Patents by Inventor Jun Qi
Jun Qi 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: 20170363800Abstract: A display such as a liquid crystal display may have an array of pixels that is illuminated using backlight illumination from a backlight. The backlight may have a light guide layer that distributes light from light-emitting diodes across the display. The light guide layer may have a planar portion that provides backlight illumination to the array of pixels and may have bent edge portions that curve out of the plane of the planar portion. Light scattering structures may be formed in the planar portion to extract backlight illumination from the light guide layer. A light sensor adjacent to the bent portion may monitor leaked light. The light guide layer may have two bent portions on opposing edges of the light guide layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Rong Liu, Mengyang Liang, Yu P. Sun, Jun Qi, Victor H. Yin
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Patent number: 9835793Abstract: A display may have a backlight. The display backlight may have a light guide plate. An array of light-emitting diodes may emit light into the edge of the light guide plate. The array of light-emitting diodes may be mounted to a flexible printed circuit. A layer of adhesive tape may attach the light guide plate to the flexible printed circuit. The tape layer may have upper and lower adhesive layers on a carrier film. The carrier film may be formed from a metal-coated polymer layer, a high-low dielectric stack, a metal foil, or other reflective or non-reflective structures. A stiffener may be provided to facilitate handling of the adhesive tape.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Xinyu Zhu, Jun Qi, Po-Wen Chiu, Victor H. Yin
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Patent number: 9835786Abstract: An electronic device display may have display layers that provide images for a user. Backlight structures may provide backlight for the display layers. The backlight structures may include a light source such as an array of light-emitting diodes. A light guide plate in the backlight structures may be used to distribute the light from the light-emitting diodes throughout the display. The light guide plate may have a main rectangular area that overlaps the display. The main rectangular area may have refractive light scattering structures such as a layer containing clear beads. The refractive light scattering structures may scatter light from the light guide plate for use as backlight. A strip of light diffracting structures such as holographic structures or grating structures may be used to mix light from the light-emitting diodes along the border of the light guide plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2012Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jun Qi, Victor H. Yin, Wei Chen
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Patent number: 9830849Abstract: One embodiment describes an electronic display that displays image frames with a first refresh rate or a second refresh rate, in which the second refresh rate is lower than the first refresh rate; a display driver that writes the image frames by applying voltage to a display panel; and a timing controller that receives first image data from an image source, in which the first image data describes a first image frame and a first desired refresh rate equal to the second fresh rate; and that instructs the display driver to apply a first set of voltage polarities to the display panel to display first image frame at the first refresh rate and to apply a second set of voltage polarities to the display the first image frame at the second refresh rate when polarity of inversion imbalance accumulated is equal to polarity of the first set of voltage polarities.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Chaohao Wang, David S. Zalatimo, Lei Zhao, Christopher P. Tann, Paolo Sacchetto, Sandro H. Pintz, Yi Huang, Jun Qi
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Patent number: 9810942Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a light source emitting a blue light and a light emitting layer including a first group of red quantum dots and a second group of green quantum dots. The light emitting layer is configured to absorb a first portion of the blue light from the light source to emit red light and green light and to transmit a second portion of the blue light. The display device also includes dichroic filter layers to improve light recycling and backlight efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chenhua You, Jun Qi, Fan-Chung Hsu, Victor H. Yin
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Patent number: 9804639Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a lid that rotates relative to a base. A display in the lid may have a thin-film transistor layer. Display driver circuitry may be mounted to the thin-film transistor layer. A display timing controller integrated circuit may be mounted in the base. A rigid flex printed circuit may have a rigid portion in the base to which the display timing controller integrated circuit is mounted and may have a rigid portion in the lid. A flexible printed circuit portion of the rigid flex printed circuit may be used to couple the rigid printed circuit portion in the lid to the thin-film transistor layer. A flexible printed circuit portion of the rigid flex printed circuit that extends between the lid and the base may be formed from a double-shield-layer single-signal-line-layer flexible printed circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bryan W. Posner, Dinesh C. Mathew, Eric L. Benson, Jason N. Gomez, Jun Qi, Robert Y. Cao, Victor H. Yin, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Wey-Jiun Lin
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Patent number: 9805630Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with backlight structures. The backlight structures may produce backlight that passes through the display layers in the display. The backlight structures may include a light guide plate that distributes light across the display layers. A light source such as a light-emitting diode light source may be used to provide light to the light guide plate. The light source may overlap an edge portion of the light guide plate. A light guide structure having a bend may be coupled between the light source and the light guide plate. The light guide structure may be used to guide the light from the light source to the light guide plate via total internal reflection. A light guide structure may be provided with light leakage promotion structures to evenly distribute light from a centralized light source along the edge of a light guide plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Derek Wright, Jun Qi
