Signal controlling method and display panel utilizing the same
10019215 ยท 2018-07-10
Assignee
Inventors
Cpc classification
G09G3/2085
PHYSICS
G09G2370/04
PHYSICS
G09G3/2092
PHYSICS
A63F13/26
HUMAN NECESSITIES
G06F3/1415
PHYSICS
H04N21/4302
ELECTRICITY
G09G2310/0267
PHYSICS
G09G2340/0435
PHYSICS
H04N7/012
ELECTRICITY
International classification
G06F3/14
PHYSICS
H04N7/01
ELECTRICITY
Abstract
A signal controlling method adapted for updating a display screen of a panel is disclosed. The signal controlling method includes the following steps: updating the display screen with first image data; determining whether second image data is received; when the second image data is not received, selectively generating an internal signal, using the internal signal to enable a shift register and returning to the step of updating the display screen with the first image data; and when an initiating signal and the second image data are received, enabling a plurality of shift register units of the shift register so that a plurality of scan signal lines of the panel are sequentially enabled and updating the display screen with the second image data.
Claims
1. A signal controlling method, applicable to update a display screen of a panel, comprising: updating the display screen according to first image data; determining whether second image data is received; when the second image data is not received, selectively generating an internal signal, using the internal signal to enable a shift register, and returning to the step of updating the display screen with the first image data; and when the second image data is received, using an initiating signal to enable a plurality of shift register units in the shift register, so as to enable a plurality of scan signal lines of the panel in sequence, and updating the display screen with the second image data; wherein the updating the display screen according to the first image data takes a first time length, and the step of when the second image data is not received, selectively generating the internal signal, using the internal signal to enable the shift register, and returning to the step of updating the display screen with the first image data comprises: receiving a detection signal, wherein the detection signal is transmission information about the second image data; and selectively generating, according to the transmission information and the first time length, the internal signal.
2. The signal controlling method according to claim 1, wherein the step of selectively generating, according to the transmission information and the first time length, the internal signal comprises: determining whether a second time length before the second image data is received is greater than the first time length; when the second time length is greater than the first time length, generating the internal signal and updating the display screen according to the first image data; and when the second time length is less than the first time length, prolonging the first time length and updating the display screen according to the second image data.
3. The signal controlling method according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of shift register units comprises a first pull-up circuit, the first pull-up circuit is configured to output, based on a voltage of a control node, a scan signal from an output end of the shift register unit according to a clock signal corresponding to the shift register unit, so as to enable a corresponding pixel, the step of when the second image data is received, updating the display screen according to the second image data comprises: when the initiating signal is received, adjusting the voltage of the control node and/or the output end of the shift register unit to a reference voltage, so as to disable the scan signal lines of the panel; and after the scan signal lines are disabled, enabling, by the shift register units, the scan signal lines in sequence, and updating the display screen according to the second image data.
4. A display panel, comprising: a panel; and a control module, electrically coupled to the panel, wherein the control module is configured to update a display screen of the panel according to first image data and when second image data is not received, generate an internal signal, the control module is further configured to use the internal signal to enable a shift register of the display panel and update the display screen with the first image data, and when the second image data is received, the control module is further configured to use an initiating signal to enable a plurality of shift register units in the shift register, so as to enable a plurality of scan signal lines of the panel in sequence, and update the display screen according to the second image data; wherein the control module comprises: a register unit; a determination unit, configured to determine, after the display screen is updated according to the first image data, whether the second image data is received, and when the determination unit determines that the second image data is received, transmit the second image data and update the register unit according to the second image data; and a control unit, electrically coupled to the determination unit and the register unit, wherein when the determination unit determines that the second image data is not received, the control unit is configured to generate the internal signal and update, according to the internal signal, the display screen according to the first image data, and when the determination unit determines that the second image data is received, the control unit updates, according to the initiating signal, the display screen according to the second image data.
