Display Panel Gray-Scale Voltage Segmentation for Mura Compensation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Display panels, particularly OLED and LED panels, suffer from non-uniformity and stability issues due to inconsistent brightness and chroma, leading to a 'mura' effect, which existing compensation methods fail to address effectively while minimizing hardware storage requirements.

Innovation Solution

A method for driving a display panel by inputting data voltage groups with varying standard deviations to different gray scale segments, optimizing optical compensation parameters to enhance uniformity without excessive hardware storage, and utilizing gaze tracking for targeted compensation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If optical compensation is applied to the entire display panel using uniform data voltages, then the hardware storage requirement is reduced, but the display uniformity deteriorates due to the mura effect

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehardware storage requirementVSAvoiddisplay uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display panel is divided into multiple gray scale segments (first gray scale segment and second gray scale segment), and each segment is driven by a separate data voltage group with different standard deviations. This segmentation allows differential compensation for different gray scale regions, improving display uniformity while maintaining reasonable hardware storage requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different data voltage groups with different standard deviations are applied to different gray scale segments based on their specific characteristics. The first data voltage group with larger standard deviation is applied to the first gray scale segment, while the second data voltage group with smaller standard deviation is applied to the second gray scale segment, achieving localized optimization of display uniformity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Manufacturing precision

If different data voltage groups with varying standard deviations are applied to different gray scale segments, then display uniformity is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay uniformityVSAvoiddriving circuit complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The gray scale range is segmented into multiple segments, each handled by dedicated driving circuits that generate appropriate data voltage groups. This segmentation allows complex voltage generation to be distributed across multiple simple modular circuits rather than requiring one complex centralized circuit.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The driving circuit dynamically selects and switches between different data voltage groups based on the current gray scale segment being displayed. This dynamic switching allows the circuit to maintain simplicity at any given moment while achieving complex overall functionality through temporal variation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12536942B2Display panel, driving method thereof, device, and computer readable storage medium
Publication Date: 2026.01.27 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

A display panel and driving method thereof, device, and computer-readable storage medium. The display panel includes a first region including a first sub-pixel displaying a first color, the first color includes a first gray scale segment and a second gray scale segment. The method includes: inputting a first data voltage group to a first sub-pixel corresponding to the first gray scale segment in the first region; inputting a second data voltage group to a first sub-pixel corresponding to the second gray scale segment in the first region; first data voltage group includes multiple first data voltages, input gray scales corresponding to which are same, the second data voltage group includes multiple second data voltages, input gray scales corresponding to which are same, a first data voltage standard deviation of the first data voltage group is larger than a second data voltage standard deviation of the second data voltage group.