each comprising one or more circuit elements configured to control one or more of the first semiconductor elements.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an organic thin film transistor (TFT), comprising: providing a substrate layer; providing a gate electrode layer; providing a dielectric material layer; providing an organic semiconductor (OSC) material layer; providing a source and drain electrode layer; and wherein one or more of the layers is deposited using a laser induced thermal imaging (LITI) process. Preferably the organic TFT is a bottom gate device and the source and drain electrodes are deposited on an organic semiconductor layer, or over a dielectric material layer using LITI. Further preferably a dopant material may be provided between the OSC material and the source and drain electrode layer, wherein the dopant material may also be deposited using LITI. Also preferably, wherein the dopant may be a charge neutral dopant such as substituted TCNQ or F4TCNQ.

Abstract: This invention generally relates to methods, apparatus and computer program code for improved OLED (organic light emitting diode) display drive systems, in particular to compensate for burn-in. A method of compensating an OLED display device for burn-in of pixels of the OLED display, the method comprising: measuring a first voltage drop across at least one test pixel of the display; measuring a second voltage drop across at least one other pixel of the display; determining, from said first and second voltages and a from value (V1) representing a drive voltage increase for a loss in efficiency of said display due to burn-in, an estimated reduction in efficiency of said display due to burn-in; and compensating a drive to said display using said estimated efficiency reduction.

Abstract: This invention generally relates to methods and apparatus for driving passive matrix displays, in particular OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays. A method of driving a passive matrix electroluminescent display, the display having a plurality of rows and columns of emissive elements addressed by respective row and column electrodes, the method comprising: addressing said row electrodes, one at a time; and driving a set of said column electrodes while addressing each said row electrode; wherein said column electrode driving comprises driving said column electrodes to determine ratios of column drive signals to one another for said set of column electrodes; and wherein the method further comprises controlling an overall drive for said set of column electrodes to control a drive to said emissive elements in each said addressed row.

Abstract: A touch screen display device includes a plurality of display pixels for generating an image, emitters interspersed among the display pixels and emitting light, and detectors interspersed among the display pixels for detecting light. The light from the emitters is coupled into a transparent substrate to reach the front surface which transmits light incident at an angle smaller than a critical angle and which totally internally reflects light which is incident at an angle greater than the critical angle. The display device further includes processing means coupled to the emitters and detectors for detecting the light reaching each detector from different specific emitters and determining the light that is received by each detector that may be due to direct reflection from a near-field object, and the light that is totally internally reflected and which may be frustrated by a touching object.

Abstract: An apparatus such as a touch screen display includes correlated emitter-detector pairs for determining the amount of electromagnetic radiation received at a detector from its paired emitter. The apparatus comprises an array of emitters operable to emit electromagnetic radiation, an array of detectors for detecting the electromagnetic radiation, and drive control circuitry configured to control the array of emitters so that they emit pulses of electromagnetic radiation. The amplitude of the pulses is modulated using mutually orthogonal binary vectors such as a Paley construction of the Hadamard matrix. Each emitter has a different vector associated with it. Detection circuitry is provided to detect the electromagnetic radiation reaching each particular detector in the array of detectors using the mutually orthogonal binary vector associated with the correlated emitter to produce a correlation between particular emitter-detector pairs. The arrangement can discriminate between near field and touching objects.

Abstract: An optoelectronic display comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising a plurality of sub-pixels, wherein the optoelectronic display comprises a colour-forming layer which is patterned providing a plurality of discrete colour-forming regions in a two-dimensional array, and wherein an addressing array is provided for addressing the discrete colour-forming regions, at least some of the discrete colour-forming regions having portions which are separately addressable by the addressing array, each portion defining a sub-pixel of the optoelectronic display.

Abstract: An active matrix display comprises a display area of the matrix comprising drive circuitry including a control circuit comprising chiplets outside the display area. The output of the control circuit is distributed among the plurality of chiplets. This arrangement is advantageous in that the chiplets allow for a much smaller fan-in and fan-out structure, thus allowing a much larger percentage of the substrate to be devoted to display area.

Abstract: A display device comprises a plurality of electroluminescent display pixels and a plurality of semiconductor elements (“chiplets”), each pixel being electrically connected to the output of one or more of said semiconductor elements through a via hole in an electrically insulating layer for addressing the plurality of display pixels, and a plurality of colour filters and/or downconverters. The colour filters and/or downconverters and the semiconductor elements are provided on the same surface of the device.

Abstract: An optical sensor array comprises a photo-sensitive area formed by an array of chiplets having individual light-sensitive elements, each element configured to produce a signal or signals in response to incident light. The displacement of a chiplet from a predetermined position is derivable from the output signal or signals of the element or elements associated with the chiplet. The arrangement provides a method of measuring the displacement of at least one chiplet in an active display.

Abstract: This invention generally relates to display driver circuits for electro-optic displays, and more particularly relates to circuits and methods for reducing the re-emission of absorbed light, for example to increase the color gamut of organic light emitting diode displays. A driver for a display comprising a plurality of light emitting diode display elements, the driver comprising addressing circuitry to address said display elements, a first driver to cooperate with said address circuitry to provide a forward drive to at least one of said display elements to illuminate the display element, and a second driver to provide a reverse bias drive to others of said display elements at the same time as said at least one display element is illuminated to reduce a level of photoluminescence from said others of said display elements.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an organic thin film transistor (TFT), comprising: providing a substrate layer; providing a gate electrode layer; providing a dielectric material layer; providing an organic semiconductor (OSC) material layer; providing a source and drain electrode layer; and wherein one or more of the layers is deposited using a laser induced thermal imaging (LITI) process. Preferably the organic TFT is a bottom gate device and the source and drain electrodes are deposited on an organic semiconductor layer, or over a dielectric material layer using LITI. Further preferably a dopant material may be provided between the OSC material and the source and drain electrode layer, wherein the dopant material may also be deposited using LITI. Also preferably, wherein the dopant may be a charge neutral dopant such as substituted TCNQ or F4TCNQ.

Abstract: This invention relates to active matrix OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays, in particular to display panels with integrated negative capacitance circuits and to active capacitance compensation. We describe an active matrix OLED display comprising a glass panel bearing a plurality of lines of OLED pixels, each with an associated active matrix driver circuit having a programming connection for programming a brightness of the associated OLED, programming connections of a line of pixels being connected to a programming line of said display, and wherein said active matrix OLED display further comprises a plurality of capacitors on said glass panel, each having a first plate connected to an end of a respective said programming line and having a second plate for connecting to a negative capacitor circuit to compensate for a capacitance of said programming line.

Abstract: A consumer electronic device (CED) having a display and including at least one light sensor for recalibrating the display at intervals, wherein the display and the at least one light sensor are mounted within different parts of a unitary housing such that when the CED is not in use the light sensor is able to monitor light from the display. Preferably, the different parts of the unitary housing comprise two hinged parts, one mounting the display, the other at least a light sensing portion of the sensor.