US 12,236,865 B2
Method of driving display device, including charge maintenance stage
Guo Liu, Beijing (CN); Ziyang Yu, Beijing (CN); and Maoying Liao, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Sichuan (CN); and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Beijing (CN)
Appl. No. 17/775,964
Filed by Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Sichuan (CN); and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Beijing (CN)
PCT Filed Jun. 17, 2021, PCT No. PCT/CN2021/100618
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 11, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/022146, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202010744381.X (CN), filed on Jul. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0383816 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. G09G 3/3233 (2016.01); G09G 3/3291 (2016.01)
CPC G09G 3/3233 (2013.01) [G09G 3/3291 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0426 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0842 (2013.01); G09G 2310/061 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0233 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of driving a display device, wherein the display device comprises a display substrate, the display substrate comprises a plurality of rows of pixel circuits, and each pixel circuit comprises: a data writing circuit, a reset compensation circuit, a light emission control circuit and a driving transistor, wherein the reset compensation circuit and a gate of the driving transistor are connected at a first node, the reset compensation circuit and the data writing circuit are connected at a second node, and the reset compensation circuit, a second electrode of the driving transistor and the light emission control circuit are connected at a third node; the data writing circuit is connected to a gate line and a data line; the light emission control circuit is connected to a light emission control signal line and a first electrode of a light emitting device; the reset compensation circuit is connected to the gate line, a reset control signal line and a first voltage input terminal; and a first electrode of the driving transistor is connected to the first voltage input terminal;
wherein time of one frame is divided into a driving stage and a stable display stage;
in the driving stage, the rows of pixel circuits sequentially drive light emitting devices OLED connected thereto, wherein driving a light emitting device OLED connected to any one pixel circuit comprises at least a reset stage, a compensation stage and a light emission voltage generation stage, and driving a light emitting device OLED connected to each of other rows of pixel circuits except a last row of pixel circuits further comprises a charge maintenance stage performed after the light emission voltage generation stage; and
in the stable display stage, all light emitting devices OLED simultaneously emit light;
wherein in the reset stage, the third node is connected to the first electrode of the light emitting device by the light emission control circuit in response to control of a light emission control signal provided by the light emission control signal line, the first node is connected to the third node by the reset compensation circuit in response to control of a gate driving signal provided by the gate line, and the voltage at the first electrode of the light emitting device is written to the first node through the third node to reset the first node;
in the compensation stage, the third node is disconnected from the first electrode of the light emitting device by the light emission control circuit in response to control of the light emission control signal, the data voltage is written to the second node by the data writing circuit in response to control of the gate driving signal, the first node is connected to the third node by the reset compensation circuit in response to control of the gate driving signal, and the first node is charged by the first voltage input terminal through the driving transistor and the third node to acquire the threshold voltage of the driving transistor;
in the light emission voltage generation stage, a first voltage provided by the first voltage input terminal is written to the second node in response to control of the reset control signal, and the light emission voltage capable of performing threshold compensation on the driving transistor is written, according to the change of the voltage at the second node and the threshold voltage, to the first node by the reset compensation circuit;
in the charge maintenance stage, the first voltage input terminal is disconnected from the second node by the reset compensation circuit in response to control of the reset control signal; and
in the light emission stage, a corresponding driving current is generated by the driving transistor according to the light emission voltage, and the third node is connected to the first electrode of the light emitting device by the light emission control circuit in response to control of the light emission control signal to provide the driving current to the light emitting device.