Patents by Inventor Ion Bita

Ion Bita has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11967586
    Abstract: Light emitting structures and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, LED coupons are transferred to a carrier substrate and then patterned to LED mesa structures. Patterning may be performed on heterogeneous groups of LED coupons with a common mask set. The LED mesa structure are then transferred in bulk to a display substrate. In an embodiment, a light emitting structure includes an arrangement of LEDs with different thickness, and corresponding bottom contacts with different thicknesses bonded to a display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitry S. Sizov, Ion Bita, Jean-Jacques P. Drolet, John T. Leonard, Jonathan S. Steckel, Nathaniel T. Lawrence, Xiaobin Xin, Ranojoy Bose
  • Publication number: 20240118772
    Abstract: This document describes systems and techniques directed at mitigating display diffraction flares for under-display sensing. In aspects, an equation may be derived that models the effects of a display in producing a diffraction phenomenon at an image plane of a sensing region for an under-display light-sensing device. The equation may be used to determine an arrangement (e.g., an optimized arrangement) of components (e.g., sub-pixels) within the display that minimizes a diffraction efficiency for at least one diffraction order and, thereby, mitigates an intensity and/or a prevalence of optical artifacts in light-sensing data. In implementations, an image intensity point-spread-function is utilized to calculate diffraction efficiencies for respective diffraction orders (e.g., the lowest diffraction orders, the diffraction orders with the greatest brightness).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Xi Chen, Changgeng Liu, Ion Bita, Marek Mienko
  • Patent number: 11770962
    Abstract: A display configuration to extend the light emitting and touch sensitive portion of a display panel into areas normally reserved for other light devices is disclosed. In the configuration, light devices and the display panel are configured to operate together. The display panel may include an aperture through the display panel to provide an unobstructed light path to a light device. The display panel may also include a routing area to provide space for data lines feeding pixels to be rerouted around the aperture. The routing area is partially obstructed by data lines but otherwise transparent. Accordingly, some display devices may be positioned behind the routing area and still operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sun-il Chang, Jyothi Karri, Ion Bita
  • Publication number: 20230222955
    Abstract: Display panel redundancy schemes and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, and display panel includes an array of drivers (e.g. microdrivers), each of which including multiple portions to independently receive control and pixel bits. In an embodiment, each driver portion is to control a group of redundant emission elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Kapil V. Sakariya, Tore Nauta, Hopil Bae, Henry C. Jen, James E. Pedder, Sunggu Kang, Shingo Hatanaka, Xiang Lu, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Hasan Akyol, Saif Choudhary, Ion Bita
  • Publication number: 20230200172
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in a display panel. The display panel includes a first area of multiple pixels that has a first density of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and that has an equal representation of LEDs of a first color, a second color, and a third color. Each pixel in the first area has: (i) a first sub-pixel comprising an LED of the first color, (ii) a second sub-pixel comprising an LED of the second color, and (iii) a third sub-pixel comprising an LED of the third color. The display panel includes a second area of multiple pixels that borders the first area, that has a second density of LEDs that is lower than the first density, and that has an unequal representation of LEDS of the first color, the second color, and the third color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: David Morris Hoffman, Ion Bita, Sangmoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11568789
    Abstract: Display panel redundancy schemes and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, and display panel includes an array of drivers (e.g. microdrivers), each of which including multiple portions to independently receive control and pixel bits. In an embodiment, each driver portion is to control a group of redundant emission elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Kapil V. Sakariya, Tore Nauta, Hopil Bae, Henry C. Jen, James E. Pedder, Sunggu Kang, Shingo Hatanaka, Xiang Lu, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Hasan Akyol, Saif Choudhary, Ion Bita
  • Publication number: 20230018406
