Display Panel Sub-Pixel Grouping for Brightness and Resolution

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Problem

High-definition display panels face challenges in achieving high transmittance, low power consumption, and high brightness while maintaining color performance, as higher pixel density leads to color blending and reduced brightness.

Innovation Solution

A display panel design featuring sub-pixel groups with main and sub-type pixel units arranged in specific geometrical patterns, using red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels, and a suitable algorithm to reduce pixel density, enhancing transmittance and brightness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If pixel density is increased to achieve high definition, then resolution is improved, but transmittance is reduced and brightness decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresolutionVSAvoidbrightness
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The pixel structure is segmented into main type pixel units (with 3 sub-pixels: red, green, blue) and sub type pixel units (with 2 sub-pixels), arranged in a geometric pattern where main type units surround sub type units. This segmentation allows for optimized light transmission paths while maintaining high resolution, as the different unit types can be selectively activated to control brightness without increasing overall pixel density.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different regions of the pixel array have different local qualities through the alternating arrangement of main type and sub type pixel units. The main type units provide full-color output while the sub type units provide reduced-color output, creating local variations in light transmission and color performance that optimize overall display efficiency and brightness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If pixel density is increased to achieve high definition, then resolution is improved, but color blending occurs between adjacent sub-pixels

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresolutionVSAvoidcolor performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The pixel array is segmented into distinct main type and sub type pixel units with clear spatial separation. Each unit type has a defined function: main type units for full-color display and sub type units for brightness enhancement. This segmentation prevents color blending by ensuring that sub-pixels of different colors are properly grouped within their respective unit types and are not overly dense.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The alternating geometric arrangement creates local quality zones where color accuracy is maintained in main type units while brightness is enhanced in sub type units. This local differentiation ensures that color performance is not compromised by high pixel density, as each local region is optimized for its specific function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Illumination intensity

If pixel density is reduced to improve transmittance and brightness, then transmittance is improved, but resolution decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovebrightnessVSAvoidresolution
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display panel achieves multi-functionality by combining both high resolution and high brightness in a single pixel array structure. The main type pixel units handle full-color high-resolution display, while the sub type pixel units handle brightness enhancement. This universal design allows the same pixel array to simultaneously achieve both high resolution and high transmittance without requiring separate display systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The display system dynamically switches between different pixel unit types depending on the content being displayed. When brightness is needed, sub type units are activated; when color accuracy is needed, main type units are activated. This dynamic operation allows the system to maintain high resolution while optimizing transmittance and brightness as needed, rather than being locked into a fixed pixel density.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS10373540B2Display panel
Publication Date: 2019.08.06 NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP
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AI summary

A display panel including a plurality of sub-pixel groups is provided. The sub-pixel groups are arranged repeatedly to form a pixel array, and each of the sub-pixel groups is written by a plurality of pixel data. The sub-pixel group includes a plurality of main type pixel units and a plurality of sub type pixel units. Each of the main type pixel units is written by one pixel data among the plurality of pixel data, and each of the sub type pixel units is written by at least one pixel data among the plurality of pixel data. The main type pixel units are arranged to form a geometry form and the main type pixel units surround a single sub type pixel unit among the sub type pixel units.