Display device

• US 9,370,669 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2014
• Issued: 06/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Park, Won-Sang, Baek, Jong-In
• Primary Examiner(s): Bruce, David V
• Application Number:
  US14/152,118
• Publication Number:
  US 20140254139A1
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0662 Visible light
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/0618 Psychological treatment
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/08 Biomedical applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/342 using several illumination sources separately controlled corresponding to different display panel areas, e.g. along one dimension such as lines

Abstract

Embodiments provide a display device including a first pixel unit and a second pixel unit. The first pixel unit may be formed on a first display area of a substrate so as to display an image. The second pixel unit may be formed on a second display area at the outside of the first display area and emit light with a peak wavelength band of about 460 to about 470 nm.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

a first pixel unit formed on a first display area of a substrate; and

a second pixel unit formed on a second display area outside the first display area, and emitting light with a peak wavelength band of about 460 to about 470 nm, the first pixel unit including first pixels, the second pixel unit including second pixels, the first pixels being controlled by a first controller and the second pixels being controlled by a second controller.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the first pixels of the first pixel unit and the second pixels of the second pixel unit are in a same layer on the substrate.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein each of the second pixels includes a narrow-band organic light emitting element having a peak wavelength band of about 464 nm.

4. The display device of claim 3, wherein an electrode of the narrow-band organic light emitting element, through which the light emitted by the narrow-band organic light emitting element is transmitted to an exterior of the display device, has a thickness of about 190to about 210 nm.

5. The display device of claim 3, wherein an electrode of the narrow-band organic light emitting element, through which the light emitted by the narrow-band organic light emitting element is transmitted to an exterior of the display device, is made of a magnesium-silver alloy having a thickness of about 200 nm.

6. The display device of claim 1, further comprising a backlight unit having a first light source disposed in the first display area and a second light source disposed in the second display area.

7. The display device of claim 1, wherein the second pixel unit is driven at a predetermined time or user'"'"'s choice.

8. The display device of claim 1, further comprising:

an awakening mode controller configured to control driving of the second pixel unit; and

a user interface configured to receive a user'"'"'s command input.

9. A display device, comprising:

a plurality of first pixels formed on a first area of a substrate and displaying an image, each first pixel comprising a subpixel emitting a first light with a first peak wavelength band; and

a plurality of second pixels formed on a second area outside the first area, each second pixel emitting a second light with a second peak wavelength band, the second peak wavelength overlapping the first peak wavelength band and being narrower than the first peak wavelength band, the first pixels being controlled by a first controller and the second pixels being controlled by a second controller.

10. The display device of claim 9, wherein the first light is a blue light.

11. The display device of claim 9, wherein the second peak wavelength band is about 460 nm to about 470 nm.

12. The display device of claim 9, wherein

each subpixel of the first pixel comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first light emitting layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode,

each second pixel comprises a third electrode, a fourth electrode, and a second light emitting layer interposed between the third electrode and the fourth electrode, and

a thickness of one of the first electrode and the second electrode, through which the first light is transmitted to an exterior of the display device, is different from a thickness of one of the third electrode and the fourth electrode, through which the second light is transmitted to the exterior of the display device.

13. The display device of claim 12, wherein one of the third electrode and fourth electrode, through which the second light is transmitted to the exterior of the display device, has a thickness of about 190 to about 210 nm.

14. The display device of claim 9, wherein

each subpixel of the first pixel comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first light emitting layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode,

each second pixel comprises a third electrode, a fourth electrode, and a second light emitting layer interposed between the third electrode and the fourth electrode, and

a material forming one of the first electrode and the second electrode, through which the first light is transmitted to an exterior of the display device, is different from a material forming one of the third electrode and the fourth electrode, through which the second light transmits to the exterior of the display device.

15. The display device of claim 9, wherein the second pixels emit the second light for a predetermined interval of time in response to a command stored in the second controller or to a command received by the second controller via a user interface.