Patents by Inventor Tsung-ting Tsai
Tsung-ting Tsai 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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Patent number: 11154330Abstract: A dual-trajectory pedicle screw system includes an internally threaded sleeve and including first part and cylindrical second part, the first part being recessed to form a space, and the second part including projections on top; a main screw including a universal head and a first conic member, the universal head including first and second threaded holes, the first threaded hole being inclined at a first angle, the second threaded hole being inclined at a different second angle, bottom of the universal head being a convex and rotatably disposed in the space; and an auxiliary screw including external threads threadedly secured to the first or second threaded hole so that the auxiliary screw is secured to the main screw at the first or second angle with respect to the main screw, a second conic member extending downward from the external threads, and a fitting member on top of the external threads.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITYInventors: Yun-Da Li, Ching-Lung Tai, Po-Liang Lai, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Ming-Kai Hsieh, Mu-Yi Liu
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Publication number: 20210305350Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having display pixels formed in an active area of the display. The display further includes display driver circuitry for driving gate lines that are routed across the display. A hole such as a through hole, optical window, or other inactive region may be formed within the active area of the display. Multiple gate lines carrying the same signal may be merged together prior to being routed around the hole to help minimize the routing line congestion around the border of the hole. Dummy circuits may be coupled to the merged segment portion to help increase the parasitic loading on the merged segments. The hole may have a tapered shape to help maximize the size of the active area. The hole may have an asymmetric shape to accommodate multiple sub-display sensor components.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Yuchi Che, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Jiun-Jye Chang, Shih Chang Chang, Ting-Kuo Chang
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Publication number: 20210273031Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. The display and substrate may have rounded corners. A pixel definition layer may be formed on the thin-film transistor circuitry. Openings in the pixel definition layer may be provided with emissive material overlapping respective anodes for organic light-emitting diodes. A cathode layer may cover the array of pixels. A ground power supply path may be used to distribute a ground voltage to the cathode layer. The ground power supply path may be formed from a metal layer that is shorted to the cathode layer using portions of a metal layer that forms anodes for the diodes, may be formed from a mesh shaped metal pattern, may have L-shaped path segments, may include laser-deposited metal on the cathode layer, and may have other structures that facilitate distribution of the ground power supply.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Stephen S. Poon, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Cheng-Ho Yu, ChoongHo Lee, Doh-Hyoung Lee, Ting-Kuo Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Vasudha Gupta, Younggu Lee
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Patent number: 11101337Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. The display and substrate may have rounded corners. A pixel definition layer may be formed on the thin-film transistor circuitry. Openings in the pixel definition layer may be provided with emissive material overlapping respective anodes for organic light-emitting diodes. A cathode layer may cover the array of pixels. A ground power supply path may be used to distribute a ground voltage to the cathode layer. The ground power supply path may be formed from a metal layer that is shorted to the cathode layer using portions of a metal layer that forms anodes, may be formed from a mesh shaped metal pattern, may have L-shaped path segments, and may include laser-deposited metal on the cathode layer. Data lines may be formed from metal layers in the active area to accommodate the rounded corners of the display.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuchi Che, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Jiun-Jye Chang, Ting-Kuo Chang, Shih Chang Chang, Chin-Wei Lin, Stephen S. Poon, Cheng-Ho Yu, ChoongHo Lee, Doh-Hyoung Lee, Vasudha Gupta, Younggu Lee
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Patent number: 11087670Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible display such as an organic light-emitting diode display. A strain sensing resistor may be formed on a bent tail portion of the flexible display to gather strain measurements. Resistance measurement circuitry in a display driver integrated circuit may make resistance measurements on the strain sensing resistor and a temperature compensation resistor to measure strain. A crack detection line may be formed from an elongated pair of traces that are coupled at their ends to form a loop. The crack detection line may run along a peripheral edge of the flexible display. Crack detection circuitry may monitor the resistance of the crack detection line to detect cracks. The crack detection circuitry may include switches that adjust the length of the crack detection line and thereby allow resistances to be measured for different segments of the line.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Prashant Mandlik, Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran, Izhar Z Ahmed, Zhen Zhang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Ki Yeol Byun, Yu Cheng Chen, Sungki Lee, Mohammad Hajirostam, Sinan Alousi