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Patent number: 9806219Abstract: A display may include a color filter layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may be formed in the display to accommodate a camera. The camera window may be formed by creating a notch in the thin-film transistor layer that extends inwardly from the edge of the thin-film transistor layer. The notch may be formed by scribing the thin-film transistor layer around the notch location and breaking away a portion of the thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may also be formed by grinding a hole in the display. The hole may penetrate partway into the thin-film transistor layer, may penetrate through the transistor layer but not into the color filter layer, or may pass through the thin-film transistor layer and partly into the color filter layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric L. Benson, Bryan W. Posner, Christopher L. Boitnott, Dinesh C. Mathew, Jun Qi, Robert Y. Cao, Victor H. Yin
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Publication number: 20170303365Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display having a backlight with light sources of different colors. The electronic device may include a color ambient light sensor that measures the color of ambient light and control circuitry that adjusts the color of light emitted from the backlight based on the color of ambient light. The light sources may include at least first and second light-emitting diodes that emit light having different color temperatures. The control circuitry may adjust the intensity of light emitted from the first light-emitting diode relative to the intensity of light emitted from the second light-emitting diode to produce a backlight color that more closely matches the color of ambient light. The first and second light-emitting diodes may include an ultraviolet light-emitting diode die and a blue light-emitting diode die that are mounted in a common semiconductor package.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2016Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Cheng Chen, Jiaying Wu, Lu Zhang, David A. Doyle, Christopher E. Glazowski, Adria Fores Herranz, Chenhua You, Wei Chen, Jun Qi, John Z. Zhong
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Patent number: 9789120Abstract: The invention relates to compositions and methods for effecting male contraception.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignees: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., Baylor College of MedicineInventors: James Elliott Bradner, Martin Matzuk, Jun Qi
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Patent number: 9783654Abstract: The present disclosure provides an additive and a method for terminating polymerization and/or reducing viscosity of polymer solution. The additive comprises a carboxylic acid, an alcohol, a salt chosen from alkali metal salts, alkaline earth metal salts, ammonium salts, and any combination thereof, and optionally, water. The method of the present disclosure comprises adding the additive according to present disclosure into a polymer solution and mixing the resulting mixture. The additive of the present disclosure can terminate living polymer chain ends efficiently and can destroy catalytic active centers and can substantially reduce the viscosity of a polymer solution.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yixian Wu, Wei Hua, Han Zhu, Liangxing Ma, Yanqin Hao, Ximing Zhao, Guojun Zheng, Changqing Duan, Jun Qi, Qijun Mu
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Patent number: 9785007Abstract: A display may have an array of display pixels for displaying images for a user. A backlight unit may provide backlight for the display pixels. The backlight unit may have a substrate such as a printed circuit substrate. An array of locally dimmable backlight elements may be mounted on the substrate. The substrate may be mounted against an inner surface of a metal electronic device housing or other support structure in an electronic device. Each backlight element may have a semiconductor package containing a semiconductor die. The semiconductor die may have a light-emitting diode and a light-emitting-diode control circuit. The light-emitting-diode control circuit may have a pair of transistors and a capacitor. One of the transistors may be connected in series with the light-emitting diode. The light-emitting diode control circuit may receive control signals on a gate line terminal and a source line terminal.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: ByoungSuk Kim, Jun Qi, Victor H. Yin
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Patent number: 9739929Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided with displays. A display may have a light guide plate. Backlight for the display may be launched into the light guide plate from an array of light-emitting diodes. The light-emitting diodes may be mounted on a metal core printed circuit board having a dielectric layer and a metal layer. The metal core printed circuit board may have an elongated shape that extends along the surface of a metal structure. A weld may be formed along a seam between the metal layer of the metal core printed circuit board and the metal structure. The metal structure may be an electronic device housing, a display chassis member, a heat spreader, a heat pipe, or other structures in an electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Adam T. Garelli, Christopher L. Boitnott, Dinesh C. Mathew, Jun Qi, Nicholas A. Rundle, Victor H. Yin, Nathan K. Gupta
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Patent number: 9728124Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels. Each display pixel may include a red subpixel, a green subpixel, a blue subpixel, and a white subpixel. The display may be controlled using display control circuitry. The display control circuitry may convert frames of display data from a red-green-blue (RGB) color space to a red-green-blue-white (RGBW) color space. The display control circuitry may supply data signals corresponding to a frame of display data in the RGBW color space to the array of display pixels. A frame of display data may be converted from the RGB color space to the RGBW color space based on an amount of color saturation in the frame of display data, based on information identifying what code is running on control circuitry in the electronic device, and/or based on ambient lighting condition information.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jun Qi, Gabriel Marcu, Victor H. Yin
