US 11,688,324 B2
Display panel and display device
Chujun Yi, Hubei (CN); and Tao Chen, Hubei (CN)
Assigned to Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan (CN)
Appl. No. 17/287,126
Filed by Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd., Hubei (CN)
PCT Filed Mar. 31, 2021, PCT No. PCT/CN2021/084611
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 21, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/188222, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 15, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202110259569.X (CN), filed on Mar. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0154374 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G09G 3/20 (2006.01); G09G 3/32 (2016.01)
CPC G09G 3/2074 (2013.01) [G09G 3/32 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0426 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0819 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0842 (2013.01); G09G 2310/0202 (2013.01); G09G 2310/0267 (2013.01); G09G 2310/0281 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display panel, comprising a functional additional area and a main display area disposed on a periphery of the functional additional area, wherein the display panel comprises:
a plurality of pixel rows comprising a plurality of composite pixel rows, wherein each of the composite pixel rows comprises a plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels disposed in the functional additional area and a plurality of main sub-pixels disposed in the main display area;
a plurality of auxiliary pixel drive circuits, wherein each of the auxiliary pixel drive circuits is connected to the plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels to correspondingly drive the plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels to emit light;
a plurality of main pixel drive circuits, wherein each of the main pixel drive circuits is connected to a corresponding main sub-pixel to drive the corresponding main sub-pixel to emit light; and
a plurality of stages of gate drive circuits connected to the plurality of auxiliary pixel drive circuits and the plurality of main pixel drive circuits through a plurality of scanning signal lines,
wherein scanning signal lines connected to the auxiliary pixel drive circuit and the main pixel drive circuit corresponding to the auxiliary sub-pixel and the main sub-pixel arranged on a same composite pixel row are different.