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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Young Cheol Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Young Seok Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Aaron L Holsteen, Centennial, CO (US);
Cheng Cheng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chin Wei Hsu, Hsinchu, TW;
Hsin I Lu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ileana G. Rau, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jaein Choi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James M Perkins, Mountain View, CA (US);
James P Ibbetson, Goleta, CA (US);
Joy M Johnson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jui-Chih Liao, Hsinchu, TW;
Steven E Molesa, San Jose, CA (US);
Sunggu Kang, San Jose, CA (US);
Yang Deng, San Jose, CA (US);
Zhibing Ge, Los Altos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device may have a display with an array of inorganic light-emitting diodes. The array of inorganic light-emitting diodes may be overlapped by a polarizer layer such as a circular polarizer. Alternatively, the display may be a polarizer-free display without any polarizer layer over the array of inorganic light-emitting diodes. Each inorganic light-emitting diode may be surrounded by a diffuser that redirects edge-emissions towards a viewer. A top diffuser, a color filter layer, a microlens, and/or a microlens with color filtering and/or diffusive properties may also optionally overlap each inorganic light-emitting diode. The inorganic light-emitting diodes may have reflective sidewalls to mitigate edge-emissions. In this type of arrangement, the array of inorganic light-emitting diodes may be coplanar with one or more opaque masking layers. To mitigate reflections, the display may include two opaque masking layers having differing properties or a single phase separated opaque masking layer.