The disclosure relates to displays. In one arrangement a plurality of pixels is provided in which each pixel comprises a phase change material thermally switchable between a plurality of stable states. Each pixel comprises a switching device configured to heat the phase change material, and thereby thermally switch the phase change material, in response to a control signal. The switching device comprises a single electronic component capable of being switched between different states by the control signal and configured such that heat received by the phase change material of the pixel during the thermal switching of the phase change material of the pixel consists predominantly of heat generated within the single electronic component.

A system and method are described for creation of a mosaic display system. A device is assigned an address which may be used to produce unique sequence of illumination which is based on a code determined by the address. A sequence of images of a number of devices may be used to determine a spatial location associated with a device address.

An address latch, a display device, and an address latching method are disclosed. The address latch includes a write control circuit, a write latch circuit, a latch control circuit, an intermediate latch circuit, and an output latch circuit. The write latch circuit is configured to latch an address data in response to N write control signals generated by the write control circuit, N data bits of the address data are divided into (M−1) data bit groups; the latch control circuit is configured to sequentially generate M latch control signals; the intermediate latch circuit is configured to, in response to first to (M−1)-th latch control signals, latch first to (M−1)-th data bit groups latched by the write latch circuit in a time-division manner; and the output latch circuit is configured to output the address data latched by the intermediate latch circuit in response to an M-th latch control signal.

A driving method and a driving device of a display panel, and a display device are provided, wherein, the driving method of the display panel comprises steps of: turning on gates of transistors of an N.sup.th row of pixels at a first rising edge moment of a clock signal; charging the N.sup.th row of pixels according to a data signal; turning on gates of transistors of an (N+1).sup.th row of pixels before a second rising edge moment of the clock signal; charging the (N+1).sup.th row of pixels according to the data signal; wherein the second rising edge moment follows after the first rising edge moment and neighbors the first rising edge moment, where N is a positive integer.

The present invention teaches an AMOLED pixel driving circuit, its driving method, and a display panel. The AMOLED pixel driving circuit adopts a 7T1C structure and provides a reset stage, a data signal entry and threshold voltage compensation stage, and a lighting stage. The AMOLED pixel driving circuit is able to compensate the threshold voltage shift of the first TFT, also the driving TFT, and, to cut off a path prone to leakage during the lighting stage between the fourth TFT and the gate of the first TFT, also the driving TFT, by the second TFT, thereby reducing the gate voltage shift at the driving TFT and enhancing the display quality of the AMOLED display panel.

The application provides a driving circuit. The circuit includes: a segment display, including a plurality of light-emitting units; a controller, configured to generate a control instruction for the segment display according to a configuration signal; a digital driver, connected to the controller, and configured to generate a pulse driving signal according to the control instruction from the controller; and an amplification circuit, with one end being connected to the digital driver and the other end being connected to the plurality of light-emitting units of the segment display. The application also provides a magnetic sensing circuit and an electrical device. The magnetic sensing circuit includes a magnetic sensor, a sensing selection circuit, and a result representation circuit. A plurality of magnetic sensors are provided, and at least some of the plurality of magnetic sensors are capable of being connected to the sensing selection circuit by a sensing output terminal.

A system and method are described for creation of a mosaic display system. A device is assigned an address which may be used to produce unique sequence of illumination which is based on a code determined by the address. A sequence of images of a number of devices may be used to determine a spatial location associated with a device address.

A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image. A gate driver is configured to output a plurality of gate signals to the display panel. A data driver includes a first area and a second area. The first area of the data driver includes a first channel group configured to output first data voltages in a first output sequence. The second area of the data driver includes a second channel group configured to output second data voltages in a second output sequence opposite to the first output sequence.

A driving method for driving a display comprising an electrophoretic material having at least one type of colored pigment particle, the method includes applying at least one pulse pair to reset the at least one type of colored pigment particle, applying a separation pulse, and applying a second pulse pair to reset the at least one type of colored pigment particle.

A display device includes a backlight unit including light source rows, each of the light source rows including light source blocks, a display panel configured to display an image by transmitting light emitted by the backlight unit, a panel driver configured to drive the display panel, and a backlight driver configured to drive the backlight unit. The backlight driver is configured to perform a vertical direction scan operation that sequentially select the light source rows and a horizontal direction sequential driving operation that sequentially drives the light source blocks included in a selected light source row of the light source rows.