Sub-pixel arrangement structure, mask device, and display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11380236-B2
Application number	US-201916642425-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 26, 2019
Priority date	Jul 27, 2018
Publication date	Jul 5, 2022
Grant date	Jul 5, 2022

Abstract

A sub-pixel arrangement structure, a mask device, and a display device are provided. The sub-pixel arrangement structure includes: a reference sub-pixel array, a plurality of third sub-pixels, and a plurality of fourth sub-pixels. In the reference sub-pixel array, each row of sub-pixels or each column of sub-pixels includes: first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels, both of which are arranged alternately; in either or both of first and second directions of the sub-pixels in the reference sub-pixel array, one of the third sub-pixels is arranged between any two adjacent sub-pixels in the reference sub-pixel array; and one of the fourth sub-pixels is arranged among any four adjacent sub-pixels in the reference sub-pixel array, and a center of the one of the fourth sub-pixels is located between two rows of sub-pixels of the four sub-pixels arranged in two rows and two column.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sub-pixel arrangement structure, comprising: a reference sub-pixel array, a plurality of third sub-pixels, and a plurality of fourth sub-pixels, wherein
the reference sub-pixel array comprises: first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels, both of which are arranged alternately in a first direction and a second direction;
in at least one of the first and second directions, one of the third sub-pixels is arranged between one of the first sub-pixels and one of the second sub-pixels adjacent to the one of the first sub-pixels, in the reference sub-pixel array; and
one of the fourth sub-pixels is arranged among four sub-pixels arranged in two rows and two columns in the reference sub-pixel array, the four sub-pixels comprise two of the first sub-pixels and two of the second sub-pixels; and a center of the one of the fourth sub-pixels is located between two rows of sub-pixels of the four sub-pixels arranged in two rows and two columns; and
wherein orthographic projections of the first and second sub-pixels on the substrate approximately have a shape of an octagon; orthographic projections of the third sub-pixels on the substrate approximately have a shape of a rectangle; and orthographic projections of the fourth sub-pixels on the substrate approximately have a shape of a hexagon;
wherein the octagon comprises two sides having an angle of less than 3 degrees with the first direction, and two sides having an angle of less than 3 degrees with the second direction; the rectangle comprises two sides having an angle of less than 3 degrees with the first direction, and two sides having an angle of less than 3 degrees with the second direction; and the hexagon comprises two sides having an angle of less than 3 degrees with the first direction; and
wherein the fourth sub-pixels and the first sub-pixels are alternately arranged in a third direction; the fourth sub-pixels and the second sub-pixels are arranged alternately in the third direction; and the third direction is intersected with both the first and second directions;
for each type of the first and second sub-pixels, a size of the sub-pixels in the second direction is larger than the size of the sub-pixels in the first direction; and the third sub-pixels are located between adjacent first and the second sub-pixels only in the first direction;
the third sub-pixels and the fourth sub-pixels are arranged alternately in the second direction; a size of the third sub-pixels is smaller than a size of the fourth sub-pixels in the first and second directions, and the size of the fourth sub-pixels is smaller than the size of the first and second sub-pixels in the second direction;
within a circumscribed rectangular area of the four sub-pixels arranged in two rows and two columns in the reference sub-pixel array, a number of the first sub-pixels, a number of the second sub-pixels, and a number of the third sub-pixels are all two times a number of the fourth sub-pixels; centers of the four sub-pixels arranged in two rows and two columns in the reference sub-pixel array are located at four vertexes of a rectangle, and centers of all the sub-pixels in the reference sub-pixel array are located at vertexes of a plurality of rectangles arranged in a checkerboard pattern;
a ratio of a maximum spacing to a minimum spacing between two opposite sides of any two adjacent sub-pixels ranges from 0.8 to 1.2;
either of the first and second sub-pixels has a color of red, and the other has a color of blue; and the color of the third sub-pixels is a first color, and the color of the fourth sub-pixels is green; the first color comprises any one of white, yellow and cyan; the sub-pixel arrangement structure is located on the substrate; and blue sub-pixels are sub-pixels which have the largest area of the orthographic projection on the substrate in the sub-pixel arrangement structure.

