This application claims the priority of Chinese Patent Application No. 202010622614.9, filed on Jun. 30, 2020, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure generally relates to the field of display technology and, more particularly, relates to a display panel and its drive method, and a display device.
Currently, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays are considered as next-generation flat-panel displays with emerging application technology, because of their characteristics, including self-illumination, non-backlight, high contrast, thin thickness, wide viewing angle, fast response time, applicability as flexible panels, wide range of use temperature, simple structure and manufacturing process, and the like.
OLED displays often use a low-frequency drive mode to reduce the display power consumption. However, flickering is likely to occur when pictures are displayed at the low-frequency drive mode, which may affect the display effect of the displays. Therefore, there is a need to provide a display panel and a drive method thereof, and a display device to solve technical problems such as visible flickering of the displayed picture.
One aspect of the present disclosure provides a method for driving a display panel. The method includes refreshing a first-color picture N times in one frame, where a time interval between every two adjacent refreshings of the N times of the refreshing is T1 for the first-color picture, T1=T2/N, T2 is a duration of the one frame, N>1, and N is a positive integer.
Another aspect of the present disclosure provides a display panel, including a picture refreshing module and a plurality of first-color sub-pixels. The picture refreshing module is configured to refresh a first-color picture N times in one frame, where a time interval between every two adjacent refreshings of the N times of the refreshing is T1 for the first-color picture, T1=T2/N, T2 is a duration of the one frame, N>1, and N is a positive integer; and at least a portion of the plurality of first-color sub-pixels is configured to display the first-color picture.
Another aspect of the present disclosure provides a display device, including the above-mentioned display panel. The display panel includes a picture refreshing module and a plurality of first-color sub-pixels. The picture refreshing module is configured to refresh a first-color picture N times in one frame, where a time interval between every two adjacent refreshings of the N times of the refreshing is T1 for the first-color picture, T1=T2/N, T2 is a duration of the one frame, N>1, and N is a positive integer; and at least a portion of the plurality of first-color sub-pixels is configured to display the first-color picture.
Other aspects of the present disclosure can be understood by those skilled in the art in light of the description, the claims, and the drawings of the present disclosure.
By reading the detailed description of the non-limiting embodiments made with reference to the following drawings, other features, objectives, and advantages of the present disclosure become more apparent.
To further describe the technical means and effects of the present disclosure to achieve the intended purpose of the disclosure, the implementation manners, structures, features and effects of a display panel and its drive method, and a display device according to the present disclosure are described in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments hereinafter.
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide the drive method of the display panel, including refreshing a first-color picture N times in one frame. A time interval between every two adjacent refreshings of the N times of the refreshing is T1 for the first-color picture, where T1=T2/N, T2 is a duration of the one frame, N>1, and N is a positive integer.
In the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first-color picture may be refreshed N times in one frame. The time interval between every two adjacent refreshings of the N times of the refreshing is T1 for the first-color picture, where T1=T2/N, T2 is a duration of the one frame, N>1, and N is a positive integer. In such way, the first-color picture may be refreshed multiple times in one frame, and the multiple refreshing processes of the first-color picture may be evenly distributed in one frame, which may reduce the picture retention duration after each first-color picture is refreshed. Furthermore, before human eyes are not able to recognize the brightness decrease of a previous first-color picture, a next first-color picture is refreshed, which may effectively improve the picture flickering phenomenon.
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure are described clearly and completely in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure. Obviously, the described embodiments are merely a part of the embodiments of the present disclosure, but not all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative work fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.
In the following description, various details are set forth in order to fully understand the present disclosure. However, the present disclosure may also be implemented in other embodiment manners different from those described herein, and those skilled in the art may make similar promotion without violating the connotation of the present disclosure. Therefore, the present disclosure may not be limited by the embodiments disclosed below.
Moreover, the present disclosure is described in detail in conjunction with the schematics. When describing the embodiments of the present disclosure in detail, the schematics showing the device structures may not be partially enlarged according to the general scale for the convenience of description, and the schematics may only be examples which may not limit the protection scope of the present disclosure. In addition, three-dimensional sizes including length, width and height should be included in the actual device manufacturing.
