Displays with multilayer masks and color filters

US8755010B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Apple Inc. · US

Inventors

• Young Cheol Yang · Sunnyvale, US
• Cheng Chen
• Ming Xu · Sunnyvale, US
• Zhibing Ge · Los Altos, US
• Chia-Ching Chu · Sanwan, TW
• Mingxia Gu · Campbell, US
• Young Bae Park · San Jose, US
• Weimin Liu · Sunnyvale, US
• Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov · Cupertino, US
• John Z. Zhong · Saratoga, US
• Lynn R. Youngs · Cupertino, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 17, 2011
• Grant date: Jun 17, 2014
• Expiry date: Apr 6, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02F2202/023
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An electronic device may have a display such as a liquid crystal display. The display may have multiple layers of material such as a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. An opaque masking layer may be formed on a display layer such as the color filter layer. In an inactive portion of the display, the opaque masking layer may form a rectangular ring that serves as a border region surrounding a rectangular active portion of the display. In the active portion of the display, the opaque masking layer may be patterned to from an opaque matrix that separates color filter elements in an array of color filter elements. The opaque masking layer and color filter elements may be formed from polymers such as photoresist. The opaque masking layer may include a black pigment such as carbon black. Color filter elements and opaque masking material may include multiple sublayers.