The disclosure relates to a device, in particular to an electronic device having a light emitting unit.
At present, most of the traditional light emitting units used for display are driven by active-matrix (AM) pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM). Moreover, the traditional driving method usually has the problems of excessive data volume of display data, easy data loss in the process of adjusting the brightness, and water ripples in the image captured by the light emitting unit captured by the camera.
This disclosure is directed to an electronic device and allows effective driving of a light emitting unit.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, the electronic device includes a light emitting unit and a voltage comparator. The voltage comparator is coupled to the light emitting unit and configured to receive a first voltage and a second voltage. When the first voltage is greater than the second voltage, the voltage comparator outputs a comparison signal having a first voltage level to turn on the light emitting unit. When the first voltage is less than the second voltage, the voltage comparator outputs a comparison signal having a second voltage level to turn off the light emitting unit.
Based on the above, the electronic device of the disclosure may realize the driving of the light emitting unit of a random type active-matrix (AM).
The disclosure can be understood by referring to the following detailed description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that for the reader's ease of understanding and for the sake of simplicity of the accompanying drawings, many of the accompanying drawings in this disclosure show only a portion of the apparatus, and specific components in the accompanying drawings are not drawn to actual scale. In addition, the number and dimensions of the components in the drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of this disclosure.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate exemplary embodiments of the disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.
Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments of the disclosure, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same element symbols are used in the drawings and description to represent the same or similar parts.
The disclosure can be understood by referring to the following detailed description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that for the reader's ease of understanding and for the sake of simplicity of the accompanying drawings, many of the accompanying drawings in this disclosure show only a portion of the electronoc device, and specific components in the accompanying drawings are not drawn to actual scale. In addition, the number and dimensions of the components in the drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of this disclosure.
Certain terms are used throughout this disclosure and in the claims to refer to specific elements. Those skilled in the art should understand that electronic device manufacturers may refer to the same components by different names. This document does not intend to distinguish between components that have the same function but different names. In the following description and claims, the terms “include” and “comprise” are open-ended terms and should therefore be interpreted to mean “includes but is not limited to . . . ”.
In some embodiments of the disclosure, terms such as “couple”, “interconnect”, etc., unless specifically defined, may refer to two structures in direct contact, or may refer to two structures that are not in direct contact, where other structures are located between the two structures. The term “couple” also includes the case where both structures are movable, or where both structures are fixed. In addition, the term “couple” includes any direct and indirect electrical means of connection.
The use of sequential numbers such as “first”, “second” and other words used to modify the components in the specification and claims does not in itself imply and represent that the components have any previous sequential numbers, nor does it represent the sequence of a component and another component, or the sequence of manufacturing methods. The use of multiple sequential numbers is only used to enable a component with a certain name and another component with the same name to make a clear distinction. The same words may not be used in the claim and the specification, whereby the first component in the specification may be the second component in the claim.
It should be noted that the following embodiments can substitute, reorganize, and mix technical features from several different embodiments to complete other embodiments without departing from the spirit of this disclosure.
The electronic device of the disclosure may include a display device, an antenna device, a sensing device, a touch display, a packaging device, a curved display or a free shape display, but not limited thereto. The electronic device can be a bendable or flexible electronic device. The antenna device may be, for example, a liquid crystal antenna or a variable capacitance antenna, but is not limited thereto. The antenna device may include, for example, an antenna splicing device, but is not limited thereto. The packaging device can be suitable for wafer-level package (WLP) technology or panel-level package (WLP) technology, such as chip first process or chip (RDL first) process packaging device. It should be noted that the electronic device can be any permutation and combination of the aforementioned, but not limited thereto. In addition, the shape of the electronic device can be rectangular, round, polygonal, with curved edges or other suitable shapes. The electronic device may include electronic elements. The electronic elements may include passive elements and active elements, such as capacitors, resistors, inductors, diodes, transistors, and the like. The diodes may include light emitting diodes or photodiodes. The light emitting diode may include, for example, an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a submillimeter light emitting diode (mini LED), a micro light emitting diode (micro LED) or a quantum dot light emitting diode (quantum dot LED), but not limited thereto. The electronic device may have a drive system, a control system, a light source system, . . . and other peripheral systems to support a display device, an antenna device, a wearable device (such as including augmented reality or virtual reality), a vehicle device (such as including a car windshield), or splicing device.