In a low frequency drive mode of the OLED display, the duration of a brightness retention stage v2 in one frame v may increase. Due to the characteristics of the driving circuit, the brightness may gradually change during the brightness retention stage v2. For example, the brightness may gradually decrease, referring to a curve U1 in
In order to solve the picture flickering problem, the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a drive method of a display panel, including refreshing the first-color picture N times in one frame. The time interval between every two adjacent refreshings of the N times of the refreshing is T1 for the first-color picture, where T1=T2/N, T2 is a duration of one frame, N>1, and N is a positive integer.
Exemplarily,
It should be noted that the time interval between two adjacent refreshings may be the sum of the refreshing duration and the brightness retention duration of one first-color picture. The refreshing duration of any first-color picture may be significantly shorter than the retention duration. Exemplarily, the ratio of the refreshing duration to the retention duration of the first-color picture may be 1:59. Therefore, the setting manner of the brightness retention stage may have a greater impact on the flickering phenomenon of the picture.
It also should be noted that the display panel may include a plurality of first-color sub-pixels; each first-color picture may be displayed by a portion or all of the first-color sub-pixels; any two of first-color pictures may be displayed by a same plurality of first-color sub-pixels, or by a different plurality of first-color sub-pixels, which may not be limited according to the embodiments of the present disclosure.
In various embodiments of the present disclosure, one frame may correspond to a same picture. For example, if the picture is a color picture, the picture may correspond to a set of data information, and the set of data information may include green sub-pixel data information, red sub-pixel data information, and blue sub-pixel data information. When displaying the picture, the data in the set of data information may be selectively chosen for the display. For example, if the first-color picture is a green picture, when refreshing the first-color picture, all of the green sub-pixel data information or a portion of the green sub-pixel data information in the set of data information may be selected to display the first-color picture according to a preset refreshing manner.
In the technical solutions provided by one embodiment, by refreshing the first-color picture N times in one frame, the time interval between two adjacent refreshings may be T1 for the first-color picture, where T1=T2/N, T2 is the duration of one frame, N>1, and N is a positive integer. In such way, the first-color picture may be refreshed multiple times in one frame, and the multiple refreshing processes of the first-color picture may be evenly distributed in one frame. That is, the refreshing processes of the first-color picture may be set at intervals and evenly distributed in the time dimension in one frame. Compared with the solution of only increasing the refreshing frequency during the initial period of the frame, the present solution may supplement the display of the blank stage (blanking stage) in one frame on the basis of reducing the brightness retention period and the brightness reduction magnitude after refreshing the first-color picture. Before human eyes are not able to recognize the brightness reduction of a previous first-color picture, a next first-color picture is able to be refreshed, which may effectively improve the picture flickering phenomenon and the saturation of the picture display.
Optionally, the display panel may include the plurality of first-color sub-pixels, and at least a portion of the first-color sub-pixels may be configured to display the first-color picture. The time interval between two adjacent refreshings is T1, which may include the time interval between scans of the first first-color sub-pixel is T1 in two adjacent refreshings of the first-color picture.
“The first first-color sub pixel” may refer to the first-color sub-pixel which is scanned for the first time during the current picture refreshing process among the plurality of first-color sub-pixels used to display a same first-color picture.
Exemplarily, the display panel may include first-color sub-pixels arranged in V rows and Y columns. The first-color picture refreshed for the first time and the first-color picture refreshed for the second time may both be displayed by the above-mentioned first-color sub-pixels in V rows and Y columns, and both refreshings may scan each first-color sub-pixel row by row starting from the first row and the first column. At this point, at two refreshings of the first-color picture, the refreshing time interval of the first-color sub-pixel in the first row and the first column may be T1, and the time when the first first-color sub-pixel is scanned may correspond to the refreshing time point in
For example,
It should be noted that the first sub-pixel of the first-color picture may be fixed, easy to identify, and may not be related to the difference at each refreshing process. The time that the first first-color sub-pixel is refreshed may be used to mark the current picture refreshing time point, which may be advantageous for reducing the difficulty of determining the first-color picture refreshing timing.
Optionally, the time interval between two adjacent refreshing processes may be determined by the input time of scan starting signals (e.g., STV signals) in two adjacent refreshing processes of the first-color picture.
It should be noted that the working stages of a sub-pixel may include an initialization stage, a data write stage, and a light-emitting stage. The refreshing stage in various embodiments of the present disclosure may be understood as the time period shared by the initialization stage and the data write stage of each refreshed sub-pixel when a certain picture is refreshed. The brightness retention stage in various embodiments of the present disclosure may be understood as the overlapping time period of the light-emitting stage of each sub-pixel.
