The present application relates to the field of display technology, in particular to a display device and equipment.
OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode), that is an organic light-emitting diode, is a self-luminescence display device using an organic thin film as a luminescence body. Its working principle is: driven by an external voltage, electrons and holes injected by an electrode recombine and release energy in an organic material, and the energy is transferred to a molecule of an organic luminescence substance, which is excited and performs transition from a ground state to an excited state. When the excited molecule returns from the excited state to the ground state, a radiation transition thereof produces a luminescence phenomenon.
In current display devices, it is usually necessary to display specific static images, such as virtual button icons, virtual frame images, and the like, in fixed local areas. However, as a use time of OLED increases and the OLED heats up, a blue sub-pixel material ages faster, therefore, the luminescence efficiency of blue sub-pixels rapidly decreases in these local areas where the static images are displayed, thereby resulting in the OLED display devices leaving permanent local afterimages in these local areas, and it is difficult to avoid a problem of “screen burn”.
Embodiments of the present application provide a display device and equipment, which reduces the possibility of appearing local afterimages, solves the problem of “screen burn”, and extends the service life of the display device.
In a first aspect of the present application, a display device is provided, including: a first logic control unit, a display unit, and a light-emitting driving unit connected respectively to the first logic control unit and the display unit,
The embodiments of the present application refresh the local area displaying the same static image for a long time to the replacement color image at the maintenance frequency, change the display content, avoid sub-pixels in the local area from working for a long time, reduce the possibility of local screen burn caused by the local area displaying the same static image for a long time, and extend the service life and display performance of the display unit.
The embodiments of the application consider that as an accumulative luminescence duration of a luminescence unit increases, a luminescence material with blue sub-pixels is gradually aging, the brightness of the blue sub-pixels after the material is aging can be improved by gradually strengthening the driving current of the blue sub-pixels, thereby a brightness range of blue light in the luminescence unit is maintained, the reliability of blue light in the luminescence unit is improved, the possibility that a display color becomes yellow due to the aging of the blue sub-pixels is reduced, and the user experience is improved.
The present application discloses a display device and equipment, in the display device, the first logic control unit receives the image display data for instructing the display unit to display the static image in the local area, if it is determined that the local area maintains displaying the static image beyond the first threshold duration, then the preset replacement display data and the image display data are alternately transmitted to the light-emitting driving unit, where the transmission frequency of the replacement display data is the preset maintenance frequency, and the replacement display data is used to enable the display unit to display the replacement color image in the local area; and the light-emitting driving unit responds to the data received from the first logic control unit, and controls the display unit to display the static image or the replacement color image. Thus, the local area displaying the same static image for a long time is refreshed to the replacement color image at the maintenance frequency, the display content is changed, the sub-pixels in the local area are avoided from working for a long time, the possibility of local screen burn caused by the local area displaying the same static image for a long time is reduced, and the service life and display performance of the display unit are extended.
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application more clear, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described in combination with the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application, obviously, the described embodiments are part of the embodiments of the present application, but not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts are within the protection scope of this application.
The technical solution of the present application will be described in detail below with specific embodiments.
In some display devices, such as mobile phone display screens, there is a need to display some virtual buttons, frame images, or icons of resident applications in a fixed screen area. Refer to an example of a static image display of
The occurrence of an afterimage phenomenon shown in
Refer to
The first logic control unit 3 is configured to receive image display data for instructing the display unit 1 to display a static image in a local area, if it is determined that the local area maintains displaying the static image beyond a first threshold duration, then preset replacement display data and the image display data are alternately transmitted to the light-emitting driving unit 2. Where, a transmission frequency of the replacement display data is a preset maintenance frequency, and the replacement display data is used to enable the display unit 1 to display a replacement color image in the local area.
Usually, image display data to be displayed is received by the light-emitting driving unit 2, then parsed into drive information, and transmitted to the display unit 1 to drive the display unit 1 to perform corresponding luminescence display.
In this embodiment, the first logic control unit 3 is added. The first logic control unit 3 is arranged between an input terminal of the light-emitting driving unit 2 and an external input line, and intercepts, for example, image display data that a central processing unit (CPU) originally intends to directly transmit to the light-emitting driving unit 2. The first logic control unit 3 monitors the image display data. The image display data here is, for example, display data used to display the icons of the resident applications, in addition, may also include other display data, and the present embodiment may not be limited to this. The image display data indicates luminescence conditions of each pixel unit of the display unit 1, such as color characteristics and brightness characteristics of the pixel unit, thereby realizing an overall image display of the display unit 1. The first logic control unit 3 may identify the luminescence conditions of each pixel unit by monitoring the image display data, and then may determine a local area displaying the same static image for a long time. Where displaying for a long time may be a display that a display time thereof exceeds the first threshold duration, and the local area includes at least one pixel unit. The local area here may be a part of all display areas of the display unit 1 or a part of a preset monitoring area of the display unit 1.
