# US 12,604,632 B2 · Display apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,604,632 B2 - Document ID: US12604632B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/315,341 - Filed: 2023-05-10 - Published: 2023-11-16 - Granted: 2026-04-14 - Earliest claimed: 2022-05-13 - Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Display Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Sangshin Lee; Sanghoon Kim; Jongsung Park; Seungjin Lee - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12604632B2 ## CPC - H10K 59/353: {characterised by the geometrical arrangement of the RGB subpixels} - G09G 3/3233: with pixel circuitry controlling the current through the light-emitting element - H10K 59/122: Pixel-defining structures or layers, e.g. banks - G09G 2300/0426: Layout of electrodes and connections - G09G 2300/0452: Details of colour pixel setup, e.g. pixel composed of a red, a blue and two green components - G09G 2300/0842: forming a memory circuit, e.g. a dynamic memory with one capacitor - H10K 59/352: {the areas of the RGB subpixels being different} - H10K: ORGANIC ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES - G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00) ## Abstract A display apparatus includes: a substrate; and an array of pixels comprising first pixels, second pixels, and third pixels arranged on the substrate to respectively emit light of a first color, light of a second color, and light of a third color, wherein the array of pixels comprises: a first column comprising the first pixels; and a second column adjacent to the first column, and comprising the second pixels and the third pixels, wherein the second pixels and the third pixels are alternately arranged, wherein a virtual line connecting centroids of the first pixels of the first column has a zigzag shape, wherein a first shortest distance between two first pixels adjacent to each other in a first direction from among the first pixels is different from a second shortest distance between two other first pixels adjacent to each other in the first direction from among the first pixels. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display apparatus comprising: a substrate; and an array of pixels comprising first pixels, second pixels, and third pixels arranged on the substrate to respectively emit light of a first color, light of a second color, and light of a third color, wherein the array of pixels comprises: a first column comprising the first pixels; and a second column located adjacent to the first column, and comprising the second pixels and the third pixels, wherein the second pixels and the third pixels are alternately arranged, wherein a virtual line connecting centroids of the first pixels of the first column has a zigzag shape, wherein a first shortest distance between two first pixels adjacent to each other in a first direction from among the first pixels is different from a second shortest distance between two other first pixels adjacent to each other in the first direction from among the first pixels. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein centroids of the second pixels and centroids of the third pixels of the second column are on a virtual straight line extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The display apparatus of claim 2, wherein both sides of each of the second pixels and the third pixels of the second column are symmetric to each other with respect to the virtual straight line. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein any one third pixel of the third pixels of the second column is between two second pixels from among the second pixels of the second column, wherein an edge of the any one third pixel faces an edge of any one second pixel from among the two second pixels, and a corner portion of the any one third pixel faces a corner portion of another second pixel from among the two second pixels. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein two adjacent first pixels from among the first pixels are symmetric to each other with respect to a reference point on a virtual straight line that connects centroids of the two adjacent first pixels. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the array of pixels further comprises a third column located adjacent to the second column, and comprising first pixels. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The display apparatus of claim 6, wherein centroids of the first pixels of the first column and centroids of the first pixels of the third column are on a virtual line having a zigzag shape in the first direction. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The display apparatus of claim 6, wherein centroids of the first pixels of the first column and centroids of the first pixels of the third column are on a virtual straight line extending in the first direction. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The display apparatus of claim 6, wherein the array of pixels further comprises a fourth column located adjacent to the third column, and comprising second pixels and third pixels, wherein the second pixels and the third pixels of the fourth column are alternately arranged, wherein the second pixels of the second column and the third pixels of the fourth column are arranged in a same row in the first direction, and centroids of the second pixels and centroids of the third pixels arranged in the same row are located on a virtual line having a zigzag shape in the first direction. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first pixels, the second pixels and the third pixels comprises at least five internal angles. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein a third shortest distance between two adjacent first pixels from among the first pixels of the first column is different from a fourth shortest distance between two other adjacent first pixels from among the first pixels of the first column. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein a shortest distance between adjacent first pixels from among the first pixels of the first column is same. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first pixels are green pixels, and either the second pixels or the third pixels are red pixels and the others of the second pixels and the third pixels are blue pixels. ### Claim 14 A display apparatus comprising: a substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes on the substrate; a bank layer located on the plurality of pixel electrodes, and comprising a plurality of openings respectively overlapping the plurality of pixel electrodes; first emission layers, second emission layers, and third emission layers on the bank layer; and a counter electrode on the first through third emission layers, wherein the plurality of openings of the bank layer comprise: a first column comprising first openings; and a second column located adjacent to the first column, and comprising second openings and third openings, wherein the second openings and the third openings are alternately arranged, wherein a virtual line connecting centroids of the first openings of the first column has a zigzag shape, wherein a first shortest distance between two first openings adjacent to each other in a first direction from among the first openings is different from a second shortest distance between two other first openings adjacent to each other in the first direction from among the first openings. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The display apparatus of claim 14, wherein centroids of the second openings and centroids of the third openings of the second column are on a virtual straight line extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The display apparatus of claim 14, wherein the plurality of openings further comprise a third column located adjacent to the second column, and comprising first openings. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The display apparatus of claim 16, wherein centroids of the first openings of the first column and centroids of the first openings of the third column are on a virtual line having a zigzag shape in the first direction. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The display apparatus of claim 16, wherein centroids of the first openings of the first column and centroids of the first openings of the third column are on a virtual straight line extending in the first direction. ### Claim 19 (depends on 14) The display apparatus of claim 14, wherein the second emission layers respectively overlap the second openings, the third emission layers respectively overlap the third openings, and the first emission layers are spaced apart from each other, wherein each of the first emission layers extends in the first direction and overlaps a plurality of first openings. ### Claim 20 (depends on 14) The display apparatus of claim 14, wherein the first emission layers are green emission layers that emit green light, the second emission layers are red emission layers that emit red light, and the third emission layers are blue emission layers that emit blue light.