Optionally, the first color may be determined according to the main picture color of a picture source. For example, when the main picture color of the picture source is identified as green by an IC, the first-color picture may be set as the green picture when displaying the picture. That is, the green picture may be refreshed N times in one frame, where for the green picture, the time interval between two adjacent refreshings may be T1, T1=T2/N, T2 is the duration of one frame, N>1, and N is a positive integer. In such way, the refreshing quantity of the green picture may increase, which is beneficial for improving the flickering phenomenon of the picture. Similarly, when the main picture color of the picture source is identified as red by the IC, the first-color picture may be set as the red picture to increase the refreshing quantity of the red picture; and when the main picture color of the picture source is identified as blue by the IC, the first-color picture may be set as the blue picture to increase the refreshing quantity of the blue picture.
Optionally, the first refreshing of the first-color picture may be performed at the frame scan starting point in one frame.
The frame scan starting point may refer to the starting time of the current frame. For example, the duration of the current frame is t1 to t2, and the time t1 may be the frame scan starting point of the frame.
Furthermore, “the first refreshing” may refer to the first refreshing of N times of refreshings of the first-color picture performed in one frame. For example, the first-color picture is refreshed three times in one frame, which includes a b1 refreshing, a b2 refreshing, and a b3 refreshing, where the b1 refreshing is the first refreshing of the first-color picture in the current frame.
Exemplarily,
It should be noted that, for the manner of performing the first refreshing of the first-color picture at the frame scan starting point in one frame, there is not necessary to separately set the time point of the first refreshing in one frame, and the frame scan starting point may be multiplexed as the time point of the first refreshing, which may be beneficial for reducing the difficulty of the time sequence design. Furthermore, the manner of performing the first refreshing of the first-color picture at the frame scan starting point in one frame may also ensure that the refreshing time interval of two first-color pictures adjacently set in adjacent frames is also T1, which may avoid the picture flickering phenomenon during the two frame changing process.
Optionally, the display panel may include the plurality of first-color sub-pixels arranged in n rows, and the plurality of first-color sub-pixels may be configured to display the first-color picture. Correspondingly,
At step 1, the first-color sub-pixels starting from a first row to an i-th row are sequentially scanned till i=n, where 1≤i≤n, and i is a positive integer.
For example,
It should be noted that the display panel including five rows of the first-color sub-pixels is taken as an example in
It should be understood that each first-color picture in one embodiment may be displayed by all first-color sub-pixels in the display panel. After all of first-color sub-pixels are scanned, one first-color picture refreshing is completed, such that one first-color picture refreshing is actually completed at step 1.
At step 2, the above-mentioned step 1 is repeated for N−1 times.
That is, the first-color picture may be refreshed N−1 times according to the manner of step 1, and the first-color picture may be refreshed N times in total.
It should be noted that, in one embodiment, the first-color picture which is refreshed each time may be displayed using a same plurality of first-color sub-pixels, which may have a small picture difference; and the first-color picture displayed using all of the first-color sub-pixels in the display panel may be more delicate with desirable display effect.
Optionally, the first-color picture may include pictures from a first first-color picture to an M-th first-color picture. The display panel may include the plurality of first-color sub-pixels arranged in n rows. The first-color sub-pixels in an (M*j+k)-th row may display a k-th first-color picture, where 1<M≤N, 1≤k≤M, 0≤j≤n/M−1, and M, k, and j are all integers. Correspondingly, refreshing the first-color picture N times may include sequentially performing operations from a first refreshing operation to an M-th refreshing operation, where a k-th refreshing operation may include sequentially scanning the first-color sub-pixels from a k-th row to the (M*j+k)-th row till j=[n/M−1].
In order to illustrate the refreshing manner of the first-color picture in above-mentioned one frame more clearly,
It should be understood that the quantities of performing refreshing operations from the first refreshing operation to the M-th refreshing operation may not be same due to the influence of the values of N, M, and n; and the row quantities of the first-color sub-pixels included in the first first-color picture to the M-th first-color picture may also not be same, which may not be limited according to the embodiments of the present disclosure.
