Apple Inc.

Sebastian Knitter

Tsung-Ting Tsai

Hung Sheng Lin

Hyunwoo Nho

Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari

Warren S Rieutort-Louis

Yuchi Che

Chaohao Wang

Paolo Sacchetto

Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou

Jie Won Ryu

Sun-il Chang

Sheng Zhang

Rui Zhang

Junhua Tan

Nicolas P Bonnier

Lu Zhang

Christophe Blondin

Yingying Tang

Chuang Qian

Ashray Vinayak Gogte

Ricardo A Peterson

Yurii Morozov

Michael H Lim

Matthew Dominic Hollands

Kenny Kim

Matthew J Schwendeman

Yue Qu

Majid Esfandyarpour

An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The electronic device may include a plurality of transparent windows that overlap the optical sensor. The resolution of the display panel may be reduced in some areas due to the presence of the transparent windows. To mitigate diffraction artifacts, a first sensor (-) may sense light through a first pixel removal region having transparent windows arranged according to a first pattern. A second sensor (-) may sense light through a second pixel removal region having transparent windows arranged according to a second pattern that is different than the first pattern. The first and second patterns of the transparent windows may result in the first and second sensors having different diffraction artifacts. Therefore, an image from the first sensor may be corrected for diffraction artifacts based on an image from the second sensor.

Displays having transparent openings

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.

Devices with displays having transparent openings and touch sensor metal

An electronic device that includes processing circuitry configured to generate a frame of image data that has a frame duration is provided. The electronic device includes a display that has a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels displays image data from the frame of image data for a pixel emission period that is less than the frame duration. A first pixel of a column of pixels of the plurality of pixels begins displaying the image data from the frame of image data at a first time for a first duration. A second pixel of the column of pixels that is adjacent to the first pixel begins displaying the image data from the frame of image data at a second time for a second duration. The first and second durations are equal to the pixel emission period. The second time begins after the first duration of time.

Interlaced or interleaved variable persistence displays

Electronic devices, storage medium containing instructions, and methods pertain to scanning a display during a sensing phase for the display. One or more parameters pertaining to operation or conditions around the display are obtained. Using the obtained one or more parameters, scanning mode parameters used for sensing are set based at least in part on the obtained one or more parameters. Using the scanning mode parameters, the display is scanned during a sensing phase of the display while reducing the likelihood of visible artifacts.

Low-visibility display sensing

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