PIXEL CIRCUIT, ITS DRIVING METHOD, LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20160253541A1
• Filed: 01/06/2015
• Published: 09/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd. (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd. (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: YANG, Shengji, DONG, Xue, BAI, Feng, WANG, Haisheng, LIU, Yingming, GUO, Renwei
• Granted Patent: US 9,984,272 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1306 non-optical, e.g. ultrasonic or capacitive sensing
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0426 Layout of electrodes and connections
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0819 used for counteracting undesired variations, e.g. feedback or autozeroing
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0861 with additional control of the display period without amending the charge stored in a pixel memory, e.g. by means of additional select electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/043 Preventing or counteracting the effects of ageing
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/32 semiconductive, e.g. using light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3208 organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3233 with pixel circuitry controlling the current through the light-emitting element

Abstract

The pixel circuit includes a display driving module connected to a first scanning line, a second scanning line, a control line, a data line, a second signal source, a third signal source and an anode of an LED, and configured to, under the control of a first scanning signal, a second scanning signal and a control signal, compensate for a threshold voltage of a driving transistor using a data signal and a second signal, so that a light-emitting driving signal for the LED is irrelevant to the threshold voltage of the driving transistor; and a fingerprint identification module connected to the first scanning line, the second scanning line, a fourth signal source and a signal read line, and configured to, under the control of the first scanning signal and the second scanning signal, identify a fingerprint and detect a touch.

Claims

1. A pixel circuit, comprising a light-emitting diode (LED), a cathode of which is connected to a first signal source, wherein the pixel circuit further comprises:

a display driving module connected to a first scanning line, a second scanning line, a control line, a data line, a second signal source, a third signal source and an anode of the LED, and configured to, under the control of a first scanning signal from the first scanning line, a second scanning signal from the second scanning line and a control signal from the control line, compensate for a threshold voltage of a driving transistor using a data signal from the data line and a second signal from the second signal source, so that a light-emitting driving signal for the LED is irrelevant to the threshold voltage of the driving transistor; and

a fingerprint identification module connected to the first scanning line, the second scanning line, a fourth signal source and a signal read line, and configured to, under the control of the first scanning signal from the first scanning line and the second scanning signal from the second scanning line, identify a fingerprint and detect a touch.

2. The pixel circuit according to claim 1, wherein the display driving module comprises a first thin film transistor (TFT), a second TFT, a third TFT, a fourth TFT, a fifth TFT, a first storage capacitor, and a first driving transistor;

a first electrode of the first TFT is connected to the second signal source and a first end of the first storage capacitor, a gate electrode thereof is connected to the control line, and a second electrode thereof is connected to a first electrode of the first driving transistor;

a first electrode of the second TFT is connected to the first electrode of the first driving transistor, a gate electrode thereof is connected to the second scanning line, and a second electrode thereof is connected to a second end of the first storage capacitor;

a first electrode of the third TFT is connected to the third signal source, a gate electrode thereof is connected to the first scanning line, and a second electrode thereof is connected to the second end of the first storage capacitor;

a first electrode of the fourth TFT is connected to the data line, a gate electrode thereof is connected to the second scanning line, and a second electrode thereof is connected to a second electrode of the first driving transistor;

a first electrode of the fifth TFT is connected to the second electrode of the first driving transistor, a gate electrode thereof is connected to the control line, and a second electrode thereof is connected to the anode of the LED; and

a gate electrode of the first driving transistor is connected to the second end of the first storage capacitor.

3. The pixel circuit according to claim 1, wherein the display driving module comprises a sixth TFT, a seventh TFT, an eighth TFT, a second storage capacitor, a second driving transistor and a third driving transistor;

a first electrode of the sixth TFT is connected to the data line, a gate electrode thereof is connected to the second scanning line, and a second electrode thereof is connected to a first electrode of the second driving transistor;

a first electrode of the seventh TFT is connected to a second end of the second storage capacitor, a gate electrode thereof is connected to the first scanning line, and a second electrode thereof is connected to the third signal source;

a first electrode of the eighth TFT is connected to a second electrode of the third driving transistor, a gate electrode thereof is connected to the control line, and a second electrode thereof is connected to the anode of the LED;

a gate electrode and a second electrode of the second driving transistor are connected to the second end of the second storage capacitor; and

a first electrode of the third driving transistor is connected to a first end of the second storage capacitor and the second signal source, and a gate electrode thereof is connected to the second end of the second storage capacitor.

