US 12,175,907 B2
Display with a transmitter under an active area
Shyuan Yang, San Jose, CA (US); Cheng-Chih Hsieh, Santa Clara, CA (US); Jonathan H Beck, San Francisco, CA (US); Yuchi Che, Santa Clara, CA (US); Tsung-Ting Tsai, San Jose, CA (US); Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Cupertino, CA (US); Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Saratoga, CA (US); Ting-Kuo Chang, San Jose, CA (US); Shih Chang Chang, Cupertino, CA (US); Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran, San Mateo, CA (US); Jae Won Choi, San Jose, CA (US); and Kyounghwan Kim, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/476,892.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/476,578, filed on Dec. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/431,453, filed on Dec. 9, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0194106 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
Int. Cl. G09G 3/20 (2006.01); H10K 59/131 (2023.01)
CPC G09G 3/20 (2013.01) [H10K 59/131 (2023.02); G09G 2300/0452 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0465 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0233 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0242 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a plurality of pixels arranged in a light-emitting area, wherein each one of the plurality of pixels includes an emissive sub-pixel and a thin-film transistor sub-pixel that controls the emissive sub-pixel, wherein the emissive sub-pixels have a first number of emissive sub-pixels per unit area, wherein the thin-film transistor sub-pixels have a second number of thin-film transistor sub-pixels per unit area, and wherein the second number is greater than the first number;
a region in the plurality of pixels that includes a first subset of the emissive sub-pixels and is free of any thin-film transistor sub-pixels, wherein a second subset of the thin-film transistor sub-pixels outside of the region controls the first subset of the emissive sub-pixels that is in the region;
gate driver circuitry that is positioned at an edge of the light-emitting area, wherein the second subset of the thin-film transistor sub-pixels includes at least one thin-film transistor sub-pixel that is interposed between first and second portions of the gate driver circuitry; and
a light source that emits light through the region in the plurality of pixels.