Display apparatus and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12433096-B2
Application number	US-202218282164-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 17, 2022
Priority date	Mar 25, 2021
Publication date	Sep 30, 2025
Grant date	Sep 30, 2025

Abstract

A display apparatus with a novel structure is provided. The display apparatus includes a first layer and a second layer positioned above the first layer. The first layer includes a driver circuit region, and the second layer includes a pixel array. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixel regions. The driver circuit region includes a control circuit unit and a plurality of local driver circuits. One of the plurality of local driver circuits corresponds to any one of the plurality of pixel regions. The local driver circuit has a function of outputting a driving signal for driving a plurality of pixels included in the corresponding pixel region. The control circuit unit has a function of comparing definition data of an input image signal and aspect ratio data of the pixel array to determine a first region where display is performed and a second region where display is not performed, and outputting, to the local driver circuit corresponding to the second region, a control signal for stopping output of the driving signal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A display apparatus comprising:
a first layer; and
a second layer over the first layer,
wherein the first layer comprises a driver circuit region,
wherein the second layer comprises a pixel array,
wherein the pixel array comprises a plurality of pixel regions,
wherein the plurality of pixel regions comprises a first pixel region and a second pixel region,
wherein the driver circuit region comprises a control circuit and a plurality of local driver circuits,
wherein the plurality of local driver circuits comprises a first local driver circuit and a second local driver circuit, the first local driver circuit comprising a first source driver circuit and a first gate driver circuit and the second local driver circuit comprising a second source driver circuit and a second gate driver circuit,
wherein each of the plurality of local driver circuits corresponds to any one of the plurality of pixel regions,
wherein the first local driver circuit corresponds to the first pixel region,
wherein the second local driver circuit corresponds to the second pixel region,
wherein each of the plurality of local driver circuits is configured to output a driving signal for driving a plurality of pixels included in corresponding one of the plurality of pixel regions,
wherein the control circuit is configured to determine a first region to be displayed and a second region not to be displayed by comparing an aspect ratio of an input image with an aspect ratio of the pixel array,
wherein, for a first image, the control circuit is configured to assign both of the first pixel region and the second pixel region to at least a part of the first region,
wherein, for the first image, the control circuit is configured to output a first control signal for driving the first pixel region to the first local driver circuit, and to output a second control signal for driving the second pixel region to the second local driver circuit,
wherein, for a second image, the control circuit is configured to assign the first pixel region to at least a part of the first region, and to assign the second pixel region to at least a part of the second region, and
wherein, for the second image, the control circuit is configured to output a third control signal for driving the first pixel region to the first local driver circuit, and to output a fourth control signal for stopping supply of a power source voltage of the second local driver circuit to the second local driver circuit.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein in a top view, the driver circuit region is inside the pixel array, and
wherein a part of the plurality of pixel regions does not overlap with the driver circuit region.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein each of the plurality of pixel regions comprises a plurality of wirings, and
wherein in the plurality of pixel regions:
the plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix;
the plurality of wirings are in the respective rows of the plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix;
one of the plurality of wirings is electrically connected to pixels in the same row as the one of the plurality of wirings;
each of the plurality of wirings comprises a contact portion; and
each of the contact portions is inside each pixel or between adjacent pixels.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein each pixel included in the plurality of pixel regions comprises a first transistor and a light-emitting device using organic electroluminescence,
wherein each of the control circuit and the plurality of local driver circuits comprises a second transistor,
wherein the first transistor comprises a metal oxide in a channel formation region, and wherein the second transistor comprises silicon in a channel formation region.

5. An electronic device comprising:
the display apparatus according to claim 1 ; and
a housing.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first pixel region comprises the largest number of pixels in the plurality of pixel regions,
wherein an aspect ratio of the first pixel region is configured to correspond to an aspect ratio of the input image, and
wherein the aspect ratio of the first pixel region is different from an aspect ratio of the second pixel region.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first pixel region comprises the largest number of pixels in the plurality of pixel regions,
wherein an aspect ratio of the first region is configured to correspond to an aspect ratio of the input image, and
wherein the aspect ratio of the first pixel region is different from an aspect ratio of the second pixel region.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second control signal is configured to bring the second local driver circuit into a stand-by state for the second image.

Assignees

• Semiconductor Energy Lab

Inventors

• Ito Minato
• Matsuzaki Takanori
• Kozuma Munehiro
• Okamoto Yuki
• Koumura Yusuke

Classifications

• H10K59/8722

  Peripheral sealing arrangements, e.g. adhesives, sealants · CPC title

• H10K59/871

  Self-supporting sealing arrangements · CPC title

• H10K50/00

  Organic light-emitting devices (integrated devices or assemblies of multiple devices H10K59/00, H10K65/00; organic semiconductor lasers H01S5/36) · CPC title

• G09G2340/0442

  Handling or displaying different aspect ratios, or changing the aspect ratio · CPC title

• G09G2330/021

  Power management, e.g. power saving · CPC title