This application claims the priority benefit of China application serial no. 202210169082.7, filed on Feb. 23, 2022. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
The present disclosure relates to a driving method of an electronic device, and in particular, to a display device and a driving method thereof.
In the related art, when an electronic device is a display device and has a display panel, there may be many ways of arranging the pixels of the display panel. One arrangement method is that the same data line is electrically connected to the sub-pixel circuit in the same column, and the sub-pixel circuit in the same column controls sub-pixels of the same color (the first arrangement); the other method is that the sub-pixel circuit electrically connected to the same data line is located in different sub-pixel columns, and the sub-pixel circuits located in different columns have different colors (second arrangement).
In the first arrangement, when the display panel displays an image screen with a gray background and a large area of pure color region, the pure color region in the image screen is very likely to affect the display quality of other regions displaying gray background in the vertical direction. In the second arrangement, if the resistance and capacitance of the data lines are large, the display quality of the image screen will be more likely to be affected.
In the related art, in order to improve the display quality of an image screen, a buffer circuit with high hardware cost needs to be adopted to store the image screen to be displayed, and the compensated gray-scale value of the image screen needs to be calculated in a complex way.
The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a driving method for a display device, which may determine the compensated gray-scale value of the sub-pixel gray-scale value through a pixel compensation circuit with low cost, so as to improve the display quality of the image screen.
The electronic device of the present disclosure includes a pixel compensation circuit and a display panel. The pixel compensation circuit receives a pixel signal. The pixel signal includes a plurality of sub-pixel gray-scale values. The pixel compensation circuit compensates the sub-pixel gray-scale values according to the difference between the sub-pixel gray-scale values and the first threshold to output an adjusted pixel signal. The display panel displays an image screen according to the adjusted pixel signal.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, when the sub-pixel gray-scale value is less than or equal to the first threshold, and the difference between the multiple sub-pixel gray-scale values is greater than or equal to the second threshold, the pixel compensation circuit determines to compensate the sub-pixel gray-scale value.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the pixel compensation circuit compensates the sub-pixel gray-scale value according to the compensated gray-scale value, and the sum of the compensated gray-scale value and the sub-pixel gray-scale value is less than or equal to the reference gray-scale value.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the compensated gray-scale value is a fixed value.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the compensated gray-scale value is determined according to a sub-pixel gray-scale value.
The driving method for an electronic device of the present disclosure includes: receiving a pixel signal, and the pixel signal includes a plurality of sub-pixel gray-scale values; determining a compensated gray-scale value of the sub-pixel gray-scale value according to the sub-pixel gray-scale values; compensating the sub-pixel gray-scale values according to the compensated gray-scale value to output an adjusted pixel signal, and the sum of the compensated gray-scale value and the sub-pixel gray-scale value is less than or equal to the reference gray-scale value; and driving the display panel to display an image screen according to the adjusted pixel signal.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the driving method of the electronic device further includes: when the sub-pixel gray-scale value is less than or equal to the first threshold, and the difference between the sub-pixel gray-scale values is greater than or equal to the second threshold, it is determined to compensate the sub-pixel gray-scale value.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the sum of the compensated gray-scale value and the sub-pixel gray-scale value is less than or equal to the reference gray-scale value.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the compensated gray-scale value is a fixed value.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the compensated gray-scale value is determined according to the sub-pixel gray-scale value.
In order to make the foregoing description more understandable, several embodiments with accompanying drawings are described in detail below.
The disclosure can be understood by referring to the following detailed description in combination with the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that in order to make it easy for the reader to understand and for the simplicity of the drawings, the multiple drawings in this disclosure only depict a part of the electronic device, and the specific components in the drawings are not drawn according to actual scale. In addition, the number and size of each component in the drawings are only for exemplary purpose, and are not intended to limit the scope of the disclosure.
In the following description and claims, the words “comprising” and “including” are open-ended words, and thus should be interpreted as meaning “including but not limited to . . . ”.
It should be understood that although the terms “first”, “second”, “third” . . . may be used to describe various constituent elements, the constituent elements are not limited by such terms. This term is only used to distinguish a single element from other elements in the specification. The same terms may not be used in the claims, but replaced by first, second, third . . . in the order in which the elements are mentioned in the claims. Therefore, in the following description, the first constituent element may be the second constituent element in the claims.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, terms related to joining and connecting, such as “connected”, “interconnected”, etc., unless otherwise defined, may mean that the two structures are in direct contact, or may also mean that the two structures are not in direct contact, and there are other structures located between these two structures. And the terms regarding joining and connecting may also refer to the circumstances where both structures are movable, or both structures are fixed. Furthermore, the term “coupled” refers to any direct and indirect electrical connection.
The electronic device of the present disclosure may include, but is not limited to, a display device, an antenna device, a sensing device, a light-emitting device, or a tiling device. Electronic devices may include bendable or flexible electronic devices. Electronic devices may include electronic components. The electronic device includes, for example, a liquid crystal layer or a light emitting diode (LED). Electronic components may include passive components and active components, such as capacitors, resistors, inductors, variable capacitors, filters, diodes, transistors, inductors, MEMS, liquid crystal chips, controllers, etc., but not limited thereto. The diodes may include light emitting diodes or photodiodes. Light emitting diodes may include, for example, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), mini LEDs, micro LEDs, quantum dot LEDs, fluorescence, phosphor or other suitable materials, or a combination of the above, but not limited thereto. Sensors may include, for example, capacitive sensors, optical sensors, electromagnetic sensors, fingerprint sensors (FPS), touch sensors, antennas, or pen sensors, etc., but not limited thereto. The controller may include, for example, a timing controller, etc., but is not limited thereto. Hereinafter, a display device will be used as an electronic device in the description of the present disclosure, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.
Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numerals are used in the drawings and description to refer to the same or like parts.
The display panel 120 receives the adjusted pixel signal S2 output by the pixel compensation circuit 110. The display panel 120 displays an image screen according to the adjusted pixel signal S2. The adjusted pixel signal S2 may be a compensated pixel signal or an uncompensated pixel signal (i.e., the compensated gray-scale value is equal to 0, which is equal to the pixel signal S1).
In this embodiment, the pixel compensation circuit 110 is provided in, for example, a timing controller or a source driver, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. The pixel compensation circuit 110 may be designed by using a hardware description language (HDL) or any other circuit design methods well known to those skilled in the art, and may be a circuit structure implemented by using a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a complex programmable logic device (CPLD), or an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.
In order to reduce the problem that the pixel signal of the display region R2 affects the pixel signal of the sub-region 210 and/or the sub-region 230 and affects the display quality, the pixel compensation circuit 110 may compensate the pixel signal of the pixel P2 in the display region R2. For example, the pixel compensation circuit 110 may adjust the sub-pixel gray-scale value of the pixel P2 to (X1, 255, X1), where X1 is the compensated gray-scale value. In an embodiment, the compensated gray-scale value X1 may be a fixed value. That is to say, no matter what the sub-pixel gray-scale value is before compensation, the compensated gray-scale value is all the same, that is, X1.
Alternatively, in an embodiment, the compensated gray-scale value may also be determined according to the magnitude of the sub-pixel gray-scale value.
The following describes how the pixel compensation circuit 110 determines the compensated gray-scale value of the sub-pixel according to the difference between the sub-pixel gray-scale values (Gr, Gg, Gb) and the first threshold TH01.
In the embodiment of
When the display panel 120 is to display a green screen, for example, the gray-scale value of the green sub-pixel is 128, the gray-scale value of the red sub-pixel and the gray-scale value of the blue sub-pixel are 0, and the data voltages written into the data line D3 correspond to the green sub-pixel 124_1, the red sub-pixel 122_2 and the green sub-pixel 124_3 in sequence. Therefore, the data voltage written into the data line D3 will be significantly different, which is about 2.73 volts as shown in
Therefore, in this embodiment, the pixel compensation circuit 110 determines the compensated gray-scale value of the sub-pixels according to the difference between the sub-pixel gray-scale values (Gr, Gg, Gb) and the first threshold TH01. For example, when the display panel 120 is to be displayed in green and the gray-scale value is 128, the sub-pixel gray-scale values (Gr, Gg, Gb) of one pixel before compensation are (0, 128, 0). Take the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gr as an example, the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gr before compensation is less than the first threshold TH01 (for example, 100), the difference between the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gr and the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gg is 128, and the difference between the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gr and Gb among the sub-pixel gray-scale values (Gr, Gg, Gb) of another pixel on the left side is 0, as the differences are 0 and 128, and the larger of the difference (128) is greater than the second threshold TH02 (e.g., 10), the pixel compensation circuit 110 determines to compensate the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gr. For example, the compensated gray-scale value may be 16. Take the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gb as another example, the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gb before compensation is Gb=0, which is less than the first threshold TH01 (for example, 100), the difference between the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gb and the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gg is 128, and the difference between the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gb and Gr among the sub-pixel gray-scale values (Gr, Gg, Gb) of another pixel on the right side is 0, as the differences are 0 and 128, and the larger of the difference (128) is greater than the second threshold TH02 (for example, 10), the pixel compensation circuit 110 determines to compensate the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gb. For example, the compensated gray-scale value may be 16. Take the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gg as another example. The sub-pixel gray-scale value Gg before compensation is Gg=128, which is greater than the first threshold TH01 (for example, 100). Therefore, the pixel compensation circuit 110 will not compensate the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gg. In other words, the compensated gray-scale value is 0, so the sub-pixel gray-scale value Gg is still 128. Therefore, when the display panel 120 is to be displayed in green, the compensated sub-pixel gray-scale values are (16, 128, 16). Similarly, when the display panel 120 is to display a red display screen or a blue display screen, the pixel compensation circuit 110 may perform the same processing, so as to solve the problem of display quality degradation of the display panel.
Therefore, the data voltage written into the data line D3 may be switched from the data voltage corresponding to the green sub-pixel gray-scale value 128 to the data voltage corresponding to the red sub-pixel gray-scale value 16. Referring to
To sum up, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the pixel compensation circuit determines the compensated gray-scale value of the sub-pixel according to the difference between the sub-pixel gray-scale values and the first threshold. Therefore, the compensated gray-scale values of different sub-pixel gray-scale values may be determined through a pixel compensation circuit with low cost, so as to improve the display quality of the image screen.
Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present disclosure, but not to limit them. Although the present disclosure has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art should understand that: The technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments can still be modified, or some or all of the technical features thereof can be equivalently replaced; and these modifications or replacements do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions deviate from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure.
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