Display Substrate With Alternating RGB and White Rows for Brightness Balance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display technologies fail to adequately improve image display quality and customer satisfaction, despite efforts to enhance control methods.

Innovation Solution

A display substrate with a sub-pixel array comprising alternating RGB and BW sub-pixel rows, where each sub-pixel can display white by combining three primary colors, and a method to generate grayscale values for each sub-pixel based on primary color components, enhancing brightness and white balance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If traditional RGB sub-pixel arrangement is used, then manufacturing process is simple, but image brightness and white balance are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage brightnessVSAvoidsub-pixel array structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The sub-pixel array is segmented into alternating first sub-pixel rows (RGB) and second sub-pixel rows (BW), allowing different functional zones to coexist. This segmentation enables the display to achieve high brightness through white sub-pixels while maintaining color accuracy through RGB sub-pixels, resolving the contradiction between brightness enhancement and structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from traditional single-row RGB arrangement to a two-dimensional alternating pattern of RGB and BW rows. This dimensional change allows the display to utilize both colored and white sub-pixels in a structured manner, improving overall brightness and white balance without requiring complete structural overhaul.

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

2Illumination intensity

If more white sub-pixels are added to improve brightness, then image brightness increases, but hardware cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage brightnessVSAvoidnumber of sub-pixels
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of uniformly distributing white sub-pixels throughout the entire display, the patent applies them locally in alternating rows (second sub-pixel rows), while maintaining traditional RGB rows elsewhere. This local quality approach allows brightness enhancement in specific areas without proportionally increasing the total number of sub-pixels across the entire display, thereby controlling hardware costs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Manufacturing precision

If alternating RGB and BW sub-pixel rows are used, then image definition and white balance improve, but manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage definitionVSAvoidsub-pixel array structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs dynamic control methods where the display system adaptively switches between different sub-pixel row configurations and adjusts grayscale values based on image content requirements. This dynamic approach allows the system to optimize image definition and white balance through software control rather than requiring complex hardware modifications, thereby managing manufacturing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes parameter changes in the form of adjustable grayscale values for different sub-pixel rows. By dynamically adjusting the intensity parameters of RGB and BW sub-pixels based on image content, the system achieves improved image definition and white balance without requiring permanent structural changes, thus managing manufacturing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The solution significantly improves image brightness and white balance, reducing hardware costs and enhancing image definition and user satisfaction.

Implementation Method 1

a hole blocking layer is disposed between the hole transport layer and the light-emitting layer

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCharge carrier blocking:

Data Source

PatentEP4131455B1Display substrate, display panel and image display method
Publication Date: 2025.07.16 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a display substrate, and a method of displaying an image based on a display panel including the display substrate. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a display region of the base substrate includes a sub-pixel array, the sub-pixel array includes a plurality of first sub-pixel rows and a plurality of second sub-pixel rows, each first sub-pixel row includes a plurality of first sub-pixels, a plurality of second sub-pixels, and a plurality of third sub-pixels, each second sub-pixel row includes a plurality of fourth sub-pixels and a plurality of white sub-pixels. Each first sub-pixel, each second sub-pixel, and each third sub-pixel are configured such that white can be displayed by combining a single first sub-pixel, a single second sub-pixel, and a single third sub-pixel, and each fourth sub-pixel is selected from any one of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel. Each of the plurality of first sub-pixel rows and each of the plurality of second sub-pixel rows are arranged alternately in a column direction of the sub-pixel array to form the sub-pixel array.