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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:
Sep. 12, 2017

Filed:

May. 13, 2015
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Byung Duk Yang, Cupertino, CA (US);

Kwang Soon Park, Cupertino, CA (US);

Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kyung Wook Kim, Cupertino, CA (US);

Shih Chang Chang, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/1335 (2006.01); G06K 19/077 (2006.01); G02F 1/1368 (2006.01); G02F 1/133 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 19/0772 (2013.01); G02F 1/1368 (2013.01); G02F 1/13306 (2013.01); G02F 1/133512 (2013.01); G02F 1/133528 (2013.01); G06K 7/10198 (2013.01); G02F 2001/133388 (2013.01);
Abstract

A display may have an active area surrounded by an inactive border area. The display may be a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. An upper polarizer may have a polarized central region that overlaps the active area of the display. The upper polarizer may also have an unpolarized portion in the inactive border area overlapping the border structures. The border structures may include colored material such as a white layer on the inner surface of the thin-film transistor layer. Binary information may be embedded into an array of programmable resonant circuits. The binary information may be a display identifier or other information associated with a display. The programmable resonant circuits may be tank circuits with adjustable capacitors, fuses, or other programmable components.


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