Organic light emitting display device, driving method thereof and display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10176742-B2
Application number	US-201514772234-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 12, 2015
Priority date	Sep 19, 2014
Publication date	Jan 8, 2019
Grant date	Jan 8, 2019

Abstract

There are provided an organic light emitting display device, a driving method thereof and a display apparatus. The organic light emitting display device includes an underlay substrate, and organic light emitting pixel units arranged in a matrix on the underlay substrate; wherein the respective organic light emitting units comprise at least two organic light emitting structures which have different light emitting colors, are disposed in cascades and insulated from each other, and a pixel circuit connected corresponding to the organic light emitting structures and configured to drive the organic light emitting structures to emit light. Since the respective organic light emitting pixel units comprise at least two organic light emitting structures which have different light emitting colors, are disposed in cascades, and are insulated from each other, when displaying, each organic light emitting pixel unit can display, in different frame pictures, grey scale effects of at least two colors according to applied signals. The display effect can be raised because each organic light emitting pixel unit can display more colors.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light emitting display device, comprising an underlay substrate, and organic light emitting pixel units arranged in a matrix on the underlay substrate;
wherein each organic light emitting pixel unit comprises
at least two organic light emitting structures which have different light emitting colors, wherein the at least two organic light emitting structures are disposed in different layers on the underlay substrate, and are insulated from each other, wherein only a single light emitting color is found in each of the different layers, and
a pixel circuit connected corresponding to the organic light emitting structures and configured to drive the organic light emitting structures to emit light;
wherein the pixel circuit comprises a driving transistor, a first switching transistor, and a capacitor,
a source of the first switching transistor is connected to a reference voltage terminal, a drain thereof is connected to a gate of the driving transistor, and a gate thereof is connected to a first control signal;
a first terminal of the capacitor is connected to the reference voltage terminal without intervention of any transistor and a second terminal of the capacitor is connected to the gate of the driving transistor, wherein the reference voltage terminal is grounded,
wherein the pixel circuit further comprises: a second switching transistor, a third switching transistor, a fourth switching transistor, and a fifth switching transistor,
a gate of the second switching transistor is configured to receive a first scan signal, a drain thereof is connected to a source of the driving transistor, and a source is configured to receive a data voltage signal;
a gate of the third switching transistor is configured to receive a second scan signal, a source thereof is connected to a drain of the driving transistor, and a drain thereof is connected to a corresponding organic light emitting structure;
a source of the fourth switching transistor is connected to the gate of the driving transistor, a drain thereof is connected to the drain of the driving transistor, and a gate thereof is configured to receive the first scan signal; and
a gate of the fifth switching transistor is configured to receive the second scan signal, a source thereof is connected to a power supply voltage, and a drain thereof is connected to the source of the driving transistor.

2. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 1 , further comprising: data lines corresponding to organic light emitting pixel units in respective columns or organic light emitting pixel units in respective rows, wherein a number of the data lines is the same as that of the organic light emitting structures in the organic light emitting pixel unit;
the respective organic light emitting structures in a same organic light emitting pixel unit are connected to a corresponding pixel circuit through a corresponding selecting switch respectively;
data lines corresponding to the same organic light emitting pixel unit are connected to different pixel circuits in the organic light emitting pixel unit respectively; and
respective selecting switches receive corresponding control signals for controlling turn-on or turn-off of the selecting switches respectively.

3. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 1 , wherein the respective organic light emitting structures in the same organic light emitting pixel unit are connected to a same pixel circuit through a corresponding selecting switch respectively; and
the respective selecting switches receive corresponding control signals for controlling turn-on or turn-off of the respective selecting switches respectively.

4. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 3 , wherein the respective selecting switches are switching transistors;
gates of the switching transistors receive the corresponding control signals, sources thereof are connected to a corresponding pixel circuit, and drains thereof are connected to a corresponding organic light emitting structure.

5. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 1 , wherein the respective organic light emitting pixel units comprise three organic light emitting structures; and the three organic light emitting structures emit a red light, a green light and a blue light respectively.

6. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 5 , wherein a cascaded sequence of the organic light emitting structures having different light emitting colors in the respective organic light emitting pixel units is the same.

7. The organic light emitting display device according to of claim 1 , wherein the number of the organic light emitting structures in the respective organic light emitting pixel units is the same.

8. A driving method of an organic light emitting display device according to claim 1 , comprising:
receiving a video signal of an image; and
determining, according to a color of an image corresponding to a video signal of a current frame image at positions of respective organic light emitting pixel units in the organic light emitting display device, that an organic light emitting structure displaying a corresponding color light in an organic light emitting pixel unit at a corresponding position emits light.

9. A display apparatus, comprising the organic light emitting display device according to claim 1 .

10. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 5 , further comprising: data lines corresponding to organic light emitting pixel units in respective columns or organic light emitting pixel units in respective rows, wherein a number of the data lines is the same as that of the organic light emitting structures in the organic light emitting pixel unit;
the respective organic light emitting structures in a same organic light emitting pixel unit are connected to a corresponding pixel circuit through a corresponding selecting switch respectively;
data lines corresponding to the same organic light emitting pixel unit are connected to different pixel circuits in the organic light emitting pixel unit respectively; and
respective selecting switches receive corresponding control signals for controlling turn-on or turn-off of the selecting switches respectively.

11. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 5 , wherein the respective organic light emitting structures in the same organic light emitting pixel unit are connected to a same pixel circuit through a corresponding selecting switch respectively; and
the respective selecting switches receive corresponding control signals for controlling turn-on or turn-off of the respective selecting switches respectively.

12. The organic light emitting display device according to claim 11 , wherein the respective selecting switches are switching transistors;
gates of the switching transistors receive the corresponding control signals, sources thereof are connected to a corresponding pixel circuit, and drains thereof are connected to a corresponding organic light emitting structure.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 9 , further comprising: data lines corresponding to organic light emitting pixel units in respective columns or organic light emitting pixel units in respective rows, wherein a number of the data lines is the same as that of the organic light emitting structures in the organic light emitting pixel unit;
the respective organic light emitting structures in a same organic light emitting pixel unit are connected to a corresponding pixel circuit through a corresponding selecting switch respectively;
data lines corresponding to the same orga

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd
• Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Shengji
• Dong Xue
• Xue Hailin
• Wang Haisheng
• Liu Hongjuan
• Liu Yingming
• Ding Xiaoliang
• Zhao Weijie
• Li Changfeng
• Liu Wei

Classifications

• G09G3/2074

  using sub-pixels · CPC title

• H01L27/32

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G09G2320/0233

  Improving the luminance or brightness uniformity across the screen · CPC title

• G09G3/3233 Primary

  with pixel circuitry controlling the current through the light-emitting element · CPC title

• G09G2300/0452

  Details of colour pixel setup, e.g. pixel composed of a red, a blue and two green components · CPC title