Triangular RGBW Sub-pixel Lattice Homogeneous Color Mixing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional RGBW sub-pixel structures in display panels suffer from inhomogeneous color mixing due to the limited adjacency of white sub-pixels with red, green, and blue sub-pixels, leading to compromised display quality.
Innovation Solution
A pixel structure comprising reduplicated units with a central sub-pixel of a different color, such as yellow or white, arranged in a triangular shape, allowing the red, green, and blue sub-pixels to surround and be adjacent to the central sub-pixel, thereby ensuring homogeneous color mixing and increased luminance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional strip or checkerboard arrangements of RGBW sub-pixels are used, then the manufacturing process is simple, but the white sub-pixel can only be adjacent to one or two of the R, G, or B sub-pixels, causing inhomogeneous color mixing and compromised display quality
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from conventional linear strip arrangements to a two-dimensional triangular lattice arrangement. In this new dimensional configuration, each white sub-pixel is surrounded by six colored sub-pixels (R, G, B) in a hexagonal pattern, enabling the white sub-pixel to be adjacent to multiple colored sub-pixels simultaneously. This dimensional change resolves the contradiction by achieving both manufacturing simplicity through regular lattice structure and homogeneous color mixing through enhanced spatial adjacency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by creating different adjacency relationships for different sub-pixel types within the same lattice structure. Each white sub-pixel is locally surrounded by six colored sub-pixels, while each colored sub-pixel is adjacent to multiple white sub-pixels. This localized optimization of adjacency quality ensures homogeneous color mixing at each sub-pixel interface, resolving the contradiction between manufacturing simplicity and color mixing homogeneity.
2Device complexity
If the white sub-pixel is disposed between two of the R, G, and B sub-pixels in strip arrangement, then the structure is simple to manufacture, but the white sub-pixel is adjacent to only two sub-pixels, leading to inhomogeneous color mixing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent moves from one-dimensional strip arrangements to a two-dimensional triangular lattice, where each white sub-pixel is surrounded by six colored sub-pixels in a hexagonal configuration. This dimensional expansion increases the number of adjacent sub-pixels from two to six, significantly improving color mixing homogeneity and display quality while maintaining regular, manufacturable structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple adjacency relationships into a unified hexagonal lattice structure. Instead of having white sub-pixels disposed between only two colored sub-pixels, the lattice structure combines six adjacency relationships around each white sub-pixel, creating a more robust and reliable color mixing system that enhances display quality without increasing overall structural complexity.
3Illumination intensity
If conventional RGBW sub-pixel arrangements are used, then the luminance can be increased, but the power consumption remains high due to inhomogeneous color mixing requiring higher energy input
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a two-dimensional triangular lattice arrangement where each white sub-pixel is surrounded by six colored sub-pixels, creating optimal spatial distribution for light emission and color mixing. This dimensional configuration maximizes luminance efficiency by ensuring homogeneous color mixing, which reduces the energy required to achieve the same perceived brightness compared to conventional arrangements with poor color mixing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the spatial arrangement parameter from linear strips to a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice, optimizing the distance and angular relationships between sub-pixels. This parameter optimization improves color mixing efficiency and luminance output, thereby reducing the power consumption required to maintain the same display brightness level.
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AI summary
A pixel structure, a display substrate and a display device are disclosed. The pixel structure includes a plurality of reduplicated units, wherein each of the reduplicated units includes: a red sub-pixel (A1), a green sub-pixel (A2), a blue sub-pixel (A3) and a central sub-pixel (W) all in a shape of a triangle, wherein a color of the central sub-pixel (W) is different from that of any of the red sub-pixel (A1), the green sub-pixel (A2) and the blue sub-pixel (A3), and the three sides of the central sub-pixel (W) respectively coincide with one side of the red sub-pixel (A1), one side of the green sub-pixel (A2) and one side of the blue sub-pixel (A3). By designing the shape of the sub-pixel unit to be a triangle, it is possible to allow the red, green and blue sub-pixels (A1, A2, A3) surrounding the three sides of the central sub-pixel (W) and to guarantee the central sub-pixel (W) to be adjacent to the other three sub-pixels (A1, A2, A3), thus increasing the luminance while realizing homogeneous color mixing of different colors of sub-pixels, thereby improving the display quality.


