Dual Gate Driving Circuit for Threshold Voltage Compensation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display apparatuses with threshold voltage compensation circuitry face challenges in reducing dead space, circuit complexity, and power consumption while maintaining image quality.
Innovation Solution
The display apparatus incorporates a dual gate driving circuit system, where the first gate driving circuit handles data signal writing during the write-period, and the second gate driving circuit manages threshold voltage compensation during the compensation period, with optimized signal intervals and stage configurations to reduce complexity and power consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If threshold voltage compensation circuitry is added to maintain image quality, then image quality is improved, but circuit complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gate driving circuit is divided into multiple independent stages, with each stage responsible for driving a specific gate line. This segmentation allows threshold voltage compensation to be implemented in a distributed manner across stages rather than requiring a complex centralized compensation circuit, thereby reducing overall circuit complexity while maintaining image quality.
Solution Approach 2:
Each gate driving stage is designed to perform multiple functions: driving the gate line, compensating for threshold voltage, and controlling pixel operations. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate dedicated compensation circuits, reducing circuit complexity while maintaining reliable image quality through integrated threshold voltage compensation capability.
2Reliability
If more gate driving stages are added to handle compensation period, then threshold voltage compensation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the threshold voltage compensation function with the gate driving function in the same circuit stages. By combining these functions rather than adding separate compensation circuitry, the patent achieves effective threshold voltage compensation without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The gate driving circuit operates in periodic cycles including write periods and compensation periods. During compensation periods, the circuit performs threshold voltage compensation operations. This periodic operation allows the same hardware to handle both driving and compensation tasks at different times, reducing the need for additional dedicated compensation stages.
3Ease of operation
If separate gate driving circuits are used for write-period and compensation period, then functional separation is improved, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gate driving circuit is designed as a universal circuit that can perform both write-period driving and compensation period operations using the same hardware resources. This multi-functionality reduces power consumption compared to having completely separate dedicated circuits for each function, while still achieving functional separation through time-multiplexed operation modes.
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AI summary
A display apparatus according to an embodiment includes a gate driving circuit configured to sequentially output gate signals during a compensation period of a frame period, in which a threshold voltage of a driving transistor is compensated, wherein a gate signal output by each of a plurality of stages is simultaneously supplied to gate lines arranged in two or more rows corresponding thereto.