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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
May. 24, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Koorosh Aflatooni, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Pierre-Yves Emelie, Mountain View, CA (US);
Myung-Je Cho, San Jose, CA (US);
Marc Albrecht, San Francisco, CA (US);
Graeme M. Williams, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sean C. Chang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zhao Wang, Redwood City, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A display may have an active area that includes display pixels. The display may include an inactive notch region that extends into the active area. Data lines may provide image data from display driver circuitry to the display pixels. The image data may include data signals that correspond to portions of the display that do not include pixels, such as the inactive notch region. The null data signals may cause nonuniformities in the displayed image. The null data signals may be adjusted to minimize the nonuniformities. Null data signals corresponding to the inactive notch region may be adjusted to have gray levels that gradually decrease with distance from the border between the inactive notch and the active area. All of the data signals corresponding to the inactive notch may be set to a uniform gray level.