Electrophoretic panel and driving method thereof

An electrophoretic display comprising:

• an electrophoretic panel comprising a plurality of pixels and a common voltage terminal, wherein the plurality of pixels are coupled to the common voltage terminal;
• a timing control circuit for generating a timing control signal corresponding to a refresh area of an image according to the refresh area of the image to be displayed on the electrophoretic panel;
• a data driving circuit coupled to the timing control circuit for receiving the timing control signal, and driving data lines corresponding to M data lines of the refresh area coupled to the data driving circuit according to the timing control signal, wherein M is a positive integer;
• a gate driving circuit coupled to the timing control circuit for outputting scan signals sequentially to N first gate lines coupled to the gate driving circuit, and generating output enable signals corresponding to the refresh area according to the timing control signal;
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• a gate line enabling circuit comprising N gate line enabling modules, each gate line enabling module coupled to one first gate line of the N first gate lines and one second gate line of N second gate lines, and used for receiving a corresponding output enable signal, for transmitting a scan signal of the first gate line corresponding to the refresh area to a second gate line corresponding to the refresh area coupled to the gate line enabling circuit according to the output enable signal corresponding to the refresh area, and the scan signal of the second gate line is used for controlling turning off and turning on of a switch coupled to a pixel, the gate line enabling module comprising:
• an AND gate having a first terminal for receiving the output enable signal, a second terminal for receiving the scan signal of the first gate line, and an output terminal for outputting a first voltage;
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• a comparator having a first terminal for receiving the first voltage, a second terminal for receiving a reference voltage, a third terminal for receiving a gate high voltage, a fourth terminal for receiving a gate low voltage, and an output terminal for outputting the gate high voltage and the gate low voltage;
• wherein the comparator outputs the gate high voltage or the gate low voltage according to the first voltage and the reference voltage, and N is a positive integer.