Display Substrate Layout for Seamless Light-Transmitting Areas

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display technologies face challenges in achieving seamless integration of light transmitting and transition display areas in full-screen mobile devices, affecting display quality and efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A display substrate design with a light transmitting display area and a transition display area, where sub-pixels in the transition area are electrically connected to ensure synchronized display, utilizing a specific scan line and data line configuration to maintain pixel density and display continuity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Area of stationary object

If a light transmitting display area is integrated with a transition display area in full-screen mobile devices, then the front visible area is increased and display quality is improved, but the integration seamless is difficult to achieve and display continuity is affected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefront visible areaVSAvoidintegration seamless
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display area is segmented into a light transmitting display area and a transition display area, with the transition display area further divided into multiple sub-regions. This segmentation allows each area to be optimized independently while maintaining overall integration, solving the contradiction by enabling precise control of display parameters in different zones to achieve seamless integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different display qualities and parameters are applied to different regions: the light transmitting area uses one set of display parameters while the transition area uses another. This local quality approach allows the light transmitting area to maintain high visibility while the transition area provides gradual adaptation, resolving the integration seamless issue.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Stability of the object's composition

If sub-pixels in the transition area are electrically connected to ensure synchronized display, then display continuity is improved, but the device complexity increases due to specific scan line and data line configuration

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay continuityVSAvoidscan line and data line configuration
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The scan lines and data lines for the light transmitting display area and the transition display area are merged and shared. By using common scan lines and data lines for both areas, the patent reduces the overall number of signal lines required while maintaining synchronized display control, thus improving display continuity without proportionally increasing device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The scan lines and data lines are designed to serve multiple functions: they control both the light transmitting display area and the transition display area. This multi-functionality allows a single set of signal lines to manage different display regions with different requirements, reducing overall system complexity while ensuring display continuity.

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

3Manufacturing precision

If pixel density is maintained across light transmitting and transition areas, then display quality is enhanced, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepixel density consistencyVSAvoidmanufacturing difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent adjusts display parameters such as pixel density, brightness, and refresh rate differently for the light transmitting area and the transition area. By changing these parameters locally rather than uniformly, the system maintains optimal pixel density in each region while accounting for manufacturing variations, thus enhancing display quality without excessively increasing manufacturing precision requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12593579B2Display substrate and display apparatus
Publication Date: 2026.03.31 CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A display substrate includes a display area and a non-display area that surrounds the display area. The display area includes a plurality of scanning lines extending in a first direction and a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, and the display area includes a first display area and a second display area, wherein the first display area is located at the periphery of the second display area, and the second display area comprises a light-transmitting display area and a transition display area; the transition display area is located on a side face of the light-transmitting display area.