# US 8,570,250 B2 · Organic light emitting display and method of driving the same

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- Number: US 8,570,250 B2
- Document ID: US8570250B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 12/975,843
- Filed: 2010-12-22
- Published: 2012-02-16
- Granted: 2013-10-29
- Earliest claimed: 2010-08-10
- Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Chul-Kyu Kang; Yong-Sung Park; Young-In Hwang
- Inventors: Chul-Kyu Kang; Yong-Sung Park; Young-In Hwang
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8570250B2

## CPC

- G09G 3/3233: with pixel circuitry controlling the current through the light-emitting element
- G09G 2300/0852: being a dynamic memory with more than one capacitor
- 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)

## Abstract

An organic light emitting display includes a pixel unit having pixels coupled to scan lines, first control lines, second control lines, data lines, and first and second power sources, a control line driver for providing a first control signal and a second control signal to the pixels through the first control lines and the second control lines, a scan driver for providing scan signals to the pixels through the scan lines, and a data driver for providing data signals to the pixels through data lines. The scan driver simultaneously supplies a first scan signal to the pixels through the scan signals. In the organic light emitting display, deviation in the threshold voltages of the driving transistors included in the pixels is compensated without a power swing so as to display an image with uniform brightness.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An organic light emitting display comprising:
a pixel unit comprising pixels coupled to scan lines, first control lines, second control lines, data lines, and first and second power sources;
a control line driver for providing a first control signal and a second control signal to the pixels through the first control lines and the second control lines;
a scan driver for providing scan signals to the pixels through the scan lines; and
a data driver for providing data signals to the pixels through the data lines,
wherein the scan driver simultaneously supplies a first scan signal to all of the scan lines of the pixel unit,
and wherein each of the pixels comprises:
an organic light emitting diode (OLED) having a cathode electrode coupled to the second power source;
a first transistor having a first electrode coupled to the first power source;
a second transistor having a first electrode coupled to a gate electrode of the first transistor, a second electrode coupled to a data line, and a gate electrode coupled to a scan line;
a third transistor having a first electrode coupled to a second electrode of the first transistor, a second electrode coupled to a first node, and a gate electrode coupled to a first control line;
a fourth transistor having a first electrode coupled to the first node, a second electrode coupled to an anode electrode of the OLED, and a gate electrode coupled to a second control line;
a first capacitor coupled between the gate electrode of the first transistor and the first node; and
a second capacitor coupled between the first node and the anode electrode of the OLED.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The organic light emitting display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data driver simultaneously supplies an initializing signal to the pixels through the data lines in a period where the first scan signal is simultaneously supplied to all of the scan lines of the pixel unit.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The organic light emitting display as claimed in claim 2, wherein the scan driver sequentially supplies a second scan signal to the scan lines when supply of the first scan signal is completed.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The organic light emitting display as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the first to fourth transistors is a PMOS transistor or an NMOS transistor.

### Claim 5

A method of driving an organic light emitting display, comprising:
simultaneously supplying a first scan signal and a second control signal to pixels that constitute a pixel unit so that a voltage corresponding to a difference between an initializing signal and an anode electrode voltage of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) is charged in first capacitors of the pixels;
simultaneously supplying the first scan signal and a first control signal to the pixels so that a first node voltage of each of the pixels is increased to a voltage corresponding to a difference between the initializing signal and respective threshold voltages of first transistors of the pixels;
sequentially supplying a second scan signal to the pixels and applying data signals to the pixels to which the second scan signal is supplied so that voltages corresponding to the data signals is charged in the first capacitors of the pixels; and
simultaneously supplying the first control signal and the second control signal to the pixels so that the pixels simultaneously emit light with brightness corresponding to the voltages charged in the first capacitors of the pixels.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first control signal and the second control signal do not overlap when simultaneously supplying the first scan signal and the second control signal to the pixels that constitute the pixel unit so that the voltage corresponding to the difference between the initializing signal and the anode electrode voltage of the OLED is charged in the first capacitors of the pixels and when simultaneously supplying the first scan signal and the first control signal to the pixels so that the first node voltage of each of the pixels is increased to the voltage corresponding to the difference between the initializing signal and the respective threshold voltages of the first transistors.

### Claim 7 (depends on 5)

The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first scan signal is continuously supplied while simultaneously supplying the first scan signal and the second control signal to the pixels that constitute the pixel unit so that the voltage corresponding to the difference between the initializing signal and the anode electrode voltage of the OLED is charged in the first capacitors of the pixels and while simultaneously supplying the first scan signal and the first control signal to the pixels so that the first node voltage of each of the pixels is increased to the voltage corresponding to the difference between the initializing signal and the respective threshold voltages of the first transistors.

### Claim 8 (depends on 5)

The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the initializing signal is continuously supplied while simultaneously supplying the first scan signal and the second control signal to the pixels that constitute the pixel unit so that the voltage corresponding to the difference between the initializing signal and the anode electrode voltage of the OLED is charged in the first capacitor and while simultaneously supplying the first scan signal and the first control signal to the pixels so that the first node voltage of each of the pixels is increased to the voltage corresponding to the difference between the initializing signal and the respective threshold voltages of the first transistors.