Tiled Display Power Voltage Compensation for Luminance Uniformity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Tiled display apparatuses experience luminance and color deviation discrepancies at panel boundaries due to varying power voltage levels, which degrade display quality.

Innovation Solution

A display apparatus comprising multiple display panels, a power voltage generator, and a driving controller that adjusts power voltages based on feedback from panels to generate compensation voltages, ensuring uniformity across panel boundaries.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Area of stationary object

If multiple display panels are tiled together to form an enlarged display apparatus, then the display area is increased, but luminance and color deviation discrepancies occur at panel boundaries due to power voltage level differences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay areaVSAvoidluminance uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by providing separate power voltage generators for each display panel, allowing independent control and adjustment of power voltage levels at each panel. This enables localized compensation at panel boundaries where luminance and color deviations occur, while maintaining the overall enlarged display area through the tiled configuration of multiple panels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Area of stationary object

If multiple display panels are tiled together to form an enlarged display apparatus, then the display area is increased, but color deviation discrepancies occur at panel boundaries due to power voltage level differences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay areaVSAvoidcolor deviation uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by providing separate power voltage generators for each display panel, allowing independent control and adjustment of power voltage levels at each panel. This enables localized compensation at panel boundaries where luminance and color deviations occur, while maintaining the overall enlarged display area through the tiled configuration of multiple panels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Manufacturing precision

If power voltage levels are adjusted to compensate for luminance and color deviations at panel boundaries, then display quality is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional control circuits

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies feedback by incorporating feedback circuits that detect power voltage levels at each display panel and provide this information to control circuits. The control circuits then adjust the power voltage generator outputs based on this feedback, enabling automatic compensation for luminance and color deviations at panel boundaries without requiring complex manual calibration systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11670217B2Display apparatus and method of driving the same
Publication Date: 2023.06.06 SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

A display apparatus includes a plurality of display panels, a power voltage generator and a driving controller. The power voltage generator generates power voltages of the plurality of display panels. The driving controller receives the power voltages from feedback points of the plurality of display panels and generates a control signal and controls levels of the power voltages based on fed-back power voltages from the feedback points of the plurality of display panels. The power voltage generator adjusts the levels of the power voltages and generates compensation power voltages based on the control signal.