The disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus and a driving circuit, and in particular relates to an electronic apparatus having a display panel and a driving circuit for driving the display panel.
An electronic apparatus having a display function usually includes a display panel and a driver chip. The driver chip is configured to drive the display panel to display images. Taking a self-luminous display panel as an example, the driver chip usually uses a reset signal to reset the voltage at one terminal of the light-emitting element before driving the light-emitting element to emit light. If the reset signal is directly output to drive the display panel without compensation, multiple dark band areas may appear in the display panel, thus affecting the display quality.
An electronic apparatus and a driving circuit that may dynamically compensate the terminal voltage of a light-emitting element to prevent dark bands from appearing on a display panel are provided in the disclosure, thereby improving display quality.
The electronic apparatus according to the embodiment of the disclosure includes a display panel and a driving circuit. The display panel includes multiple display units. Each of the display units includes a light-emitting element. The driving circuit is coupled to the display panel. The driving circuit is configured to output a scan signal and a reset signal. When a reset interval of the scan signal is transmitted in a non-display area of the display panel, the driving circuit compensates the reset signal and outputs the compensated reset signal to reset the light-emitting element.
The driving circuit according to the embodiment of the disclosure is configured to drive the display panel. The driving circuit includes a voltage generating circuit and a control circuit. The voltage generating circuit is coupled to the display panel. The voltage generating circuit is configured to output a reset signal. The control circuit is coupled to the display panel. The control circuit is configured to output a scan signal. When a reset interval of the scan signal is transmitted in a non-display area of the display panel, the control circuit compensates the reset signal, and the voltage generating circuit outputs the compensated reset signal to reset the light-emitting element in the display panel.
In order to make the above-mentioned features and advantages of the disclosure comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with drawings are described in detail below.
The term “coupled (or connected)” as used throughout this specification (including the scope of the application) may refer to any direct or indirect means of connection. For example, if it is described in the specification that a first device is coupled (or connected) to a second device, it should be construed that the first device may be directly connected to the second device, or the first device may be indirectly connected to the second device through another device or some type of connecting means. Terms “first,” “second” and the like mentioned in the full text (including the scope of the patent application) of the description of this application are used only to name the elements or to distinguish different embodiments or scopes and are not intended to limit the upper or lower limit of the number of the elements, nor is it intended to limit the order of the elements. In addition, wherever possible, elements/components/steps with the same reference numerals in the drawings and embodiments represent the same or similar parts. Elements/components/steps that use the same reference numerals or use the same terminology in different embodiments may refer to relevant descriptions of each other.
In this embodiment, the driving circuit 110 may output the reset signal S1 to reset the light-emitting elements in the display panel 120. The driving circuit 110 may compensate the reset signal S1 and output the compensated reset signal S1 to solve the issue of dark bands appearing in the display panel 120.
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The display unit 122 is, for example, a pixel circuit on the display panel 120. The display unit 122 includes multiple transistor elements T1 to T8, a capacitor element C1, and a light-emitting element 510, in which the transistor element T1 serves as the driving element 520 and the transistor element T7 serves as the reset element 530. The light-emitting element 510 is, for example, an organic light-emitting diode. Specifically, the light-emitting element 510 has a first terminal and a second terminal, which are respectively the anode and the cathode of the organic light-emitting diode. The first terminal of the light-emitting element 510 is coupled to the first terminal of the reset element 530, and the second terminal of the light-emitting element 510 is coupled to the first voltage ELVSS. The reset element 530 has a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal. The first terminal of the reset element 530 is coupled to the first terminal of the light-emitting element 510, and the second terminal of the reset element 530 is coupled to the reset signal S1. The control terminal of the reset element 530 is coupled to the corresponding first scan line 501. When the reset element 530 is turned on by the scan signal pScan1, the reset signal S1 may reset the first terminal of the light-emitting element 530. In addition, the connection relationship between other components and signals in the display unit 122 is as shown in
On the other hand, the driving circuit 110 includes a control circuit 112, a voltage generating circuit 114, and a data output circuit 116. The control circuit 112 may be configured to output the scan signals pScan1, pScan2, nScan1, nScan2 and the driving signal EM to the corresponding transistor elements to control the conduction state of the corresponding transistor elements. In one embodiment, the scan signal may be output by a gate on array (GOA) on the display panel 120 according to the control signal of the control circuit 112.
The voltage generating circuit 114 may be configured to output the reset signals S1, S2 and the bias signal VB to reset or provide a bias voltage to the corresponding circuit node. Therefore, the driving circuit 110 may be configured to output the scan signal pScan1 and the reset signal S1 to the display panel 120. In one embodiment, the bias signal VB is, for example, a positive voltage. The voltage generating circuit 114 further outputs the first voltage ELVSS and the second voltage ELVDD to the display unit 122 as operating voltages. The first voltage ELVSS is the system low voltage, and the second voltage ELVDD is the system high voltage. In addition, the data output circuit 116 may be configured to output the data voltage VD to write the corresponding display data into the display unit 122 in the writing frame F1.
