Display Panel Mesh Power Lines for Under-Screen Camera Light Transmittance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Display panels with under-screen cameras face low light transmittance in low Pixels Per Inch (PPI) regions, which hampers the display effect and camera performance.

Innovation Solution

The display panel design optimizes the signal lines in the low PPI region by rearranging the conductive lines of the meshed power supply line, reducing wiring and improving light transmittance by creating a more efficient layout that allows ambient light to pass through, including a structure where the first conductive line extends from the high PPI region to the low PPI region and is connected by second and third conductive lines, with these lines arranged to intersect and overlap with pixel units in a specific pattern.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a high PPI region and low PPI region are designed for under-screen camera, then the display panel can support camera imaging function, but the light transmittance in the low PPI region becomes low

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecamera imaging functionVSAvoidlight transmittance
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The display panel is divided into a first display region (high PPI) and a second display region (low PPI), with different pixel densities in different areas. This segmentation allows the low PPI region to have larger pixel spacing, which improves light transmittance while the high PPI region maintains display quality. The camera imaging function is supported by the low PPI region's optical transparency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Illumination intensity

If the pixel density in the first display region is reduced to improve light transmittance, then the light transmittance improves, but the display quality in that region deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelight transmittanceVSAvoiddisplay quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

Different regions of the display panel have different pixel densities tailored to their specific functions. The first display region (high PPI) maintains high display quality for normal viewing areas, while the second display region (low PPI) has reduced pixel density optimized for light transmittance to support the under-screen camera. This local quality differentiation resolves the contradiction between display quality and light transmittance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20240114731A1Display panel and display device
Publication Date: 2024.04.04 CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A display panel and a display device, the display panel comprising: a first display region; a second display region, at least partially positioned on one side of the first display region; a plurality of pixel units, the density of pixel units in the first display region being less than the density of pixel units in the second display region, and the pixel units comprising pixel circuits; and first power supply lines, configured to supply a first voltage signal to the pixel circuits. The first power supply lines comprise a plurality of first wires, a plurality of second wires, and a plurality of third wires, the first wires extending from the second display region to the first display region, the plurality of second wires being positioned in the first display region, positioned between adjacent first wires, and extending in a first direction, and the third wires extending along a second direction, the first direction intersecting with the second direction. The third wires extend from the second display region to the first display region, and adjacent second wires are spaced apart in the first direction. The second wires being connected to the first wires by means of the third wires.