Pixel arrangement structure for organic light emitting diode display

A pixel arrangement structure comprising a plurality of individually addressable pixels for displaying an image on a display,

• the plurality of individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display and comprising:
• a plurality of first pixels;
• a plurality of second pixels spaced from and alternately arranged with the first pixels in a first set of pixels aligned along a first direction from among the plurality of individually addressable pixels;
• and
• a plurality of third pixels spaced from the first pixels and the second pixels, the third pixels being alternately arranged with the first pixels in a second set of pixels aligned along a second direction crossing the first direction from among the plurality of individually addressable pixels, the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels intersecting at one of the first pixels,
• wherein the first pixels and the third pixels are alternately arranged in each of a third set of pixels aligned along the first direction and a fourth set of pixels aligned along the first direction, the third set of pixels and the fourth set of pixels being located at respective sides of the first set of pixels,
• wherein a shortest distance between two immediately adjacent ones of the first pixels is greater than a shortest distance between one of the second pixels and one of the third pixels that is adjacent to the one of the second pixels,
• wherein each of the first pixels has a convex shape such that a line bisecting the first pixel along a long axis thereof has a greater length than a line bisecting the first pixel along a shortest axis thereof, the long axis being perpendicular to the shortest axis,
• wherein each of the first pixels is located between two adjacent ones of the second pixels along a direction of the shortest axis,
• wherein each of the first pixels is located between two adjacent ones of the third pixels along a direction of the long axis,
• wherein at least one of the first pixels is symmetric about at least one of the long axis or the shortest axis, and
• wherein at least one of the first pixels is symmetric about at least one of the long axis or the shortest axis.

A pixel arrangement structure comprising a plurality of individually addressable pixels for displaying an image on a display,

• the plurality of individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display and comprising:
• a plurality of first pixels;
• a plurality of second pixels spaced from and alternately arranged with the first pixels in a first set of pixels aligned along a first direction from among the plurality of individually addressable pixels;
• and
• a plurality of third pixels spaced from the first pixels and the second pixels, the third pixels being alternately arranged with the first pixels in a second set of pixels aligned along a second direction crossing the first direction from among the plurality of individually addressable pixels, the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels intersecting at one of the first pixels,
• wherein the first pixels are configured to produce different color light from the second pixels and the third pixels,
• wherein the first pixels are different in size from at least one of the second pixels or the third pixels,
• wherein one of the first pixels comprises a first end portion, a center portion, and a second end portion that are sequentially arranged from a first end to a second end of the one of the first pixels, and wherein a width of each of the first and second end portions gradually decreases from the center portion towards the respective first and second ends of the one of the first pixels, and
• wherein a first pixel of the first pixels is symmetric with respect to at least one of an axis extending in the first direction or an axis extending in the second direction.

A pixel arrangement structure comprising a plurality of individually addressable pixels for displaying an image on a light emitting display,

• the plurality of individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display and comprising:
• a plurality of first pixels;
• a plurality of second pixels spaced from and alternately arranged with the first pixels in a first set of pixels aligned along a first direction from among the plurality of individually addressable pixels;
• and
• a plurality of third pixels spaced from the first pixels and the second pixels, the third pixels being alternately arranged with the first pixels in a second set of pixels aligned along a second direction crossing the first direction from among the plurality of individually addressable pixels, the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels intersecting at one of the first pixels,
• wherein a shortest distance between two immediately adjacent ones of the first pixels is greater than a shortest distance between one of the second pixels and one of the third pixels that is adjacent to the one of the second pixels,
• wherein the shortest distance between the two immediately adjacent ones of the first pixels is different from a shortest distance between two adjacent ones of the second pixels,
• wherein each of the first pixels, the second pixels, and the third pixels comprises a corresponding first electrode, and a shape of each of the pixels is defined, at least in part, by a pixel defining layer, and
• wherein a first pixel of the first pixels is symmetric with respect to at least one of an axis extending in the first direction or an axis extending in the second direction.

