Micro LED Drive Circuit Gray Scale Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Micro LED display panels face challenges in accurate gray scale control due to weakening threshold voltage compensation, leading to incomplete compensation and affected display effects.

Innovation Solution

A driving circuit with a compensation sub-circuit, gray scale control sub-circuit, and writing sub-circuit is implemented, connecting transistors and capacitors to control the current path and provide driving current, ensuring accurate voltage compensation and gray scale control by adjusting the turned-on duration of the current path.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If threshold voltage compensation is implemented in conventional driving circuits, then display uniformity is improved, but compensation becomes incomplete due to weakening effect, leading to degraded gray scale control accuracy

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegray scale control accuracyVSAvoidcompensation effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The driving circuit is segmented into multiple functional sub-circuits: a compensation sub-circuit for threshold voltage compensation, a gray scale control sub-circuit for duration control, and a writing sub-circuit for signal input. This segmentation allows each sub-circuit to specialize in one function, ensuring complete and accurate threshold voltage compensation while maintaining precise gray scale control through independent duration control of the current path.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Device complexity

If simple driving circuits are used, then device complexity is reduced, but gray scale control accuracy deteriorates due to insufficient compensation mechanisms

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecircuit structure complexityVSAvoidgray scale control accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The driving circuit integrates multiple functions into a unified structure: the compensation sub-circuit performs threshold voltage compensation, the gray scale control sub-circuit controls the turned-on duration of the current path, and the writing sub-circuit writes input signals. This multi-functional integration achieves accurate gray scale control through duration control while maintaining a relatively compact circuit structure that avoids excessive complexity.

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

3Measurement precision

If duration control of current path is implemented, then gray scale control precision is improved, but circuit complexity increases due to additional control sub-circuits

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegray scale control precisionVSAvoidcontrol circuit complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The gray scale control sub-circuit performs preliminary action by controlling the turned-on duration of the current path before the actual light emission occurs. By pre-controlling the duration for which the current flows through the light emitting element, the circuit achieves precise gray scale control without requiring complex real-time adjustment mechanisms during the light emission phase, thus balancing precision with manageable circuit complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11341919B2Drive circuit, driving method therefor, and display device
Publication Date: 2022.05.24 BEIJING BOE TECH DEV CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed are a drive circuit, a driving method therefor, and a display device. The drive circuit is configured to drive a device to be driven to work; the drive circuit and said device are connected in series between a first working voltage end (VL1) and a second working voltage end (VL2); the drive circuit is configured to control formation of a current path between the first working voltage end (VL1) and the second working voltage end (VL2); the drive circuit comprises a drive sub-circuit, a writing sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit, and a gray-scale control sub-circuit, wherein the compensation sub-circuit is separately connected to the first working voltage end (VL1), a first scan signal end (G_A), a first node (N1), and a third node (N3) and is configured to compensate for the first node (N1) under control of the first scan signal end (G_A) and the first working voltage end (VL1).