US 12,426,445 B1
Devices with displays having transparent openings and shorted pixels
Yue Cui, Campbell, CA (US); Ricardo A Peterson, Mountain View, CA (US); Yuchi Che, Santa Clara, CA (US); Shyuan Yang, San Mateo, CA (US); Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Cupertino, CA (US); Tsung-Ting Tsai, San Jose, CA (US); Yi Qiao, San Jose, CA (US); Jean-Pierre S Guillou, La Jolla, CA (US); and Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Saratoga, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/674,481.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/256,438, filed on Oct. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/173,981, filed on Apr. 12, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/169,741, filed on Apr. 1, 2021.
Int. Cl. H10K 59/121 (2023.01); G09G 3/3208 (2016.01); H10K 59/131 (2023.01); H10K 59/35 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/1213 (2023.02) [G09G 3/3208 (2013.01); H10K 59/131 (2023.02); G09G 2300/0452 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0407 (2013.01); G09G 2354/00 (2013.01); H10K 59/353 (2023.02)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
7. An electronic device, comprising:
an input-output component; and
a display having an array of pixels, wherein the display has a first portion having a first pixel density and a second portion having a second pixel density that is lower than the first pixel density, wherein the second portion overlaps the input-output component, wherein the second portion of the display includes emissive sub-pixels that emit light and thin-film transistor sub-pixels that control the emissive sub-pixels, wherein each thin-film transistor sub-pixel in the second portion of the display controls two respective emissive sub-pixels, wherein the emissive sub-pixels are arranged in an array of rows and columns, wherein, in the second portion of the display, a first emissive sub-pixel of a first color in a first row and a first column is shorted to a second emissive sub-pixel of the first color in the first row and a second column, wherein the second emissive sub-pixel is adjacent to the first emissive sub-pixel in a first direction, wherein, in the second portion of the display, a third emissive sub-pixel of the first color in a second row and the first column is shorted to a fourth emissive sub-pixel of the first color in the second row and a third column, wherein the fourth emissive sub-pixel is adjacent to the third emissive sub-pixel in a second direction, wherein the second row is adjacent to the first row, and wherein the second direction is opposite the first direction.