Patents by Inventor Ivan Knez
Ivan Knez 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).
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Publication number: 20230410750Abstract: A pixel circuit for an electronic display may include a memory to store a digital data signal indicative of a value within a data range. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting diode to emit light based at least in part on the digital data signal. The pixel circuit may also include an initialization transistor to initialize the pixel circuit before the light-emitting diode emits light and a driving transistor to activate based at least in part on the digital data signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Yingkan Lin, Tien-Chien Kuo, Bilin Wang, Kanghoon Jeon, Ivan Knez, Chun-Yao Huang
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Patent number: 11823648Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. A gaze detection system may gather information on a user's point of gaze on the display. Based on the point-of-gaze information, control circuitry in the electronic device may produce image data for an image with areas of different resolutions. A full-resolution portion of the image may overlap the point of gaze. Lower resolution portions of the image may surround the full-resolution portion. The display may have a pixel array. The pixel array may include rows and columns of pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data to the columns of pixels in accordance with row selection signals supplied to the rows of pixels. Display driver circuitry may be used to display the image using the pixel array. The display driver circuitry may have row selection circuitry and column expander circuitry that are responsive to a resolution mode selection signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ivan Knez, Chun-Yao Huang
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Patent number: 11798481Abstract: A pixel circuit for an electronic display may include a memory to store a digital data signal indicative of a value within a data range. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting diode to emit light based at least in part on the digital data signal. The pixel circuit may also include an initialization transistor to initialize the pixel circuit before the light-emitting diode emits light and a driving transistor to activate based at least in part on the digital data signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yingkan Lin, Tien-Chien Kuo, Bilin Wang, Kanghoon Jeon, Ivan Knez, Chun-Yao Huang
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Patent number: 11790873Abstract: An electronic display may include a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include memory storage to store data values representative of image data to be depicted via the pixel circuit. The memory storage may also include memory components for storing bits of the data value. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting device for emitting light based at least in part on the data value and a controller. The controller may receive the data value and store the bits based on a mapping between the bits and the memory components. The mapping may be determined based on routing one or more of the bits associated with one or more defective memory components of the memory components to one or more other memory components of the memory components. The controller may also drive the light-emitting device to emit light based on the bits stored in accordance with the mapping.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stanley Bo-Ting Wang, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Ivan Knez, Jose Antonio Dominguez-Caballero, Tien-Chien Kuo
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Publication number: 20230029501Abstract: An electronic display may include a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include memory storage to store data values representative of image data to be depicted via the pixel circuit. The memory storage may also include memory components for storing bits of the data value. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting device for emitting light based at least in part on the data value and a controller. The controller may receive the data value and store the bits based on a mapping between the bits and the memory components. The mapping may be determined based on routing one or more of the bits associated with one or more defective memory components of the memory components to one or more other memory components of the memory components. The controller may also drive the light-emitting device to emit light based on the bits stored in accordance with the mapping.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Stanley Bo-Ting Wang, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Ivan Knez, Jose Antonio Dominguez-Caballero, Tien-Chien Kuo
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Patent number: 11417298Abstract: An electronic display may include a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include memory storage to store data values representative of image data to be depicted via the pixel circuit. The memory storage may also include memory components for storing bits of the data value. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting device for emitting light based at least in part on the data value and a controller. The controller may receive the data value and store the bits based on a mapping between the bits and the memory components. The mapping may be determined based on routing one or more of the bits associated with one or more defective memory components of the memory components to one or more other memory components of the memory components. The controller may also drive the light-emitting device to emit light based on the bits stored in accordance with the mapping.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stanley Bo-Ting Wang, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Ivan Knez, Jose Antonio Dominguez-Caballero, Tien-Chien Kuo
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Patent number: 11309372Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode pixels that each have OLED layers interposed between a cathode and an anode. Voltage may be applied to the anode of each pixel to control the magnitude of emitted light. The conductivity of the OLED layers may allow leakage current to pass between neighboring anodes in the display. To reduce leakage current and the accompanying cross-talk in a display, the pixel definition layer may disrupt continuity of the OLED layers. The pixel definition layer may have a steep sidewall, a sidewall with an undercut, or a sidewall surface with a plurality of curves to disrupt continuity of the OLED layers. A control gate that is coupled to a bias voltage and covered by gate dielectric may be used to form an organic thin-film transistor that shuts the leakage current channel between adjacent anodes on the display.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jaein Choi, Andrew Lin, Cheuk Chi Lo, Chun-Yao Huang, Gloria Wong, Hairong Tang, Hitoshi Yamamoto, James E. Pedder, KiBeom Kim, Kwang Ohk Cheon, Lei Yuan, Michael Slootsky, Rui Liu, Steven E. Molesa, Sunggu Kang, Wendi Chang, Chun-Ming Tang, Cheng Chen, Ivan Knez, Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, Giovanni Carbone, Graham B. Myhre, Jungmin Lee
