Display Substrate Pixel Group Segmentation for Component Area Transmittance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Display devices face a challenge in maintaining resolution while increasing transmittance in component areas, as expanding the display area for various functions often compromises either resolution or transmittance.

Innovation Solution

The display apparatus is designed with a substrate that includes multiple component areas with specific arrangements of pixel groups and transmitting portions, utilizing auxiliary sub-pixels and display elements to optimize spacing and arrangement, allowing for increased transmittance while maintaining resolution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If the area of the transmitting portion in the component area increases, then transmittance increases, but resolution decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovetransmittanceVSAvoidresolution
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The component area is divided into multiple pixel groups, each containing both pixel elements and transmitting portions. This segmentation allows the transmitting portions to be distributed across multiple locations rather than concentrated in one large area, thereby maintaining resolution while achieving sufficient overall transmittance through cumulative light transmission across segmented regions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different regions within the component area are designed with different functional qualities: pixel groups contain display elements for image formation, while transmitting portions are optimized for light transmission. This local differentiation allows each sub-region to perform its specific function optimally, with transmitting portions contributing to overall transmittance without compromising the resolution provided by pixel groups.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If the area of the pixel group in the component area increases, then resolution increases, but transmittance decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresolutionVSAvoidtransmittance
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The component area is segmented into multiple pixel groups rather than one large pixel group. Each pixel group contains a manageable number of pixels that can maintain resolution quality, while the spaces between these segmented groups are allocated as transmitting portions. This segmentation strategy enables resolution to be maintained through sufficient pixel density across multiple groups while allowing light transmission through the inter-group transmitting portions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple pixel groups are combined within the component area to achieve the desired resolution, while their associated transmitting portions are also combined to provide sufficient overall transmittance. The merging of multiple smaller pixel groups with their distributed transmitting portions creates a composite structure that simultaneously achieves both resolution and transmittance requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11930678B2Display apparatus
Publication Date: 2024.03.12 SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided is a display apparatus. The display apparatus comprises a substrate including a display area, a first component area where first pixel groups including first auxiliary sub-pixels and first transmitting portions are located, and a second component area where second pixel groups including second auxiliary sub-pixels and second transmitting portions are located, first display elements, and second display elements, wherein one of the first pixel groups is spaced apart by a first distance in a first direction from a first center of the first component area, and is spaced apart by a second distance in a second direction intersecting the first direction from the first center, and one of the second transmitting portions is spaced apart by the first distance in the first direction from a second center of the second component area, and is spaced apart by the second distance in the second direction from the second center.