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Patent number: 9719639Abstract: A display has an array of display pixels formed from display layers such as one or more polarizer layers, a substrate on which an array of display pixel elements such as color filter elements and downconverter elements are formed, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer that includes display pixel electrodes and display pixel thin-film transistors for driving control signals onto the display pixel electrodes to modulate light passing through the display pixels. A light source such as one or more laser diodes or light-emitting diodes may be used to generate light for the display. The light may be launched into the edge of a polymer layer or other light guide plate structure. A light guide plate may include phase-matched structures such as holographically recorded gratings or photonic lattices that direct the light upwards through the array of display pixels.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mingxia Gu, Chenhua You, Jun Qi, Yanming Li, Young Cheol Yang, Jean-Jacques Drolet, Wei Chen, Victor H. Yin
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Patent number: 9714946Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the Formula (I) and (II), and salts thereof, wherein L1, L2, A, B, Z, and RO are as defined herein. The present invention also provides synthetic intermediates, methods of preparation and use, and kits comprising such compounds. Such compounds, when bound to a label or probe (B), may be useful in various assays for identifying bromodomain binding agents, for example, specific for the BET-family of bromodomains.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.Inventors: James E. Bradner, Jun Qi
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Patent number: 9695172Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of any one of Formulae (I), (II-C) (e.g., Formula (II)), and (III), and pharmaceutically compositions thereof. Compounds of any one of Formulae (I), (II-C), and (III) are believed to be binders of bromodomains and/or bromodomain-containing proteins (e.g., bromo and extra terminal (BET) proteins). Also provided are methods, uses, and kits using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting the activity (e.g., increased activity) of bromodomains and/or bromodomain-containing proteins and for treating and/or preventing in a subject diseases associated with bromodomains or bromodomain-containing proteins (e.g., proliferative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, viral infections, fibrotic diseases, metabolic diseases, endocrine diseases, and radiation poisoning). The compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits are also useful for male contraception.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.Inventors: James E. Bradner, Nathanael S. Gray, Jun Qi, Michael R. McKeown, Dennis Buckley
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Patent number: 9690024Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. Inactive portions of the display may be masked using an opaque masking layer. An opening may be provided in the masking layer. A camera may receive light through the opening in the opaque masking layer. The display may include upper and lower polarizers, a color filter layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. The upper polarizer may have an unpolarized window aligned with the opening in the opaque masking layer for the camera, a logo, or another internal structure. The unpolarized window may be formed from openings in polarizer layers such as a polyvinyl alcohol layer and optical retarder layers. The openings may pass through all or less than all of the polarizer layers. The openings may be filled with transparent filler material. The polarizer may include a try-acetyl cellulose layer that continuously covers the opening in other polarizer layers.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Meizi Jiao, Jun Qi, Victor H. Yin
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Publication number: 20170176657Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided with displays that have polarizers. A polarizer may have a polymer layer that has a portion covered with a dichroic dye to form a polarized region and a portion that is free of dichroic dye to form an unpolarized region. The unpolarized region may be formed by masking the polymer layer during a dye coating process. Masks may be formed from polymers. The shape of the mask may define the shape of the unpolarized region. The mask may be left in place within the polarizer or may be removed from the polarizer during fabrication. Unpolarized regions may also be formed by light bleaching, chemical bleaching, and material removal techniques. Bleached areas may be chemically stabilized. A moisture barrier layer may be incorporated into the polarizer to help prevent the unpolarized region from reverting to a polarized state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Cheng Chen, Masato Kuwabara, Christopher L. Boitnott, Jun Qi, Nathan K. Gupta, Victor H. Yin, John Z. Zhong
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Patent number: 9664955Abstract: The described embodiments relate generally to liquid crystal displays (LCDs), and more particularly to methods for extending a glass portion of a display to an edge of a display housing. In one embodiment, a thin cover glass layer is provided between a color filter glass layer and an upper polarizer. The thin cover glass layer is supported along an edge of the display by a filler material that can include a foam dam and a glass spacer or adhesive filler. The filler material allows the cover glass layer to be supported without damaging any drivers or circuits located on an underlying thin film transistor glass layer. In another embodiment, a glass spacer circuit with integrated drivers and circuitry on its lower surface can support the cover glass along the edge of the display.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric Lee Benson, Bryan W. Posner, Jun Qi, Victor Hao-En Yin, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Dinesh C. Mathew, Adam T. Garelli