Display device having a sparkling effect and method for driving the same

1. Display device ( 6 ; 6 ′) comprising:

a display ( 2 ) having a plurality of display pixels ( 3 ; 3 ′) with light emitting elements (LED) and at least a first drive element (T 1 ) and a second drive element (T 2 ) for driving said light emitting elements (LED) in accordance with an analogue data signal, representing at least one frame in a range from low to high overall light emission states for said display ( 2 ), and

a display controller ( 10 ) having a data input ( 9 ) for said analogue data signal, a sensing unit ( 16 ) adapted to evaluate the overall light emission state of said frame and an output ( 13 ) for generating at least one sparkling signal for one or more display pixels ( 3 ; 3 ′) having a high light emission state ( 18 ) exceeding a sensed low overall light emission state of said frame,

wherein said display controller ( 10 ) is arranged to individually control said first drive element (T 1 ) and said second drive element (T 2 ) by said sparkling signal such that said one or more display pixels ( 3 ; 3 ′) having said high light emission state are driven by at least one of said drive elements (T 1 ,T 2 ) in a sparkling light emission state ( 18 ′; 18 ″) exceeding said high light emission state ( 18 ).

2. Display device ( 6 ′) according to claim 1 , wherein said display pixels ( 3 ′) comprise selection means (S 1 , S 2 ) arranged to receive said sparkling signal and said display controller ( 10 ) is arranged to control said drive elements (T 1 , T 2 ) via said selection means (S 1 , S 2 ) by said sparkling signal in order to select both said first drive element (T 1 ) and said second drive element (T 2 ) to obtain said sparkling light emission state ( 18 ″).

3. Display device ( 6 ) according to claim 1 , wherein said first drive element (T 1 ) is connected to a first power line ( 15 ) for driving said light emitting elements (LED) in a first drive range ( 17 ), providing a low light emission state, and said second drive element (T 2 ) is connected to a second power line ( 15 ′) for driving said light emitting element (LED) in a second drive range ( 18 ), providing said high light emission state.

4. Display device ( 6 ) according to claim 3 , wherein said display pixels ( 3 ) comprise selection means (S 1 ,S 2 ) arranged for receiving said sparkling signal and selecting said second drive element (T 2 ) and said display controller ( 10 ) is arranged to increase the power of said second power line ( 15 ′) to modify said second drive range ( 18 ), providing said high light emission state, to said sparkling light emission state ( 18 ′).

5. Display device ( 6 ) according to claim 1 , wherein said first drive element (T 1 ) is adapted to drive said light emitting element (LED) in a first drive range ( 17 ) and said second drive element (T 2 ) is adapted to drive said light emitting elements (LED) in a second drive range ( 18 ) in accordance with said analogue data signal and said display controller ( 10 ) is adapted to redistribute said analogue data signal over said first drive range ( 17 ; 17 a ) and said second drive range ( 18 ′; 18 a ′) for said one or more display pixels ( 3 ) having a high light emission state when said sparkling signal is output.

6. Display device ( 6 ′) according to claim 1 , wherein said display controller ( 10 ) is adapted to transfer a part of said analogue data signal intended for said second drive element (T 2 ) to said first drive element (T 1 ) when outputting said sparkling signal and said first drive element (T 1 ) is adapted to process said part of said analogue data signal.

7. Display device ( 6 ; 6 ′) according to claim 1 , wherein said drive elements (T 1 ,T 2 ) comprise transistors having different transistor characteristics, such as transistor channel dimensions (W.sub. 1 ;W.sub. 2 ) and/or threshold voltages (V T ) and/or carrier mobilities (μ).

8. Display device ( 6 ; 6 ′) according to claim 1 , wherein said light emitting elements (LED) are light emitting diodes.

9. Electric device ( 1 ) comprising a display device ( 6 ; 6 ′) according to claim 1 .

10. Method for driving a display device ( 6 ; 6 ′) having a display controller ( 10 ) and a display ( 2 ) with a plurality of display pixels ( 3 ; 3 ′) with light emitting elements (LED) and at least a first drive element (T 1 ) and a second drive element (T 2 ) for driving said light emitting elements (LED) in accordance with an analogue data signal, representing at least one frame in a range from low to high overall light emission states for said display ( 2 ), comprising the steps of:

sensing said analogue data signal to evaluate the overall light emission state of said frame;

generating at least one sparkling signal for one or more display pixels ( 3 ; 3 ′) having a high light emission state ( 18 ) exceeding a sensed low overall light emission state of said frame, such that said first drive element (T 1 ) and said second drive element (T 2 ) are individually controlled by said sparkling signal to drive said one or more display pixels ( 3 ; 3 ′) having said high light emission state ( 18 ) by at least one of said drive elements (T 1 ,T 2 ) in a sparkling light emission state ( 18 ′; 18 ″) exceeding said high light emission state ( 18 ).