A display device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of data lines. The pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix include a plurality of first color pixel electrodes. The gate lines are configured to sequentially provide a plurality of gate signals to the pixel electrodes in a plurality of line times. The data lines are configured to provide a plurality of the first data voltages and a plurality of the second data voltages to the first color pixel electrodes. The polarity of the first data voltages is opposite to the polarity of the second data voltages in the same frame. In each of the line times, the number of the first color pixel electrodes receiving the first data voltage is substantially equal to the number of the first color pixel electrodes receiving the second data voltages.

A display substrate includes a first substrate, a microcup structure layer, an electrophoretic liquid and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a pixel electrode layer which includes a plurality of pixel electrodes. The microcup structure layer is disposed on a side of the first substrate. The microcup structure layer includes a plurality of microcups, each microcup has a first opening and a second opening opposite to the first opening, the first opening is closer to the pixel electrode layer than the second opening, a size of the first opening being greater than a size of the second opening. The electrophoretic fluid is filled in the plurality of microcups, and the electrophoretic fluid is incorporated with charged particles. The second substrate is disposed on a side, away from the first substrate, of the microcup structure layer with the electrophoretic fluid, and the second substrate includes a common electrode layer.

A display device includes a display unit including gate lines and pixels electrically coupled to the gate lines; a timing controller configured to generate an on-clock signal, an off-clock signal, an enable signal, and a common signal; a clock generator configured to generate a plurality of clock signals having different phases based on the on-clock signal and the off-clock signal, when the enable signal has a first voltage level, wherein the clock generator is to insert a common pulse into each of the plurality of clock signals based on the common signal, when the enable signal has a second voltage level different from the first voltage level; and a gate driver configured to generate gate signals based on the plurality of clock signals, and to sequentially provide the gate signals to the gate lines.

The invention more particularly relates to a method and device for controlling a segmented electrophoretic display. Such displays, preferably covered by the invention, comprise a layer (or a film) of microcapsules containing colored particles suspended in a fluid or a gas, the same layer being sandwiched between two electrodes: at least one first electrode having the shape of the segment to be displayed a second transparent electrode made by a conductive layer of indium tin oxide (ITO) for example. Alternative electrodes based on a thin film of carbon nanostructures, silver or copper wires can also be used.

A display device comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in multiple rows and multiple columns. The multiple pixel columns are connected with a plurality of source signal lines respectively. The pixels of odd-numbered rows in the same pixel column are connected with the source signal lines on a first side of the pixel column. The pixels of even-numbered rows in the same pixel column are connected with the source signal lines on a second side of the pixel column opposite the first side. A display control method comprising the steps of determining and storing target pixel potential data which comprises a target pixel potential for each of the plurality of source signal lines; and setting a potential of each source signal line as the target pixel potential corresponding to the source signal line in an interval zone between two adjacent frames.

A control method of an e-ink screen. The e-ink screen includes a plurality of pixels, at least one pixel includes first color charged particles and second color charged particles, and the first color charged particles and the second color charged particles are same in electrical property. The control method of the e-ink screen includes: inputting a first color driving signal to pixels expected to display a first color in the e-ink screen. The first color driving signal includes a plurality of sub-signals corresponding to a plurality of driving stages. The plurality of sub-signals include a first color imaging sub-signal and a particle separation sub-signal. The particle separation sub-signal is configured to drive the first color charged particles and the second color charged particles in the at least one pixel to move, and to separate the first color charged particles from the second color charged particles.

An electrophoretic medium comprises a fluid and first (B), second (Y), third (R) and fourth (W) particles dispersed in the fluid and having differing colors. The first (B) and third (R) particles bear charges of one polarity and the second (Y) and fourth (W) particles bear charges of the opposite polarity, The first particles (B) have a greater zeta potential than the third particles (R), and the second particles (Y) have a greater zeta potential than the fourth particles (W). One of the particles (W) is white, one of the non-white particles (B) is partially light-transmissive, and the remaining two non-white particles are light-reflective. To display the color of a mixture of the first (B) and second (Y) particles at a viewing surface, the medium is driven to display the second particles (Y) at the viewing surface, then a first driving voltage is applied for a first period to drive the second (Y) and fourth (W) particles towards the viewing surface, then a second driving voltage, of opposite polarity to and lower magnitude than, the first voltage, is applied for a second period less than the first period, and finally the applications of the two driving voltages are repeated.

A display device comprising pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, in which each of the pixel circuits includes: an EL element; a capacitor for storing voltage; a drive transistor that provides, to the EL element, a current corresponding to the voltage stored in the capacitor to cause the EL element to emit light; a voltage supplier that applies a reference voltage to the drive transistor in an initialization period, and applies a reverse bias voltage to the drive transistor in a predetermined period before the initialization period, the reference voltage being higher than a threshold voltage of the drive transistor and providing a forward bias between the gate and source electrodes of the drive transistor, the initialization period being a period for initializing the pixel circuit, the reverse bias voltage providing a reverse bias between the gate and source electrodes of the drive transistor.

In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes a display stack and a controller. The display stack includes a display and a ground layer for generating an image for the display. The ground layer includes a plurality of columns. Each column of the plurality of columns includes a plurality of nodes. The controller provides voltages to a first plurality of nodes, respectively, of a first column of the plurality of columns of the ground layer such that a sum of the respective voltages of the first plurality of nodes of the first column is substantially zero. The controller also measures, to determine whether a touch event occurred, respective values at a second plurality of nodes of a second column of the plurality of columns. The respective values at the second plurality of nodes indicate an amount of charge transferred from the first plurality of nodes to the second plurality of nodes.

A method of driving an electro-optic display including a layer of electro-optic material disposed between a common electrode and a backplane including an array of pixel electrodes, each coupled to a transistor including a source, gate, and drain electrode. The gate electrode is coupled to a gate line, the source electrode is coupled to a scan line, and the drain electrode is coupled to the pixel electrode. A controller provides time-dependent voltages to the gate, scan, and common electrodes, including a common electrode that is the maximum voltage the controller is capable of applying, and a scan line voltage to every pixel that is the maximum voltage the controller is capable of applying. A gate voltage sufficient to activate the pixel transistor to the gate of every pixel transistor is applied, thereby applying voltage potential across the electro-optic material.