The present disclosure relates to a field of display technology, and more particularly, to a display panel, a method for driving the display panel and a display apparatus.
OLED display panels are an important display device, and have been widely used in a mobile phone field, an on-board field, a display field, a TV field and a public display field and the like, and the market demand for the OLED display panels is increasing. However, the higher the resolution, the higher the risk of transverse leakage of electricity of the OLED display panel.
The present disclosure aims to overcome the shortcomings of the prior art and provides a display panel, a method for driving a display panel and a display apparatus.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a display panel is provided and includes a light-emitting element and a pixel circuit, where the pixel circuit includes:
In an exemplary embodiment, the enable signal includes a plurality of the first inactive levels in one frame light-emitting duration, the reset signal includes at least one second active level in one frame light-emitting duration, and one second active level is in one first inactive level period, and the reset signal is capable of resetting the light-emitting device during the second active level period.
In an exemplary embodiment, the reset signal includes a plurality of second active levels in one frame light-emitting duration, a number of the second active levels is equal to a number of the first inactive levels, and each second active level is in each first inactive level period in a one-to-one correspondence, and the reset signal is capable of resetting the light-emitting device during each second active level period.
In an exemplary embodiment, the second active level of the reset signal includes at least one second active sub-level, each second active sub-level of each second active level is in the same first inactive level period, and the reset signal is capable of resetting the light-emitting device during each second active sub-level period.
In an exemplary embodiment, a second active level duration T2 of the reset signal is less than or equal to a first inactive level duration T1 of the enable signal;
In an exemplary embodiment, a start time of the second active level of the reset signal is at the same time as a start time of the first inactive level of a corresponding enable signal;
where when the second active level includes a plurality of second active sub-levels, and the start time of the second active level is a start time of a first one of the second active sub-levels.
In an exemplary embodiment, a voltage of the reset signal at each second active level phase is equal or unequal.
In an exemplary embodiment, the display panel further includes a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal connected to two ends of the light-emitting element respectively, the first power supply terminal is configured to provide a first voltage to the light-emitting element, the second power supply terminal is configured to provide a second voltage to the light-emitting element, the first voltage is greater than the second voltage, and a difference between the first voltage and the second voltage is greater than a threshold voltage of the light-emitting element;
In an exemplary embodiment, a difference between the voltage of the reset signal and the second voltage is less than or equal to 10V.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a method for driving a display panel is provided and includes
In an exemplary embodiment, the reset signal output to the light-emitting element includes a plurality of second active levels in one frame light-emitting duration, a number of the second active levels is equal to a number of the first inactive levels, and each second active level is in each first inactive level period in a one-to-one correspondence, and the reset signal resets the light-emitting device during each second active level period.
According to yet another aspect of the present disclosure, a display apparatus is provided and includes the above display panel.
It should be understood that the preceding general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the present disclosure.
The accompanying drawings here are incorporated in the specification and constitute a part of this specification, show embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure and serve to explain the principles of the present disclosure together with the specification. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present disclosure, and for those ordinary skills in the art, other drawings may also be obtained from these drawings without creative efforts.
Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the embodiments may be implemented in a variety of forms and should not be construed as being limited to the examples set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided such that the present disclosure will be more complete so as to convey the idea of the exemplary embodiments to those skilled in the art. The same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same or similar parts, and the repeated description thereof will be omitted. In addition, the drawings are merely schematic representations of the present disclosure and are not necessarily drawn to scale.
Although the relative terms such as “above” and “below” are used in the specification to describe the relative relationship of one component to another component shown, these terms are only for convenience in this specification, for example, according to an exemplary direction shown in the drawings. It should be understood that if the device shown is flipped upside down, the component described as “above” will become a component “below” another component. When a structure is “on” another structure, it may mean that a structure is integrally formed on another structure, or that a structure is “directly” disposed on another structure, or that a structure is “indirectly” disposed on another structure through other structures.
The terms “one,” “a,” “the,” “said”, and “at least one” are used to indicate that there are one or more elements, components, or the like. The terms “include” and “have” are used to indicate an open meaning of including and means that there may be additional elements, components, and the like, in addition to the listed elements, components, and the like. The terms “first,” “second,” and “third” and the like are used only as reference markers, and do not limit the number of objects.
Existing OLED display panel drives a light-emitting element to emit light based on a pixel circuit, and the light-emitting element is lit up when receiving an active level of an enable signal. Since the enable signal performs scanning line by line, when a monochrome pixel (such as red) is lit, as long as a bias voltage is applied to another color (such as green) pixel, there is charge accumulation, when a large amount of charges accumulate, there may be a phenomenon of a leakage current passing through. The leakage current, although usually low, may light up another color pixel, and has a greater impact on the display of a solid color at low grayscale or low brightness than that at high grayscale/high brightness, which reduces the display effect
Based on this, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel, including a plurality of sub-pixels with different colors, each sub-pixel includes a light-emitting element and a pixel circuit. As shown in
The enable signal terminal is connected to the light-emitting element, and is configured to output an enable signal to the light-emitting element, the enable signal is a pulse width modulation signal, and includes a plurality of first active levels T1 that are spaced in one frame light-emitting duration, a first inactive level T1′ is between two adjacent first active levels T1, and the enable signal is capable of driving the light-emitting element to emit light during a first active level T1 period. The reset signal terminal is connected to the light-emitting element, and is configured to output a reset signal to the light-emitting element, the reset signal includes at least one second active level T2 and one second inactive level T2′ in one frame light-emitting duration, the second active level T2 is in a first inactive level T1′ period, and the first active level T1 is in a second inactive level T2′ period, and the reset signal is capable of resetting the light-emitting element during a second active level T2 period.