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In step S100, the transistor elements T3, T7, and T8 are turned on, and the transistor elements T2, T4, T5, and T6 are not turned on. The bias signal VB resets the first terminal S of the transistor element T1, and the reset signal S1 resets the first terminal A of the light-emitting element 510. Taking an organic light-emitting diode as an example, the reset signal S1 is configured to reset the anode voltage of the organic light-emitting diode. In step S100, the scan signal pScan1 is at a low level in the reset interval Trst, which may be configured to turn on the transistor element T7, so that the reset signal S1 may reset the first terminal A of the light-emitting element 510. The level of the scan signal pScan1 in the reset interval Trst is not used to limit the disclosure.
In step S110, the transistor elements T3 and T4 are turned on, and the transistor elements T2, T5, T6, T7, and T8 are not turned on. The reset signal S2 resets the second terminal D and the control terminal G of the transistor element T1.
In step S120, the transistor elements T1, T2, and T3 are turned on, and the transistor elements T4, T5, T6, T7, and T8 are not turned on. The data voltage VD may be written to the control terminal G of the transistor element T1.
In step S130, the transistor elements T7 and T8 are turned on, and the transistor elements T2, T3, T4, T5, and T6 are not turned on. The bias signal VB resets the first terminal S of the transistor element T1 again, and the reset signal S1 resets the first terminal A of the light-emitting element 510 again.
In step S140, the transistor elements T1, T5, and T6 are turned on, and the transistor elements T2, T3, T4, T7, and T8 are not turned on. The light-emitting element 510 may be driven to emit light by driving current through the transistor elements T1, T5, and T6.
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Therefore, if the driving circuit 110 does not compensate for the reset signal S1, for example, it only provides a fixed low level reset signal S1, then the voltage of the reset signal S1 will change with the impedance change of the first terminal A of the light-emitting element 510, thereby affecting the effectiveness of the reset signal S1 in resetting the first terminal A of the light-emitting element 510.
Therefore, in the embodiment of the disclosure, when the reset interval Trst of the scan signal pScan1 is transmitted in the non-display area of the display panel 120, the driving circuit 110 compensates the reset signal S1 and outputs the compensated reset signal S1 to reset the first terminal A of the light-emitting element 510. That is, taking the organic light-emitting diode as an example, the signal compensation method of the embodiment of the disclosure may dynamically compensate the anode voltage of the organic light-emitting diode.
The uncompensated reset signal S1′ is, for example, a fixed low level voltage signal. The compensated reset signal S1 includes, for example, multiple compensation intervals Tcomp. The driving circuit 110 may determine the position and width of the compensation interval Tcomp according to the position and width of the reset interval Trst of the scan signal pScan1. In this embodiment, the compensated reset signal S1 is the step signal 700 in the compensation interval Tcomp. The waveform of the step signal 700 is only used for illustration and is not intended to limit the disclosure.
The following describes how the driving circuit 110 compensates the reset signal S1 to determine the position and width of the compensation interval Tcomp and the waveform of the step signal 700.
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On the other hand, the reset signal S1 is a compensated reset signal. The compensated reset signal S1 includes multiple compensation intervals Tcomp. The compensation interval Tcomp includes the high level interval Tpa and the width of the step signals 800A and 800B.
Therefore, the driving circuit 110 compensates the reset signal S1 according to the position of the reset interval Trst. For example, the driving circuit 110 determines the position of the compensation interval Tcomp according to the position of the reset interval Trst, and aligns the position of the compensation interval Tcomp correspondingly with the position of the reset interval Trst. In this way, the driving circuit 110 resets the first terminal A of the light-emitting element 510 by using the compensated reset signal S1, which may prevent dark bands from appearing in the display panel 120.
In one embodiment, the width of the reset interval Trst of the scan signal pScan1 corresponds to the number of signal lines (e.g., data lines) of the display panel 120. For example, the width of each reset interval Trst of the scan signal pScan1 corresponds to four signal lines. Therefore, when the reset interval Trst of the scan signal pScan1 begins to enter the non-display area PA of the display panel 120, the driving circuit 110 gradually increases the voltage level of the reset signal S1. Therefore, the number of steps of the step signal 800A is four, which is equal to the number of signal lines corresponding to the width of the reset interval Trst. That is, the driving circuit 110 may determine the width of the step signals 800A and 800B according to the width of the reset interval Trst, thereby determining the width of the compensation interval Tcomp.
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Therefore, the driving circuit 110 may compensate the reset signal S1 according to the position of the reset interval Trst. For example, the driving circuit 110 determines the position of the compensation interval Tcomp according to the position of the reset interval Trst, and aligns the position of the compensation interval Tcomp correspondingly with the position of the reset interval Trst. In this way, the driving circuit 110 resets the first terminal A of the light-emitting element 510 by using the compensated reset signal S1, which may prevent dark bands from appearing in the display panel 120.
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In summary, in embodiments of the disclosure, the driving circuit may determine the position, width and signal waveform of the compensation interval of the reset signal according to the scan signal to dynamically compensate the terminal voltage of the light-emitting element. In this way, dark bands in the display panel may be avoided, thereby improving display quality.
Although the disclosure has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, they are not intended to limit the disclosure. Those skilled in the art should understand that it is possible to make changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure. Therefore, the protection scope of the disclosure shall be defined by the following claims.
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113117690 | May 2024 | TW | national |
This application claims the priority benefit of U.S. provisional applications Ser. No. 63/536,041, filed on Aug. 31, 2023 and Taiwan application serial no. 113117690, filed on May 14, 2024. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
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63536041 | Aug 2023 | US |