    Abstract: Light emitting structures and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, LED coupons are transferred to a carrier substrate and then patterned to LED mesa structures. Patterning may be performed on heterogeneous groups of LED coupons with a common mask set. The LED mesa structure are then transferred in bulk to a display substrate. In an embodiment, a light emitting structure includes an arrangement of LEDs with different thickness, and corresponding bottom contacts with different thicknesses bonded to a display substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Dmitry S. Sizov, Ion Bita, Jean-Jacques P. Drolet, John T. Leonard, Jonathan S. Steckel, Nathaniel T. Lawrence, Xiaobin Xin, Ranojoy Bose
  • Publication number: 20220375385
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first set of pixels that each include a respective red sub-pixel and a respective green sub-pixel and a second set of pixels that each include a respective blue sub-pixel and a respective green sub-pixel, where the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels are arranged on the display panel such that at least one side of each of the pixels in the first set of pixels is adjacent to at least one of the pixels in the second set of pixels, at least one side of each of the pixels in the first set of pixels is not adjacent to any pixel, and the green sub-pixels are arranged on the display panel such that the green sub-pixels are evenly distributed in the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: David Morris Hoffman, Sangmoo Choi, Sun-il Chang, Ion Bita
  • Publication number: 20220307902
    Abstract: A mobile computing device includes an emissive display panel, where the panel is used as a grating, and spectrometer optics positioned behind/below the emissive display panel. A mobile computing device includes an emissive display panel and a spectrometer positioned below the emissive display panel. The emissive display panel includes a first periodic pattern of pixels that include one or more LEDs and a second periodic pattern of circuit elements that control the pixels, where the first and second periodic patterns are configured to diffract light received from outside the device, which passes through the emissive display, and where the diffraction is wavelength-dependent. The spectrometer is configured to detect intensities of different wavelength ranges of the diffracted light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Ozan Cakmakci, Jyothi Karri, Sangmoo Choi, Ion Bita
  • Publication number: 20220302228
    Abstract: A display configuration to facilitate imaging through the display is disclosed. The imaging can be achieved by positioning a camera behind a transmit/receive area (120,122) of a display. The transmit/receive area is configured to reduce the interaction between the light propagating through the display and circuit elements of the display. The configuration of the transmit/receive area can be characterized by reduced pixel density, rearranged circuit elements (1242), and as light blocking layer (1222, 1260) to prevent light from diffracting from gaps formed by circuit elements (1242).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Jyothi Karri, Ion Bita
  • Publication number: 20220278186
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a display panel having a first pixel area having a first pixel density and a second pixel area having a second pixel density higher than the first, the panel configured to generate images viewable from a front side and a sensor positioned at the back side arranged to receive incident light transmitted from the front to the back through the first pixel area. The first pixel area has light emitting pixels and signal lines electrically connecting pixel circuits associated with the pixels, and the panel includes a layer having a light blocking material patterned to provide apertures to transmit the incident light between some of the light emitting pixels and the signal lines and to block the incident light from the pixel circuits and the signal lines. Apertures can have different dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Jyothi Karri, Ion Bita, Chia-Kai Liang
  • Patent number: 11410591
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first set of pixels that each include a respective red sub-pixel and a respective green sub-pixel and a second set of pixels that each include a respective blue sub-pixel and a respective green sub-pixel, where the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels are arranged on the display panel such that at least one side of each of the pixels in the first set of pixels is adjacent to at least one of the pixels in the second set of pixels, at least one side of each of the pixels in the first set of pixels is not adjacent to any pixel, and the green sub-pixels are arranged on the display panel such that the green sub-pixels are evenly distributed in the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Morris Hoffman, Sangmoo Choi, Sun-il Chang, Ion Bita
  • Patent number: 11404400
    Abstract: Light emitting structures and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, LED coupons are transferred to a carrier substrate and then patterned to LED mesa structures. Patterning may be performed on heterogeneous groups of LED coupons with a common mask set. The LED mesa structure are then transferred in bulk to a display substrate. In an embodiment, a light emitting structure includes an arrangement of LEDs with different thickness, and corresponding bottom contacts with different thicknesses bonded to a display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitry S. Sizov, Ion Bita, Jean-Jacques P. Drolet, John T. Leonard, Jonathan S. Steckel, Nathaniel T. Lawrence, Xiaobin Xin, Ranojoy Bose
