Organic light emitting display device and pixel sensing method of the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10896644-B2
Application number	US-201916701151-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 2, 2019
Priority date	Dec 20, 2018
Publication date	Jan 19, 2021
Grant date	Jan 19, 2021

Abstract

A display device includes a display panel, a driving circuit, a sensing circuit, and a compensation circuit. The display panel includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The driving circuit provides a preset sensing voltage to the first pixel of the display panel, and provides a dummy voltage to the second pixel of the display panel. A first channel of a sensing circuit generates a first integrated voltage signal indicative of a magnitude of a first pixel current generated by the first pixel. A second channel of the sensing circuit generates a second integrated voltage signal indicative of a magnitude of a first dummy current generated by the second pixel. The compensation circuit determines a compensation amount from a difference between an output of the first and second channels of the sensing circuit, and compensates a display voltage of the first pixel by the compensation amount.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display device comprising:
a display panel having a first pixel and a second pixel;
a driving circuit coupled to the display device, the driving circuit for providing a preset sensing voltage to the first pixel of a display panel and providing a dummy voltage to the second pixel of the display panel;
a sensing circuit coupled to the display panel, the sensing circuit for sensing a current generated by the first and second pixels of the display panel, the sensing circuit comprising:
a first channel coupled to the first pixel, the first channel generating a first integrated voltage signal indicative of a magnitude of a first pixel current generated by the first pixel in response to the sensing voltage, and
a second channel coupled to the second pixel, the second channel generating a second integrated voltage signal indicative of a magnitude of a first dummy current generated by the second pixel in response to the dummy voltage; and

a compensation circuit coupled to the display panel, the compensation circuit determining a first compensation amount from a difference between an output of the first and second channels of the sensing circuit, and compensating a display voltage of the first pixel by the determined first compensation amount in a subsequent display frame of the display device,
wherein the dummy voltage is higher than a data voltage of a black grayscale and lower than a reference voltage,
wherein the data voltage of the black grayscale is capable of turning the first and second pixels off, and
wherein the reference voltage is applied to a first amplifier included in the first channel and applied to a second amplifier included in the second channel.

2. The display device of claim 1 ,
wherein the first channel comprises:
the first amplifier having a first input terminal receiving the reference voltage and a second input terminal coupled to the first pixel for receiving the first pixel current;
a first feedback capacitor coupled between the second input terminal of the first amplifier and an output of the first amplifier; and
a first reset switch coupled between the second input terminal of the first amplifier and the output of the first amplifier in parallel with the first feedback capacitor; and

wherein the second channel comprises:
the second amplifier having a first input terminal receiving the reference voltage and a second input terminal coupled to the second pixel for receiving the first dummy current;
a second feedback capacitor coupled between the second input terminal of the second amplifier and an output of the second amplifier; and
a second reset switch coupled between the second input terminal of the second amplifier and the output of the second amplifier in parallel with the second feedback capacitor.

3. The display device of claim 2 , wherein the first reset switch is closed to initialize the output of the first amplifier to be the reference voltage, and is opened after the output of the first amplifier has been initialized, and
wherein the second reset switch is closed to initialize the output of the second amplifier to be the reference voltage, and is opened after the output of the second amplifier has been initialized.

4. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the sensing voltage is greater than the reference voltage.

5. The display device of claim 1 , wherein:
the driving circuit is further configured to provide the dummy voltage to the first pixel and provide the sensing voltage to the second pixel;
the first channel is further configured to generate a third integrated voltage signal indicative of a magnitude of a second dummy current generated by the first pixel in response to the dummy voltage;
the second channel is further configured to generate a fourth integrated voltage signal indicative of a magnitude of a second pixel current generated by the second pixel in response to the sensing voltage; and
the compensation circuit is further configured to determine a second compensation amount from a difference between an output of the first and second channels of the sensing circuit, and compensating a display voltage of the second pixel by the determined second compensation amount in subsequent display frames of the display device.

6. The display device of claim 5 , wherein the first compensation amount for the first pixel and the second compensation amount for the second pixel are determined during a first sensing period and a second sensing period, respectively.

7. The display device of claim 6 , wherein one frame period comprises a vertical active period in which a data voltage for displaying is applied to the first and second pixels, and a vertical blank period including the first and second sensing periods,
wherein the vertical blank period further comprises a transient period between the vertical active period and the first sensing period, and
wherein the driving circuit is configured to:
supply the data voltage for displaying to the first and second pixels during the vertical active period,
supply the sensing voltage to the first pixel and the dummy voltage to the second pixel during the transient period and the first sensing period, and
supply the dummy voltage to the first pixel and the sensing voltage to the second pixel during the second sensing period.

8. The display device of claim 7 , wherein the sensing circuit further comprises a sample and hold circuit performing a correlated-double-sampling of the first integrated voltage and the second integrated voltage during the first sensing period, and a correlated-double-sampling of the third integrated voltage and the fourth integrated voltage during the second sensing period.

9. The display device of claim 8 , wherein the sample and hold circuit is configured to:
remove a common noise current included in the first pixel current based on the first integrated voltage and the second integrated voltage during the first sensing period, and
remove the common noise current included in the second pixel current based on the third integrated voltage and the fourth integrated voltage during the second sensing period.

10. The display device of claim 8 , wherein the first compensation amount for the first pixel and the second compensation amount for the second pixel are determined during the vertical blank period.

11. A method for sensing pixels of display device comprising:
providing a preset sensing voltage to a first pixel of the display device;
providing a dummy voltage to a second pixel of the display device;
receiving a first pixel current in a first channel from the first pixel, the first pixel current based on the provided sensing voltage;
receiving a first dummy current in a second channel from the second pixel based on the provided dummy voltage;
generating a first integrated voltage signal indicative of a magnitude of the first pixel current in the first channel;
generating a second integrated voltage signal indicative of a magnitude of the first dummy current in the second channel;
determining a difference between the first integrated voltage signal and the second integrated voltage signal;
determining a first compensation amount from the determined difference; and
compensating a display voltage of the first pixel by the determined first compensation amount in a subsequent display frame of the display device,
wherein the dummy voltage is higher than a data voltage of a black grayscale and lower than a reference voltage,
wherein the data voltage of the black grayscale is capable of turning the first and second pixels off, and
wherein the reference voltage is applied to a first amplifier included in the first channel and applied to a se

Assignees

• Lg Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Do Osung
• Lee Changwoo

Classifications

• G09G2320/0295

  by monitoring each display pixel · CPC title

• G09G2330/028

  Generation of voltages supplied to electrode drivers in a matrix display other than LCD · CPC title

• G09G2320/0233

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

• G09G2310/0264

  Details of driving circuits · CPC title

• G09G3/3233 Primary

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