The alternately transmitting the replacement display data and the image display data to the light-emitting driving unit 2, may be that, after the image display data is transmitted to the light-emitting driving unit 2 one or more times, the replacement display data is transmitted to the light-emitting driving unit 2 once, to enable the light-emitting driving unit 2 to shortly display the replacement color image corresponding to the replacement display data, and then the image display data is transmitted to the light-emitting driving unit 2 one or more times, through this cycle, until that the first logic control unit 3 does not receive the same above-mentioned image display data (for example, when the resident application icon is no longer displayed when the application interface is displayed).
Before alternately transmitting the preset replacement display data and the image display data to the light-emitting driving unit 2, the first logic control unit 3 may also be configured to acquire a preset replacement color image, or acquire the replacement color image according to graphic characteristics and color characteristics of the static image. The graphic characteristics in this embodiment, for example, may be a sum of characteristics of pattern and shape of the image, including an outer contour of the image and a shape of inner filling content. For example, the replacement color image and the static image have the same graphic characteristics, but have different color characteristics. Taking a short message icon shown in
The first logic control unit 3 is further configured to acquire a maintenance frequency according to a refresh frequency of the display unit 1 before alternately transmitting the preset replacement display data and the image display data to the light-emitting driving unit 2, where the maintenance frequency is 5%-30% of the refresh frequency. Refer to
The light-emitting driving unit 2 is configured to respond to the data received from the first logic control unit 3, and control the display unit 1 to display the static image or the replacement color image.
Specifically, the light-emitting driving unit 2 may be specifically configured to: transmit drive information for displaying the static image in the local area to the display unit 1 when receiving the image display data; transmit drive information for displaying the replacement color image in the local area to the display unit 1 when receiving the replacement display data.
This embodiment discloses a display device, through that the first logic control unit 3 receives the image display data for instructing the display unit 1 to display the static image in the local area, if it is determined that the local area maintains displaying the static image beyond the first threshold duration, then the preset replacement display data and the image display data are alternately transmitted to the light-emitting driving unit 2, where the transmission frequency of the replacement display data is the preset maintenance frequency, and the replacement display data is used to enable the display unit 1 to display the replacement color image in the local area; and the light-emitting driving unit 2 responds to the data received from the first logic control unit 3, and controls the display unit 1 to display the static image or the replacement color image. Thus, the local area displaying the same static image for a long time is refreshed to the replacement color image at the maintenance frequency, the display content is changed, the sub-pixels in the local area are avoided from working for a long time, the possibility of local screen burn caused by the local area displaying the same static image for a long time is reduced, and the service life and display performance of the display unit 1 are extended.
On the basis of the foregoing embodiments, refer to
The first control unit is configured to receive the image display data for instructing the display unit 1 to display the static image in the local area, and acquire a first display duration that the local area maintains displaying the static image from the first timing unit, and judging whether the first display duration exceeds the first threshold duration. If yes, the preset replacement display data and the image display data are alternately transmitted to the light-emitting driving unit 2, if not, the image display data is transmitted to the light-emitting driving unit 2, where the transmission frequency of the replacement display data is the preset maintenance frequency, and the replacement display data is used to enable the display unit 1 to display the replacement color image in the local area.
The first timing unit is configured to respond to the image display data received by the first control unit and time a duration that the local area maintains displaying the static image to obtain the first display duration.
The first control unit is configured to intercept data to be directly transmitted to the light-emitting driving unit 2 in the prior art, and provide it to the first timing unit at the same time, so as to use the first timing unit to time a display duration of the same static image of each pixel unit in the display unit 1. Once the displayed image is changed, the first timing unit re-times, so that the first timing unit obtains the first display duration that a certain local area maintains displaying the same static image. The first control unit determines whether there is a risk of screen burn of the local area according to the first display duration and the first threshold duration. If the first display duration exceeds the first threshold duration, and due to the risk of screen burn, it is necessary to switch to display the replacement color image. In this embodiment, a logical control of the replacement color image is implemented through the first timing unit and the first control unit, which improves the control reliability.