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Publication number: 20210210022Abstract: A display may have rows and columns of pixels. Gate lines may be used to supply gate signals to rows of the pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data signals to columns of the pixels. The data lines may include alternating even and odd data lines. Data lines may be organized in pairs each of which includes one of the odd data lines and an adjacent one of the even data lines. Demultiplexer circuitry may be configured dynamically during data loading and pixel sensing operations. During data loading, data from display driver circuitry may be supplied, alternately to odd pairs of the data lines and even pairs of the data lines. During sensing, the demultiplexer circuitry may couple a pair of the even data lines to sensing circuitry in the display driver circuitry and then may couple a pair of the odd data lines to the sensing circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Ting-Kuo Chang, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Shinya Ono, Shin-Hung Yeh, Chien-Ya Lee, Shyuan Yang
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Publication number: 20210201772Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display and a controller. The controller is configured to provide a first frequency refresh rate to the display. The controller is also configured to generate a control signal configured to control emission of a light emitting diode of a display pixel of the display at a second frequency based on whether the first frequency refresh rate of the display is less than a predetermined threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Hung Sheng Lin, Vasudha Gupta, Shinya Ono, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Shyuan Yang
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Patent number: 11049445Abstract: A display may have rows and columns of pixels that form an active area for displaying images. A display driver integrated circuit may provide multiplexed data signals to demultiplexer circuitry in the display. The demultiplexer circuitry may demultiplex the data signals and provide the demultiplexed data signals to the pixels on data lines. Gate lines may control the loading of the data signals into the pixels. The display may have a length dimension and a width dimension that is shorter than the length dimension. The data lines may extend parallel to the width dimension and the gate lines may extend parallel to the length dimension such that there are more data lines than gate lines in the display. A notch that is free of pixels may extend into the active area. Data lines extending parallel to the width dimension of the display may be routed around the notch.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Shyuan Yang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Cheng-Ho Yu, Jae Won Choi, Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Ting-Kuo Chang
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Patent number: 10998344Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vasudha Gupta, Jae Won Choi, Shih Chang Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Young Bae Park
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Patent number: 10984706Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display and a controller. The controller is configured to provide a first frequency refresh rate to the display. The controller is also configured to generate a control signal configured to control emission of a light emitting diode of a display pixel of the display at a second frequency based on whether the first frequency refresh rate of the display is less than a predetermined threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Hung Sheng Lin, Vasudha Gupta, Shinya Ono, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Shyuan Yang
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Patent number: 10984727Abstract: A display may have rows and columns of pixels. Gate lines may be used to supply gate signals to rows of the pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data signals to columns of the pixels. The data lines may include alternating even and odd data lines. Data lines may be organized in pairs each of which includes one of the odd data lines and an adjacent one of the even data lines. Demultiplexer circuitry may be configured dynamically during data loading and pixel sensing operations. During data loading, data from display driver circuitry may be supplied, alternately to odd pairs of the data lines and even pairs of the data lines. During sensing, the demultiplexer circuitry may couple a pair of the even data lines to sensing circuitry in the display driver circuitry and then may couple a pair of the odd data lines to the sensing circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ting-Kuo Chang, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Shinya Ono, Shin-Hung Yeh, Chien-Ya Lee, Shyuan Yang
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Patent number: 10971074Abstract: An electronic device may include a display such as a light-emitting diode display. The electronic device may be a head-mounted device that provides a virtual reality or augmented reality environment to a user. To reduce artifacts in the display, a display may be operable in both a normal scanning mode and a partial scanning mode. In the normal scanning mode, every row of the display may be enabled to emit light in each frame. In the partial scanning mode, only a subset of the rows of the display may be enabled to emit light in each frame. The display may have a higher refresh rate in the partial scanning mode than in the normal scanning mode. To ensure uniform transistor stress across the display, the scanning driver for the display may scan the disabled rows in the partial scanning mode even though the rows will not be used to emit light.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Keitaro Yamashita, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Shin-Hung Yeh, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Shih-Chang Chang, Ting-Kuo Chang, Ki Yeol Byun, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis
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Patent number: 10958454Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for connecting via a cable a USB host and USB device over distances equal to greater than 50 meters. The methods and systems include having the host and device each send a pilot signal over the cable and the host and device, each detecting that the received pilot signal is valid. After confirming the validity of the pilot signals, the host begins standard USB protocols with the device. The system and methods also allow for the insertion of a power over Ethernet device into the cable to provide power to a remote USB device. In some embodiments, only the D+ and D? lines are used allowing multiple independent USB connections over the cable.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: LOGITECH EUROPE S.A.Inventors: Joseph Yao-Hua Chu, Tsung-Ting Tsai
