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US 12,112,679 B2Granted
Display device for reducing difference in brightness among subframes of light emitting elements forming one group
AssigneeTLI Inc.
InventorsJu Hyun Park, Hwi Jeong Jo
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Abstract
A display device includes a display panel including light emitting elements, scan lines, and channel lines, a scan driving part that transmits current to the channel lines, a data storage part that stores display data, and a pulse width modulating part that generates modulating signals.
Claims7
A display device comprising:
- a display panel including a 1-st to a 4-th light emitting element forming one group, a 1-st scan line and a 2-nd scan line adjacent to each other, and a 1-st channel line and a 2-nd channel line adjacent to each other, wherein the 1-st light emitting element is connected to the 1-st scan line and the 1-st channel line, the 2-nd light emitting element is connected to the 1-st scan line and the 2-nd channel line, the 3-rd light emitting element is connected to the 2-nd scan line and the 1-st channel line, and the 4-th light emitting element is connected to the 2-nd scan line and the 2-nd channel line, each of the 1-st to the 4-th light emitting element emits light with brightness according to a total amount of current flowing therein during a unit frame, the unit frame includes a 1-st to an n-th subframe which are sequentially progressed, and each of the 1-st to the n-th subframe includes ‘p’ number of a unit time, ‘n’ is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, and ‘p’ is a natural number greater than or equal to 1;
- a scan driving part that is driven to selectively activate the 1-st scan line and the 2-nd scan line according to a scan address which is sequentially changed, wherein the 1-st scan line and the 2-nd scan line are activated non-overlappingly and sequentially in each of the 1-st to the n-th subframe;
- a channel driving part that is driven to transmit current to flow in the 1-st channel line and the 2-nd channel line for a time corresponding to an activation width of a 1-st modulation signal and an activation width of a 2-nd modulation signal;
- a data storage part that stores a 1-st to a 4-th display data corresponding to the 1-st to the 4-th light emitting element, wherein the 1-st display data and the 2-nd display data are sequentially output together with a channel address specifying corresponding 1-st and 2-nd channel line according to a generation of a 1-st scan address which is the scan address specifying the 1-st scan line, and the 3-rd display data and the 4-th display data are sequentially output together with a channel address specifying corresponding 1-st and 2-nd channel line according to a generation of a 2-nd scan address which is the scan address specifying the 2-nd scan line;
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- a pulse width modulating part that is driven to generate a 1-st modulating signal and a 2-nd modulating signal by modulating the 1-st display data and the 2-nd display data provided from the data storage part according to the generation of the 1-st scan address, wherein the 1-st modulation signal is activated in the 1-st to the n-th subframe with an activation width corresponding to a 1-st distribution pattern of the 1-st display data in case that the 1-st scan address is generated, and the 2-nd modulation signal is activated in the 1-st to the n-th subframe with an activation width corresponding to a 2-nd distribution pattern of the 2-nd display data in case that the 1-st scan address is generated,
- wherein the activation width of the 1-st modulation signal and the activation width of the 2-nd modulation signal are different from each other with respect to the 1-st display data and the 2-nd display data having a specific data value in a specific subframe that is at least one of the 1-st to the n-th subframe in case that the 1-st scan address is generated.
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A display device comprising:
- a display panel including a 1-st to a 4-th light emitting element forming one group, a 1-st scan line and a 2-nd scan line adjacent to each other, and a 1-st channel line and a 2-nd channel line adjacent to each other, wherein the 1-st light emitting element is connected to the 1-st scan line and the 1-st channel line, the 2-nd light emitting element is connected to the 1-st scan line and the 2-nd channel line, the 3-rd light emitting element is connected to the 2-nd scan line and the 1-st channel line, and the 4-th light emitting element is connected to the 2-nd scan line and the 2-nd channel line, each of the 1-st to the 4-th light emitting element emits light with brightness according to a total amount of current flowing therein during a unit frame, the unit frame includes a 1-st to an n-th subframe which are sequentially progressed, and each of the 1-st to the n-th subframe includes ‘p’ number of a unit time, ‘n’ is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, and ‘p’ is a natural number greater than or equal to 1;
- a scan driving part that is driven to selectively activate the 1-st scan line and the 2-nd scan line according to a scan address which is sequentially changed, wherein the 1-st scan line and the 2-nd scan line are activated non-overlappingly and sequentially in each of the 1-st to the n-th subframe;
- a channel driving part that is driven to transmit current to flow in the 1-st channel line and the 2-nd channel line for a time corresponding to an activation width of a 1-st modulation signal and an activation width of a 2-nd modulation signal;
- a data storage part that stores a 1-st to a 4-th display data corresponding to the 1-st to the 4-th light emitting element, wherein the 1-st display data and the 2-nd display data are sequentially output together with a channel address specifying corresponding 1-st and 2-nd channel line according to a generation of a 1-st scan address which is the scan address specifying the 1-st scan line, and the 3-rd display data and the 4-th display data are sequentially output together with a channel address specifying corresponding 1-st and 2-nd channel line according to a generation of a 2-nd scan address which is the scan address specifying the 2-nd scan line;
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- a pulse width modulating part that is driven to generate a 1-st modulating signal and a 2-nd modulating signal by modulating the 1-st display data and the 2-nd display data provided from the data storage part according to the generation of the 1-st scan address, and generate the 1-st modulating signal and the 2-nd modulating signal by modulating the 3-rd display data and the 4-th display data provided from the data storage part according to the generation of the 2-nd scan address, wherein
- the 1-st modulation signal is activated in the 1-st to the n-th subframe with the activation width corresponding to a 1-st distribution pattern of the 1-st display data in case that the 1-st scan address is generated, and the activation width corresponding to a 2-nd distribution pattern of the 3-rd display data in case that the 2-nd scan address is generated, and
- the activation width of the 1-st modulation signal in case that the 1-st scan address is generated and the activation width of the 1-st modulation signal in case that the 2-nd scan address is generated are different from each other with respect to the 1-st display data and the 3-rd display data having a specific data value in a specific subframe that is at least one of the 1-st to the n-th subframe.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.