Patents by Inventor Stanley B Wang

Stanley B Wang 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: 11972070
    Abstract: Mitigation techniques can be used to reduce noise generated by wireless communication circuitry (e.g., near-field communication circuitry) in an electronic device including a display, touch, and wireless communication circuitry. In some examples, a touch screen can have a backplane including a mesh of routing traces connected to an array of chiplets. In some examples, the chiplets can repeat signals to prevent the accumulation of noise induced by an NFC coil. In some examples, the ratio between vertical and horizontal resistances of routing traces can be configured to mitigate noise induced by the coil. In some examples, the routing traces of the mesh can be configured to share a common geometric centroid. In some examples, a plurality of routing traces can be routed in a twisted pair configuration. In some examples, the routing traces and chiplets can be routed to minimize traversal through regions of relatively high electromagnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William Paul, Christoph H. Krah, Stanley B. Wang, Yongjie Jiang
  • Publication number: 20240105115
    Abstract: Electronic devices, displays, and methods are provided for operating an electronic display in coexistence with sensors that could be adversely impacted by the operation of the electronic display. An electronic device may include an electronic display and a sensor. The electronic display may display image content by light emission during an emission period and periodically enter a quiet period in which the light emission of the electronic display is turned off. The sensor may perform sensing operations during the quiet period without interference from the operation of the electronic display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Ce Zhang, Haitao Li, Hari P. Paudel, Hopil Bae, Jeongsup Lee, Nikhil Acharya, Pablo Moreno Galbis, Seung B. Rim, SeyedAli TaheriTari, Shengzhe Jiao, Stanley B. Wang, Sunmin Jang, Xiang Lu, Yaser Azizi, Young Don Bae
  • Publication number: 20240105089
    Abstract: Electronic displays and electronic devices including such electronic displays and antennas are provided for improved transmission of signals through circuitry of the electronic display. The electronic display may include multiple power supply tiles that are separated with non-conductive gaps to reduce circulation of eddy currents induced by the transmission signals. Moreover, voltage supply routing paths within the power supply tiles may be grouped to provide non-conductive gaps within the power supply tiles. Accordingly, the antenna may provide the transmission signals through the electronic display with improved efficiency based on reducing surface currents (e.g., eddy currents) on the electronic display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: William Matthew Pender Paul, Mario Martinis, Jiayi Jin, Yongjie Jiang, Baris Posat, Mojtaba Fallahpour, Haitao Li, James G. Horiuchi, Giovanni Azzellino, Weijun Yao, Stanley B. Wang, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi
  • Publication number: 20240105525
    Abstract: Test structures and methods of testing pixel driver chip donor wafers are described. In an embodiment, a redistribution layer is formed over a pixel driver chip donor wafer and probed to determine known good dies, followed by removal of the RDL. In other embodiments, test routing is formed in the pixel driver chip using a polycide material or doped region in the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Imran Hashim, Xiang Lu, Stanley B. Wang, Xuchun Liu, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Yongjie Jiang, Hopil Bae, Hasan Akyol, Baris Posat, John T. Wetherell, Lei Wu
  • Patent number: 11942034
    Abstract: Display panel redundancy schemes and redundancy building blocks are described. In an embodiment, pixel driver chips are connected to both primary and redundant strings of LEDs within a local passive matrix, and driver terminal switches within the pixel driver chip are used to select either the primary or redundant strings of LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema, Hopil Bae, Kapil V. Sakariya, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Stanley B. Wang, Tore Nauta
  • Patent number: 11929388
    Abstract: A display may be formed by an array of light-emitting diodes mounted to the surface of a display substrate. The light-emitting diodes may be inorganic light-emitting diodes formed from separate crystalline semiconductor structures. An array of pixel control circuits may be used to control light emission from the light-emitting diodes. Each pixel control circuit may be configured to control one or more respective passive matrices. To control partial pixel cells in the display, a donor pixel control circuit in a partial pixel cell may control the pixels in a receptor partial pixel cell without a pixel control circuit. To mitigate the size of an inactive area of the display, fanout signal lines for the display may be formed in the light-emitting active area of the display. The fanout signal lines may be formed between a row of pixel control circuits and a bottom edge of the light-emitting active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sandeep Chalasani, Steven E Molesa, Anatole Huang, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xia Li, Yongjie Jiang, Mittul Gupta, Stanley B Wang
