Meta patents display tech that stacks processors under screen pixels
Meta describes a display system where small processing chips are stacked directly on top of the screen's pixel array. Instead of sending all image data to one central processor, the screen is split into sections, and each stacked chip handles its own part of the image at the same time.
In the filing’s own words
A method of displaying images at an electronic device having a display including a pixel array and a plurality of compute tiles stacked with the pixel array. The method includes receiving image data corresponding to a frame to be displayed. The method further includes dividing the image data into a set of tile data corresponding to different portions of the pixel array. The method further includes concurrently processing, via the plurality of compute tiles, the set of tile data. Concurrently processing the set of tile data includes, for each tile data in the set of tile data, processing the tile data to generate processed tile data, and driving, based on the processed tile data, a corresponding subset of the pixel array.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by control circuitry of an electronic device having a display comprising a pixel array and a plurality of compute tiles stacked with the pixel array, cause the control circuitry to perform operations, comprising: receiving image data corresponding to a frame to be displayed; dividing the image data into a set of tile data corresponding to different portions of the pixel array; and concurrently processing, via the plurality of compute tiles, the set of tile data, including for each tile data in the set of tile data: processing the tile data to generate processed tile data; and driving, based on the processed tile data, a corresponding subset of the pixel array.
Facts
- Company
- Meta (Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC)
- Official title
- METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR 3D-INTEGRATED HETEROGENEOUS MICRODISPLAY SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
- Publication number
- US20260331036A1
- Application number
- 19647847
- Filed
- Apr 14, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 8
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G09G 3/32 Physics & computingG09G 2300/026 Physics & computingG09G 2320/0247 Physics & computingG09G 2320/0276 Physics & computingG09G 2320/064 Physics & computingG09G 2330/023 Physics & computingMore from Meta in Chips & hardware
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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