4. The pixel circuit according to claim 1, wherein the fingerprint identification module comprises a resetting transistor, an amplifying transistor, a switching transistor, a third storage capacitor and a detection electrode;

a first electrode of the resetting transistor is connected to the fourth signal source, a gate electrode thereof is connected to the first scanning line, and a second electrode thereof is connected to a second end of the third storage capacitor;

a first electrode of the amplifying transistor is connected to the fourth signal source, a gate electrode thereof is connected to the second end of the third storage capacitor, and a second electrode thereof is connected to a first electrode of the switching transistor;

a gate electrode of the switching electrode is connected to the second scanning line, and a second electrode thereof is connected to the signal read line;

a first end of the third storage capacitor is connected to the second scanning line; and

the detection electrode is connected to the second end of the third storage capacitor.

5. The pixel circuit according to claim 2, wherein the transistors are P-type transistors, the first electrodes are source electrodes, and the second electrodes are drain electrodes.

6. The pixel circuit according to claim 1, wherein a first signal from the first signal source is a low level signal or a zero-potential signal, the second signal from the second signal source is a high level signal, a third signal from the third signal source is a low level signal, and a fourth signal from the fourth signal source is a signal with a fixed potential.

7. The pixel circuit according to claim 1, wherein the LED is an organic light-emitting diode (OLED).

8. A method for driving the pixel circuit according to claim 1, comprising steps of:

under the control of a first scanning signal from a first scanning line, a second scanning signal from a second scanning line and a control signal from a control line, compensating for a threshold voltage of a driving transistor using a data signal from a data line and a second signal from a second signal source, so that a light-emitting driving signal for a light-emitting diode (LED) is irrelevant to the threshold voltage of the driving transistor; and

under the control of the first scanning signal from the first scanning line and the second scanning signal from the second scanning line, identifying a fingerprint and detecting a touch.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the step of, under the control of the first scanning signal from the first scanning line, the second scanning signal from the second scanning line and the control signal from the control line, compensating for the threshold voltage of the driving transistor using the data signal from the data line and the second signal from the second signal source, so that the light-emitting driving signal for the LED is irrelevant to the threshold voltage of the driving transistor comprises:

at a first stage of a time period, enabling a third TFT to be in an on state, and enabling a first thin film transistor (TFT), a second TFT, a fourth TFT and a fifth TFT to be in an off state, thereby enabling a second end of a first storage capacitor to be at a potential of a third signal from a third signal source;

at a second stage of the time period, enabling the second TFT, the fourth TFT and a first driving transistor to be in the on state, and enabling the first TFT, the third TFT and the fifth TFT to be in the off state, thereby charging, by the data signal from the data line, the second end of the first storage capacitor to be at a potential equal to a difference between a potential of the data signal and a threshold voltage of the first driving transistor; and

at a third stage of the time period, enabling the first TFT and the fifth TFT to be in the on state, and enabling the second TFT, the third TFT and the fourth TFT to be in the off state, thereby determining the light-emitting driving signal for the LED based on the data signal and the second signal, and driving the LED to emit light using the light-emitting driving signal.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the step of, under the control of the first scanning signal from the first scanning line, the second scanning signal from the second scanning line and the control signal from the control line, compensating for the threshold voltage of the driving transistor using the data signal from the data line and the second signal from the second signal source, so that the light-emitting driving signal for the LED is irrelevant to the threshold voltage of the driving transistor comprises:

at the first stage of the time period, enabling a seventh TFT to be in the on state, and enabling the sixth TFT and the eighth TFT to be in the off state, thereby enabling a second end of a second storage capacitor to be at the potential of the third signal from the third signal source;