  • Publication number: 20240054945
    Abstract: An electronic display may include a first anode configured to carry a red emission signal, a second anode configured to carry a blue emission signal, a third anode configured to carry a green emission signal, and a micro-driver configured to stagger a timing of the red emission signal, the blue emission signal, and the green emission signal based on an emission clock signal to display image content on the electronic display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Young Don Bae, Jeongsup Lee, Hari P. Paudel, Sunmin Jang, Shengzhe Jiao, Nikhil Acharya, Yaser Azizi, Ali RostamPisheh, Stanley B. Wang, Haitao Li
  • Publication number: 20240012515
    Abstract: Touch sensitive display technologies (e.g., integrated touch-display pixel-based systems) are evolving to contain more analog and digital circuits inside the panel itself instead of the traditionally simple thin-film transistors. This improves the display characteristics but makes those circuits more vulnerable to the impact of external ESD strikes, which can degrade the user experience. This disclosure describes a series of circuits and techniques to mitigate the impact of these discharges on front of screen artifacts and potential false touches. These circuits and techniques may include: performing configuration-only panel updates independently of the image refresh rate, improving the in-panel memory circuits to make them resistant to unexpected pin toggles via disabling of a write path in response to a read clock, implementing a pin corruption detector and implementing a supply injection detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Pablo Moreno Galbis, Xiang Lu, Bin Huang, Ling Zhang, Nikhil Acharya, Derek K. Shaeffer, Stanley B. Wang, Yongjie Jiang, Hopil Bae, Jiayi Jin, Ce Zhang, Young Don Bae, Giovanni Azzellino, Wooseung Yang, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Weijun Yao, Rajesh Velayuthan, Eric A. Hildebrandt, Henry C. Jen
  • Publication number: 20240005848
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display including display pixels to display an image based on compensated image data. As image data is written to a pixel in the row of pixels, capacitive coupling at a driver may lead to distortion on the driver. In particular, the capacitive coupling may cause distortion at a storage capacitor, which may lead to current droop at the pixel. The current droop may be reduced or eliminated in each pixel by performing pixel compensation. The pattern of the pixel compensation may be selected such that, over a number of subframes, an average amount of light is the same or similar to what would be emitted had pixel compensation been performed on each pixel in each subframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jeongsup Lee, Hasan Akyol, Xiang Lu, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Nikhil Acharya, Haitao Li, Hopil Bae, John T Wetherell, Shengzhe Jiao, Stanley B. Wang, Sunmin Jang, Hari P. Paudel, Eric A. Hildebrandt, Young Don Bae
  • Publication number: 20230094533
    Abstract: An electronic device can include integrated micro circuitry configurable for optical sensing and touch and/or proximity sensing. An integrated touch screen can include light emitting diodes or organic light emitting diodes and chiplets. In some examples, the LEDs/OLEDs and chiplets can be disposed in a visible area of the integrated touch screen. In some examples, some or all of the chiplets can be disposed outside of the visible area of the integrated touch screen. In some examples, the chiplets can include display driving circuitry and touch sensing circuitry, and can optionally perform optical sensing using the touch sensing circuitry. In some examples, the chiplets can include separate touch chiplets configured to perform touch sensing (and/or optical sensing) and display chiplets configured to perform display functionality (and optionally provide some switching functionality).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Christoph H. KRAH, Bin HUANG, Stanley B. WANG
  • Publication number: 20230090344
    Abstract: A display may be formed by an array of light-emitting diodes mounted to the surface of a display substrate. The light-emitting diodes may be inorganic light-emitting diodes formed from separate crystalline semiconductor structures. An array of pixel control circuits may be used to control light emission from the light-emitting diodes. Each pixel control circuit may be conred to control one or more respective passive matrices. To control partial pixel cells in the display, a donor pixel control circuit in a partial pixel cell may control the pixels in a receptor partial pixel cell without a pixel control circuit. To mitigate the size of an inactive area of the display, fanout signal lines for the display may be formed in the light-emitting active area of the display. The fanout signal lines may be formed between a row of pixel control circuits and a bottom edge of the light-emitting active area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Sandeep Chalasani, Steven E Molesa, Anatole Huang, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xia Li, Yongjie Jiang, Mittul Gupta, Stanley B Wang