Inventor
CHEN JINGDONG
CN46 patents
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APPLE INC
26 patentsUS10201049B1Feb 5, 2019
Local display backlighting systems and methods
APPLE INC18 citations94
US10129941B1Nov 13, 2018
LED driver gate clamp systems and methods
APPLE INC7 citations84
US9185768B2Nov 10, 2015
Short circuit protection
APPLE INC12 citations84
US10009968B2Jun 26, 2018
PFM scheme for boost and flyback converter in LED backlight application
APPLE INC8 citations83
US9345083B2May 17, 2016
Boost converter with a pulse frequency modulation mode for operating above an audible frequency
APPLE INC5 citations83
US10555389B2Feb 4, 2020
Local display backlighting systems and methods
APPLE INC2 citations73
US10269307B2Apr 23, 2019
LED driver headroom voltage control systems and methods
APPLE INC5 citations73
US9826596B2Nov 21, 2017
Devices and methods for controlling brightness of a display backlight
APPLE INC3 citations72
US11823612B2Nov 21, 2023
Current load transient mitigation in display backlight driver
APPLE INC2 citations71
US10714028B2Jul 14, 2020
Methods and apparatus for controlling display backlight
APPLE INC3 citations70
US11876439B2Jan 16, 2024
Mitigation of battery output voltage ripple under pulse load
APPLE INC0 citations62
US11689094B2Jun 27, 2023
Inductive flying capacitor converters and control techniques therefor
APPLE INC1 citations62
US11442312B2Sep 13, 2022
Electronic device display with a backlight having light-emitting diodes and driver integrated circuits in an active area
APPLE INC0 citations62
US11428987B2Aug 30, 2022
Electronic device display with a backlight having light-emitting diodes and driver integrated circuits in an active area
APPLE INC0 citations62
US8970200B2Mar 3, 2015
Systems and methods for light-load efficiency in displays
APPLE INC2 citations62
US11694641B2Jul 4, 2023
Systems and methods for increasing a pulse width modulation frequency while preserving resolution
APPLE INC0 citations60
US8976092B2Mar 10, 2015
Display circuitry with dynamic pixel backlight and backlight sloping control
APPLE INC2 citations56
US10877314B2Dec 29, 2020
Methods and apparatus for controlling display backlight
APPLE INC0 citations51
US10728969B2Jul 28, 2020
Split driver backlightsystems and methods
APPLE INC0 citations51
US10678092B2Jun 9, 2020
Display backlight headroom control systems and methods
APPLE INC0 citations51
US10383186B2Aug 13, 2019
Load transient response control systems and methods for electronic device displays
APPLE INC0 citations51
US10237936B2Mar 19, 2019
Split driver backlight systems and methods
APPLE INC0 citations51
US10034343B2Jul 24, 2018
Devices and methods for controlling brightness of a display backlight
APPLE INC0 citations51
US9380672B2Jun 28, 2016
Methods and apparatus for improving backlight driver efficiency
APPLE INC0 citations48
US12586504B1Mar 24, 2026
Adaptive zero output impedance converter
APPLE INC0 citations47
US12431099B1Sep 30, 2025
Charge cancellation to minimize transient ripple
APPLE INC0 citations47
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL
11 patentsUS9930448B1Mar 27, 2018
Concentric circular differential microphone arrays and associated beamforming
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL74 citations97
US10506337B2Dec 10, 2019
Frequency-invariant beamformer for compact multi-ringed circular differential microphone arrays
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL6 citations82
US9749745B2Aug 29, 2017
Low noise differential microphone arrays
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL3 citations73
US11159879B2Oct 26, 2021
Flexible geographically-distributed differential microphone array and associated beamformer
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL2 citations72
US12395792B1Aug 19, 2025
Concentric circular microphone arrays with 3D steerable beamformers
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL1 citations59
US10951981B1Mar 16, 2021
Linear differential microphone arrays based on geometric optimization
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL0 citations58
US12212923B2Jan 28, 2025
First-order differential microphone array with steerable beamformer
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL0 citations52
US9560463B2Jan 31, 2017
Multistage minimum variance distortionless response beamformer
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL0 citations51
US11956590B2Apr 9, 2024
Flexible differential microphone arrays with fractional order
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL0 citations50
US11546691B2Jan 3, 2023
Binaural beamforming microphone array
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL0 citations47
US11509998B2Nov 22, 2022
Linear differential microphone arrays with steerable beamformers
UNIV NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL0 citations44