In this embodiment, the data driver 120 may provide data signals Ds_1 to Ds_n of a first voltage and a second voltage to the data signal lines DL_1 to DL_n in a time-sharing manner. The scan driver 130 may provide first scan signals Sa_1 to Sa_m to the first scanning signal lines SLa_1 to SLa_m, and provide a second scan signal Sb to multiple second scanning signal lines SLb. In this embodiment, each row of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m) may be turned on at different times according to the first scan signals Sal to Sam to obtain the data signals Ds_1 to Ds_n having the first voltage at different times, respectively, where the each row of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m) may obtain data signals having the same or different first voltages. In this embodiment, the each row of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m) may be turned on at the same time according to the second scan signal Sb to obtain the data signal having the second voltage at the same time.
In this embodiment, when the first scanning transistor T1 is turned on according to a first scan signal Sa provided by a first scanning signal line SLa, the data signal line DL may provide a data signal Ds having a first voltage V1 to the first terminal of the scanning transistor T1 to store the first voltage V1 to the storage capacitor C1 through the scanning transistor T1. Then, when the scanning transistor T2 is turned on according to the second scan signal Sb provided by the second scanning signal line SLb, the data signal line DL may provide a data signal Ds having a second voltage V2 to the first terminal of the scanning transistor T2 to store the second voltage V2 to the storage capacitor C2 through the scanning transistor T2.
In this embodiment, a first terminal and a second terminal of the voltage comparator 210 may receive the first voltage V1 and the second voltage V2 respectively. When a voltage value of the first voltage V1 is greater than a voltage value of the second voltage V2, the voltage comparator 210 outputs a comparison signal VC having a first voltage level (e.g., a high voltage level to turn on the light emitting unit 220. When the voltage value of the first voltage V1 is less than the voltage value of the second voltage V2, the voltage comparator 210 outputs a comparison signal VC having a second voltage level (e.g., a low voltage level) to turn off the light emitting unit 220. In this embodiment, the first scanning transistor T1 may be turned on during a first period to provide the first voltage V1 to the first input terminal of the voltage comparator 210, and the second scanning transistor T2 may be turned on during a second period to provide the second voltage V2 to the second input terminal of the voltage comparator 210, in which the first period does not overlap with the second period. In some embodiments, the first scanning transistor T1 may be turned on during the first period to provide the first voltage V1 to the first input terminal of the voltage comparator 210, and the second scanning transistor T2 may be turned on during the second period to provide the second voltage V2 to the second input terminal of the voltage comparator 210, in which the first period and the second period may overlap, but this disclosure is not limited thereto.
In this embodiment, the data driver (e.g., the data driver 120 in
In some embodiments, the DR % may also be generated according to a horizontal synchronization (Hsync) signal and/or a vertical synchronization (Vsync) signal. The horizontal synchronization signal and the vertical synchronization signal (which may be used, for example, to determine switching frequency between frames) may be in accordance with the following relation, and the frequency of the horizontal synchronization signal may be higher than the frequency of the vertical synchronization signal from the following relation.
