Patents by Inventor Levent Erdal Aygun

Levent Erdal Aygun 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).

  • Publication number: 20240420644
    Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels that receive control signals from a chain of gate drivers. Each gate driver may include a mix of silicon transistors, one or more semiconducting oxide transistors, and one or more capacitors. The semiconducting oxide transistors can each have a back gate terminal shorted to one of its source-drain terminals, shorted to its front gate terminal, or configured to receive a bias voltage. Configured in this way, the gate driver circuit can exhibit less threshold voltage drift and thus improved device reliability over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Fan Gui, Chin-Wei Lin, Aida R Colon-Berrios, Ran Tu, Xuan Hu, Levent Erdal Aygun, Yi Zhao
  • Patent number: 11854490
    Abstract: To reduce the amount of space occupied in the inactive area of a display by gate driver circuitry, at least a portion of the gate driver circuitry may be positioned in the active area of the display. To accommodate the gate driver circuitry, emissive sub-pixels may be laterally shifted relative to corresponding thin-film transistor sub-pixels. This allows for the thin-film transistor sub-pixels to be grouped adjacent to the central area of the active area, leaving room along an edge of the active area to accommodate one or more additional display components such as gate driver circuitry or fanout portions of data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Levent Erdal Aygun, Chin-Wei Lin, Yun Wang, Xin Lin, Aida R Colon-Berrios, Shih Chang Chang, Fan Gui, Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad, Ran Tu, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran, Cheng-Chih Hsieh, Ricardo A Peterson, Shyuan Yang, Ting-Kuo Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Yuchi Che
  • Publication number: 20230081342
    Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels. Each pixel in the array may include a drive transistor, emission transistors, a data loading transistor, a gate voltage setting transistor, an initialization transistor, an anode reset transistor, a storage capacitor, and an optional current boosting capacitor coupled in series with an isolation transistor. A data refresh may include a initialization phase, a threshold voltage sampling phase, and a data programming phase. The threshold voltage sampling phase can be substantially longer than the data programming phase to decrease a current sampling level during the threshold voltage sampling phase, which helps reduce the display luminance sensitivity to temperature variations. During a data refresh, the isolation transistor can be turned on to provide current boosting. During emission periods, the isolation transistor is turned off to prevent cathode noise from potentially coupling through to one or more direct-current voltage nodes in the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Aida R Colon-Berrios, Fan Gui, Levent Erdal Aygun, Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad, Ran Tu, Xin Lin, Yun Wang