Display Panel Sub-Pixel Arrangement for High Resolution Manufacturing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current display panel technologies face challenges in increasing resolution while maintaining a high aperture ratio and reducing manufacturing complexity, particularly in high-resolution OLED displays, where the size of sub-pixels becomes excessively small, leading to difficulties in manufacturing and potential color mixing.

Innovation Solution

A display panel arrangement where sub-pixels are arranged in a 2×2 matrix with each pixel unit corresponding to a respective sub-pixel, allowing for one-to-one correspondence and using pixel rendering technology to combine adjacent sub-pixels' brightness, thereby reducing manufacturing complexity and maintaining a high aperture ratio.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the number of sub-pixels in a same area is increased to improve resolution, then the resolution is improved, but the size of each sub-pixel becomes excessively small leading to increased manufacturing difficulty and risk of color mixing

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresolutionVSAvoidmanufacturing difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The invention divides a logical pixel into multiple physical sub-pixels (e.g., one red sub-pixel, two green sub-pixels, one blue sub-pixel) that work together to form a complete pixel. This segmentation allows the pixel to achieve high resolution while maintaining a reasonable physical size for each sub-pixel, thereby reducing manufacturing difficulty and the risk of color mixing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If the number of sub-pixels in a same area is increased to improve resolution, then the resolution is improved, but the aperture ratio decreases due to the smaller sub-pixel size

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresolutionVSAvoidaperture ratio
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

By segmenting the pixel into multiple sub-pixels with different color weights (e.g., 1R-2G-1B), the invention achieves high resolution without requiring each sub-pixel to be extremely small. This allows for a larger effective aperture area while maintaining the required resolution level.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes the parameter distribution of sub-pixels within a pixel by using different quantities of sub-pixels for different colors (e.g., two green sub-pixels instead of one). This parameter change optimizes the aperture ratio while maintaining color accuracy and resolution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If the sub-pixel size is decreased to improve resolution, then the resolution is improved, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase due to process limitations

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresolutionVSAvoidprocess precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The invention segments each pixel into multiple sub-pixels, which allows the overall pixel to achieve high resolution while each individual sub-pixel maintains a larger, more manufacturable size. This reduces the precision requirements for sub-pixel fabrication and positioning processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Measurement precision

If the sub-pixel size is decreased to improve resolution, then the resolution is improved, but the aperture ratio becomes excessively small

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresolutionVSAvoidaperture ratio
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

By dividing the pixel into multiple sub-pixels (e.g., 1R-2G-1B configuration), the invention achieves high resolution without requiring each sub-pixel to be extremely small. This segmentation strategy maintains a larger effective aperture area while achieving the desired resolution level.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The invention merges multiple sub-pixels of the same color (e.g., two green sub-pixels) within a single pixel to increase the effective light-emitting area and aperture ratio, while still achieving high resolution through the overall pixel arrangement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10614753B2Display panel and electronic device
Publication Date: 2020.04.07 WUHAN TIANMA MICRO ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure provides a display panel and an electronic device including the display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels and a plurality of pixel units. The plurality of sub-pixels includes at least a first color sub-pixel and at least a second color sub-pixel. The plurality of sub-pixels and the plurality of pixel units are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner. The display panel provided by the present disclosure can greatly reduce the difficulty of the preparation process while remaining a high aperture ratio, thereby improving the production yield of the display panel, significantly reducing the preparation cost of the display panel, greatly improving the display performance of the display panel, providing a comfortable user experience.