Patents by Inventor Wenbing HU

Wenbing HU 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: 12288522
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display and a sensor underneath the display. The display has a full pixel density region and a reduced pixel density region. Compared to pixels in the full pixel density region, pixels in the reduced pixel density region can be controlled using overdriven power supply voltages, overdriven scan control signals, different initialization and reset voltages, and can include capacitors and transistors with different physical and electrical characteristics. Gate drivers provide scan signals to pixels in the full pixel density region, whereas overdrive buffers provide overdrive scan signals to pixels in the reduced pixel density region. The pixels in the full pixel density region and the pixels in the reduced pixel density region can be controlled using different black level or gamma settings for each color channel and can be adjusted physically to match luminance, color, as well as to mitigate differences in temperature and aging impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shyuan Yang, Salman Kabir, Ricardo A Peterson, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Ting-Kuo Chang, Qing Li, Yuchi Che, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Feng Wen, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Kyounghwan Kim, Graeme M Williams, Kingsuk Brahma, Yue Jack Chu, Junbo Wu, Chieh-Wei Chen, Bo-Ren Wang, Injae Hwang, Wenbing Hu
  • Publication number: 20240381724
    Abstract: A display may have a stretchable portion with hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands. A flexible interconnect region may be interposed between the hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands. The hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands may include organic light-emitting diode (OLED) pixels. A conductive cutting structure may have an undercut that causes a discontinuity in a conductive OLED layer to mitigate lateral leakage. The conductive cutting structure may also be electrically connected to a cathode for the OLED pixels and provide a cathode voltage to the cathode. First and second inorganic passivation layers may be formed over the OLED pixels. Multiple discrete portions of an organic inkjet printed layer may be interposed between the first and second inorganic passivation layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Prashant Mandlik, Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran, Xuesong Lu, Weixin Li, Wenbing Hu, Yuchi Che, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Gihoon Choo, Shyuan Yang, Kuan-Yi Lee, An-Di Sheu, Chi-Wei Chou, Chin-Fu Lee, An-Hong Shen, Ko-Wei Chen, Kyounghwan Kim, Jae Won Choi, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Sungki Lee
  • Publication number: 20220066585
    Abstract: The present application relates to a touch display panel and an electronic device. The touch display panel includes: a substrate; and a light-emitting unit layer locating on a side of the substrate comprising a cathode metal layer reused as a touch electrode layer and multiple light-emitting units arranged in an array; the light-emitting units each have a light-emitting cycle comprising a first time period and a second time period staggered from the first time period; the cathode metal layer accesses a touch drive signal when the light-emitting cycle is within the first time period, and the cathode metal layer accesses a display drive signal when the light-emitting cycle is within the second time period. The cathode metal layer according to the present application is reused as the touch electrode layer, and inputs different drive signals in different time periods, which can greatly reduce a thickness of the touch display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jiahao KANG, Shaowen WANG, Wenbing HU, Yumin WANG, Ze YUAN, Haojun LUO
  • Publication number: 20220066613
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch display panel and an electronic device. The touch display panel includes: a substrate; multiple display signal lines arranged on one side of the substrate to provide display signals; multiple touch induction electrodes arranged on one side of each of the display signal lines facing away from the substrate, stacked and arranged at intervals with the display signal lines, and the multiple touch induction electrodes and the multiple display signal lines have overlapped regions; and a shielding layer located between the touch induction electrodes and the display signal lines, at least a part located in the overlapped regions, and used to reduce signal interference between the touch induction electrodes and the display signal lines. Interference between display signals of the display signal lines and touch signals of the touch induction electrodes can be effectively prevent, and signal-to-noise ratio can be effectively increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Ze YUAN, Jiahao KANG, Haojun LUO, Wenbing HU
  • Publication number: 20220066587
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch display panel and an electronic device. The touch display panel includes: a substrate; and a light-emitting unit layer located on one side of the substrate, where the light-emitting unit layer includes a cathode metal layer, the cathode metal layer forms first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes, and the first touch electrodes are insulated from the second touch electrodes to form a mutual capacitive touch electrode. The touch electrodes of the touch display panel according to the present disclosure are shared with the cathode metal layer, so that the touch display panel is more integrated and has a smaller thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jiahao KANG, Ze YUAN, Jigang ZHAO, Wenbing HU
  • Publication number: 20220013696
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electronic device, including backplane circuits, a plurality of conductive adhesive elements arranged on the backplane circuits at intervals, and a plurality of electronic components arranged on the plurality of conductive adhesive elements respectively. The backplane circuits are respectively electrically connected with the plurality of electronic components through the plurality of conductive adhesive elements. The present disclosure further discloses a manufacturing method used for manufacturing the above electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Jiahao KANG, Ze YUAN, Haojun LUO, Wenbing HU, Shaowen WANG
  • Publication number: 20210319726
    Abstract: The method includes providing a rigid base plate; forming an etch-stop layer on one side of the rigid base plate; forming a first flexible substrate on another side of the etch-stop layer; fabricating a plurality of stretchable circuits on the surface of the first flexible substrate facing away from the etch-stop layer; etching a first flexible substrate between two adjacent stretchable circuits to form a through hole; forming a first elastic layer that covers the plurality of stretchable circuits and fills the through hole; separating the rigid base plate and the etch-stop layer; and forming a second elastic layer opposite to the first elastic layer such that the plurality of stretchable circuits is encircled by the first and second elastic layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Jiahao Kang, Jigang Zhao, Yu-Min Wang, Wenbing Hu, Haojun Luo, Ze Yuan
  • Patent number: 9997366
    Abstract: A method for ion-assisted etching a stack of alternating silicon oxide and silicon nitride layers in an etch chamber is provided. An etch gas comprising a fluorine component, helium, and a fluorohydrocarbon or hydrocarbon is flowed into the etch chamber. The gas is formed into an in-situ plasma in the etch chamber. A bias of about 10 to about 100 volts is provided to accelerate helium ions to the stack and activate a surface of the stack to form an activated surface for ion-assisted etching, wherein the in-situ plasma etches the activated surface of the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Zhongkui Tan, Hua Xiang, Wenbing Hu, Qing Xu, Qian Fu
  • Publication number: 20180108532
    Abstract: A method for ion-assisted etching a stack of alternating silicon oxide and silicon nitride layers in an etch chamber is provided. An etch gas comprising a fluorine component, helium, and a fluorohydrocarbon or hydrocarbon is flowed into the etch chamber. The gas is formed into an in-situ plasma in the etch chamber. A bias of about 10 to about 100 volts is provided to accelerate helium ions to the stack and activate a surface of the stack to form an activated surface for ion-assisted etching, wherein the in-situ plasma etches the activated surface of the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Zhongkui TAN, Hua XIANG, Wenbing HU, Qing XU, Qian FU