A control method for an electronic ink screen includes: when colors of an image to be displayed include only a black color and a white color, outputting a first black driving signal, and outputting a first white driving signal; and when the colors of the image to be displayed include the black color, the white color and a chromatic color, outputting a second black driving signal, outputting a second white driving signal, and outputting a chromatic driving signal. A duration of the first black driving signal is equal to a duration of the first white driving signal. A duration of the second black driving signal, a duration of the second white driving signal and the duration of the chromatic driving signal are equal. The duration of the second white driving signal is greater than the duration of the first white drive signal.

A variety of methods for driving electro-optic displays so as to reduce visible artifacts are described. Such methods includes updating a display having a plurality of display pixels with a first image, identifying display pixels with edge artifacts after the first image update, and storing the identified display pixels information in a memory. In particular, the methods are effective for minimizing edge ghosting when a pixel of an active matrix electrophoretic display undergoes a white to white transition or a black to black transition during an update between first and second images.

Disclosed are a gate driving apparatus for a pixel array and a driving method therefor. The pixel array includes N gate lines. The gate driving apparatus includes: a plurality of gate drivers, wherein the N gate lines are divided into a plurality of groups, each group includes a plurality of gate lines, each gate driver corresponds to the plurality of groups on a one-to-one basis, and is used for generating a gate driving signal for the plurality of gate lines in the group corresponding thereto; and a driver control module which is used for generating a plurality of driver control signals corresponding to the plurality of gate drivers on a one-to-one basis, and state switching between any two driver control signals has at least a difference of first time, wherein under control of the driver control signals, the gate drivers are switched from first state to second state in sequence.

Provided is a display panel. The display panel includes multiple scanning lines, a gate driver circuit, and a timing controller. The timing controller is configured to: receive multiple data enable signals, generate a gate control signal, and provide the gate control signal for the gate driver circuit. The gate control signal includes a start signal, a first clock signal and a second clock signal. The multiple data enable signals are only within the active cycle. The timing controller is configured to generate a rising edge of the start signal within the vertical blanking cycle of the (N−1).sup.th frame cycle. Alternatively, the timing controller is configured to generate a rising edge and a falling edge of the start signal within a time interval formed by a rising edge and a falling edge of a first data enable signal in the N.sup.th frame cycle.

A display device includes: a plurality of pixel blocks each including a plurality of pixels; a scan driver supplying a scan signal to the scan lines and to supply a control signal to the control lines; a data driver supplying an image data voltage or a low grayscale data voltage to the data lines; and a power supply supplying a reference voltage to the pixels, wherein the pixels are configured to receive the image data voltage during a first scan period of a frame, and to receive the low grayscale data voltage during a second scan period of the frame, and the reference voltage supplied to a first pixel row of at least one of the pixel blocks in the first scan period is different from the reference voltage supplied to a last pixel row of at least one of the pixel blocks in the first scan period.

Provided are a pixel driving circuit, a driving method and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a storage sub-circuit, a data writing sub-circuit, an initialization sub-circuit, a first light-emission control sub-circuit, a second light-emission control sub-circuit and a light-emitting element. The data writing sub-circuit is configured to write a data signal to a first electrode of the driving transistor in response to a second scan signal. The storage sub-circuit is configured to store the data signal written by the data writing sub-circuit. The initialization sub-circuit is configured to apply a reset voltage of an initial voltage terminal to the light-emitting element in response to a first scan signal. The first light-emission control sub-circuit is configured to apply a voltage of a first power terminal to the first electrode of the driving transistor in response to a first light-emission signal.

The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides driving methods of a display panel and a display device.

Provided are a display panel and display device. The display panel includes a display region and a border region. The border region is provided with a display cascade scanning circuit and a fingerprint-identification cascade scanning circuit. The display region is provided with multiple display scanning lines and multiple fingerprint scanning lines. The display cascade scanning circuit is electrically connected to the multiple display scanning lines and configured to output display scanning signals to the multiple display scanning lines respectively. The fingerprint-identification cascade scanning circuit is electrically connected to the multiple fingerprint scanning lines and configured to generate and output fingerprint scanning signals to the multiple fingerprint scanning lines respectively. The fingerprint-identification cascade scanning circuit includes a first fingerprint-identification cascade scanning circuit and a second fingerprint-identification cascade scanning circuit that are disposed at two opposite sides of the display region.

A display panel, a method for driving the same, and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of light-emitting elements. Each one of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to M pixel circuits, where M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2. The M pixel circuits are configured to drive the light-emitting element to emit light respectively during different display phases of the display panel.

A video display device includes a video obtaining unit that obtains a video represented in an input video format for displaying, at a predetermined frame frequency, frames each including an effective pixel region having n rows and m columns, p1 columns of a horizontal blanking period, and q1 rows of a vertical blanking period; a video format conversion unit that converts a format of the video to an output video format for displaying, at the predetermined frame frequency, frames each including the effective pixel region having n rows and m columns, p2 columns of the horizontal blanking period, and q2 rows of the vertical blanking period, where q2 is less than q1; and a display driver unit that displays the video row by row in a display unit at a horizontal scanning frequency in the output video format.