For the first frame period P1, during a period from time t0 to time t1, the first scan signal Sa_1 may be, for example, at a high voltage level to turn on a first transistor of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,1). The data signal lines DL_1 to DL_n may provide the data signals Ds_1 to Ds_n of the first voltage having the same or different voltage values according to the light-emitting demand of the current frame (or based on display data). Thus, corresponding to a block 301, the pixels P(1,1) to P(n, 1) may be written (or updated) with a first voltage having a new voltage value during the period from time t0 to time t1. Moreover, during the period from time t0 to time t1, the first scan signals Sa_2 to Sa_m may be, for example, at a low voltage level to turn off the first transistor of the pixels P(1,2) to P(n,M). Thus, corresponding to a block 302, pixels P(1,2) to P(1,m) may not be written (or not updated) with a first voltage having a new voltage value during the period from time t0 to time t1. In addition, the second scan signal Sb may be at a low voltage level during the period from time t0 to time t1 to turn off a second transistor of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m).
During a period from time t1 to time t2, corresponding to a periodic switch of the vertical clock signal, the second scan signal Sb may be, for example, at a high voltage level to turn on the second transistor of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m), and the data signal lines DL_1 to DL_n may synchronously provide the data signals Ds_1 to Ds_n having the second voltage. Thus, corresponding to a block 303, the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m) may be synchronously written with a second voltage having a new voltage value (a random value) during the period from time t1 to time t2. In this way, the respective voltage comparators of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m) may be turned on or off according to respective currently stored voltage values of the first voltage and the second voltage.
During a period from time t2 to time t3, corresponding to a next periodic switch of the vertical clock signal, the second scan signal Sb may be, for example, at a high voltage level to turn on the second transistor of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m), and the data signal lines DL_1 to DL_n may synchronously provide the data signals Ds_1 to Ds_n having another second voltage. Thus, corresponding to a block 304, the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m) may be synchronously written with another second voltage having another new voltage value (another random value) during the period from time t2 to time t3. In this way, the respective voltage comparators of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m) may be turned on or off according to respective currently stored voltage values of the first voltage and the another second voltage. In other words, in this embodiment, the voltage values of the second voltage respectively stored in the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m) are updated with the vertical clock signal.
During a period from time t4 to time t5, the first scan signal Sa_2 may, for example, be at a high voltage level to turn on a first transistor of the pixels P(1,2) to P(n,2). The data signal lines DL_1 to DL_n may provide the data signals Ds_1 to Ds_n of the first voltage having the same or different voltage values according to the light-emitting demand of the current frame (or based on display data). Thus, the pixels P(1,2) to P(n,2) may be written (or updated) with a first voltage having a new voltage value during the period from time t4 to time t5. Moreover, during the period from time t4 to time t5, the first scan signals Sal and Sa 3 to Sa_m may be, for example, at a low voltage level to turn off first transistors of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,1) and P(1,3) to P(n,M). Thus, the pixels P(1,2) to P(1,m) may not be written (or not updated) with the first voltage during the period from time t4 to time t5. In addition, the second scan signal Sb may be at a low voltage level during the period from time t4 to time t5 to turn off the second transistor of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m). By analogy, the pixels P(1,m) to P(n,m) may be written (or updated) with a first voltage having a new voltage value during a period from time t6 to time t7. Thus, the voltage value of the first voltage stored in the each row of the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m) may be sequentially updated according to the light-emitting demand of the current frame (or based on display data).
Similarly, for the second frame period P2, the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,1) may be written (or updated) with a next first voltage having another new voltage value during a period from time t8 to time t9. The pixels P(1,2) to P(n,2) may be written (or updated) with a next first voltage having another new voltage value during a period from time t10 to time t11. The pixels P(1,m) to P(n,m) may be written (or updated) with a next first voltage having another new voltage value during a period from time t12 to time t13. In other words, in this embodiment, the voltage value of the first voltage respectively stored in the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m) are updated frame by frame.