It should be noted that the refreshed first-color sub-pixels in the first first-color picture to the M-th first-color picture are not completely same or completely different; however, when the refreshed first-color sub-pixels and the un-refreshed first-color sub-pixels jointly display a picture, on the basis of reducing the quantity of scans, the refreshed first-color sub-pixels may compensate for the brightness defect of the un-refreshed first-color sub-pixels compared with the picture that has not be refreshed for a long duration, which may improve the texture of the picture display. Similarly, the above-mentioned scanning method of the refreshing process may enable the first-color sub-pixels involved in each refreshing process to be evenly distributed in the display panel, and the first-color sub-pixels in adjacent rows may be arranged at the intervals of M−1 rows of the first-color sub-pixels. Therefore, the display effects of the first first-color picture to the M-th first-color picture may be similar. It should be noted that when a portion of the first-color sub-pixels is refreshed, other first-color sub-subpixels which have not been refreshed may still in the original brightness retention stage.
Furthermore, the size of the first-color sub-pixels is small, and human eyes may not be able to recognize the first-color sub-pixels in a single row. Therefore, when a portion of the first-color sub-pixels is refreshed, the refreshed portion of the first-color sub-pixels and the un-refreshed first-color sub-pixels may jointly display the picture and bring the display effect that the entire picture has been refreshed, which may reduce the power consumption of the display panel while improving the picture display effect.
It should be noted that scanning the first-color pictures from the first first-color picture to the M-th first-color picture in sequence may ensure that the first-color sub-pixels used in each first-color picture are scanned with similar quantities and avoid the problem that the life span of the display panel is reduced due to obviously excessive scanning quantities of a portion of the first-color sub-pixels.
Moreover, on the basis of the above-mentioned embodiments, N may be an integer multiple of M, and refreshing the first-color picture N times may include sequentially repeating the operations from the first refreshing operation to the M-th refreshing operation for c times, where c=N/M.
Exemplarily, refreshing the first-color picture 6 times which includes sequentially performing the operations from the first refreshing operation to the third refreshing operation 2 times is used as an example for description.
It should be noted that when N is an integer multiple of M, the first first-color picture to the M-th first-color picture may be refreshed with a same quantity, such that the first-color sub-pixels corresponding to all of the first-color pictures may be scanned with a same quantity, which further improves the effect of avoiding the life span reduction of the display panel. Furthermore, all of the first-color sub-pixels constituting the entire display picture may be refreshed with a same quantity, which improves the overall display effect of the picture.
The embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a drive method of a display panel. The drive method may include refreshing the first-color picture N times in one frame. For the first-color picture, on the basis of that the time interval between every two adjacent refreshings is T1, the second-color pictures may be refreshed E times, and the third-color pictures may be refreshed F times, where 1≤E≤N, 1≤F≤N, and E and F are both positive integers.
Exemplarily,
It should be noted that the mixed refreshings of the first-color picture, the second-color picture, and the third-color picture may make the final display picture of the display panel richer, which is beneficial for improving the display effect of the display panel.
It should be further noted that the refreshing quantities and the refreshing time points of the first-color picture, the second-color picture, and the third-color picture may not be limited in one embodiment.
Optionally, the first color is green, the second color is red, and the third color is blue; or the first color is green, the second color is blue, and the third color is red.
It should be noted that red, green and blue are three primary colors of light. Different intensities of red, green and blue may be mixed to obtain various colors of light. Therefore, by setting the first color to green and setting the second color and the third color to be one and the other of red and blue, the display panel may be able to display a variety of colors and enrich the display color of the display panel.
On the other hand, the human eye's sensitivity to green is significantly higher than the sensitivity of red and blue, and the refreshing of the green picture has a greater impact on the generation of the picture flickering. By setting the first color to be green and the green picture refreshing timing to be evenly distributed in one frame, it may effectively improve the flickering phenomenon recognized by human eyes.
Optionally, for the second-color picture, the time interval between every two adjacent refreshings is T3, where T3=T2/E; and for the third-color picture, the time interval between every two adjacent refreshings is T4, where T4=T2/F.
Exemplarily,
It should be noted that the refreshing timing of the second color picture and the third color picture are evenly distributed within one frame by using the above-mentioned setting manner, which may reduce the picture retention duration after refreshing the first-color picture and the third-color picture and further improve the flickering phenomenon of the display panel.
