A current-selectable light-emitting-diode (LED) display includes pixels distributed in an array of rows and columns. The pixels are grouped in mutually exclusive clusters and cluster controllers are connected to each pixel in a cluster of pixels to control the pixels in the cluster to emit light. Each cluster controller comprises a selectable current source. Each of the selectable current sources can include cluster current sources that are responsive to a current-select signal to enable one or more of the cluster current sources. The pixels can include micro-LEDs and the cluster controller can be disposed between the micro-LEDs. The display can be disposed on a display substrate with signal wires. The signal wires can include separate wire segments that are electrically connected through regeneration circuits that regenerate the signals. The display can be an information display or a backlight.

The present disclosure relates to an LED driving technology. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to increase the fineness of the gray scale without increasing a frequency of a clock by combining a plurality of driving current sources to generate a driving current supplied to one driving line.

The disclosure describes various aspects of backplanes, including unit cells, architectures, and operations. In an aspect, a backplane unit cell is described that includes first and second switches, a storage element, a comparator, a source (e.g., a current or voltage source), where the source generates a drive signal to control light emission of a selected one of the light emitting elements in a display, and where the drive signal is based on a power signal selected by the second switch. In another aspect, a device is described that includes a backplane configured in an active matrix topology including multiple data columns and multiple row selects; and a set of electrical contacts associated with the active matrix topology and configured to electrically couple the backplane with the display, the display having multiple light emitting elements configured in a passive matrix topology. Methods of operation of the backplane are also described.

The present disclosure provides an LED display device. The LED display device divides each of LED modules into a plurality of unit blocks. In each of the unit blocks, a display controller transmits image data to be processed in parallel to the corresponding data driver at the same time, and transmits logic signals to the corresponding gate driver, thereby driving the corresponding data driver and then turning on the corresponding LEDs. Therefore, the speed processing the image data of each unit block can be improved, to enhance the visual refresh rate.

An active-matrix display with passive-matrix pixel clusters includes pixel clusters each having a cluster controller and a display controller operable to provide pixel data to the cluster controllers. Each pixel cluster includes pixels disposed in an array of N rows (N>=2) and M columns (M>=1), (N+1) memory banks, and a cluster controller operable to control the pixels and memory banks. Each memory bank is operable to store pixel data for a row of pixels. The cluster controller is operable to input pixel data for a row of pixels and store the pixel data in an input memory bank of the (N+1) memory banks and output stored pixel data from one or more output memory banks of the (N+1) memory banks that are not the input memory bank to control corresponding one or more rows of pixels.

A current-selectable light-emitting-diode (LED) display includes pixels distributed in an array of rows and columns. The pixels are grouped in mutually exclusive clusters and cluster controllers are connected to each pixel in a cluster of pixels to control the pixels in the cluster to emit light. Each cluster controller comprises a selectable current source. Each of the selectable current sources can include cluster current sources that are responsive to a current-select signal to enable one or more of the cluster current sources. The pixels can include micro-LEDs and the cluster controller can be disposed between the micro-LEDs. The display can be disposed on a display substrate with signal wires. The signal wires can include separate wire segments that are electrically connected through regeneration circuits that regenerate the signals. The display can be an information display or a backlight.

There are provided display controllers and driving methods related to those described in US Published Patent Application No. 2013/0194250. These include (a) a display controller having an update buffer, means for removing from the update buffer pixels not requiring updating, and means to ensure that pixels having certain special states are not removed from the update buffer; (b) a method of driving a bistable display wherein, in a pixel undergoing a white-to-white transition and lying adjacent another pixel undergoing a visible transition, there is applied to the pixel one or more balanced pulse pairs and at least one top-off pulse; (c) a method of driving a bistable display by overlaying a non-rectangular item over a pre-existing image content and then removing the item, where only pixels in the region of the item perform transitions (including self-transitions); and (d) a method of driving a bistable display in which a proportion of background pixels not undergoing an optical change are subjected to a refresh pulse to correct optical state drift.

The present invention provides a method of controlling a display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of subpixels and a plurality of scan lines coupled to the plurality of subpixels. The method includes steps of: scanning a first scan line among the plurality of scan lines to turn on at least one of the plurality of subpixels coupled to the first scan line during a subframe period among a display frame period; and discharging a second scan line among the plurality of scan lines during a non-display period following the subframe period. Wherein, the second scan line is different from the first scan line.

An integrated circuit with data communication stability in a noise environment includes at least one input section through which a signal is input from a user, at least one output section through which information is output in a predetermined form, and a microcontroller unit (MCU), independently of the microcontroller unit (MCU), and communicates with the microcontroller unit to control, on the basis of the input signal generated from the at least one input section, output driving of the output section corresponding thereto, the integrated circuit including: a serial interface that includes an Rx pin for receiving a data signal from the microcontroller unit by forming a signal reception line with respect to the microcontroller unit and a Tx pin for transmitting a data signal to the microcontroller unit by forming a signal transmission line with respect to the microcontroller unit.

A display device includes: a substrate including a first pixel region, at least one second pixel region having a smaller area than the first pixel region, the at least one second pixel region being disposed adjacent to the first pixel region, and a peripheral region surrounding the first pixel region and the second pixel region; first and second pixels respectively provided in the first and second pixel regions; first and second lines respectively connected to the first and second pixels; a dummy line connected to one of the first and second lines to extend to the peripheral region; and a first dummy part including a dummy pixel connected to the dummy line in the peripheral region.