at the second stage of the time period, enabling the sixth TFT and a second driving transistor to be in the on state, and enabling the seventh TFT and the eighth TFT to be in the off state, thereby charging, by the data signal from the data line, the second end of the second storage capacitor to be at a potential equal to a difference between the potential of the data signal and a threshold voltage of the second driving transistor; and

at the third stage of the time period, enabling the eighth TFT to be in the on state, and enabling the sixth TFT and the seventh TFT to be in the off state, thereby determining the light-emitting driving signal for the LED based on the data signal and the second signal, and driving the LED to emit light using the light-emitting driving signal.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the step of, under the control of the first scanning signal from the first scanning line and the second scanning signal from the second scanning line, identifying the fingerprint and detecting the touch comprises:

at the first stage of the time period, enabling a resetting transistor to be in the on state, and enabling a switching transistor to be in the off state, thereby enabling a second end of a third storage capacitor to be at a potential of a fourth signal from a fourth signal source;

at the second stage of the time period, enabling the resetting transistor to be in the off state, enabling the switching transistor to be in the on state, enabling an amplifying transistor to be in the on or off state based on the potential at the second end of the third storage capacitor, thereby enabling a signal read line to transmit a signal corresponding to the state of the amplifying transistor, and enabling a processor connected to the signal read line to identify the fingerprint based on the signal from the signal read line; and

at the third stage of the time period, enabling the resetting transistor, the switching transistor and the amplifying transistor to be in the off state.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising, at the second stage, a step of:

determining information about a position for a fingerprint identification operation based on information about the second scanning line and the signal read line.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein at the first stage, the first scanning signal is a low level signal, the second scanning signal is a high level signal, the control signal is a high level signal, and the data signal is a low level signal or a high level signal;

at the second stage, the first scanning signal is a high level signal, a second scanning signal is a low level signal, the control signal is a high level signal, and the data signal is a high level signal; and

at the third stage, the first scanning signal is a high level signal, the second scanning signal is a high level signal, the control signal is a low level signal, and the data signal is a low level signal.

14. A light-emitting diode (LED) display panel, comprising the pixel circuit according to claim 1.

15. A display device, comprising the LED display panel according to claim 14.

16. The pixel circuit according to claim 2, wherein a first signal from the first signal source is a low level signal or a zero-potential signal, the second signal from the second signal source is a high level signal, a third signal from the third signal source is a low level signal, and a fourth signal from the fourth signal source is a signal with a fixed potential.

17. The pixel circuit according to claim 3, wherein a first signal from the first signal source is a low level signal or a zero-potential signal, the second signal from the second signal source is a high level signal, a third signal from the third signal source is a low level signal, and a fourth signal from the fourth signal source is a signal with a fixed potential.

18. The pixel circuit according to claim 4, wherein a first signal from the first signal source is a low level signal or a zero-potential signal, the second signal from the second signal source is a high level signal, a third signal from the third signal source is a low level signal, and a fourth signal from the fourth signal source is a signal with a fixed potential.

19. The method according to claim 10, wherein at the first stage, the first scanning signal is a low level signal, the second scanning signal is a high level signal, the control signal is a high level signal, and the data signal is a low level signal or a high level signal;

at the second stage, the first scanning signal is a high level signal, a second scanning signal is a low level signal, the control signal is a high level signal, and the data signal is a high level signal; and

at the third stage, the first scanning signal is a high level signal, the second scanning signal is a high level signal, the control signal is a low level signal, and the data signal is a low level signal.

20. The method according to claim 11, wherein at the first stage, the first scanning signal is a low level signal, the second scanning signal is a high level signal, the control signal is a high level signal, and the data signal is a low level signal or a high level signal;

at the second stage, the first scanning signal is a high level signal, a second scanning signal is a low level signal, the control signal is a high level signal, and the data signal is a high level signal; and

at the third stage, the first scanning signal is a high level signal, the second scanning signal is a high level signal, the control signal is a low level signal, and the data signal is a low level signal.