US 11,727,850 B2
Hybrid architecture for zero border display
Xiang Lu, Campbell, CA (US); Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Santa Clara, CA (US); Xiaofeng Wang, San Jose, CA (US); Derek K. Shaeffer, Redwood City, CA (US); Henry C. Jen, Los Altos, CA (US); and Hopil Bae, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/727,197.
Application 17/727,197 is a continuation of application No. 17/088,809, filed on Nov. 4, 2020, granted, now 11,341,893.
Application 17/088,809 is a continuation of application No. 16/356,914, filed on Mar. 18, 2019, granted, now 10,854,129, issued on Dec. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/686,297, filed on Jun. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0246082 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G09G 3/20 (2006.01); G09G 3/3216 (2016.01); G09G 3/3275 (2016.01); H10K 59/17 (2023.01)
CPC G09G 3/2085 (2013.01) [G09G 3/3216 (2013.01); G09G 3/3275 (2013.01); H10K 59/17 (2023.02)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display panel comprising:
a display substrate including:
an array of pixel driver chips; and
a column of backbone hybrid pixel driver chip and spare backbone hybrid pixel driver chip pairs;
wherein each backbone hybrid pixel driver chip and spare backbone hybrid pixel driver chip pair is connected to a corresponding row of pixel driver chips within the array of pixel driver chips; and
wherein each pixel driver chip, each backbone hybrid pixel driver chip, and each spare backbone hybrid pixel driver chips is connected to a corresponding matrix of light emitting diodes (LEDs) to drive the corresponding matrix of LEDs.