On the basis of the above-mentioned embodiments, N=E=F=2 may be set. Exemplarily,
Optionally, N is an even number, E=N/2, and F=N/2. The drive method of the display panel may include refreshing each of the second-color picture and the third-color picture one time while refreshing the first-color picture at the (2h−1)-th time, where 1≤h≤N/2.
Exemplarily,
It should be noted that only one refresh starting point is needed to refresh all of the first-color picture, the second-color picture, and the third-color picture in a certain refreshing process, such that the picture refreshing operations of all colors may be performed continuously or in combination. Therefore, it may be necessary to only set the refreshing time point of the first-color picture and may not be necessary to set the refreshing time points of the second-color picture and the third-color picture, which may be beneficial for reducing the difficulty of the time sequence design.
It should be further noted that the refreshing times of the second-color picture and the third-color pictures in one frame are half of the refreshing time of the first-color picture, such that the refreshing frequency of the first-color picture is higher than the refreshing frequency of each of the second-color picture and the third-color picture. When human eyes are more sensitive to the first color, it is difficult for the human eyes to recognize obvious picture flickering phenomenon when the first-color picture is refreshed with high refreshing frequency. Human eyes have a relatively low sensitivity to the second and third colors, such that the brightness changes of the second-color picture and the third-color picture may not be easily recognized by human eyes, and the low power consumption may be achieved by reducing the refreshing frequency of the second-color picture and the third-color picture.
In other implementation manners of one embodiment, each of the second-color picture and the third-color picture may be refreshed one time while refreshing the first-color picture at the 2h-th time, which may have a same beneficial effect as refreshing each of the second-color picture and the third-color picture one time while refreshing the first-color picture at the (2h−1)-th time.
Optionally, N is an even number, and N=2E=2F. The first-color picture may include the first first-color picture and the second first-color picture; the second-color picture may include a first second-color picture and a second second-color picture; and the third-color picture may include a first third-color picture and a second third-color picture. The display panel may include the plurality of first-color sub-pixels arranged in n rows, the plurality of second-color sub-pixels arranged in n rows, and the plurality of third-color sub-pixels arranged in n rows. Along a direction perpendicular to the row direction, the second-color sub-pixels, the first-color sub-pixels, and the third-color sub-pixels may be sequentially and periodically arranged. The first-color sub-pixels in the (2r−1)-th row may display the first first-color picture, the first-color sub-pixels in the 2r-th row may display the second first-color picture, the second-color sub-pixels in the (2r−1)-th row may display the first second-color picture, the second-color sub-pixels in the 2r-th row may display the second second-color picture, the third-color sub-pixels in the (2r−1)-th row may display the first third-color picture, and the third-color sub-pixels in the 2r-th row may display the second third-color picture, where 1≤r≤n/2, r and n are both positive integers, and n is an even number.
Exemplarily,
The corresponding drive method may include alternately performing the first group of refreshing operations and the second group of refreshing operations in one frame till the first group of refreshing operations and the second group of refreshing operations are both performed N/2 times. The first group of refreshing operations may include refreshing the first second-color picture, the first first-color picture, the first third-color picture, and the second first-color picture. The second group of refreshing operations may include refreshing the second second-color picture, the first first-color picture, the second third-color picture, and the second first-color picture.
It should be noted that, in any group of refreshing operations, half of the second-color sub-pixels, half of the third-color sub-pixels, and all of the first-color sub-pixels in the display panel may be scanned; and in a next group of refreshing operations, the other half of the second-color sub-pixels, the other half of the third-color sub-pixels, and all of the first-color sub-pixels in the display panel may be scanned. On the one hand, the refreshing frequency of the first-color picture may be relatively high, and the refreshing timing may be evenly distributed, which effectively improves the picture flickering phenomenon of the display panel. On the other hand, by setting the refreshing frequency of the second-color picture and the third-color picture to be relatively small, the power consumption of the display panel may be reduced. Furthermore, in two adjacent refreshing operations, all of the first-color sub-pixels, the second-color sub-pixels, and the third-color sub-pixels may be scanned, which avoids over-scanning of a portion of the sub-pixels in monochrome sub-pixels and further avoids the life span reduction of the display panel.
The refreshing order of the plurality of pictures in the first group of refreshing operations and the scanning manners of the sub-pixels may not be limited according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, and designers may make corresponding adjustments according to actual needs.