5. The display panel according to claim 4, wherein the updating the display screen according to the first image data takes a first time length, the determination unit is further configured to receive a detection signal, the detection signal is transmission information about the second image data, and when the determination unit does not receive the second image data, the control unit is further configured to selectively generate, according to the transmission information and the first time length, the internal signal.
6. The display panel according to claim 5, wherein when the determination unit determines when a second time length before the second image data is received is greater than the first time length, the control unit is further configured to generate the internal signal, and the control unit updates, according to the internal signal, the display screen with the first image data, and when the determination unit determines that the second time length is less than the first time length, the first time length is prolonged, and the control unit is further configured to read image data stored in the register unit, so as to update the display screen.
7. The display panel according to claim 4, wherein each of the plurality of shift register units comprises a first pull-up circuit, the first pull-up circuit is configured to output, based on a voltage of a control node, a scan signal from an output end of the shift register unit according to a clock signal corresponding to the shift register unit, and when the control module generates the initiating signal, the control module further is configured to adjust the voltage of the control node and/or the output end of the shift register unit to a reference voltage, so as to update the display screen with the second image data.
8. A display panel, comprising: a panel, having a plurality of pixels; a control module, electrically coupled to the panel and configured to provide an initiating signal; and a shift register, electrically coupled to the panel, wherein the shift register comprises: a plurality of shift register units, wherein the shift register units are connected in series to each other, a first stage of the shift register units is configured to be enabled according to the initiating signal, at least one of the shift register units comprises: a first pull-up circuit, configured to output, based on a first control signal, a scan signal on an output end of the shift register unit according to a clock signal corresponding to the shift register unit, so as to enable the corresponding pixels; and a control circuit, electrically coupled to the first pull-up circuit, wherein the control circuit is configured to adjust, according to the initiating signal, an terminal of the first pull-up circuit configured to receive the first control signal and an terminal of the control circuit configured to output the scan signal to a first reference voltage, so as to disable at least one of a plurality of scan signal lines of the panel.
9. The display panel according to claim 8, wherein the control circuit comprises: a first transistor, comprising a control end, a first end, and a second end, wherein the control end of the first transistor is configured to receive the initiating signal, the first end of the first transistor is configured to output a first output signal, the second end of the first transistor is configured to receive the first reference voltage, and the first transistor is configured to adjust, according to the initiating signal, the first output signal to the first reference voltage.
10. The display panel according to claim 8, wherein the control circuit comprises: a second transistor, comprising a control end, a first end, and a second end, wherein the control end of the second transistor is configured to receive the initiating signal, the first end of the second transistor is configured to receive the first control signal, the second end of the second transistor is configured to receive the first reference voltage, the second transistor is configured to adjust, according to the initiating signal, the first control signal to the first reference voltage.
11. The display panel according to claim 8, wherein at least one of the shift register units further comprises a second pull-up circuit, configured to adjust, according to a second control signal and a second clock signal, a level of the first control signal to a level of a second output signal.
12. The display panel according to claim 8, wherein the control circuit is configured to disable all the scan signal lines of the panel.
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
(1) The accompanying drawings illustrate one or more embodiments of the present disclosure and together with the written description, serve to explain the principles of the present disclosure. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers are used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like elements of an embodiment, and wherein:
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(15) The detailed features and advantages of the present invention are described below in great detail through the following embodiments, and the content of the detailed description is sufficient for persons skilled in the art to understand the technical content of the present invention and to implement the present invention there accordingly. Based upon the content of the specification, the claims, and the drawings, persons skilled in the art can easily understand the relevant objectives and advantages of the present invention. The following embodiments further describe the viewpoints of the present invention, but are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention in any way.
