Bias Maintaining Stage Duration for Display Panel Brightness Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The threshold voltage drift of drive transistors in display panels affects display uniformity due to changes in display brightness, leading to instability in light emission.
Innovation Solution
A bias maintaining stage with different durations in different modes is implemented to adjust the bias state of the drive transistor, ensuring consistent display uniformity across varying brightness levels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Duration of action of moving object
If the drive transistor operates over time to supply drive current, then the light-emitting element can maintain light emission, but the threshold voltage of the drive transistor drifts, affecting display uniformity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by introducing a bias maintaining stage before the light emission stage. During this stage, a bias signal is supplied to the drive transistor to pre-adjust its threshold voltage to a target value. This preliminary adjustment ensures that when the light emission stage begins, the drive transistor is already in the optimal bias state, preventing threshold voltage drift during subsequent operation and maintaining display uniformity throughout the light emission duration.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the bias maintaining stage duration is fixed, then the circuit operation is simple, but the display uniformity cannot be optimized for different brightness levels
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the bias maintaining stage duration adaptive rather than fixed. The duration is dynamically adjusted based on the display brightness level: for higher brightness levels, a longer bias maintaining stage duration is used to ensure adequate threshold voltage stabilization, while for lower brightness levels, a shorter duration suffices. This dynamic adjustment allows the system to adapt to different brightness requirements without requiring complex additional hardware, as the same pixel circuit implements the adaptation through timing control.
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AI summary
A display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The working process of the pixel circuit includes a data write stage and a bias stage. The working process of the pixel circuit includes a first light emission stage and a first non-light emission stage. In the first non-light emission stage, a bias maintaining stage is from the start moment of the bias stage to the start moment of the first light emission stage. Working modes of the display panel include a first mode and a second mode. The display brightness of the display panel in the first mode is different from the display brightness of the display panel in the second mode. The length of the bias maintaining stage in the first mode is different from the length of the bias maintaining stage in the second mode.


