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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2016
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Johan L. Piper, Cupertino, CA (US);

James C. Aamold, Campbell, CA (US);

Shengkui Gao, San Jose, CA (US);

Hung Sheng Lin, San Jose, CA (US);

Hyunwoo Nho, Stanford, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/36 (2006.01); G09G 3/3233 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/3233 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0842 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0223 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0233 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0295 (2013.01); G09G 2360/145 (2013.01);
Abstract

In order to reduce non-uniform luminance and/or chrominance, a display panel can determine, on a pixel-by-pixel basis in at least a row of pixels, a correction for voltage drops in the display panel. The voltage drop can be estimated based on a state of pixels in the display panel corresponding to at least a portion of a current frame of image data and at least a portion of a previous frame of image data. Moreover, based on the correction, the display plane can modify on the pixel-by-pixel basis in at least the row: a supply voltage applied to the display panel; a digital representation of the image data in the current frame that correspond to the pixels; and pixel drive signals corresponding to the image data in the current frame. Furthermore, the correction may be based on a predefined calibration constant and/or may be dynamically calculated.


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