Patents by Inventor Mahesh B. Chappalli

Mahesh B. Chappalli 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: 12354515
    Abstract: Image data for a current image frame may be compensated for transient response variations due to variations at various positions of the display panel by performing pixel drive compensation. The pixel drive compensation may be performed based at least in part upon a multi-frame history of the display panel. In this way, drive compensation corresponding to multi-frame history of a display panel may be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Mahesh B. Chappalli
  • Publication number: 20250218330
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel implementing a first region having a first pixel layout and a second region having a second pixel layout, a sensor disposed behind the first region, and image processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the display panel. The image processing circuitry may process image data associated with the first region of the display panel using a first pixel layout resampler and process image data associated with the second region of the display panel using a second pixel layout resampler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Hyun H. Boo, Mario Miscuglio, Jenny Hu, Ximeng Guan, Yi Qiao, Mahesh B. Chappalli, Zhizhen Ma, Alexey Kornienko, Tao Jia
  • Patent number: 12333995
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide various apparatuses and techniques to efficiently mitigate front-of-screen (FoS) artifacts that may occur due to voltage fluctuations due to alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) mechanisms that may occur in a variety of pixel types. In one embodiment, emission profile awareness circuitry may be implemented to mitigate for FoS artifacts due to DC mechanisms. Two-dimensional (2D) digital compensation circuitry may address the DC portion of the voltage fluctuations by accounting for an emission profile applied to content displayed on an electronic display. In some embodiments, the 2D digital compensation circuitry may compensate for the AC portion of the voltage fluctuations by duplicating the AC voltage fluctuations via voltage error subtraction circuitry and voltage error accumulation circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunwoo Nho, Jie Won Ryu, Patrick R Cruce, Yao Shi, Nicolas Le Dortz, Wei Xiong, Hyunsoo Kim, Wei H Yao, Sun-Il Chang, Kingsuk Brahma, Ionut A Mirel, Mahesh B Chappalli, Ruicong Chen
  • Patent number: 12298181
    Abstract: To mitigate undesirable outcomes due to crosstalk in an ambient light sensor reading resulting from light emission from an electronic display, statistics may be gathered to determine and compensate for the crosstalk. For example, the ambient light sensor may detect ambient light levels while the electronic display is temporarily paused to reduce or eliminate crosstalk between the light produced by the electronic display and the ambient light sensor. However, the ambient light sensor may retain charge from a previous light emission, creating back-emission crosstalk. The ratio of back-emission to front-emission (e.g., present light emission) may not be linear, and the degree of nonlinearity may vary with pixel value, color component, display brightness, temperature, and so on. As the ambient light sensor is affected by back-emission, compensation for the nonlinearity between the front-emission and the back-emission may be obtained to estimate the crosstalk induced on the ambient light sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mahesh B Chappalli, Ionut A Mirel, Yan Guan, Akshay Bhat
  • Patent number: 12288512
    Abstract: An electronic display may include an ambient light sensor (ALS) located beneath an active area to sense ambient light above the active area. The ALS may have multiple response channels to perform fast sensing integration, which is synchronized with blanking periods of a pixel on the active area. An emission mask and a heat map may be generated for the ALS and used to generate a calibrated heat map for the ALS. The calibrated heat map of the ALS is used with display content to calculate a crosstalk compensation for the ALS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Francesco LaRocca, Aditya B Nayak, Anand K Chamakura, Christopher M Dodson, Guocheng Shao, Kenneth J Vampola, Mahesh B Chappalli, Reza Tafteh, Serhan O Isikman, Steven N Hanna
  • Publication number: 20250109985
    Abstract: An electronic display includes an ambient light sensor (ALS) located beneath an active area to sense ambient light above the active area. The ALS is synchronized with blanking periods of a display pixel on the active area. An emission-off scale factor is calculated based on an emission profile of the display pixel when the display pixel is turned off. The emission-off scale factor is used with display content to calculate a crosstalk compensation for the ALS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Ionut A Mirel, Mahesh B Chappalli, Maximillian C Bruggeman
  • Publication number: 20250111557
    Abstract: An electronic device having image processing circuitry to securely display secure content is provided. The image processing circuitry may include first image processing circuitry to process first image data in a first execution environment. The image processing circuitry may also include second image processing circuitry to process second image data in a second execution environment. The second execution environment may be a trusted execution environment to generate composite image data based on blending the processed first image data with the processed second image data such that the processed second image is always visible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Mahesh B Chappalli, Clement Moussu
  • Publication number: 20250104668