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Patent number: 11210990Abstract: An electronic device may have a display and a gaze tracking system. The electronic device may display images on the display that have a higher resolution in a portion of the display that overlaps a gaze location than other portions of the display. Timing controller circuitry and column driver circuitry may include interpolation and filter circuitry. The interpolation and filter circuitry may be used to perform nearest neighbor interpolation and two-dimensional spatial filtering on low resolution image data. Display driver circuitry may be configured to load higher resolution data into selected portions of a display. The display driver circuitry may include low and high resolution image data buffers and configurable row driver circuitry. Block enable transistors may be included in a display to allow selected blocks of pixels to be loaded with high resolution image data.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ivan Knez, Cheuk Chi Lo, Akira Matsudaira, Chun-Yao Huang, Giovanni Carbone, Paolo Sacchetto, Chaohao Wang, Sheng Zhang, Adam Adjiwibawa
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Patent number: 11138950Abstract: Efficiently transmitting image data to an electronic display may be provided by skipping regions of the electronic display that display a default value. The electronic display may include a number of pixels, a row driver, and a data driver. The row driver may activate a first subset of the pixels for programming. The data driver may program a default pixel value to respective pixels of the first subset of the pixels for which image data has not been received and may program image data to respective pixels of the first subset of the pixels for which image data has been received.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tien-Chien Kuo, Ivan Knez, Bilin Wang, Hopil Bae, Kanghoon Jeon, Chun-Yao Huang, Denis Michel Darmon
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Publication number: 20210225334Abstract: An electronic display may include a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include memory storage to store data values representative of image data to be depicted via the pixel circuit. The memory storage may also include memory components for storing bits of the data value. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting device for emitting light based at least in part on the data value and a controller. The controller may receive the data value and store the bits based on a mapping between the bits and the memory components. The mapping may be determined based on routing one or more of the bits associated with one or more defective memory components of the memory components to one or more other memory components of the memory components. The controller may also drive the light-emitting device to emit light based on the bits stored in accordance with the mapping.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Stanley Bo-Ting Wang, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Ivan Knez, Jose Antonio Dominguez-Caballero, Tien-Chien Kuo
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Patent number: 11049448Abstract: An electronic display may include an active area having a first pixel formed in the active area, where the first pixel emits light in response to image data. The electronic display may also include a controller to transmit the image data to the first pixel. The first pixel may include an organic light-emitting diode that emits the light in response to the image data, memory to digitally store the image data received from the controller, and driver circuitry to receive the image data from the memory. The driver circuitry may cause the organic light-emitting diode to emit the light in response to the image data.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ivan Knez, Tien-Chien Kuo, Yingkan Lin, Bilin Wang, Kanghoon Jeon, Mitchell Herman Kline, Hopil Bae, Jose Antonio Dominguez-Caballero, Chun-Yao Huang, Syed Farhan Mohiuddin
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Publication number: 20210158759Abstract: A pixel circuit for an electronic display may include a memory to store a digital data signal indicative of a value within a data range. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting diode to emit light based at least in part on the digital data signal. The pixel circuit may also include an initialization transistor to initialize the pixel circuit before the light-emitting diode emits light and a driving transistor to activate based at least in part on the digital data signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2021Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Yingkan Lin, Tien-Chien Kuo, Bilin Wang, Kanghoon Jeon, Ivan Knez, Chun-Yao Huang
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Patent number: 10978028Abstract: An electronic display may include a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include memory storage to store data values representative of image data to be depicted via the pixel circuit. The memory storage may also include memory components for storing bits of the data value. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting device for emitting light based at least in part on the data value and a controller. The controller may receive the data value and store the bits based on a mapping between the bits and the memory components. The mapping may be determined based on routing one or more of the bits associated with one or more defective memory components of the memory components to one or more other memory components of the memory components. The controller may also drive the light-emitting device to emit light based on the bits stored in accordance with the mapping.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stanley Bo-Ting Wang, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Ivan Knez, Jose Antonio Dominguez-Caballero, Tien-Chien Kuo