(16) The terms used in the present disclosure generally have general meanings of the terms in the background field of the present disclosure and meanings of the terms being used in a particular background. Some particular terms that are used to describe the present disclosure are defined and discussed below or are discussed in other places of the specification, to enable persons skilled in the art to understand the description of the present disclosure. In addition, a same object may be described in more than one manner, and it should be understood that the meaning of the object is selectively one of multiple description manners or a general meaning. Therefore, a replaceable expression or synonym is used herein to represent any one or more terms. No matter whether this term is elaborately described or discussed herein, the use of a replaceable expression and synonym does not have a particular meaning. The present disclosure provides synonyms of some terms. One or more common synonyms do not exclude the use of other synonyms. In this specification, an example mentioned in any position and an example including any discussed term are both used for description only, and do not limit the range and meaning of the present disclosure or any term that is used as an example for description. Similarly, the present disclosure is also not limited to various embodiments provided in this specification.
(17) It may be understood that when an element is (electrically) coupled to another element, the element may be directly (electrically) coupled to the other element, or an element may exist between the element and the other element. In contrast, when an element is directly (electrically) coupled to another element, no element exists between the element and the other element. The actual interpretation thereof should depend on the content of the invention. For example, other relay elements may possibly be added between two elements, which, however, does not depart from the spirit of the disposition of (electrically) coupling an element to another element.
(18) It may be further understood that, for the description of signal transmission or provision herein, a transmitted signal may be attenuated or distorted, but the attenuated or distorted signal still has a correspondence with the signal before transmission. A correspondence between two signals at a signal transmitting end and a signal receiving end is usually kept regardless of attenuation or distortion that occurs during transmission. In addition, a signal buffering unit and/or a signal strengthening unit may also exist between the signal transmitting end and the signal receiving end, to compensate for attenuation of a signal. However, this does not affect the correspondence between the two signals at the signal transmitting end and the signal receiving end.
(19) It may be understood that, as used herein, the term and/or includes any one and all combinations of one or more related listed items, that is, the denotation of the term is forms in which multiple elements are connected in and and or manners.
(20) It may be further understood that when an element is located on or above another element, the element may be directly located on the other element, or an element may exist between the element and the other element. In contrast, when an element is directly located on another element, no element exists between the element and the other element.
(21) It may be further understood that terms such as first, second, and third are used to describe various elements, components, areas, layers and/or parts. However, these elements, components, areas, layers and/or parts should not be limited by these terms. These words are only used for distinguishing between an element, a component, an area, a layer and/or a part from another element, component, area, layer and/or part. Therefore, a first element, component, area, layer and/or part hereinafter may also be referred to as a second element, component, area, layer and/or part without departing from the concept of the present disclosure.
(22) The terms used herein are only used for the objective of describing particular embodiments, rather than to limit the present disclosure. As used herein, unless clearly designated in the content, singular forms a and the also intend to include a plural form. It is further understood that when the term include or have is used in the specification, the presence of a feature, an area, a whole, a step, an operation, an element, and/or a member is clearly described, but the presence or addition of one or more other features, areas, wholes, steps, operations, elements, components and/or groups thereof is not excluded.
(23) In addition, the relative terms such as under or bottom, on or top, and left or right herein may be used to describe a relationship between an element and another element shown in the drawings. It may be understood that, in addition to the positions depicted in the drawings, the relative terms intend to include different positions of the elements. For example, if elements in the drawings are inverted, an element that is described to be under another element becomes located above the other element. Therefore, the exemplary term under may include two positions under and above according to particular positions of the drawings. Similarly, if elements in the drawings are inverted, an element that is described to be below or under another element becomes located above the other element. Therefore, the exemplary term below or under may include two positions above and below.
(24) The term approximately, about or nearly used herein should substantially mean that a value is within 20 percent of a given value or range, or preferably within 10 percent, or more preferably within 5 percent. An approximate quantity is provided herein, and it refers to that unless specifically indicated, the term approximately, about or nearly may be used for representation.
(25) In the claims verbs are used to limit apparatus claims. In particular cases, a person of ordinary skill in the art may understand that similar limitation is limitation on structural description rather than on a manufacturing method. For example, a first element is welded on a second element, a first element is disposed on a second element, a first element is formed on a second element, a lead is grounded, a column is twisted, a printed material is applied on a substrate, and a conductive via (or through hole) exposes a metal electrode there below.