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Publication number: 20210035499Abstract: Electronic devices may include displays having organic light-emitting diode pixels, display driver circuitry, and gate driver circuitry. To reduce the amount of space occupied in the inactive area of a display by the gate driver circuitry, one or more of the shift registers in the gate driver circuitry may include register circuits that are shared by multiple rows of pixels. Different drivers may use different clock frequencies to ensure synchronous operation of the display even when some register circuits share pixel rows. For increased flexibility in the arrangement of the register circuits in the shift registers, one or more of the shift registers may be split across the active area of the display. In some cases, one of the emission drivers may be omitted from the gate driver circuitry and a single emission driver may provide multiple emission control signals for the pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Chuang Qian, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Shyuan Yang, Cheng-Chih Hsieh, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Ting-Kuo Chang, Shih-Chang Chang
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Publication number: 20210026498Abstract: Visibility of the metal mesh touch electrodes can be mitigated using one or more mitigation techniques. In some examples, the boundary between touch electrodes and/or the boundary between a touch electrode and a routing trace of another touch electrode and/or the boundary between two routing traces can be non-linear. In some examples, dummy cuts can be made within an area of a touch electrode region (e.g., while maintaining the same electrical potential for the touch electrode region). In some examples, notches can be made in the metal mesh. In some examples, the location of cuts and/or notches can be optimized to mitigate visibility of the metal mesh. In some examples, some or all of the visibility mitigations may be used in combination in a touch screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Tiffany Tang MOY, Tsung-Ting TSAI, Warren S. A. RIEUTORT-LOUIS, Aleksandr N. POLYAKOV, Chuang QIAN, Sabino Joseph PIETRANGELO, II, Abbas JAMSHIDI-ROUDBARI, Rui LIU, Yurii MOROZOV
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Patent number: 10896642Abstract: Electronic devices may include displays having organic light-emitting diode pixels, display driver circuitry, and gate driver circuitry. To reduce the amount of space occupied in the inactive area of a display by the gate driver circuitry, one or more of the shift registers in the gate driver circuitry may include register circuits that are shared by multiple rows of pixels. Different drivers may use different clock frequencies to ensure synchronous operation of the display even when some register circuits share pixel rows. For increased flexibility in the arrangement of the register circuits in the shift registers, one or more of the shift registers may be split across the active area of the display. In some cases, one of the emission drivers may be omitted from the gate driver circuitry and a single emission driver may provide multiple emission control signals for the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chuang Qian, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Shyuan Yang, Cheng-Chih Hsieh, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Ting-Kuo Chang, Shih-Chang Chang
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Publication number: 20200335528Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Vasudha Gupta, Jae Won Choi, Shih Chang Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Young Bae Park
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Publication number: 20200273928Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. The display and substrate may have rounded corners. A pixel definition layer may be formed on the thin-film transistor circuitry. Openings in the pixel definition layer may be provided with emissive material overlapping respective anodes for organic light-emitting diodes. A cathode layer may cover the array of pixels. A ground power supply path may be used to distribute a ground voltage to the cathode layer. The ground power supply path may be formed from a metal layer that is shorted to the cathode layer using portions of a metal layer that forms anodes, may be formed from a mesh shaped metal pattern, may have L-shaped path segments, and may include laser-deposited metal on the cathode layer. Data lines may be formed from metal layers in the active area to accommodate the rounded corners of the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Yuchi Che, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Jiun-Jye Chang, Ting-Kuo Chang, Shih Chang Chang, Chin-Wei Lin, Stephen S. Poon, Cheng-Ho Yu, ChoongHo Lee, Doh-Hyoung Lee, Vasudha Gupta, Younggu Lee
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Publication number: 20200258950Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. Each pixel may have a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. The organic light-emitting diodes may each have an anode that is coupled to a thin-film transistor pixel circuit for controlling the anode. Transparent windows may be formed in the display. The windows may be formed by replacing data storage capacitors and other pixel circuit structures in a subset of the pixels with transparent window structures, by selectively removing portions of light-emitting diode anodes, and by shifting anodes. An array of electrical components such as an array of light sensors may be aligned with the transparent windows and may be used to measure light passing through the transparent windows.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Minhyuk Choi, Rui Liu, Cheng Chen, Chin-Wei Lin, Sang Y. Youn, Shih Chang Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai
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Patent number: 10741588Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vasudha Gupta, Jae Won Choi, Shih Chang Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Young Bae Park