IP Library Granted Patent US 12694843
Granted Patent B2
US 12694843 · App. 19/074,921 · Granted Jul 28, 2026

Electrophoretic display panel and display device

Inventors: Wanlong Guo (Shanghai, CN); Tian Xia (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
G09G3/344G09G3/2014G09G2310/065G09G2310/068G09G2320/0233G09G2320/064
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Patent No.
US 12694843
App. No.
19/074,921
Granted
Jul 28, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electrophoretic display panel includes a first substrate, electrophoretic particles, a scan line, a data line, and a pixel. The scan line, the data line, and the pixel are located on the same side of the first substrate facing the electrophoretic particles. The scan line is configured to transmit a scan signal to the pixel. The data line is configured to transmit a data signal to the pixel, and a data signal includes multiple unit periods. In a write state in a drive stage of the electrophoretic display panel, the data signal includes a drive signal and at least one adjustment signal inserted into the drive signal and configured to divide the drive signal into at least two drive sub-signals, and a voltage of a drive sub-signal of the at least two drive sub-signal is different from a voltage of an adjustment signal in a unit period.

Claims (46)

1 . An electrophoretic display panel, comprising:

a first substrate and electrophoretic particles; and

a scan line, a data line, and a pixel located on a side of the first substrate facing the electrophoretic particles, the scan line configured to transmit a scan signal to the pixel, the data line configured to transmit a data signal to the pixel, and the data signal comprising a plurality of unit periods, wherein,

in a write stage comprised in a drive stage of the electrophoretic display panel, the data signal comprises a drive signal and at least one adjustment signal inserted into the drive signal and configured to divide the drive signal into at least two drive sub-signals,

wherein a drive sub-signal of the at least two drive sub-signals maintains a constant voltage during a duration;

an interval between a start time of a first drive sub-signal of the at least two drive sub-signals and a start time of the at least one adjustment signal is greater than an interval between an end time of the at least one adjustment signal and an end time of a last drive sub-signal of the at least two drive sub-signals; and

wherein the at least one adjustment signal comprises at least one unit period; and a voltage of a drive sub-signal of the at least two drive sub-signals is different from a voltage of the at least one adjustment signal during a duration in at least one unit period.

2 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 1 , wherein in the write stage, a difference between brightness of the pixel driven by the data signal and brightness of the pixel driven by the drive signal is a brightness difference, and the brightness difference is less than a brightness change value of the pixel driven by the drive signal in a unit period of the plurality of unit periods.

3 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 1 , wherein one adjustment signal is provided, and the interval between the start time of the at least one adjustment signal and the start time of the first drive sub-signal is greater than or equal to half of an interval between the start time of the first drive sub-signal and the end time of the last drive sub-signal.

4 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 1 , wherein the last drive sub-signal of the at least two drive sub-signals comprises one of the plurality of unit periods.

5 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of adjustment signals are provided and comprise a first adjustment signal and a second adjustment signal following the first adjustment signal; and

at least one of the at least two drive sub-signals exists between the first adjustment signal and the second adjustment signal.

6 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 5 , wherein a duration of the second adjustment signal is less than an interval between an end time of the first adjustment signal and a start time of the second adjustment signal.

7 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 6 , wherein the interval between the end time of the first adjustment signal and the start time of the second adjustment signal is greater than or equal to half of an interval between a start time of the drive signal and an end time of the drive signal.

8 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 5 , wherein,

a duration of the first adjustment signal is less than an interval between an end time of the first adjustment signal and a start time of the second adjustment signal; or

a duration of the first adjustment signal is less than an interval between a start time of the first adjustment signal and a start time of the drive signal; or

a duration of the first adjustment signal is equal to a duration of the second adjustment signal.

9 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 5 , wherein a plurality of drive sub-signals are provided and comprise the first drive sub-signal, a second drive sub-signal, and a third drive sub-signal that are arranged sequentially; the first adjustment signal is arranged between the first drive sub-signal and the second drive sub-signal, and the second adjustment signal is arranged between the second drive sub-signal and the third drive sub-signal; and

the first drive sub-signal, the second drive sub-signal, and the third drive sub-signal have a same voltage polarity.

10 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 5 , wherein a plurality of drive sub-signals are provided and comprise the first drive sub-signal, a second drive sub-signal, and a third drive sub-signal that are arranged sequentially; the first adjustment signal is arranged between the first drive sub-signal and the second drive sub-signal, and the second adjustment signal is arranged between the second drive sub-signal and the third drive sub-signal; and

the first drive sub-signal, the second drive sub-signal, and the third drive sub-signal comprise two voltage polarities.

11 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 1 , wherein,

a total duration of the at least one adjustment signal inserted into the drive signal is less than or equal to five of the plurality of unit periods; or

in the write stage, different data signals are written into at least two pixels.

12 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 1 , wherein the data signal comprises a data enable level and a data disable level; and

the at least one adjustment signal comprises a zero insertion signal comprising a data disable level in a unit period of the plurality of unit periods; and/or

the at least one adjustment signal comprises a pulse pair comprising a positive pulse and a negative pulse, wherein the positive pulse is a data enable level with a positive voltage, the negative pulse is a data enable level with a negative voltage, and an absolute value of the data enable level with the positive voltage is equal to an absolute value of the data enable level with the negative voltage.

13 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 12 , wherein in response to the at least one adjustment signal comprising a plurality of pulse pairs,

the at least one adjustment signal comprises a positive pulse, a negative pulse, a positive pulse, and a negative pulse arranged sequentially; or

the at least one adjustment signal comprises a negative pulse, a positive pulse, a positive pulse, and a negative pulse arranged sequentially.

14 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 12 , wherein in response to the at least one adjustment signal comprising the zero insertion signal and the pulse pair,

the pulse pair is adjacent to the zero insertion signal and precedes the zero insertion signal.

15 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 12 , wherein in response to the at least one adjustment signal comprising the zero insertion signal and the pulse pair,

the pulse pair is adjacent to the zero insertion signal and follows the pulse pair.

16 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 1 , wherein the data signal comprises a data enable level and a data disable level; and

the data enable level comprises a first data enable level and a second data enable level, and an absolute value of the first data enable level is not equal to an absolute value of the second data enable level.

17 . The electrophoretic display panel of claim 1 , wherein a blackening response duration of the electrophoretic display panel is not equal to a whitening response duration of the electrophoretic display panel,

wherein the blackening response duration refers to a duration required to drive the pixel from 90% to 10% of a maximum brightness of the pixel, and the whitening response duration refers to a duration required to drive the pixel from 10% to 90% of the maximum brightness.

18 . A display device, comprising an electrophoretic display panel comprising:

a first substrate and electrophoretic particles; and

a scan line, a data line, and a pixel located on a side of the first substrate facing the electrophoretic particles, the scan line configured to transmit a scan signal to the pixel, the data line configured to transmit a data signal to the pixel, and the data signal comprising a plurality of unit periods, wherein,

in a write stage comprised in a drive stage of the electrophoretic display panel, the data signal comprises a drive signal and at least one adjustment signal inserted into the drive signal and configured to divide the drive signal into at least two drive sub-signals,

wherein a drive sub-signal of the at least two drive sub-signals maintains a constant voltage during a duration;

an interval between a start time of a first drive sub-signal of the at least two drive sub-signals and a start time of the at least one adjustment signal is greater than an interval between an end time of the at least one adjustment signal and an end time of a last drive sub-signal of the at least two drive sub-signals; and

wherein the at least one adjustment signal comprises at least one unit period; and a voltage of a drive sub-signal of the at least two drive sub-signals is different from a voltage of the at least one adjustment signal during a duration in at least one unit period.