A pixel arrangement structure of a display, comprising a plurality of individually addressable pixels for displaying an image, the plurality of individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display and comprising:

• a first pixel and a fourth pixel to produce light of a first color;
• a second pixel and a fifth pixel to produce light of a second color different from the first color;
• and
• a third pixel and a sixth pixel to produce light of a third color different from the first color and the second color,
• wherein the first pixel, the second pixel, the third pixel, the fourth pixel, the fifth pixel, and the sixth pixel are spaced apart from one another,
• wherein the second pixel, the third pixel, the fifth pixel, and the sixth pixel form a virtual square, the second pixel and the fifth pixel are at first diagonally opposite vertexes of the virtual square, and the third pixel and the sixth pixel are at second diagonally opposite vertexes of the virtual square,
• wherein the first pixel is located in the virtual square,
• wherein a shortest distance between the first pixel and the second pixel is a first length that is the same as a shortest distance between the first pixel and the third pixel, and
• wherein the first pixel is entirely offset from every virtual line that touches a perimeter of the third pixel, and that extends in a first direction parallel to a first side of the virtual square or in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

A display comprising:

• a plurality of first pixel rows, each of the first pixel rows comprising a plurality of first pixels arranged along a first direction;
• and
• a plurality of second pixel rows alternately arranged with the first pixel rows along a second direction crossing the first direction, each of the second pixel rows comprising a plurality of second pixels and a plurality of third pixels that are alternately arranged along the first direction,
• wherein the pluralities of first pixels, the pluralities of second pixels, and the pluralities of third pixels are spaced apart from one another and are individually addressable pixels for displaying an image, the individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display,
• wherein centers of the first pixels in a same one of the first pixel rows are aligned along the first direction,
• wherein centers of the second pixels and the third pixels in a same one of the second pixel rows are aligned along the first direction,
• wherein a distance in the first direction between the center of one of the second pixels and the center of one of the third pixels adjacent to the one of the second pixels in the same one of the second pixel rows is a first length that is the same as a shortest distance in the second direction between the center of one of the second pixels and the center of one of the third pixels in two different second pixel rows,
• wherein each of the second pixels is larger in size than the first pixels, and
• wherein one of the first pixels is entirely offset from every virtual line that touches a perimeter of one of the third pixels immediately adjacent to the one of the first pixels, and that extends in the first direction or in the second direction.

A display comprising:

• a plurality of first pixel rows, each of the first pixel rows comprising a plurality of first pixels arranged along a first direction;
• a plurality of second pixel rows alternately arranged with the plurality of first pixel rows along a second direction crossing the first direction, each of the second pixel rows comprising a plurality of second pixels and a plurality of third pixels that are alternately arranged along the first direction;
• a plurality of first pixel groups, each of the first pixel groups comprising a first one of the first pixels and one of the second pixels neighboring the first one of the first pixels;
• and
• a plurality of second pixel groups, each of the second pixel groups comprising a second one of the first pixels and one of the third pixels neighboring the second one of the first pixels,
• wherein the pluralities of first pixels, the pluralities of second pixels, and the pluralities of third pixels are spaced apart from one another and are individually addressable pixels for displaying an image, the individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display,
• wherein the first pixel groups and the second pixel groups are alternately arranged along the first direction, and
• wherein one of the first pixels is entirely offset from every virtual line that touches a perimeter of one of the third pixels immediately adjacent to the one of the first pixels, and that extends in the first direction or in the second direction.

A display comprising:

• a plurality of first pixel rows, each of the first pixel rows comprising a plurality of first pixels arranged along a first direction;
• and
• a plurality of second pixel rows alternately arranged with the plurality of first pixel rows along a second direction crossing the first direction, each of the second pixel rows comprising a plurality of second pixels and a plurality of third pixels that are alternately arranged along the first direction,
• wherein the pluralities of first pixels, the pluralities of second pixels, and the pluralities of third pixels are spaced apart from one another and are individually addressable pixels for displaying an image, the individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display,
• wherein first pixels from among the plurality of first pixels are aligned with each other along the second direction,
• wherein all of the second pixels and the third pixels are offset in their entireties in the first direction from the first pixels aligned with each other along the second direction, and
• wherein one of the first pixels is entirely offset from every virtual line that touches a perimeter of one of the third pixels immediately adjacent to the one of the first pixels, and that extends in the first direction or in the second direction.

