# US 2014/0152642 A1 · Error compensator and organic light emitting display device using the same > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0152642 A1 - Document ID: US20140152642A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/941,356 - Filed: 2013-07-12 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2012-12-03 - Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Bo-Yeon Kim; Oh-Jo Kwon; Hee-Sun Ahn - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140152642A1 ## CPC - G09G 3/3208: organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED] - G09G 3/3233: with pixel circuitry controlling the current through the light-emitting element - H03K 17/30: Modifications for providing a predetermined threshold before switching (shaping pulses by thresholding H03K5/08) - G09G 3/3291: in which the data driver supplies a variable data voltage for setting the current through, or the voltage across, the light-emitting elements - G09G 2300/0842: forming a memory circuit, e.g. a dynamic memory with one capacitor - G09G 2320/0295: by monitoring each display pixel - G09G 2320/043: Preventing or counteracting the effects of ageing - G09G 2320/045: Compensation of drifts in the characteristics of light emitting or modulating elements - 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) - H03K: PULSE TECHNIQUE (measuring pulse characteristics G01R; modulating sinusoidal oscillations with pulses H03C; transmission of digital information H04L; discriminator circuits detecting phase difference between two signals by counting or integrating cycles of oscillation H03D3/04; automatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses where the type of generator is irrelevant or unspecified H03L; coding, decoding or code conversion, in general H03M) ## Abstract An error compensator and an organic light emitting display device using the same. The organic light emitting display device includes pixels each having a driving transistor and an organic light emitting diode; and a sensing unit extracting at least one of a first information including the threshold voltage of the driving transistor or a second information including the degradation of the organic light emitting diode from a pixel of the pixels. In the organic light emitting display device, the sensing unit includes an amplifier amplifying a voltage corresponding to the at least one of the first information or the second information; and an error compensator compensating for error components of elements included in the amplifier and the error compensator. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An organic light emitting display device, comprising: a plurality of pixels each having a driving transistor and an organic light emitting diode; and a sensing unit for extracting at least one of a first information including a threshold voltage of the driving transistor or a second information including a degradation of the organic light emitting diode from a pixel of the pixels, wherein the sensing unit includes: an amplifier for amplifying a voltage corresponding to the at least one of the first information or the second information; and an error compensator for compensating for error components of elements included in the amplifier and the error compensator. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The organic light emitting display device of claim 1, wherein the error components include offset characteristics, noises and line resistances of the elements. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The organic light emitting display device of claim 1, wherein the amplifier includes: an eleventh transistor comprising a second electrode coupled to the pixel, a first electrode coupled to a ground power source, and a gate electrode coupled to the second electrode so that current flows from the pixel to the ground power source; a twelfth transistor coupled in the form of a current mirror to the eleventh transistor; and a current supply unit for supplying a reference current to the eleventh transistor. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The organic light emitting display device of claim 3, wherein the twelfth transistor is formed to have a channel width wider than that of the eleventh transistor. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The organic light emitting display device of claim 3, wherein the reference current is set to have a current value lower than that of a second current to be flowed in the twelfth transistor, the second current mirroring a first current supplied to the eleventh transistor. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The organic light emitting display device of claim 3, wherein a common terminal of the current supply unit and the twelfth transistor is coupled to the error compensator. ### Claim 7 (depends on 3) The organic light emitting display device of claim 3, wherein the amplifier further includes: a twentieth switch positioned between the gate electrode and the second electrode of the eleventh transistor; a twenty-first switch coupled between the ground power source and the gate electrodes of the eleventh and twelfth transistors; and a twenty-second switch coupled between the pixel and a common terminal of the current supply unit and the twelfth transistor. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The organic light emitting display device of claim 7, wherein the twentieth switch is configured to be turned on during a period in which the first information is extracted, and the twenty-first and twenty-second switches are configured to be turned on during a period in which the second information is extracted. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The organic light emitting display device of claim 1, wherein the error compensator includes: a first operational amplifier (OP-AMP) and a second OP-AMP; a first switch and a first capacitor, coupled in parallel between a first input terminal and an output terminal of the first OP-AMP; a second switch coupled between a first input terminal and an output terminal of the second OP-AMP; a third switch coupled between the first input terminal and the amplifier; a fourth switch coupled between an external analog-digital converter and the output terminal of the second OP-AMP; a first storage unit coupled between the output terminal of the first OP-AMP and the first input terminal of the second OP-AMP; and a second storage unit coupled between the first input terminal and the output terminal of the second OP-AMP. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The organic light emitting display device of claim 9, wherein a first reference power source is supplied to a second input terminal of the first OP-AMP, and a second reference power source is supplied to a second input terminal of the second OP-AMP. