G09G2320/045

DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
20230010761 · 2023-01-12 · ·

A display apparatus including a display, a memory configured to store moving trajectory information related to a plurality of moving trajectories. and a processor configured to control the display to display a specific pixel which is pixel-shifted according to a first moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a first frame interval. The processor, based on completing of the specific pixel being pixel-shifted according to the first moving trajectory, moves the specific pixel located at a starting point of the first moving trajectory by pixel units in any one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, and control the display to display the specific pixel by being pixel-shifted according to a second moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a second frame interval.

Hybrid IGZO pixel architecture

A display device includes a silicon wafer including digital circuits, a micro-light emitting diode (micro-LED) wafer including an array of micro-LEDs, and an indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (IGZO) layer between the silicon wafer and the micro-LED wafer and including analog circuits. The digital circuits are characterized by a first operating supply voltage and are configured to generate digital control signals based on digital display data of an image frame. The analog circuits are characterized by a second operating supply voltage higher than the first operating supply voltage. The analog circuits includes analog storage devices configured to storing analog signals, and transistors controlled by the digital control signals and the analog signals to generate drive currents for driving the array of micro-LEDs. The digital circuits on the silicon wafer or the analog circuits in the IGZO layer include level-shifting circuits at interfaces between the digital circuits and the analog circuits.

Display device

A display device includes pixels connected to scan lines, sensing lines, readout lines, and data lines; a scan driver including stages to supply a scan signal and a sensing signal to the scan lines and the sensing lines; a data driver which supplies a data signal to the data lines; a timing controller which divides one frame into an active period including a scan period in which the data signal is supplied to the data lines and a display period in which the pixels emit light in response to the data signal, and a blank period including a sensing period in which electrical characteristics of the pixels are detected and a reset period in which the stages are reset; and a compensator which generates a compensation value for compensating for deterioration of the pixels based on sensing values provided from the readout lines during the sensing period.

SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AGING COMPENSATION IN AMOLED DISPLAYS

Methods and systems to provide baseline measurements for aging compensation for a display device are disclosed. An example display system has a plurality of active pixels and a reference pixel. Common input signals are provided to the reference pixel and the plurality of active pixels. The outputs of the reference pixel is measured and compared to the output of the active pixels to determine aging effects. The display system may also be tested applying a first known reference current to a current comparator with a second variable reference current and the output of a device under test such as one of the pixels. The variable reference current is adjusted until the second current and the output of the device under test is equivalent of the first current. The resulting current of the device under test is stored in a look up table for a baseline for aging measurements during the display system operation. The display system may also be tested to determine production flaws by determining anomalies such as short circuits in pixel components such as OLEDs and drive transistors.

SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTION OF THRESHOLD AND MOBILITY PARAMETERS IN AMOLED DISPLAYS
20180005559 · 2018-01-04 ·

Disclosed is a system and method to improve the extraction of transistor and OLED parameters in an AMOLED display for compensation of programming voltages to improve image quality. A pixel circuit includes an organic light emitting device, a drive device to provide a programmable drive current to the light emitting device, a programming input to provide the programming signal, and a storage device to store the programming signal. A charge-pump amplifier has a current input and a voltage output. The charge-pump amplifier includes an operational amplifier in negative feedback configuration. The feedback is provided by a capacitor connected between the output and the inverting input of the operational amplifier. A common-mode voltage source drives the non-inverting input of the operational amplifier. An electronic switch is coupled across the capacitor to reset the capacitor. A switch module including the input is coupled to the output of the pixel circuit and an output is coupled to the input of the charge-pump amplifier. The switch module includes a set of electronic switches that may be controlled by external control signals to steer current in and out of the pixel circuit and provide a discharge path between the pixel circuit and the charge-pump amplifier and isolating the charge-pump amplifier from the pixel circuit. A controller is coupled to the pixel circuit, charge-pump amplifier and the switch module. The controller controls input signals to the pixel circuit, charge-pump amplifier and switch module in a predetermined sequence to produce an output voltage value which is a function of a parameter of the pixel circuit. The sequence includes providing a program voltage to the programming input to either pre-charge an internal capacitance of the pixel circuit to a charge level and transfer the charge to the charge-pump amplifier via the switch module to generate the output voltage value or provide a current from the pixel circuit to the charge-pump amplifier via the switch module to produce the output voltage value by integration over a certain period of time.

OLED PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE THEREOF
20180005571 · 2018-01-04 ·

An OLED pixel circuit and a display apparatus comprising the OLED pixel circuit. An OLED pixel circuit comprises an OLED and driving units (TFT1, S1, C) for driving the OLED to emit light, wherein one electrode of the OLED is connected to the driving units (TFT1, S1, C). The OLED pixel circuit further comprises compensation units (R1, S2, TFT2, R2). The compensation units (R1, S2, TFT2, R2) comprises a sensing element (R1) which can sense light and convert an optical signal of the OLED into an electrical signal. The compensation units (R1, S2, TFT2, R2) compensate for currents used by the driving units (TFT1, S1, C) to drive the OLED according to the light-emitting brightness of the OLED.

PIXEL CIRCUIT, DRIVING METHOD FOR THE PIXEL CIRCUIT, DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY DEVICE
20180005570 · 2018-01-04 · ·

A pixel circuit, a driving method for the pixel circuit, a display panel, and a display device, the pixel circuit includes a selecting module (01), a writing module (02), a driving module (03), and a light emitting element (OLED). When a high-luminance picture needs to be displayed, the selecting module (01) outputs the signal from the first power supply signal terminal (VDDH) to the second node (P2), so that the signal from the first power supply signal terminal (VDDH) drives the light emitting element (OLED) to emit light; when a low-luminance picture is to be displayed, the selecting module (01) outputs a signal from the second power supply signal terminal (VDDL) to the second node (P2), so that the signal from the second power source signal (VDDL) drives the light emitting element to emit light.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTERNAL PIXEL COMPENSATION
20180005578 · 2018-01-04 ·

An electronic device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a number of pixels, each of which includes a driving thin-film-transistor (TFT) and a light-emitting diode. Compensation circuitry external to the display panel applies offset data to pixel data for each pixel of the plurality of pixels before the pixel data is provided to the plurality of pixels.

PIXEL, DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME AND METHOD THEREOF
20180012548 · 2018-01-11 ·

A pixel may include a switching transistor connected to a data line and a first node, having a gate electrode connected to a scan line, a sustain transistor connected to a sustain voltage and the first node, having a gate electrode connected to the scan line, a storage capacitor connected to the first node and the second node, a driving transistor connected to the first power source voltage and a third node, having a gate electrode connected to the second node, a compensation transistor connected to the second node and the third node, having a gate electrode connected to a control line, a reset transistor connected to an initializing voltage and the second node, having a gate electrode connected to a reset control line, and an organic light emitting diode including an anode connected to the third node and a cathode connected to the second power source voltage.

Pixel, organic light emitting display device using the same, and method of driving the organic light emitting display device

A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a pixel circuit, and first and second transistors. The OLD includes a cathode electrode connected to a second power source. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor having a gate electrode initialized by a third power source. The driving transistor controls the amount of current flowing from a first power source to the second power source via the OLED. The first transistor is connected between a fourth power source and the second power source and an anode electrode of the OLED. The first transistor is turned on based on a scan signal is supplied to a scan line. The second transistor is connected between a data line and the pixel circuit. The second transistor is turned on when the scan signal is supplied to the ith scan line.