A method for displaying images on a display, the method comprising:

• driving a first one or more of a plurality of pixels in a pixel arrangement structure to emit light;
• and
• driving a second one or more of the plurality of pixels in the pixel arrangement structure to emit light,
• wherein the pixel arrangement structure comprises:
• a plurality of first pixels;
• a plurality of second pixels spaced from the first pixels, the second pixels being alternately arranged with the first pixels along a first direction;
• and
• a plurality of third pixels spaced from the first pixels and the second pixels, the third pixels being alternately arranged with the first pixels along a second direction crossing the first direction,
• wherein the plurality of first pixels, the plurality of second pixels, and the plurality of third pixels are individually addressable pixels, the individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display,
• wherein a shortest distance between two immediately adjacent ones of the first pixels is greater than a shortest distance between any of the plurality of second pixels and any of the plurality of third pixels that are nearest to each other,
• wherein the shortest distance between the two immediately adjacent ones of the first pixels is different from a shortest distance between any two of the plurality of second pixels,
• wherein each of the first pixels has a convex shape such that a line bisecting the first pixel along a long axis thereof has a greater length than a line bisecting the first pixel along a shortest axis thereof, the long axis being perpendicular to the shortest axis,
• wherein each of the first pixels is located between two adjacent ones of the second pixels along a direction of the shortest axis,
• wherein each of the first pixels is located between two adjacent ones of the third pixels along a direction of the long axis, and
• wherein at least one of the first pixels is symmetric about at least one of the long axis or the shortest axis.

A method for displaying images on a display, the method comprising:

• driving a first one or more of a plurality of pixels in a pixel arrangement structure to emit light;
• and
• driving a second one or more of the plurality of pixels in the pixel arrangement structure to emit light,
• wherein the pixel arrangement structure comprises:
• a plurality of first pixels;
• a plurality of second pixels spaced from and alternately arranged with the first pixels in a first set of pixels aligned along a first direction from among the plurality of pixels;
• and
• a plurality of third pixels spaced from the first pixels and the second pixels, the third pixels being alternately arranged with the first pixels in a second set of pixels aligned along a second direction crossing the first direction from among the plurality of pixels, the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels intersecting at one of the first pixels,
• wherein the plurality of first pixels, the plurality of second pixels, and the plurality of third pixels are individually addressable pixels, the individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display,
• wherein the first pixels and the third pixels are alternately arranged in each of a third set of pixels aligned along the first direction and a fourth set of pixels aligned along the first direction, the third set of pixels and the fourth set of pixels being located at respective sides of the first set of pixels,
• wherein a shortest distance between two immediately adjacent ones of the first pixels is greater than a shortest distance between one of the second pixels and one of the third pixels that is adjacent to the one of the second pixels,
• wherein each of the first pixels has a convex shape such that a line bisecting the first pixel along a long axis thereof has a greater length than a line bisecting the first pixel along a shortest axis thereof, the long axis being perpendicular to the shortest axis,
• wherein each of the first pixels is located between two adjacent ones of the second pixels along a direction of the shortest axis,
• wherein each of the first pixels is located between two adjacent ones of the third pixels along a direction of the long axis, and
• wherein at least one of the first pixels is symmetric about at least one of the long axis or the shortest axis.