(26) The term expose, exposing or exposed used herein does not mean that an element or a structure is exposed in external space, but may only mean that the element or structure is not completely covered by another element that covers the element or structure.
(27) The term surround, surrounding, or a similar term used herein does not represent that a surrounding object must completely surround a surrounded object.
(28) The term adjacent, neighboring or a similar term used herein does not represent that another intermediate element is completely absent between two adjacent or neighboring elements.
(29) If system, module, functional unit, operation unit, and processing unit, or similar terms are used, they may denote an particular Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an electronic circuit, electronic circuitry, a combination of logic circuits, a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a processor with an instruction processing capability, or other hardware structures applicable to executing functions of the foregoing elements, and may also denote a combination or some of the various forms exemplified above or a structure including the various forms exemplified above, for example, a system chip. Structures denoted by the system, module, functional unit, operation unit, and processing unit, or similar terms may also include a memory, configured to store an instruction or code executed by a processor.
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(32) After the first image data Data1 is written and the blank interval BK ends, when the control module 11 does not receive second image data Data2, the control module 11 selectively generates an internal signal V.sub.ST.sub._.sub.int. As shown in
(33) In an embodiment, the control module 11 includes a determination unit 112, a register unit 114, and a control unit 116. As shown in
(34) In an embodiment, when receiving an output signal G(m) of the shift register unit SR1_m, the determination unit 112 starts to calculate, according to a clock signal, a time interval (that is, the blank interval BK), and when the blank interval BK ends and the second image data Data2 is not completely received, selectively generates an internal signal V.sub.ST.sub._.sub.int. In this embodiment, when the determination unit 112 receives an output signal G(n) of the dummy shift register unit SR1_n, but does not receive the complete second image data Data2, the determination unit 112 selectively generates an internal signal V.sub.ST.sub._.sub.int. In an example, the internal signal V.sub.ST.sub._.sub.int is generated by the determination unit 112, and in another embodiment, the internal signal V.sub.ST.sub._.sub.int is generated by the control unit 116. If the determination unit 112 generates the internal signal V.sub.ST.sub._.sub.int, the control unit 116 receives the internal signal V.sub.ST.sub._.sub.int, and the internal signal V.sub.ST.sub._.sub.int triggers the plurality of shift register units SR1_1 to SR_m, so that the scan signal lines GL_1 to GL_m are enabled, and the first image data Data1 is written into the panel 10, so as to update the display screen. In a practical embodiment, assuming that the determination unit 112 receives an output signal G(n) of the physical shift register unit SR1_m (a non-dummy shift register unit), which represents that the blank interval BK ends, if the second image data Data2 is not completely received at this time, the control unit 116 generates the internal signal V.sub.ST.sub._.sub.int, as shown in
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(38) In an example, each of the plurality of shift register units SR_1 to SR_q of
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(40) The clamping circuit CDC includes a transistor T31 to and a transistor T41, and the clamping circuit CDC adjusts, according to a third output signal G(n+2), the first output signal G(n) and the first control signal Q(n) to the reference voltage V.sub.SS. The control circuit CTC is electrically coupled to the first output signal G(n) and the first control signal Q(n), and a second pull-up circuit PUC_2 of a first stage shift register unit in the plurality of shift register units SR_1 to SR_q includes a signal output end (that is, an terminal in the shift register unit SR_n for receiving the second control signal Q2(n2)), and receives an initiating signal V.sub.ST, so as to update the display screen of the panel 10. The control circuit CTC adjusts, according to the initiating signal V.sub.ST, the first output signal G(n) or the first control signal Q(n) to the reference voltage V.sub.SS, so as to disable a plurality of scan signal lines GL_1 to GL_n of the panel. In an embodiment, the control circuit CTC includes a first transistor T1, where a control end thereof is configured to receive an initiating signal V.sub.ST, a first end thereof is configured to output a first output signal G(n), and a second end thereof is configured to receive a reference voltage V.sub.SS. The first transistor T1 is configured to pull down, according to the initiating signal V.sub.ST, the first output signal Q(n) to the reference voltage V.sub.SS. In another embodiment, the control circuit CTC includes a second transistor T2, where a control end thereof is configured to receive an initiating signal V.sub.ST, a first end thereof is configured to output a first control signal Q(n), and a second end thereof is configured to receive a reference voltage V.sub.SS. The second transistor T2 is configured to pull down, according to the initiating signal V.sub.ST, the first control signal Q(n) to the reference voltage V.sub.SS.
