Display Panel Data Line Segmentation for Uniform RGB Luminance

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Solution Overview

Problem

In display technologies, the continuous voltage jumps in data signal lines between sub-pixels of different colors lead to signal distortion and uneven luminance, affecting display quality and uniformity, especially during aging tests.

Innovation Solution

Each sub-pixel column has separate data signal lines for red, green, and blue sub-pixels, ensuring that data signals are transmitted accurately in a time-division manner without voltage jumps, maintaining consistent light emitting and aging degrees across the display panel.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If blue sub-pixels and red/green sub-pixels share one data signal line, then the number of data signal lines is reduced, but voltage jumps occur causing signal distortion and affecting display quality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenumber of data signal linesVSAvoidsignal transmission accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the data signal lines by color, creating separate data signal lines for blue sub-pixels and red/green sub-pixels. This segmentation prevents voltage jumps that would occur when different color sub-pixels share a common data signal line, thereby maintaining signal transmission accuracy while managing the overall number of signal lines through organized grouping.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If data signals jump continuously to satisfy different luminance requirements, then both blue and red/green sub-pixel luminance requirements are met, but signal loss increases and data signals become distorted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveluminance requirement satisfactionVSAvoiddata signal accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

By segmenting data signal lines according to sub-pixel color, the patent eliminates the need for continuous voltage jumps on shared signal lines. Each color group receives dedicated signal lines that maintain stable voltage levels, preventing signal distortion and information loss while still satisfying the different luminance requirements of various sub-pixel colors through dedicated signal paths.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11778876B2Display panel and display device
Publication Date: 2023.10.03 XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO ELECTRONICS
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AI summary

Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes multiple sub-pixels and multiple data signal lines. The multiple sub-pixels constitute multiple sub-pixel columns; each sub-pixel column includes multiple sub-pixels arranged in sequence; every three adjacent sub-pixels or every four adjacent sub-pixels form a pixel unit; and colors of sub-pixels in each pixel unit include red, green and blue; at least part of sub-pixels belonging to a same sub-pixel column share one data signal line, and sub-pixels sharing one data signal line receive data signals transmitted by the one data signal line in a time-division manner; where a data signal line electrically connected to red sub-pixels is different from a data signal line electrically connected to blue sub-pixels, and a data signal line electrically connected to green sub-pixels is different from the data signal line electrically connected to the blue sub-pixels.