  • Publication number: 20220190282
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device utilizing a flexible display panel with multiple relief features formed in a periphery bending portion of the flexible display panel. The multiple relief features may facilitate lamination of the flexible display to a curved cover layer. The flexible display panel may have a circular shape utilized in a wearable device. An active area for displaying images may extend to the periphery bending portion of the flexible display panel, thus provided a wide viewing range for a user as well as enhancing an overall aesthetic appearance of the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Sarah S.M. Cabreros, Yi Tao, Sangmoo Choi, Nai-Hsuan Liu, William Riis Hamburgen, Ion Bita, Taesung Kim
  • Publication number: 20220181397
    Abstract: A display configuration to facilitate imaging through the display is disclosed. The imaging can be achieved by positioning a camera behind a through-transmissive area of a display. The through-transmissive area is configured to reduce the interaction between the light propagating through the display and circuit elements of the display. The configuration of the through-transmissive area can be characterized by reduced pixel density, rearranged circuit elements, and a light blocking layer to prevent light from diffracting from gaps formed by circuit elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Jyothi Karri, Ion Bita
  • Patent number: 11217567
    Abstract: Display panels and methods of manufacture are described for down converting a peak emission wavelength of a pump LED within a subpixel with a quantum dot layer. In some embodiments, pump LEDs with a peak emission wavelength below 500 nm, such as between 340 nm and 420 nm are used. QD layers in accordance with embodiments can be integrated into a variety of display panel structures including a wavelength conversion cover arrangement, QD patch arrangement, or QD layers patterned on the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan S. Steckel, Jean-Jacques P. Drolet, Roland Van Gelder, Kelly C. McGroddy, Ion Bita, James Michael Perkins, Andreas Bibl, Sajjad A. Khan, James E. Pedder, Elmar Gehlen
  • Publication number: 20210391391
    Abstract: A display configuration to extend the light emitting and touch sensitive portion of a display panel into areas normally reserved for other light devices is disclosed. In the configuration, light devices and the display panel are configured to operate together. The display panel may include an aperture through the display panel to provide an unobstructed light path to a light device. The display panel may also include a routing area to provide space for data lines feeding pixels to be rerouted around the aperture. The routing area is partially obstructed by data lines but otherwise transparent. Accordingly, some display devices may be positioned behind the routing area and still operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sun-il Chang, Jyothi Karri, Ion Bita
  • Publication number: 20210366349
    Abstract: Display panel redundancy schemes and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, and display panel includes an array of drivers (e.g. microdrivers), each of which including multiple portions to independently receive control and pixel bits. In an embodiment, each driver portion is to control a group of redundant emission elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Kapil V. SAKARIYA, Tore NAUTA, Hopil BAE, Henry C. JEN, James E. PEDDER, Sunggu KANG, Shingo HATANAKA, Xiang LU, Mahdi Farrokh BAROUGHI, Hasan AKYOL, Saif CHOUDHARY, Ion BITA
  • Patent number: 11056041
    Abstract: Display panel redundancy schemes and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, and display panel includes an array of drivers (e.g. microdrivers), each of which including multiple portions to independently receive control and pixel bits. In an embodiment, each driver portion is to control a group of redundant emission elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventors: Kapil V. Sakariya, Tore Nauta, Hopil Bae, Henry C. Jen, James E. Pedder, Sunggu Kang, Shingo Hatanaka, Xiang Lu, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Hasan Akyol, Saif Choudhary, Ion Bita
  • Publication number: 20210074207
    Abstract: An apparatus is described that includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display and a sensor. The OLED display includes a first area having a first pixel density, a second area having a second pixel density, and a third area having a third pixel density. The second area is arranged between the first area and the third area. The first pixel density is lower than the second pixel density. The second pixel density is lower than the third pixel density. The sensor is arranged to receive electromagnetic radiation transmitted through the first area of the OLED display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sun-il Chang, Ion Bita