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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:
Jan. 14, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 20, 2022
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Christoph H. Krah, Cupertino, CA (US);

Bin Huang, San Jose, CA (US);

Stanley B. Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/042 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G09G 3/32 (2016.01); H01L 27/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/042 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G09G 3/32 (2013.01); H01L 27/156 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04106 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04108 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device can include integrated micro circuitry configurable for optical sensing and touch and/or proximity sensing. An integrated touch screen can include light emitting diodes or organic light emitting diodes and chiplets. In some examples, the LEDs/OLEDs and chiplets can be disposed in a visible area of the integrated touch screen. In some examples, some or all of the chiplets can be disposed outside of the visible area of the integrated touch screen. In some examples, the chiplets can include display driving circuitry and touch sensing circuitry, and can optionally perform optical sensing using the touch sensing circuitry. In some examples, the chiplets can include separate touch chiplets configured to perform touch sensing (and/or optical sensing) and display chiplets configured to perform display functionality (and optionally provide some switching functionality).


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