    Abstract: Systems and techniques described herein may correct for chromatic deviations due to ambient dependent color perception in low-light conditions and/or bright-light conditions. Processing circuitry may determine a first and a second strength parameter based on an ambient brightness value, an intended display brightness value, one or more vectors, and a two-dimensional look up table. If the first strength parameter is greater than zero, then the processing circuitry may apply chromatic corrections based on luminance and chrominance compensation functions in an opponent color space. For example, per-pixel gains may be determined based on global curves and applied as a function of pixel value (e.g., luminance component). If the first strength parameter is less than zero and the second strength parameter is greater than zero, the processing circuitry may determine chromatic corrections based on a three-dimensional lookup table that may be programmable based on a strength parameter and/or a gain value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Pradeep Nagesh, Mahesh B Chappalli, Alexey Kornienko
  • Publication number: 20250076111
    Abstract: To mitigate undesirable outcomes due to crosstalk in an ambient light sensor reading resulting from light emission from an electronic display, statistics may be gathered to determine and compensate for the crosstalk. For example, the ambient light sensor may detect ambient light levels while the electronic display is temporarily paused to reduce or eliminate crosstalk between the light produced by the electronic display and the ambient light sensor. However, the ambient light sensor may retain charge from a previous light emission, creating back-emission crosstalk. The ratio of back-emission to front-emission (e.g., present light emission) may not be linear, and the degree of nonlinearity may vary with pixel value, color component, display brightness, temperature, and so on. As the ambient light sensor is affected by back-emission, compensation for the nonlinearity between the front-emission and the back-emission may be obtained to estimate the crosstalk induced on the ambient light sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Mahesh B. Chappalli, Ionut A. Mirel, Yan Guan, Akshay Bhat
  • Patent number: 12243465
    Abstract: To reduce image artifacts and non-uniformity associated with a display pixel of an electronic display, processing circuity may adjust a luminance value corresponding to a display pixel according to a per-pixel gain mask, a per-pixel anode mask, or both. To further correct for the non-uniformity, the processing circuitry may convert the luminance value to a digital code based on a curve associated with an anode on which the display pixel is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sunmin Jang, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Saif Choudhary, Hopil Bae, Gautam Agrawal, Ionut A Mirel, Hari P Paudel, Haitao Li, Wei H Yao, Mahesh B Chappalli, Young Don Bae
  • Patent number: 12230191
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein to control brightness based on image content or other inputs to a display system. A dual-control system may integrate both slow control operations and fast control operations into a cohesive brightness management system. By using both shorter-term (e.g., fast control) and longer-term (e.g., slow control) brightness adjustment operations, the electronic device may quickly respond to high luminance and high brightness situations that may cause burn-in into the display, image artifacts, or other damage. Responding quickly to these high consumption situations may prevent damage or perceivable upset to an ongoing process, among other benefits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wanqing Xin, Yang Xu, Mohammad Ali Jangda, Jenny Hu, Koorosh Aflatooni, Giovanni Corradini, Martin Kocicka, Alexey Kornienko, Asha G Karvaje, Aishwarya Prem Renu, Andrew D Pangborn, Chaohao Wang, Yingying Tang, Arthur L Spence, Mahesh B Chappalli
  • Patent number: 12211456
    Abstract: A device may include an electronic display to display an image frame based on first and second color component input image data. The electronic display may include a first illuminator to generate a first light at a first brightness level, a second illuminator to generate a second light of a different color at a second brightness level, a first set of pixel locations to emit the first light based on a first set of pixel values, and a second set of pixel locations to emit the second light based on a second set of pixel values. The electronic device may also include pixel contrast control circuitry that determines the first brightness level and the first set of pixel values based on the first color component input image data and determines the second brightness level and the second set of pixel values based on the second color component input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher P Tann, Mahesh B Chappalli, Alexey Kornienko
  • Patent number: 12211457
    Abstract: A device may include an electronic display having multiple illuminators that generate light at a first wavelength and a quantum dot layer that converts a portion of the light from the first wavelength to a second wavelength. The first wavelength may vary based on a brightness level of the illuminator, and the amount of light generated by the illuminator that is converted to the second wavelength may vary based on the first wavelength. The electronic display may also include a display pixel to regulate the light emitted from the electronic display at a pixel location based on compensated image data. The device may also include image processing circuitry to determine a luminance contribution to the light from the illuminator for the pixel location, determine per color component compensation values based on the luminance contribution, and generate the compensated image data based on the per color component compensation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mahesh B Chappalli, Alexey Kornienko
  • Publication number: 20240404445