2. The sub-pixel arrangement structure according to claim 1 , wherein the sub-pixel arrangement structure is located on a substrate; and orthographic projections of the sub-pixels in the sub-pixel arrangement structure on the substrate approximately have a shape of a polygon.

3. The sub-pixel arrangement structure according to claim 2 , wherein the polygon is a rounded polygon.

4. The sub-pixel arrangement structure according to claim 1 , wherein the orthographic projections of the third sub-pixels on the substrate approximately have a shape of a square.

5. The sub-pixel arrangement structure according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of spacing between any two adjacent sub-pixels in the sub-pixel arrangement structure to a target spacing ranges from 0.8 to 1.2.

6. The sub-pixel arrangement structure according to claim 1 , wherein colors of the first, second, third and fourth sub-pixels comprise: red, blue, green, and the first color.

7. The sub-pixel arrangement structure according to claim 1 , wherein the blue sub-pixels are present among the first, second, third and fourth sub-pixels.

8. A mask device for manufacturing the sub-pixel arrangement structure according to claim 1 , wherein the subpixel arrangement structure comprises: first sub-pixels, second sub-pixels, third sub-pixels and fourth sub-pixels; and
the mask device comprises at least one mask plate, wherein the at least one mask plate has openings corresponding to the respective sub-pixels of the first, second, third and fourth sub-pixels, and the openings are adapted to manufacture sub-pixels corresponding to the openings.

9. The mask device according to claim 8 , wherein the at least one mask plate comprises: four mask plates; the four mask plates are in one-to-one correspondence to the first sub-pixels, the second sub-pixels, the third sub-pixels, and the fourth sub-pixels; and each of the mask plates has openings corresponding to the sub-pixels.

10. A display device, comprising the sub-pixel arrangement structure according to claim 1 .

11. A sub-pixel arrangement structure, comprising: a reference sub-pixel array, a plurality of third sub-pixels, and a plurality of fourth sub-pixels, wherein
the reference sub-pixel array comprises: first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels, both of which are arranged alternately in a first direction and a second direction;
in the first direction, one of the third sub-pixels is arranged between one of the first sub-pixels and one of the second sub-pixels adjacent to the one of the first sub-pixels, in the reference sub-pixel array; and
one of the fourth sub-pixels is arranged among four sub-pixels arranged in two rows and two columns in the reference sub-pixel array, the four sub-pixels comprise two of the first sub-pixels and two of the second sub-pixels; and a center of the one of the fourth sub-pixels is located between two rows of sub-pixels of the four sub-pixels arranged in two rows and two columns; and
wherein a first row comprises the first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels which are arranged alternately in the second direction without any other sub-pixels, a second row comprises the plurality of third sub-pixels and the plurality of fourth sub-pixels which are arranged alternately in the second direction without any other sub-pixels, the first row and the second row are alternately arranged in the first direction,
a number of sub-pixels in the first row is smaller than a number of sub-pixels in the second row, and a size in the second direction of the sub-pixels in the first row and the second row is larger than a size in the first direction of the sub-pixels in the first row and the second row; and
each of the sub-pixels is a polygon and has an edge parallel to an adjacent subpixel, and at least some of the subpixels have a different number of edges.

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Assignees

• Chengdu Boe Optoelect Tech Co
• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Yuanqi
• Ji Fengli
• Xu Peng
• Du Sen

Classifications

• G09G3/2003 Primary

  Display of colours (specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607) · CPC title

• H10K59/351 Primary

  comprising more than three subpixels, e.g. red-green-blue-white [RGBW] · CPC title

• G09G2300/0452

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

• G02F1/134309

  characterised by their geometrical arrangement · CPC title

• H01L51/56

  Electricity · mapped topic