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Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Junhua Tan, Saratoga, CA (US);

Kingsuk Brahma, Mountain View, CA (US);

Jie Won Ryu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Shengkui Gao, San Jose, CA (US);

Shiping Shen, Cupertino, CA (US);

Majid Gharghi, San Carlos, CA (US);

Hyunwoo Nho, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Injae Hwang, Cupertino, CA (US);

Kavinaath Murugan, Scarborough, CA;

Sun-Il Chang, San Jose, CA (US);

Chin-Wei Lin, San Jose, CA (US);

Hyunsoo Kim, Mountain View, CA (US);

Rui Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jesse Aaron Richmond, San Francisco, CA (US);

Yun Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);

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

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/3233 (2016.01); G09G 3/3258 (2016.01); G09G 3/3275 (2016.01); G09G 3/3266 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/3258 (2013.01); G09G 3/3233 (2013.01); G09G 3/3266 (2013.01); G09G 3/3275 (2013.01); G09G 2310/061 (2013.01); G09G 2310/08 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0257 (2013.01); G09G 2320/045 (2013.01); G09G 2330/021 (2013.01); G09G 2330/027 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device comprises a controller. The controller is configured to provide a first signal to a display of the electronic device to turn off the display. The controller is also configured to provide a second signal to the display to alter a gate source voltage of a drive transistor coupled to a light emitting diode (LED) of a pixel of the display while the display is turned off.


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