US Patent Application 18449611. Reducing Border Width Around a Hole in Display Active Area simplified abstract

Reducing Border Width Around a Hole in Display Active Area

Organization Name

Apple Inc.

Inventor(s)

Warren S. Rieutort-louis of Cupertino CA (US)

Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari of Saratoga CA (US)

Yuchi Che of Santa Clara CA (US)

Tsung-Ting Tsai of San Jose CA (US)

Jiun-Jye Chang of Cupertino CA (US)

Shih Chang Chang of Cupertino CA (US)

Ting-Kuo Chang of San Jose CA (US)

Reducing Border Width Around a Hole in Display Active Area - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18449611 titled 'Reducing Border Width Around a Hole in Display Active Area

Simplified Explanation

- The patent application describes an electronic device with a display that has pixels in an active area. - The display includes circuitry for driving gate lines across the display. - A hole or inactive region is formed within the active area of the display. - Multiple gate lines carrying the same signal are merged together before being routed around the hole to reduce congestion. - Dummy circuits are added to increase the parasitic loading on the merged segments. - The hole may have a tapered shape to maximize the active area. - The hole may have an asymmetric shape to accommodate multiple sub-display sensor components.

Original Abstract Submitted

An electronic device may include a display having display pixels formed in an active area of the display. The display further includes display driver circuitry for driving gate lines that are routed across the display. A hole such as a through hole, optical window, or other inactive region may be formed within the active area of the display. Multiple gate lines carrying the same signal may be merged together prior to being routed around the hole to help minimize the routing line congestion around the border of the hole. Dummy circuits may be coupled to the merged segment portion to help increase the parasitic loading on the merged segments. The hole may have a tapered shape to help maximize the size of the active area. The hole may have an asymmetric shape to accommodate multiple sub-display sensor components.