Intel Corporation

Apple Inc.

Sony Group Corporation

Jenny Hu

Joseph M Steigerwald

Tahir Ghani

Michael L Hattendorf

Christopher P Auth

Jeffrey S Leib

Anindya Dasgupta

Ian R C Post

Yingying Tang

Graeme M Williams

Wanqing Xin

Chaohao Wang

Peter F Holland

Kingsuk Brahma

Jie Won Ryu

Mahesh B Chappalli

Arthur L Spence

Yang Xu

Alexandre V Gauthier

Anand S Murthy

Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou

Hyunwoo Nho

Warren S Rieutort-Louis

Tong Chen

Marc Joseph DeVincentis

Mark T Winkler

Koorosh Aflatooni

Hyunsoo Kim

Gokhan Avkarogullari

Yi Qiao

Mohammad Ali Jangda

Yuchi Che

Christopher Edward Glazowski

Wenrui Cai

James R Montgomerie

Alexander K Kan

Alex H Pai

Mehmet N Agaoglu

Gihoon Choo

Alexey Kornienko

Orb Acton

Ardra Singh

Scott R Johnston

Andrey Pokrovskiy

Scott J Maddox

Jongyup Lim

Shawn P Hurley

Zuo Xia

Kyounghwan Kim

Mario Miscuglio

Hei Kam

Giovanni Corradini

Ming Xu

Feng Wen

Snehal T Jariwala

Ximeng Guan

Yuhui Li

Asha G Karvaje

Aishwarya Prem Renu

Martin Kocicka

Andrew D Pangborn

Xin Zheng

Clint M Perlaki

David R Manly

Hyun H Boo

Kevin J Choboter

Lu Yan

Na Zhu

Ing-Jye Wang

Tao Jia

Ian RC Post

Ian Post

Systems and methods described herein may utilize a non-linear scaling relationship to scale brightness of selective portions of the display in a manner that reduces or eliminates perceivable banding effects. By non-linearly controlling changes in brightness of the display, a viewer may perceive a more uniform, linear dimming towards the relatively dimmer region without perceiving banding, leading to improved user experience when viewing the electronic display.

Display panel brightness control based on gaussian edges

Devices and methods are provided to overdrive or underdrive a display panel to account for display pixel hysteresis due to several frames of pixel history. An electronic device may include an electronic display and processing circuitry. The electronic display includes a number of display pixels. The processing circuitry may generate image data for the display pixels. The processing circuitry may receive a current frame value of the image data targeted for a first display pixel and, based at least in part on the current frame value and a pixel history of the first display pixel—may indicate a gray level for a number of previous frames—generate a compensated value by which to drive the first pixel to overcome pixel hysteresis to reach the desired luminance at an initial response.

Enhanced overdrive or underdrive for flat panel displays

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.

Content dependent brightness management system

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.

Mitigating artifacts caused by an under-display light emitter

An electronic device may include processing circuitry configured to generate a first frame of image content and a second frame of image content. The second frame of image content is different from the first frame of image content. The electronic device may also include a display configured to display the first frame of image content at a first refresh rate. In response to receiving the second frame of image content, the electronic device may initially increase the refresh rate before tapering back to the first refresh rate while displaying the second frame of image content.

Frame insertion and frame rate sequencing for panel glitch prevention

An electronic device may include a display. Control circuitry may operate the display at different frame rates such as 60 Hz, 80 Hz, and 120 Hz. The control circuitry may determine which frame rate to use based on a speed of animation on the display and based on a type of animation on the display. To mitigate the appearance of judder as the display frame rate changes, the control circuitry may implement techniques such as hysteresis (e.g., windows of tolerance around speed thresholds to ensure that the display frame rate does not change too frequently as a result of noise), speed thresholds that are based on a user perception study, consistent latency between touch input detection and corresponding display output across different frame rates (e.g., using a fixed touch scan rate that is independent of frame duration), and animation-specific speed thresholds for triggering frame rate changes.

Displays with variable frame rates

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe multi-threshold voltage devices and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, a channel body disposed on the semiconductor substrate, a first gate electrode having a first thickness coupled with the channel body and a second gate electrode having a second thickness coupled with the channel body, wherein the first thickness is greater than the second thickness. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Multi-threshold voltage devices and associated techniques and configurations

Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate comprising an N well region having a semiconductor fin protruding therefrom. A trench isolation layer is on the semiconductor substrate around the semiconductor fin, wherein the semiconductor fin extends above the trench isolation layer. A gate dielectric layer is over the semiconductor fin. A conductive layer is over the gate dielectric layer over the semiconductor fin, the conductive layer comprising titanium, nitrogen and oxygen. A P-type metal gate layer is over the conductive layer over the semiconductor fin.

Dual metal gate structure having portions of metal gate layers in contact with a gate dielectric

Techniques and mechanisms for providing functionality of a transistor which comprises a conformal layer of a gate work function silicide. In an embodiment, the transistor comprises a channel region and a gate dielectric which extends and adjoins the channel region. The gate dielectric also adjoins a layer structure of the transistor, the layer structure comprising a silicide. The silicide includes silicon and a component D which comprises a non-metal element from one of Groups IIIa, IVa, or Va. In another embodiment, the silicide further comprises a component M which includes a transition metal element from one of Groups IVb, Vb, VIb, VIIB, or VIIIb and/or which includes a metal element from one of Groups IIIa, IVa, or Va.

Silicide structure of an integrated transistor device and method of providing same

Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin. A gate dielectric layer is over a top of the fin and laterally adjacent sidewalls of the fin. An N-type gate electrode is over the gate dielectric layer over the top of the fin and laterally adjacent the sidewalls of the fin, the N-type gate electrode comprising a P-type metal layer on the gate dielectric layer, and an N-type metal layer on the P-type metal layer. A first N-type source or drain region is adjacent a first side of the gate electrode. A second N-type source or drain region is adjacent a second side of the gate electrode, the second side opposite the first side.

Differentiated voltage threshold metal gate structures for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication

Dual metal gate structures for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication

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