The enable signal of the present disclosure is a pulse width modulation signal (PWM signal), that is, a screen is constantly lit up and extinguished in one frame light-emitting duration, and the display panel adjusts the lighting-emitting brightness by adjusting a duty cycle of the PWM signal. That is, the light-emitting element emits light during the first active level T1 period of the enable signal and does not emit light during the first inactive level T1′ period. The reset signal resets the light-emitting element when the light-emitting element does not emit light. Since the reset signal performs scanning line by line, when resetting each sub-pixel in the same line, on the one hand, the accumulated charges of the another sub-pixel may be released, such that charges may return to a cathode and an anode more quickly, and the risk of transverse leakage of electricity may be reduced. On the other hand, since a reset operation is performed during the first inactive level T1′ period of the enable signal, the lighting of the current pixel cannot be affected.
The display panel of the embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail below.
As shown in
The enable signal EM is the pulse width modulation signal, which includes a plurality of first active levels T1 and a plurality of first inactive levels T1′ in one frame light-emitting phase. In the present embodiment, the first active level T1 is a high level, and the first inactive level T1′ is a low level. Taking a pulse signal shown in
The reset signal includes at least one second active level T2 in the frame light-emitting duration. In this embodiment, the second active level T2 is a high level and the second inactive level T2′ is a low level. Taking the reset signal shown in
In the present disclosure, the reset signal and the enable signal may be provided by a GOA circuit drive chip set around the panel.
For example, in one embodiment, the reset signal includes a plurality of second active levels T2 in one frame light-emitting duration, a number of the second active levels T2 is equal to a number of the first inactive levels T1′, and each second active level T2 of the reset signal is in each first inactive level T1′ period of the enable signal in a one-to-one correspondence, and the reset signal is capable of resetting the light-emitting element during each first inactive level T1′ period of the enable signal. Taking a signal shown in
When the reset signal includes a plurality of second active levels T2 in a reset phase ti, each second active level T2 duration may be the same or different.
In another embodiment, the second active level T2 of the reset signal includes at least one second active sub-level, when the second active level T2 includes a plurality of second active sub-levels, each second active sub-level is in the same first inactive level T1′ period. As shown in
In the present disclosure, the second active level T2 of the reset signal is in the first inactive level T1′ duration of the enable signal, and that is, the second active level T2 duration of the reset signal is less than or equal to the first inactive level T1′ duration of the enable signal, such that the light-emitting element may be reset without affecting the normal light emission of the light-emitting element. When the second active level T2 includes a plurality of second active sub-levels, the second active level T2 duration is a total duration of each second active sub-level.
Further, the second active level T2 duration of the reset signal determines the charge release of the light-emitting element, if the duration is too short, it may lead to incomplete charge release; if the duration is too long, it may affect the normal operation in the compensation phase or the light-emitting phase. Thus, a ratio of the second active level T2 duration of the reset signal to the first inactive level T1′ duration of the enable signal is preferably within a range of 0.2-99%. For example, taking the example shown in the drawing, the first inactive level T1′ duration of the enable signal is 72.5 μs, the second active level duration T2 of the reset signal is 5.2 μs, and a ratio of the second active level T2 duration to the first inactive level T1′ duration of the enable signal is 7.17%.
In the present disclosure, a start time of the second active level T2 of the reset signal is at the same time as a start time of the first active level T1′ of a corresponding enable signal. As shown in
As shown in
In the present disclosure, a voltage of a first power supply terminal VDD is a first voltage, and a voltage of a second power supply terminal VSS is a second voltage, the first voltage is greater than the second voltage, and a difference between the first voltage and the second voltage is greater than a threshold voltage of the light-emitting element, such that the light-emitting element may be driven to emit light. In order to reset it, a voltage of the reset signal is less than the second voltage, such that a reverse voltage may be applied to the light-emitting element, causing a stronger electric field to force the light-emitting element to discharge, thus reducing a chance of the leakage of electricity.
Further, in the present disclosure, a difference between the voltage of the reset signal and the second voltage is less than or equal to 10V, so as to achieve a desirable effect of releasing the charges without affecting the subsequent normal light emission.
It should be noted that the present disclosure merely shows a structure of a pixel circuit, however, the reset signal terminal and the enable signal terminal of the present disclosure may also be used in the structure of other pixel circuits, which may improve the transverse leakage of electricity of the display panel, which is not repeated in the present disclosure.
The embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a method for driving a display panel, including:
In an embodiment, referring to
Referring to
Referring to
The results show that the leakage of electricity for the two samples is basically the same regardless of whether the reset operation of the present disclosure is performed, indicating that the reset method is stable. According to the curve in
The embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a display apparatus, which includes the display panel of the embodiments. Since the display apparatus includes the above display panel, it has the same beneficial effects, which is not repeated herein.
The present disclosure does not specifically limit the application of the display apparatus, which may be any product or component with a flexible display function, such as a TV, a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a wearable display device, a mobile phone, an on-board display, navigation, an e-book, a digital photo frame, an advertising light box, and the like.
A person skilled in the art may easily conceive of other embodiments of the present disclosure upon consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. The present disclosure is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the present disclosure that follow the general principle of the present disclosure and include common general knowledge or techniques in the technical field not disclosed by the present disclosure. The specification and examples are to be regarded as exemplary only, with the true scope and spirit of the present disclosure being indicated by the appended claims.
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202110690038.6 | Jun 2021 | CN | national |
The present disclosure is a U.S. National Stage of International Application No. PCT/CN2022/079579, filed on Mar. 7, 2022, which claims a priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202110690038.6, entitled “DISPLAY PANEL AND DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS”, filed on Jun. 22, 2021, the entire content of each is incorporated herein by reference.
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PCT/CN2022/079579 | 3/7/2022 | WO |