On the basis of the above-mentioned embodiments, a long time operation of a luminescence unit may not only have the risk of screen burn, but also have a risk of yellowish color development. In the display unit 1, the pixel units usually include red sub-pixels, green sub-pixels, and blue sub-pixels, so as to realize color display with three primary colors. However, a blue luminescence material with the blue sub-pixels is more susceptible to age and wear than luminescence materials with the other two sub-pixels, therefore, the luminescence efficiency of blue light decreases faster after a long time operation, resulting in the overall display color of the display device being yellowish.
In order to reduce the possibility of yellowish color development of the display device, the embodiment of the present application may also control the light-emitting driving unit 2 in a manner of using spare blue sub-pixels and/or compensating brightness with a driving current. In the following, other structures of the display device will be illustrated in combination with the attached drawings.
On the basis of the foregoing embodiment, refer to
On the basis of the foregoing embodiment, the display device in the embodiment shown in
The light-emitting driving unit 2 is further configured to transmit drive information to the original blue sub-pixels before receiving the spare switching instruction, respond to the spare switching instruction after receiving the spare switching instruction, transmit the drive information to the spare blue sub-pixels, and perform luminescence by replacing the original blue sub-pixels with the spare blue sub-pixels.
In this embodiment, the spare blue sub-pixels are used to replace aged original blue sub-pixels to emit blue light, which improves the reliability of blue light in the display unit 1, reduces a possibility that a display color becomes yellow due to the aging of the original blue sub-pixels, and improves the user experience.
Based on the embodiment shown in
Continuing to refer to
The second timing unit 41 is configured to accumulate the luminescence duration of the display unit 1 to obtain the accumulative luminescence duration. The second timing unit 41 may be a timer circuit without reset, which performs timing with power on and luminescence of the display unit 1, and suspends timing after the display unit 1 is powered off, and the display unit 1 continues the previous timing until the display unit 1 is powered on and performs luminescence next time, thereby accumulating the luminescence duration of the display unit 1.
In this embodiment, the second timing unit 41 and the second control unit 42 implement a switching control of the spare blue sub-pixels, which improves the control reliability.
On the basis of the above-mentioned embodiments shown in any one of
In the embodiment shown in
In the embodiment shown in
The accumulative luminescence duration may be acquired by the third logic control unit 5 with its own timing function, and may also be acquired by the third logic control unit 5 from the second the timing unit 41 in the embodiment combined with the embodiment shown in
The third logic control unit 5 may acquire the luminescence decay compensation data from its own storage unit or an external storage unit. The luminescence decay compensation data may be a mapping table that specifies a corresponding preset value driving current value of each accumulative luminescence duration or each period of the accumulative luminescence duration, where the luminescence unit may use this driving current value to enable the blue sub-pixels to reach an expected brightness range of blue light, which avoids the screen being yellowish. Alternatively, the luminescence decay compensation data may be duration-luminescence efficiency decay relationship curve data, and the third logic control unit 5 calculates a driving current that currently needs to realize a brightness compensation of blue light according to the relationship curve data. The form of the luminescence decay compensation data may not be limited here.
The light-emitting driving unit 2 is further configured to adjust the driving current of the blue sub-pixels according to the luminescence control instruction, so that the luminescence brightness of the blue sub-pixels reaches a preset blue light brightness range.
As the accumulative luminescence duration of the luminescence unit increases, the luminescence material with the blue sub-pixels is gradually aging, the brightness of the blue sub-pixels after the material is aging can be improved by gradually strengthening the driving current of the blue sub-pixels, thereby a brightness range of blue light in the luminescence unit is maintained, the reliability of blue light in the luminescence unit 1 is improved, the possibility that a display color becomes yellow due to the aging of the blue sub-pixels is reduced, and the user experience is improved.
On the basis of the embodiment shown in
In the embodiment shown in
In this embodiment, the third timing unit 51 and the third control unit 52 are configured to control the driving current of the blue sub-pixels, which improves the control reliability.
The embodiments of the present application also provide a display equipment, including any display device provided in the above various embodiments. The display equipment includes, but is not limited to, equipment having display functions such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDA), tablet computers, e-books, televisions, access control, smart fixed phones, consoles, the present application does not limit the form of the display device.
In the present application, unless otherwise specification and limitation, the terms “connection” and the like shall be interpreted in a broad sense, for example, it may be electrical connection or may communicate with each other; it may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediary, may be an inner connection between two elements or an interaction relationship between two elements. For those of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meanings of the above-mentioned terms in the present application may be understood according to specific circumstances.
Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are merely intended for describing, rather than limiting, the technical solutions of the present application; although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art will understand that they may still make modifications to the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments, or make equivalent substitutions to some or all of the technical features therein; and the modifications or substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions deviate from the scope of the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application.
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