US 10,650,748 B2Granted

Display device having gate bridges connecting scan gate lines to pixels and method for driving the same

AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.

InventorsSoon-Dong Kim, Il-Joo Kim, Jun Ki Jeong, Jin-Wook Yang, Gyung Soon Park

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Abstract

Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display device including: a plurality of pixels; a first scan gate line and a second scan gate line configured to transfer scan signals to a first pixel row of the pixels; a plurality of first gate bridges connected with the first scan gate line to transfer the scan signals to a plurality of first pixels at the first pixel row; a plurality of second gate bridges connected with the second scan gate line to transfer the scan signals to a plurality of second pixels at the first pixel row; a plurality of first data lines configured to supply a plurality of data voltages corresponding to the first pixels; and a plurality of second data lines configured to supply a plurality of data voltages corresponding to the second pixels, wherein two of the first data lines are positioned between two first pixels corresponding thereto, and two of the second data lines are positioned between two second pixels corresponding thereto.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels comprising a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels;
a first scan gate line and a second scan gate line, each configured to transfer scan signals to a first pixel row of the pixels;
a plurality of first gate bridges connected with the first scan gate line to transfer the scan signals to the plurality of first pixels at the first pixel row;
a plurality of second gate bridges connected with the second scan gate line to transfer the scan signals to the plurality of second pixels at the first pixel row;
a plurality of first data lines configured to supply a plurality of data voltages corresponding to the first pixels;
and
a plurality of second data lines configured to supply a plurality of data voltages corresponding to the second pixels,
wherein two of the first data lines are positioned between two of the first pixels corresponding thereto, and two of the second data lines are positioned between two of the second pixels corresponding thereto,
wherein each of the first gate bridges is positioned along a first direction to include a first gate bridge electrode connected with the first scan gate line, and
wherein a second gate bridge electrode is positioned along a second direction in which the first scan gate line extends and is connected with the first gate bridge electrode.

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A display device comprising:

a first scan gate line configured to transfer a first scan signal;
a second scan gate line configured to transfer a second scan signal;
a first gate bridge connected with the first scan gate line to transfer the first scan signal to two corresponding first pixels;
a second gate bridge connected with the second scan gate line to transfer the second scan signal to two corresponding second pixels;
two first data lines positioned between the two first pixels and connected with the two first pixels, respectively;
and
two second data lines positioned between the two second pixels and connected with the two second pixels, respectively,
wherein the two first pixels and the two second pixels are positioned at a same pixel row,
wherein the first gate bridge is positioned along a first direction to include a first gate bridge electrode connected with the first scan gate line, and
wherein a second gate bridge electrode is positioned along a second direction in which the first scan gate line extends and is connected with the first gate bridge electrode.

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A driving method of a display device, the method comprising:

transferring a first scan signal of an enable level to a first pixel and a second pixel through a first gate bridge connected with a first scan gate one;
transferring a first data voltage and a second data voltage to a first data line connected with the first pixel and a second data line connected with the second pixel, positioned between the first pixel and the second pixel, during a first period of an enable period of the first scan signal;
transferring a second scan signal of an enable level to a third pixel and a fourth pixel through a second gate bridge connected with a second scan gate line;
and
transferring a third data voltage and a fourth data voltage to a third data line connected with the third pixel and a fourth data line connected with the fourth pixel, positioned between the third pixel and the fourth pixel, during a second period of an enable period of the second scan signal,
wherein the first to fourth pixels are positioned at a same pixel row.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/863,148Filed 5 Jan 2018
Priority: KR 10-2017-011725113 Sep 2017
Published: US 2019/0080651 A114 Mar 2019
Granted: 12 May 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification22 codes

G09G 3/3258
Using an active matrix: with pixel circuitry controlling the voltage across the light-emitting element
G09G 3/3225
Organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]: using an active matrix
G09G 3/3233
Using an active matrix: with pixel circuitry controlling the current through the light-emitting element
G09G 3/3266
Organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]: details of drivers for scan electrodes