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US 2010/0073332 A1Published application
Display having a plurality of driver integrated circuits
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsShawn R. Gettemy, Carlin J. Vieri, Yongman Lee, Wei H. Yao
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Abstract
An electronic device is disclosed. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes a liquid-crystal display (LCD) and a plurality of driver integrated circuits (ICs) coupled to the LCD. The driver ICs may be disposed near non-central locations along a side of the LCD, and in some embodiments, one of the driver ICs may be a master driver IC and the other driver IC or driver ICs may be slave driver ICs.
Claims28
A device, comprising:
- a liquid-crystal display (LCD);
- a first driver integrated circuit (IC) coupled to the LCD and disposed near a side of the LCD and near a non-central portion of the side.
A device, comprising:
- an LCD;
- a master driver IC mounted to the LCD;
- and
- a slave driver IC mounted to the LCD, wherein the slave driver IC is in communication with the master driver IC through an inter-driver bus.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving image data in a master driver IC;
- determining whether the image data is addressed to a first portion of a pixel array controlled by the master driver IC or a second portion of the pixel array controlled by a slave driver IC;
- and
- in response to a determination that the image data is addressed to the second portion of the pixel array, transmitting the image data to the slave driver IC.
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A system, comprising:
- a hand-held electronic device comprising:
- a multi-touch touch screen sensor;
- a display disposed adjacent the multi-touch touchscreen sensor, wherein the display comprises a plurality of driver ICs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.