Display panel and gate driving circuit and driving method for gate driving circuit

A display panel comprising:

• a plurality of data lines;
• a plurality of gate lines disposed crossing over the data lines;
• a plurality of sharing control lines disposed next to the respective gate lines;
• a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel is electrically coupled to one of the data lines, one of the gate lines and one of the sharing control lines, and the plurality of gate lines are configured for controlling corresponding pixels whether to receive data from corresponding data lines, and the plurality of sharing control lines are configured for controlling the corresponding pixels whether to share charges in the corresponding pixels respectively;
• a first gate driving unit string, wherein the first gate driving unit string comprises a plurality of first gate driving units connected in cascade and receives a start pulse, the first gate driving units are for generating driving pulses, and each of the first gate driving units is electrically coupled to one of the gate lines;
• and
• a second gate driving unit string, wherein the second gate driving unit string comprises a plurality of second gate driving units connected in cascade and receives the start pulse, the second gate driving units are for generating driving pulses, and each of the second gate driving units is electrically coupled to one of the sharing control lines;
• wherein the driving pulse generated from one of the second gate driving units is provided to one of first gate driving units to determine whether to disable the driving pulse of the first gate driving unit which receives the output pulse generated from the second gate driving unit.

A driving method for a gate driving circuit, the gate driving circuit comprising a first gate driving unit string and a second gate driving unit string, the first gate driving unit string comprising a plurality of cascade-connected first gate driving units, and the second gate driving unit string comprising a plurality of cascade-connected second gate driving units, the driving method comprising:

• enabling one of the first gate driving units to output a charging gate driving pulse for driving a first pixel to be charged;
• enabling one of the second gate driving units to output a sharing gate driving pulse;
• and
• providing the sharing gate driving pulse to the enabled first gate driving unit to switch the enabled first gate driving unit from an enabling state to a disabling state.