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The organic light emitting display device of claim 9, wherein the first storage unit includes: a fifth switch, a third capacitor and a sixth switch, coupled in series between the output terminal of the first OP-AMP and the first input terminal of the second OP-AMP; and a seventh switch, a fourth capacitor and an eighth switch, coupled in parallel to the fifth switch, the third capacitor and the sixth switch, between the output terminal of the first OP-AMP and the first input terminal of the second OP-AMP. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The organic light emitting display device of claim 11, wherein the fifth and sixth switches are configured to be turned on during a first period in the period in which the first and second switches are turned on, and the seventh and eighth switches are configured to be turned on during a second period not overlapping with the first period in the period in which the first and second switches are turned on. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The organic light emitting display device of claim 12, wherein the fourth switch is configured to be also set to be in a turn-on state during the first and second periods. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The organic light emitting display device of claim 11, wherein the second storage unit includes: a second capacitor coupled between tenth and eleventh nodes; a ninth switch coupled between the eleventh node and the first input terminal of the second OP-AMP; a tenth switch coupled between the tenth node and the output terminal of the second OP-AMP; an eleventh switch coupled between the tenth node and the first input terminal of the second OP-AMP; and a twelfth switch coupled between the eleventh node and the output terminal of the second OP-AMP. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The organic light emitting display device of claim 14, wherein the fifth switch, the sixth switch, the ninth switch and the tenth switch are configured to be turned on during a third period in the period in which the third switch is turned on, and the seventh switch, the eighth switch, the eleventh switch and the twelfth switch are configured to be turned on during a fourth period not overlapping with the third period in the period in which the third switch is turned on. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The organic light emitting display device of claim 15, wherein the fourth period is set to be longer than the third period. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The organic light emitting display device of claim 15, wherein the fourth switch, the eleventh switch and the twelfth switch are configured to be turned on during a period after the fourth period. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The organic light emitting display device of claim 1, further comprising: a data driver for supplying a data signal to data lines coupled to the pixels; a scan driver for supplying a scan signal to scan lines coupled to the pixels; and a timing controller for changing bits of data supplied from the outside thereof and providing the data driver with the changed bits, corresponding to the at least one of the first information or the second information. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The organic light emitting display device of claim 18, wherein the sensing unit further includes: an analog-digital converter for converting a voltage supplied from the error compensator into a digital value; and a memory for storing the digital value and providing the stored value to the timing controller so that the bits of the data are changed. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The organic light emitting display device of claim 1, wherein each of the pixels includes another transistor coupled between the sensing unit and a common node between the driving transistor and the organic light emitting diode, and is configured to be turned on during the period in which the at least one of the first information or the second information is extracted. ### Claim 21 An error compensator, comprising: a first operational amplifier (OP-AMP) and a second OP-AMP; a first switch and a first capacitor, coupled in parallel between a first input terminal and an output terminal of the first OP-AMP; a second switch coupled between a first input terminal and an output terminal of the second OP-AMP; a first storage unit coupled between the output terminal of the first OP-AMP and the first input terminal of the second OP-AMP, and for changing a voltage at the output terminal of the first OP-AMP and supplying the changed voltage to the first input terminal of the second OP-AMP; and a second storage unit coupled between the first input terminal and the output terminal of the second OP-AMP. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The error compensator of claim 21, wherein a first reference power source is supplied to a second input terminal of the first OP-AMP, and a second reference power source is supplied to a second input terminal of the second OP-AMP. ### Claim 23 (depends on 22) The error compensator of claim 22, wherein the first input terminal is a negative (−) input terminal, and the second input terminal is a positive (+) input terminal. ### Claim 24 (depends on 21) The error compensator of claim 21, wherein the first storage unit includes: a fifth switch, a third capacitor and a sixth switch, coupled in series between the output terminal of the first OP-AMP and the first input terminal of the second OP-AMP; and a seventh switch, a fourth capacitor and an eighth switch, coupled in parallel to the fifth switch, the third capacitor and the sixth switch between the output terminal of the first OP-AMP and the first input terminal of the second OP-AMP. ### Claim 25 (depends on 24) The error compensator of claim 24, wherein the fifth and sixth switches are configured to be turned on during a first period in the period in which the first and second switches are turned on, and the seventh and eighth switches are configured to be turned on during a second period not overlapping with the first period in the period in which the first and second switches are turned on. ### Claim 26 (depends on 24) The error compensator of claim 24, wherein the second storage unit includes: a second capacitor coupled between tenth and eleventh nodes; a ninth switch coupled between the eleventh node and the first input terminal of the second OP-AMP; a tenth switch coupled between the tenth node and the output terminal of the second OP-AMP; an eleventh switch coupled between the tenth node and the first input terminal of the second OP-AMP; and a twelfth switch coupled between the eleventh node and the output terminal of the second OP-AMP. ### Claim 27 (depends on 26) The error compensator of claim 26, wherein, after a set voltage is charged in the third and fourth capacitors, the fifth switch, the sixth switch, the ninth switch and the tenth switch are configured to be turned on so that a voltage is primarily stored in the second capacitor, and the seventh switch, the eighth switch, the eleventh switch and the twelfth switch are configured to be turned on so that a voltage is secondarily stored in the second capacitor.