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel comprising a plurality of display pixels, an image source configured to store image data, and image processing circuitry. The image processing circuitry may receive the image data configured to be displayed by the plurality of display pixels, wherein the image data comprises gray level data for a first display pixel of the plurality of display pixels, convert the gray level data to first voltage data, and select a plurality of compensation maps based on a brightness level of the display panel. The image processing circuitry may also determine a voltage offset value based on the input voltage and the plurality of compensation maps, apply the voltage offset value to the first voltage data to generate compensated voltage data, and convert the compensated voltage data into compensated gray level data for the first display pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Vincent Z. Young, Mahesh B. Chappalli, Maofeng Yang, Weijun Yao
  • Patent number: 12154487
    Abstract: Image processing circuitry may include burn-in compensation circuitry that receives image data indicative of luminance outputs for display pixels of an electronic display and compensates the image data for burn-in related aging associated with the display pixels, generating compensated image data. Moreover, compensating the image data may include applying gains based on estimated amounts of aging associated with the display pixels and estimated amounts of current to be delivered to the display pixels. The image processing circuitry may also include burn-in statistics circuitry that tracks the estimated amounts of aging based on the compensated image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Z Young, Mahesh B Chappalli, Tae-Wook Koh, Yifan Zhang, Jared S Price
  • Patent number: 12154480
    Abstract: A light emitter that operates through a display may cause display artifacts, even when the light emitter operates using non-visible wavelengths. Display artifacts caused by a light emitter that operates through a display may be referred to as emitter artifacts. To mitigate emitter artifacts, operating conditions for a display frame may be used to determine an optimal firing time for the light emitter during that display frame. The operating conditions used to determine the optimal firing time may include emitter operating conditions, display content statistics, display brightness, temperature, and refresh rate. Operating conditions from one or more previous frames may be stored in a frame buffer and may be used to help determine the optimal firing time for the light emitter during a display frame. Pixel values for the display may be modified to mitigate emitter artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jenny Hu, Chaohao Wang, Christopher E Glazowski, Clint M Perlaki, David R Manly, Feng Wen, Graeme M Williams, Hei Kam, Hyun H Boo, Kevin J Choboter, Kyounghwan Kim, Lu Yan, Mahesh B Chappalli, Mark T Winkler, Na Zhu, Peter F Holland, Tong Chen, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Wenrui Cai, Ximeng Guan, Yingying Tang, Yuchi Che
  • Patent number: 12142219
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display having a pixel and that displays an image based on compensated image data. The electronic device may also include image processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the electronic display. The image processing circuitry may receive image data and determine a gain value for the pixel based on an aging value of the pixel that is based on previously displayed pixel values of the pixel. The image processing circuitry may also adjust the gain value based on a pixel value of the image data corresponding to the pixel to generate an updated gain value and adjust the pixel value of the image data based on the updated gain value to generate, at least in part, the compensated image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tae-Wook Koh, Mahesh B Chappalli, Jared S Price, Vincent Z Young, Yifan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12125436
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display having display pixels that display an image based on compensated image data. The electronic display may also include pixel drive circuitry that provides power to the display pixels in accordance with the compensated image data. Additionally, the electronic device may include burn-in compensation circuitry communicatively coupled to the electronic display that receives input image data and generates the compensated input image data based on the input image data, a pixel aging history corresponding to the display pixels, and a driver aging history corresponding to the pixel drive circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tae-Wook Koh, Mahesh B Chappalli, Vincent Z Young, Yifan Zhang, Jared S Price
  • Patent number: 12118962
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed toward systems and methods of pre-multiplied alpha handling during image processing operations. The image processing circuitry may include hardware that enables removal and insertion of pre-multiplied alpha content into red, green, blue (RGB) pixel values during gamma and scaling operations. The division by alpha and multiplication by alpha hardware may enable removal of pre-multiplied alpha content to RGB pixel values prior to gamma operations and insertion of pre-multiplied alpha content into RGB pixel values prior to scaling operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Z Young, Mahesh B Chappalli, Bartosz Ciechanowski
  • Publication number: 20240339086
    Abstract: An electronic display device has a panel that operates in conjunction with a light-emitting diode (LED) backlight. The device “slopes” or gradually ramps a change in brightness of an LED based on a target brightness value of the LED, a current brightness value of the LED, and temperature at the LED. The device also may limit power to the backlight based on an estimated power consumption of a current row of LEDs of the backlight and power consumption of the other rows of LEDs. The device also may determine a reduced voltage to supply to an LED based on a current to supply to the LED to cause the LED to operate. The device also may send an interrupt to the backlight to block updates to the backlight while image content is written to pixels of the panel. The device further compensates for aging of and temperature at an LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Mahesh B. Chappalli, Assaf Menachem, Daniel Yechiel Dar, Ido Yaacov Soffair