Patents by Inventor Ricardo A Peterson

Ricardo A Peterson 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: 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: 20230297199
    Abstract: Touch electrode architecture techniques can be used to reduce or eliminate metal mesh within the one or more high-transmittance regions of a touch screen including one or more high-transmittance regions. In some examples, one or more optical devices can be integrated with a touch screen such that light associated with the one or more optical devices passes through one or more layers of the touch screen. In some such examples, to avoid degrading performance of the optical devices, one or more high-transmittance regions can be used. Additionally or alternatively, in some examples, the high-transmittance can be achieved using touch electrode architecture techniques that use transparent or semi-transparent materials instead of opaque metal mesh within the high-transmittance regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Christophe BLONDIN, Ashray Vinayak GOGTE, Ricardo A. PETERSON, Warren S. RIEUTORT-LOUIS, Yuchi CHE
  • Publication number: 20230284503
    Abstract: A display may have both a full pixel density region and a pixel removal region with a plurality of high-transmittance areas that overlap an optical sensor. Each high-transmittance area may be devoid of thin-film transistors and other display components. To improve transmission while maintaining satisfactory touch sensing performance, one or more segments of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may have a reduced width relative to the touch sensor metal in the full pixel density region and/or one or more segments of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may be omitted relative to the touch sensor metal in the full pixel density region. To mitigate a different appearance between the pixel removal region and the full pixel density region at off-axis viewing angles, the position of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may be tuned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Ricardo A Peterson, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Ashray Vinayak Gogte, Christophe Blondin, Sebastian Knitter, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Yuchi Che, Yurii Morozov, Matthew D Hollands, Chuang Qian, Michael H Lim, Matthew J Schwendeman, Kenny Kim, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Yue Qu
  • Patent number: 11751462
    Abstract: A display may have both a full pixel density region and a pixel removal region with a plurality of high-transmittance areas that overlap an optical sensor. Each high-transmittance area may be devoid of thin-film transistors and other display components. To improve transmission while maintaining satisfactory touch sensing performance, one or more segments of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may have a reduced width relative to the touch sensor metal in the full pixel density region and/or one or more segments of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may be omitted relative to the touch sensor metal in the full pixel density region. To mitigate a different appearance between the pixel removal region and the full pixel density region at off-axis viewing angles, the position of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may be tuned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ricardo A Peterson, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Ashray Vinayak Gogte, Christophe Blondin, Sebastian Knitter, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Yuchi Che, Yurii Morozov, Matthew D Hollands, Chuang Qian, Michael H Lim, Matthew J Schwendeman, Kenny Kim, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Yue Qu