Optionally,
At step 11, for the second-color sub-pixels, the second-color sub-pixels may be scanned sequentially from the second-color sub-pixels in the first row to the second-color sub-pixels in the (2r−1)-th row till r=n/2.
At step 12, for the first-color sub-pixels, the first-color sub-pixels may be scanned sequentially from the first-color sub-pixels in the first row to the first-color sub-pixels in the (2r−1)-th row till r=n/2.
At step 13, for the third-color sub-pixels, the third-color sub-pixels may be scanned sequentially from the third-color sub-pixels in the first row to the third-color sub-pixels in the (2r−1)-th row till r=n/2.
At step 14, for the first-color sub-pixels, the first-color sub-pixels may be scanned sequentially from the first-color sub-pixels in the second row to the first-color sub-pixels in the 2r-th row till r=n/2.
Correspondingly,
At step 21, for the second-color sub-pixels, the second-color sub-pixels may be scanned sequentially from the second-color sub-pixels in the second row to the second-color sub-pixels in the 2r-th row till r=n/2.
At step 22, for the first-color sub-pixels, the first-color sub-pixels may be scanned sequentially from the first-color sub-pixels in the first row to the first-color sub-pixels in the (2r−1)-th row till r=n/2.
At step 23, for the third-color sub-pixels, the third-color sub-pixels may be scanned sequentially from the third-color sub-pixels in the second row to the third-color sub-pixels in the 2r-th row till r=n/2.
At step 24, for the first-color sub-pixels, the first-color sub-pixels may be scanned sequentially from the first-color sub-pixels in the second row to the first-color sub-pixels in the 2r-th row till r=n/2.
Examples are used to describe above-mentioned embodiments hereinafter. For example,
In the first group of refreshing operations, the first shift register group 610 may be driven to sequentially transmit scan signals to the first scan line 510 and the second scan line 520, thereby scanning the sub-pixels 210 in the first row and the sub-pixels 270 in the seventh row; the second shift register group 620 may be driven to sequentially transmit scan signals to the third scan line 530 and the fourth scan line 540, thereby scanning the sub-pixels 220 in the second row and the sub-pixels 280 in the eighth row; the third shift register group 630 may be driven to sequentially transmit scan signals to the fifth scan line 550 and the sixth scan line 560, thereby scanning the sub-pixels 230 in the third row and the sub-pixels 290 in the ninth row; and the fifth shift register group 650 may be driven to sequentially transmit scan signals to the ninth scan line 590 and the tenth scan line 5100, thereby scanning the sub-pixels 250 in the fifth row and the sub-pixels 2110 in the eleventh row.
In the second group of refreshing operations, the fourth shift register group 640 may be driven to sequentially transmit scan signals to the seventh scan line 570 and the eighth scan line 580, thereby scanning the sub-pixels 240 in the fourth row and the sub-pixels 2110 in the tenth row; the second shift register group 620 may be driven to sequentially transmit scan signals to the third scan line 530 and the fourth scan line 540, thereby scanning the sub-pixels 220 in the second row and the sub-pixels 280 in the eighth row; the sixth shift register group 660 may be driven to sequentially transmit scan signals to the eleventh scan line 5110 and the twelfth scan line 5120, thereby scanning the sub-pixels 260 in the sixth row and the sub-pixels 2120 in the twelfth row; and the fifth shift register group 650 may be driven to sequentially transmit scan signals to the ninth scan line 590 and the tenth scan line 5100, thereby scanning the sub-pixels 250 in the fifth row and the sub-pixels 2110 in the eleventh row.
On the basis of the above-mentioned embodiments, optionally,
As shown in
Exemplarily, the refreshing time interval of two adjacent pictures of a same color may be determined by the input time of STV signals in
Optionally, another implementation manner may also be included in one embodiment. For example, the first group of refreshing operations may include sequentially and periodically scanning the second-color sub-pixels in the (2r−1)-th row, the first-color sub-pixels in the (2r−1)-th row, the third-color sub-pixels in the (2r−1)-th row, and the first-color sub-pixels in the 2r-th row till r=n/2.
Correspondingly, the second group of refreshing operations may include sequentially and periodically scanning the second-color sub-pixels in the 2r-th row, the first-color sub-pixels in the (2r−1)-th row, the third-color sub-pixels in the 2r-th row, and the first-color sub-pixels in the 2r-th row till r=n/2.