Therefore, the pixels P(1,1) to P(n,m) in this embodiment may be randomly illuminated during a frame (or even during the whole illumination process), and an effect of random illumination in time and space may be achieved, which may effectively overcome a problem of water ripples in the image captured by a light emitting unit captured by a camera. In addition, for example, assuming that a relationship curve of the voltage (e.g., an X-axis may be a scale value of the voltage, a brightness ratio, or a gray scale value, etc., and a Y-axis may be a voltage value) is linear, if the pixel P(1,1) is to display a result of 100% brightness (i.e., to present the highest brightness) during the first frame period P1, the voltage value of the first voltage V1 obtained by the pixel P(1,1) during the first frame period P1 may be, for example, 10 volts (the voltage value of the first voltage V1 may be between 0 volts and 10 volts). Therefore, regardless of the voltage value of the second voltage V2 obtained by the pixel P(1,1) during the first frame period P1 (the voltage value of the second voltage V2 may be randomly selected from 0 volts to 10 volts), the pixel P(1,1) is turned on during the first frame period P1, and the result of displaying 100% brightness (i.e., presenting the highest brightness) may be achieved. For another example, if the pixel P(1,1) is to display 50% brightness (i.e., to present half brightness) during the second frame period P2, the voltage value of the first voltage V1 obtained by the pixel P(1,1) during the second frame period P2 may be, for example, 5 volts (the voltage value of the first voltage V1 may be between 0 volts and 10 volts). Since a chance that the voltage value of the second voltage V2 obtained by the pixel P(1,1) during the second frame period P2 is higher than the voltage value of the first voltage V1 is 50% (i.e., there may be fifty times that the voltage value of the second voltage V2 randomly selected during one hundred random variations is higher than the voltage value of the first voltage V1), based on formula (1) above, the pixel P(1,1) may achieve a result of displaying 50% brightness during the second frame period P2 (i.e., presenting half brightness). In some embodiments, the relationship curve of the voltage (e.g., an X-axis may be a scale value of the voltage, a brightness ratio, or a gray scale value, etc., and a Y-axis may be a voltage value) may also be non-linear, and the disclosure is not limited thereto.
Alternatively, in some other embodiments, the electronic device according to the embodiments of the disclosure may, for example, adjust the brightness of the light emitting unit by means of an analogous setting in the process of brightness adjustment. In this regard, the data driver may, for example, determine the first voltage according to the voltage value-brightness ratio relationship curve 501, and determine the voltage value of the second voltage according to a voltage value-brightness ratio relationship curve 502, and the voltage value of the first voltage is equal to the voltage value of the second voltage multiplied by a certain attenuation factor (e.g. 0.7). In other words, the first voltage and the second voltage may be generated according to different voltage value-brightness ratio relationship curves.
Alternatively, in some other embodiments, the electronic device according to the embodiments of the disclosure may, for example, adjust the brightness of the light emitting unit by adjusting the duty ratio of the vertical clock signal in the process of brightness adjustment. In this regard, as in formula (1) above, the brightness ratio of the light emitting unit is proportional to the duty ratio DR % of the vertical clock signal. Thus, the data driver may adjust the brightness of the light emitting unit by changing the duty ratio DR % of the vertical clock signal.
It should be noted that, in other embodiments of the disclosure, each of the relationship curves shown in
To sum up, the electronic device of the disclosure may set a voltage comparator in each of the pixels, and provide a first voltage and a second voltage to the voltage comparator, in which the first voltage has a fixed value in one frame and the second voltage that changes with the vertical clock signal and is a random value, and may dynamically turn on or off the light emitting unit in one frame, enabling the driving of the light emitting unit of active matrix pulse width modulation.
Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are used only to illustrate the technical solutions of the disclosure, but not to limit them; although the disclosure has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by anyone having ordinary knowledge in the art that it is still possible to modify the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments or to replace some or all of the technical features thereof with equivalent ones, and that such modifications or replacements do not take the nature of the corresponding technical solutions out of the scope of the technical solutions of the foregoing embodiments of the disclosure.
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This application claims the priority benefits of U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 63/316,419, filed on Mar. 4, 2022, and China application serial no. 202211410116.3, filed on Nov. 11, 2022. The entirety of each patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
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63316419 | Mar 2022 | US |