A shift register includes an input sub-circuit, a first noise reduction sub-circuit, and a first pull-down sub-circuit. The first noise reduction sub-circuit is coupled to the pull-up node, the first pull-down node and a first voltage signal terminal, and is configured to transmit a first voltage signal to the pull-up node under control of the first pull-down node; the input sub-circuit is coupled to the pull-up node and a signal input terminal, and is configured to transmit an input signal to the pull-up node in response to the input signal; the first pull-down sub-circuit is coupled to the signal input terminal, the first pull-down node and the first voltage signal terminal, and is configured to transmit the first voltage signal to the first pull-down node in response to the input signal, so that the first noise reduction sub-circuit stops transmitting the first voltage signal to the pull-up node.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a display rollable into the housing, and a display driver circuitry operably coupled to the display. The display driver circuitry is configured to display, while the electronic device is in a first state in which a first display area of the display is exposed and a second display area of the display adjacent to the first display area is rolled into the housing, a first image in the exposed first display area, obtain, a second image based on applying a first weight to a pixel value of a first pixel of a first horizontal line and applying a second weight less than the first weight to a pixel value of a second pixel of the first horizontal line, and display, while displaying the first image, the second image in the second display area rolled into the housing.

Disclosed herein is a method of operating a display panel having a matrix of display elements. The method includes ordered steps of: (1) causing flow of current from a source of power, into an anode of a given display element, out of a cathode of the given display element to ground, wherein the flow of current into the anode and out the cathode to ground results in charging of a parasitic capacitance associated with the anode, (2) transferring charge from a storage capacitor to a parasitic capacitance associated with the cathode, and (3) stopping the flow of current, and then transferring charge from the parasitic capacitance associated with the anode to the storage capacitor.

An electronic device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a substrate, a light blocking layer disposed on the substrate, the light blocking layer including a first opening that defines a transmission area, at least one lower insulating layer disposed between the light blocking layer and the substrate, the at least one lower insulating layer including a second opening that overlaps the first opening, pixel circuits disposed on the light blocking layer, light emitting elements electrically connected to the pixel circuits, and an encapsulation layer overlapping the light emitting elements.

A pixel circuit array, a display panel, a method for driving a pixel circuit array, and a method for driving a display panel are provided. The pixel circuit array may include: a first signal sensing line (SENSE1) and a second signal sensing line (SENSE2); and N pixel circuits arranged in a column. All of the N pixel circuits are divided into a first group and a second group, each pixel circuit in the first group is coupled to the first signal sensing line (SENSE1), and each pixel circuit in the second group is coupled to the second signal sensing line (SENSE2) different from the first signal sensing line (SENSE1), where N is a positive integer greater than 1.

A pixel circuit includes a first switching transistor between a gate and a drain of a driving transistor, a second switching transistor, and an auxiliary capacitor connected to the second switching transistor. The second switching transistor transfers a data signal voltage from a data line to a storage capacitor through the driving transistor and the first switching transistor. The auxiliary capacitor retains the auxiliary charges depending on the data signal voltage from the data line during a first period where the second and first switching transistors are ON. The auxiliary charges are transfer from the auxiliary capacitor to the storage capacitor through the first switching transistor and the driving transistor during the second period where the second switching transistor is OFF and the first switching transistor is ON. Capacitance of the auxiliary capacitor is equal to or larger than ½ of capacitance of the storage capacitor.

The invention provides methods and related apparatuses for reducing an edge effect in an image displayed on an electrophoretic display having an array of pixels by displaying an image made up of a plurality of pixels on a first subset of the array of pixels and shifting the value of each image pixel by one position in a first horizontal direction and a first vertical direction such that the image is identical but shifted in position to a second subset of the pixel array. The method also includes shifting the value of each image pixel by one position in a second horizontal direction and a second vertical direction where the second horizontal direction is opposite the first horizontal direction, and the second vertical direction is opposite the first vertical direction, whereby the image displayed is identical but shifted in position back to the first subset of the array of pixels.

An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, a biometric sensor, and at least one processor. The processor implements the method, including: when a touch input is detected to the display within the biometric sensing area, increase a brightness of a first pixel group within the biometric sensing area to a first brightness level, and execute at least one of maintaining and changing display of a second pixel group outside the biometric sensing area and, wherein the at least one of maintaining and changing display of the second pixel group includes one of: executing a black state in which display through the second pixel group is disabled, and changing a display attribute for the second pixel group such that a load on the second pixel group is reduced.

An image generation system for providing a ghost image free head-up display, the system comprising a display screen having a front surface and a back surface, a picture generation unit for projecting an image towards the display screen for reflection towards a predetermined eye box, and a field lens, wherein the picture generation unit is configured to project light through the field lens such that light is incident on the front surface of the display screen forming a first virtual image, wherein a portion of the light is transmitted through the display screen and is incident on the back surface of the display screen forming a second virtual image, wherein the first and second virtual images have an offset, wherein the field lens is configured such that the offset is below a threshold magnitude and the first and second virtual images are substantially overlaid as viewed from the eye box.

In various examples, a low-latency variable backlight liquid crystal display (LCD) system is disclosed. The LCD system may reduce latency and video lag by performing an analysis of peak pixel values within subsets of pixels using a rendering device, prior to transmitting the frame to a display device for display. As a result, the display device may receive the peak pixel value data prior to or concurrently with the frame data, and may begin updating the backlight settings of the display without having to wait for a substantial portion of the frame to be received. In this way, the LCD system may avoid the full frame delay of conventional systems, allowing the LCD system to more reliably support high-performance applications such as gaming.