A method for displaying images on a display, the method comprising:

• driving a first one or more of a plurality of pixels in a pixel arrangement structure to emit light;
• and
• driving a second one or more of the plurality of pixels in the pixel arrangement structure to emit light,
• wherein the pixel arrangement structure comprises:
• a plurality of first pixels;
• a plurality of second pixels spaced from and alternately arranged with the first pixels in a first set of pixels aligned along a first direction from among the plurality of pixels;
• and
• a plurality of third pixels spaced from the first pixels and the second pixels, the third pixels being alternately arranged with the first pixels in a second set of pixels aligned along a second direction crossing the first direction from among the plurality of pixels, the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels intersecting at one of the first pixels,
• wherein the plurality of first pixels, the plurality of second pixels, and the plurality of third pixels are individually addressable pixels, the individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display,
• wherein the first pixels are configured to produce different color light from the second pixels and the third pixels,
• wherein the first pixels are different in size from at least one of the second pixels or the third pixels,
• wherein one of the first pixels comprises a first end portion, a center portion, and a second end portion that are sequentially arranged from a first end to a second end of the one of the first pixels, and wherein a width of each of the first and second end portions gradually decreases from the center portion towards the respective first and second ends of the one of the first pixels,
• wherein a first pixel of the first pixels is symmetric with respect to at least one of an axis extending in the first direction or an axis extending in the second direction.

A method for displaying images on a display, the method comprising:

• driving a first one or more of a plurality of pixels in a pixel arrangement structure to emit light;
• and
• driving a second one or more of the plurality of pixels in the pixel arrangement structure to emit light,
• wherein the pixel arrangement structure comprises:
• a plurality of first pixels;
• a plurality of second pixels spaced from and alternately arranged with the first pixels in a first set of pixels aligned along a first direction from among the plurality of pixels;
• and
• a plurality of third pixels spaced from the first pixels and the second pixels, the third pixels being alternately arranged with the first pixels in a second set of pixels aligned along a second direction crossing the first direction from among the plurality of pixels, the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels intersecting at one of the first pixels,
• wherein the plurality of first pixels, the plurality of second pixels, and the plurality of third pixels are individually addressable pixels, the individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display,
• wherein a shortest distance between two immediately adjacent ones of the first pixels is greater than a shortest distance between one of the second pixels and one of the third pixels that is adjacent to the one of the second pixels,
• wherein the shortest distance between the two immediately adjacent ones of the first pixels is different from a shortest distance between two adjacent ones of the second pixels,
• wherein each of the first pixels, the second pixels, and the third pixels comprises a corresponding first electrode, and a shape of each of the pixels is defined, at least in part, by a pixel defining layer, and
• wherein a first pixel of the first pixels is symmetric with respect to at least one of an axis extending in the first direction or an axis extending in the second direction.

A method for displaying images on a display, the method comprising:

• driving a first one or more of a plurality of pixels in a pixel arrangement structure to emit light;
• and
• driving a second one or more of the plurality of pixels in the pixel arrangement structure to emit light,
• wherein the pixel arrangement structure comprises:
• a first pixel and a fourth pixel to produce light of a first color;
• a second pixel and a fifth pixel to produce light of a second color different from the first color;
• and
• a third pixel and a sixth pixel to produce light of a third color different from the first color and the second color,
• wherein the first pixel, the second pixel, the third pixel, the fourth pixel, the fifth pixel, and the sixth pixel are spaced apart from one another and are individually addressable pixels, the individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display,
• wherein the second pixel, the third pixel, the fifth pixel, and the sixth pixel form a virtual square, the second pixel and the fifth pixel are at first diagonally opposite vertexes of the virtual square, and the third pixel and the sixth pixel are at second diagonally opposite vertexes of the virtual square,
• wherein the first pixel is located in the virtual square,
• wherein a shortest distance between the first pixel and the second pixel is a first length that is the same as a shortest distance between the first pixel and the third pixel, and
• wherein the first pixel is entirely offset from every virtual line that touches a perimeter of the third pixel, and that extends in a first direction parallel to a first side of the virtual square or in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

A method for displaying images on a display, the method comprising:

• driving a first one or more of a plurality of pixels in a pixel arrangement structure to emit light;
• and
• driving a second one or more of the plurality of pixels in the pixel arrangement structure to emit light,
• wherein the pixel arrangement structure comprises:
• a plurality of first pixel rows, each of the first pixel rows comprising a plurality of first pixels arranged along a first direction;
• and
• a plurality of second pixel rows alternately arranged with the first pixel rows along a second direction crossing the first direction, each of the second pixel rows comprising a plurality of second pixels and a plurality of third pixels that are alternately arranged along the first direction,
• wherein the pluralities of first pixels, the pluralities of second pixels, and the pluralities of third pixels are spaced apart from one another and are individually addressable pixels for displaying an image, the individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display,
• wherein centers of the first pixels in a same one of the first pixel rows are aligned along the first direction,
• wherein centers of the second pixels and the third pixels in a same one of the second pixel rows are aligned along the first direction,
• wherein a distance in the first direction between the center of one of the second pixels and the center of one of the third pixels adjacent to the one of the second pixels in the same one of the second pixel rows is a first length that is the same as a shortest distance in the second direction between the center of one of the second pixels and the center of one of the third pixels in two different second pixel rows,
• wherein each of the second pixels is larger in size than the first pixels, and
• wherein one of the first pixels is entirely offset from every virtual line that touches a perimeter of one of the third pixels immediately adjacent to the one of the first pixels, and that extends in the first direction or in the second direction.

A method for displaying images on a display, the method comprising:

• driving a first one or more of a plurality of pixels in a pixel arrangement structure to emit light;
• and
• driving a second one or more of the plurality of pixels in the pixel arrangement structure to emit light,
• wherein the pixel arrangement structure comprises:
• a plurality of first pixel rows, each of the first pixel rows comprising a plurality of first pixels arranged along a first direction;
• a plurality of second pixel rows alternately arranged with the plurality of first pixel rows along a second direction crossing the first direction, each of the second pixel rows comprising a plurality of second pixels and a plurality of third pixels that are alternately arranged along the first direction;
• a plurality of first pixel groups, each of the first pixel groups comprising a first one of the first pixels and one of the second pixels neighboring the first one of the first pixels;
• and
• a plurality of second pixel groups, each of the second pixel groups comprising a second one of the first pixels and one of the third pixels neighboring the second one of the first pixels,
• wherein the pluralities of first pixels, the pluralities of second pixels, and the pluralities of third pixels are spaced apart from one another and are individually addressable pixels for displaying an image, the individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display,
• wherein the first pixel groups and the second pixel groups are alternately arranged along the first direction, and
• wherein one of the first pixels is entirely offset from every virtual line that touches a perimeter of one of the third pixels immediately adjacent to the one of the first pixels, and that extends in the first direction or in the second direction.

A method for displaying images on a display, the method comprising:

• driving a first one or more of a plurality of pixels in a pixel arrangement structure to emit light;
• and
• driving a second one or more of the plurality of pixels in the pixel arrangement structure to emit light,
• wherein the pixel arrangement structure comprises:
• a plurality of first pixel rows, each of the first pixel rows comprising a plurality of first pixels arranged along a first direction;
• and
• a plurality of second pixel rows alternately arranged with the plurality of first pixel rows along a second direction crossing the first direction, each of the second pixel rows comprising a plurality of second pixels and a plurality of third pixels that are alternately arranged along the first direction,
• wherein the pluralities of first pixels, the pluralities of second pixels, and the pluralities of third pixels are spaced apart from one another and are individually addressable pixels for displaying an image, the individually addressable pixels being minimum addressable units of the display,
• wherein first pixels from among the plurality of first pixels are aligned with each other along the second direction,
• wherein all of the second pixels and the third pixels are offset in their entireties in the first direction from the first pixels aligned with each other along the second direction, and
• wherein one of the first pixels is entirely offset from every virtual line that touches a perimeter of one of the third pixels immediately adjacent to the one of the first pixels, and that extends in the first direction or in the second direction.