Masking mechanical separations between tiled display panels

US9529563B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• X Development LLC · US

Inventors

• Andrei Kazmierski · Pleasanton, US
• Nicholas C. Loomis · San Francisco, US
• Stephen Dorow · San Francisco, US
• Adam E. Norton · Palo Alto, US
• Mary Lou Jepsen · Sausalito, US
• Carlin Vieri · Menlo Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 29, 2014
• Grant date: Dec 27, 2016
• Expiry date: Jan 21, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09G2320/0686
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A tileable display panel includes an array of display pixels including central display pixels near a center of the array having a center pixel pitch and perimeter display pixels along a perimeter of the array. A perimeter region surrounds the array. The perimeter region includes a first side that is joinable to a second side of another instance of the tileable display panel to form a multi-panel display. The perimeter region has a width that is greater than at least half the center pixel pitch such that a gap between adjacent perimeter display pixels of the tileable display panel and the other instance of the tileable display panel when forming the multi-panel display is greater than the center pixel pitch. The gap is visually masked by increasing a characteristic of the perimeter display pixels adjacent to the gap relative to the same characteristic of the central display pixels.