(41) A practical example is used for description. When the shift register 13 receives the initiating signal V.sub.ST, the control circuit CTC first adjusts voltages of first control signals Q(n) of control nodes CN in all of the shift register units SR_1 to SR_q and/or first output signals G(n) of output ends OUT thereof to the reference voltage V.sub.SS. In practice, the reference voltage V.sub.SS is generally a low level voltage, a ground voltage, or a disable voltage. When the voltages of the first control signals Q(n) of the control nodes CN and/or the first output signals G(n) of the output ends OUT are adjusted to the reference voltage V.sub.SS, a plurality of scan signal lines GL_1 to GL_m corresponding to the shift register units SR_1 to SR_n is disabled at the same time. At this time, a second pull-up circuit PUC_2 of the first stage shift register unit SR_1 receives an initiating signal V.sub.ST, so as to enable the shift register 13 to start enabling the corresponding scan signal lines GL_1 to GL_m in sequence starting from the first stage shift register unit SR_1 to a next stage, so as to update the display screen of the panel 10. In an embodiment, the control circuit CTC includes the foregoing first transistor T1 and second transistor T2, when the control module 11 receives the initiating signal V.sub.ST, voltages of the first output signal G(n) of the output end OUT and the first control signal Q(n) of the control node CN are respectively adjusted by using the first transistor T1 and the second transistor T2 to the reference voltage V.sub.SS, which may further ensure that the plurality of scan signal lines GL_1 to GL_n can be disabled.
(42) It could be known from the preceding text that the control circuit CTC is mainly configured to pull down first output signals G(n) or first control signals Q(n) of the shift register units SR_1 to SR_n to a low level reference voltage V.sub.SS. An objective thereof is preventing, in a process of enabling the corresponding scan signal lines GL_1 to GL_m and performing an update with the existing first image data Data1, the display screen of the panel 10 from generating an exception because reception of a next initiating signal V.sub.ST causes a plurality of scan signal lines in the panel 10 to be enabled. That is, when the next initiating signal is received, a plurality of scan signal lines GL_1 to GL_m of the panel 10 are enabled in sequence from the beginning, so that the panel 10 is updated with the second image data Data2. For example, referring to
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(44) In an embodiment, updating the display screen of the panel 10 with the first image data Data1 takes a first time length T1. Referring to
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(47) In conclusion, in the signal controlling method and display panel of the present invention, a plurality of internal signals is generated between two adjacent initiating signals to further update a display screen with first image data repeatedly, so as to reduce the risk of the panel material polarization when the panel performs frequency switching, thereby alleviating a brightness difference of a display screen. In addition, when a next initiating signal is received, by means of disposition of a control circuit, the display screen is prevented from an exception caused by enabling a plurality of scan signal lines at the same time.
(48) The foregoing description of the exemplary embodiments of the invention has been presented only for the purposes of illustration and description and is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise forms disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching.
(49) The embodiments were chosen and described in order to explain the principles of the invention and their practical application so as to activate others skilled in the art to utilize the invention and various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated. Alternative embodiments will become apparent to those skilled in the art to which the present disclosure pertains without departing from its spirit and scope. Accordingly, the scope of the present disclosure is defined by the appended claims rather than the foregoing description and the exemplary embodiments described therein.