Display apparatus

Abstract

A display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, and a signal source. The first and second display panels each have a first side and include a plurality of pixels arranged in an alternating pattern. The pixels are arranged sequentially in a plurality of pixel columns away from the first side. Each pixel includes a first color light-emitting element. A pixel column includes a first pixel column adjacent to the first side. The first and second display panels are joined together such that the first color light-emitting elements in the first pixel columns of the first and second display panels are adjacent to each other at the seam between the first and second display panels. The signal source is configured such that the first color light-emitting elements in the first pixel columns of the second display panel are substantially non-light-emitting.

Claims

1. A display device comprising: a first display panel and a second display panel, each having a first side and including a plurality of pixels arranged in an alternating manner, the pixels being sequentially arranged in a plurality of pixel columns away from the first side, each of the pixels including a first color light-emitting element, wherein the pixel columns include a first pixel column adjacent to the first side, the first display panel and the second display panel being spliced ​​together such that the first color light-emitting elements in the first pixel columns of the first display panel and the second display panel are adjacent to each other at a splicing seam between the first display panel and the second display panel; and a signal source configured to cause the first color light-emitting elements in the first pixel columns of the second display panel to be in a substantially non-light-emitting state.

2. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the pixels further includes a second color light-emitting element and a third color light-emitting element, and the first color light-emitting element, the second color light-emitting element and the third color light-emitting element in each of the pixels are arranged in a triangle.

3. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal source is further configured to enhance the brightness of the pixels in the first pixel columns of the first display panel and the second display panel.

4. The display device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the pixel columns further include a second pixel column adjacent to the first pixel column, the information source being further configured to: cause the pixels in the first pixel columns to operate in an intermittent light-emitting mode; cause the second pixel column of the first display panel to be substantially non-light-emitting; cause the first color light-emitting elements in the second pixel column of the second display panel to operate in the intermittent light-emitting mode; and cause other color light-emitting elements in the second pixel column of the second display panel to be substantially non-light-emitting.

5. The display device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the pixel columns further include a third pixel column adjacent to the second pixel column, and the signal source is further configured such that the first color light-emitting elements in the third pixel column of the second display panel are in a substantially non-light-emitting state.

6. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pixels of the first display panel have the same arrangement pattern as the pixels of the second display panel.

7. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the arrangement pattern of the pixels of the first display panel and the pixels of the second display panel is a horizontal mirror image of each other.

8. The display device as claimed in claim 7, wherein each of the pixels further includes a second color light-emitting element and a third color light-emitting element, the second color light-emitting elements of the first display panel and the second color light-emitting elements of the second display panel are collinearly arranged in a direction perpendicular to the first side to form a plurality of first straight lines crossing the seam, and the third color light-emitting elements of the first display panel and the third color light-emitting elements of the second display panel are collinearly arranged in that direction to form a plurality of second straight lines crossing the seam.

9. The display device as claimed in claim 7, wherein each of the pixels further includes a second color light-emitting element and a third color light-emitting element, the back panel of the first display panel and the back panel of the second display panel have the same circuit layout, and the second color light-emitting elements and the third color light-emitting elements are arranged in interchangeable positions on the back panels.

10. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the width of one seam of the splicing seam is less than about 1 mm.

11. A display device comprising: a first display panel and a second display panel, each having a first side and including a plurality of pixels arranged in an alternating manner, the pixels being arranged sequentially away from the first side to form a plurality of pixel columns, each of the pixels including a first color light-emitting element, wherein the pixel columns include a first pixel column adjacent to the first side, the first display panel and the second display panel being spliced ​​together such that the first color light-emitting elements in the first pixel columns of the first display panel and the second display panel are adjacent to each other at a splicing seam between the first display panel and the second display panel; and a control circuit configured to cause the first color light-emitting elements in the first pixel columns of the second display panel to be in a substantially non-light-emitting state.

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