Display Device Reset Voltage Reinforcement Wiring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current display devices face challenges in enhancing the sensing performance for biometric information recognition, particularly in providing uniform and efficient sensing across the active area.

Innovation Solution

The display device incorporates a circuit layer with defined active and peripheral areas, including reset voltage reinforcement wiring, initialization voltage reinforcement wiring, and reset control reinforcement wiring, which ensures uniform sensing performance by minimizing voltage drops and load differences across the active area.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If reset voltage wirings are provided only in the active area, then the device complexity is reduced, but the sensing performance uniformity deteriorates due to voltage drops and load differences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesensing performance uniformityVSAvoidwiring structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The reset voltage wirings are segmented into two types: those disposed in the active area and those disposed in the peripheral area. This segmentation allows the peripheral area wirings to compensate for voltage drops in the active area without increasing the complexity within the active area itself, thereby maintaining sensing performance uniformity while managing device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The solution moves the additional wiring from the active area to the peripheral area, effectively using another dimension (spatial redistribution) to solve the voltage drop problem. The reset voltage reinforcement wirings in the peripheral area extend toward the active area, providing voltage compensation without adding complexity to the active area wiring structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If the sensing area is extended to improve biometric recognition, then the measurement precision is improved, but the voltage drop increases causing non-uniform sensing performance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebiometric sensing accuracyVSAvoidsensing performance uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The reset voltage reinforcement wirings act as intermediaries that compensate for voltage drops caused by extended sensing areas. These additional wirings provide supplementary reset voltage paths that maintain uniform voltage levels across the extended active area, enabling improved biometric sensing accuracy without sacrificing performance uniformity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If more reset voltage wirings are added to compensate for voltage drops, then the sensing performance uniformity is improved, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesensing performance uniformityVSAvoidwiring alignment precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The reset voltage reinforcement wirings are specifically disposed in the peripheral area where they can provide voltage compensation without requiring precise alignment with the pixel circuits in the active area. This local placement strategy reduces manufacturing precision requirements compared to adding wirings directly within the active area.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20230389391A1Display device
Publication Date: 2023.11.30 SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

A display device in which an active area and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area are defined includes a base layer, a circuit layer disposed on the base layer, and an element layer disposed on the circuit layer and including a light emitting element and a light receiving element. The circuit layer includes a pixel driving circuit connected to the light emitting element, a sensor driving circuit connected to the light receiving element, a plurality of reset voltage wirings disposed in the active area and that provide a reset voltage to the sensor driving circuit, and a reset voltage reinforcement wiring disposed in the peripheral area, connected to the plurality of reset voltage wirings, and extending in a first direction.