Display Panel Data-Line Rerouting Across Component Display Areas
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display panels face challenges in efficiently utilizing display areas that include electronic components, leading to reduced image display capabilities and limited functionality.
Innovation Solution
A display panel design with a substrate featuring distinct display areas and bypass areas for data lines, allowing for extended display areas and improved pixel circuit connectivity, including sub-display areas with varying pixel sizes and data line configurations to accommodate components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If data lines are arranged in conventional display areas, then image display capability is maintained, but display area utilization is reduced when electronic components are present
Solution Approach 1:
The display panel is divided into distinct display areas (first, second, and third display areas) with the third display area positioned between the first and second display areas. This segmentation allows electronic components to be placed in the third display area while maintaining image display capabilities in all areas, thus increasing overall display area utilization without compromising functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
Data lines are configured to extend in different directions across different display areas. Specifically, data lines pass across the first and second display areas with their extension direction changing in the bypass area, allowing data lines to route around electronic components in the third display area. This dimensional routing approach enables both component placement and image display in previously conflicting spaces.
2Ease of operation
If data lines pass through bypass areas with changing extension directions, then connectivity is improved, but data line complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bypass area is specifically designed with localized quality differences - it is positioned between the first and second display areas and contains the third display area with electronic components. Data lines are configured to pass through this specific bypass area where their extension direction changes, while maintaining straightforward routing in other areas. This localized approach improves connectivity to components without unnecessarily complicating the entire data line system.
3Adaptability or versatility
If display areas are extended to include component areas, then functionality is improved, but image quality may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
Electronic components are extracted from the conventional display areas and placed in the third display area, which is specifically positioned between the first and second display areas. This extraction allows the first and second display areas to maintain their full image display capabilities without component interference, while the third display area serves as a dedicated component housing zone, thus improving functionality without compromising image quality in the primary display areas.
Data Source
AI summary
A display panel includes a first display area having a plurality of first display elements, a second display area having a plurality of second display elements, and a third display area between the first display area and the second display area, wherein the third display area includes a first sub display area adjacent to the second display area in a first direction, and a second sub display area adjacent to the second display area in a second direction, the first sub display area comprises a bypass area, some data lines pass across the first sub display area and the second sub display area, and change their extension direction in the bypass area.