Similarly, examples are used to describe above-mentioned implementation manners hereinafter. For example,
In the first group of refreshing operations, the seventh shift register group 670 may be driven to sequentially transmit scan signals to the first scan line 510, the third scan line 530, the fifth scan line 550, the ninth scan line 590, the second scan line 520, the fourth scan line 540, the sixth scan line 560, and the tenth scan line 5100, thereby scanning the sub-pixels 210 in the first row, the sub-pixels 220 in the second row, the sub-pixels 230 in the third row, the sub-pixels 250 in the fifth row, the sub-pixels 270 in the seventh row, the sub-pixels 280 in the eighth row, the sub-pixels 290 in the ninth row, and the sub-pixels 2110 in the eleventh row.
In the second group of refreshing operations, the eighth shift register group 680 may be driven to sequentially transmit scan signals to the seventh scan line 570, the third scan line 530, the eleventh scan line 5110, the ninth scan line 590, the eighth scan line 580, the fourth scan line 540, the twelfth scan line 5120, the tenth scan line 5100, thereby scanning the sub-pixels 240 in the fourth row, the sub-pixels 220 in the second row, the sub-pixels 260 in the sixth row, the sub-pixels 250 in the fifth row, the sub-pixels 2100 in the tenth row, the sub-pixels 280 in the eighth row, the sub-pixels 2120 in the twelfth row, and the sub-pixels 2110 in the eleventh row.
It should be noted that the first group of refreshing operations and the second group of refreshing operations are exemplarily described with two scanning methods with convenient time sequence designs and regular scanning processes. It should be understood that, in other embodiments of the present disclosure, the scanning manners of the sub-pixels in the first group of refreshing operations and the second group of refreshing operations may be other scenarios, and all manners that may implement the first group of refreshing operations and the second group of refreshing operations are within the protection scope of the present disclosure.
The picture refreshing module in the display panel provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure may be configured to refresh the first-color picture N time in one frame. For the first-color picture, the time interval between two adjacent refreshings is T1, where T1=T2/N, T2 is the duration of one frame, N>1, and N is a positive integer. In such way, the first-color picture may be refreshed multiple times in one frame, and the refreshing timing of the first-color picture may be evenly distributed, which may reduce the picture retention duration after the first-color picture is refreshed. Furthermore, before human eyes are not able to recognize the brightness reduction of a previous first-color picture, a next first-color picture is refreshed, thereby effectively improving the picture flickering phenomenon of the display panel.
Furthermore, the display device 10 may further include a control circuit. The control circuit may be configured to provide the display panel 20 with electrical signals required for normal operation and may perform data storage and output based on a unit of picture frame, where the picture frame may include all pictures in one frame.
It should be noted that, when displaying in the display panel 20, one frame of data may correspond to a complete display picture, that is, one frame of data is a whole. In order to maintain the continuity of one frame of data, the data storage and output may be performed based on the unit of picture frame.
From the above-mentioned embodiments, it can be seen that the display panel and its drive method, and the display device provided by the present disclosure may achieve at least the following beneficial effects.
In the technical solution provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first-color picture may be refreshed N time in one frame. For the first-color picture, the time interval between two adjacent refreshings is T1, where T1=T2/N, T2 is the duration of one frame, N>1, and N is a positive integer. In such way, the first-color picture may be refreshed multiple times in the one frame, and the multiple refreshing processes of the first-color picture may be evenly distributed, which may reduce each picture retention duration after the first-color picture is refreshed. Furthermore, before the human eyes are not able to recognize the brightness decrease of a previous first-color picture, a next first-color picture is refreshed, thereby effectively improving the picture flickering phenomenon of the display panel.
The above may merely be the preferred embodiments of the present disclosure and applied technical principles. Those skilled in the art should understand that the present disclosure may not be limited to the embodiments described herein, and various obvious changes, readjustments, mutual combinations and substitutions may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the protection scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, although the present disclosure has been described in detail through the above-mentioned embodiments, the present disclosure may not be limited to the above-mentioned embodiments and may also include other more equivalent embodiments without departing from the concept of the present disclosure. The scope of the present disclosure may be determined by the scope of the appended claims.
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202010622614.9 | Jun 2020 | CN | national |