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Publication number: 20210090526Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. A gaze detection system may gather information on a user's point of gaze on the display. Based on the point-of-gaze information, control circuitry in the electronic device may produce image data for an image with areas of different resolutions. A full-resolution portion of the image may overlap the point of gaze. Lower resolution portions of the image may surround the full-resolution portion. The display may have a pixel array. The pixel array may include rows and columns of pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data to the columns of pixels in accordance with row selection signals supplied to the rows of pixels. Display driver circuitry may be used to display the image using the pixel array. The display driver circuitry may have row selection circuitry and column expander circuitry that are responsive to a resolution mode selection signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Ivan Knez, Chun-Yao Huang
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Patent number: 10955947Abstract: A touch sensor panel comprising a first touch node electrode of a plurality of touch node electrodes, the first touch node electrode coupled to a first sense connection comprising a first set of traces, the first sense connection configured to have a first resistance per unit length that varies along a length of the first sense connection, and a second touch node electrode of the plurality of touch node electrodes, the second touch node electrode coupled to a second sense connection comprising a second set of traces, the second sense connection configured to have a second resistance per unit length that varies along a length of the second sense connection differently than the first resistance per unit length varies along the length of the first sense connection. An effective resistance of the first sense connection and the second sense connection are equal.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Patrick Bennett, Byung Duk Yang, Chun-Yao Huang, Hao-Lin Chiu, Ivan Knez, Peien Chang, Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Shih-Chang Chang, Shinya Ono, Szuhsien Lee
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Patent number: 10909926Abstract: A pixel circuit for an electronic display may include a memory to store a digital data signal indicative of a value within a data range. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting diode to emit light based at least in part on the digital data signal. The pixel circuit may also include an initialization transistor to initialize the pixel circuit before the light-emitting diode emits light and a driving transistor to activate based at least in part on the digital data signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yingkan Lin, Tien-Chien Kuo, Bilin Wang, Kanghoon Jeon, Ivan Knez, Chun-Yao Huang
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Patent number: 10885883Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. A gaze detection system may gather information on a user's point of gaze on the display. Based on the point-of-gaze information, control circuitry in the electronic device may produce image data for an image with areas of different resolutions. A full-resolution portion of the image may overlap the point of gaze. Lower resolution portions of the image may surround the full-resolution portion. The display may have a pixel array. The pixel array may include rows and columns of pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data to the columns of pixels in accordance with row selection signals supplied to the rows of pixels. Display driver circuitry may be used to display the image using the pixel array. The display driver circuitry may have row selection circuitry and column expander circuitry that are responsive to a resolution mode selection signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ivan Knez, Chun-Yao Huang
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Patent number: 10867548Abstract: An electronic display may include a memory formed in an active area of the electronic display or formed in integrated circuitry of the electronic display that is outside of the active area. The memory may store a digital data signal indicative of a value within a data range. The electronic display may include a driver disposed in the active area, where the driver may generate one or more analog electrical signals in response to the digital data signal. The electronic display may also include a light-modulating device disposed on the active area, where the light-modulating device may emit light based at least in part on the one or more analog electrical signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tien-Chien Kuo, Kanghoon Jeon, Yingkan Lin, Bilin Wang, Ivan Knez, Stanley Bo-Ting Wang, Chun-Yao Huang
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Patent number: 10839733Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Display driver circuitry may be provided along an edge of the display. Data lines that are associated with columns of the pixels may be used to distribute data from the display driver circuitry to the pixels. Gate lines in the display may each have a horizontal straight portion that extends along a respective row of the pixels and may each have one or more non-horizontal segments such as zigzag segments. The non-horizontal portion of each gate line may be connected to the horizontal straight portion of the gate line by a via. The non-horizontal portions may each have portions that are overlapped by portions of the data lines. Dummy gate line structures may be provided on the display that are not coupled to any of the pixels in the display.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shinya Ono, Chun-Yao Huang, Hao-Lin Chiu, Ivan Knez, Patrick B. Bennett, Shih Chang Chang, Byung Duk Yang
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Publication number: 20200090630Abstract: An electronic display may include a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include memory storage to store data values representative of image data to be depicted via the pixel circuit. The memory storage may also include memory components for storing bits of the data value. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting device for emitting light based at least in part on the data value and a controller. The controller may receive the data value and store the bits based on a mapping between the bits and the memory components. The mapping may be determined based on routing one or more of the bits associated with one or more defective memory components of the memory components to one or more other memory components of the memory components. The controller may also drive the light-emitting device to emit light based on the bits stored in accordance with the mapping.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Stanley Bo-Ting Wang, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Ivan Knez, Jose Antonio Dominguez-Caballero, Tien-Chien Kuo