IP Library Granted Patent US 8,462,087
Granted Patent B2
US 8,462,087 · App. 11/880,734 · Granted Jun 11, 2013

Organic light emitting diode display

Inventors: Hong Koo Lee (Incheon, KR); Sang Hoon Jung (Gyeonggi-do, KR)
Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,462,087
App. No.
11/880,734
Granted
Jun 11, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

An organic light emitting diode display device and the driving method thereof that is adaptive for increasing display quality. The organic light emitting diode display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel where pixels having an organic light emitting diode device are arranged in a matrix type and a data driver that supplies a data voltage and an inverted voltage to the pixels, where the inverted voltage is symmetric to the data voltage relative to a reference voltage.

Claims (23)

1. An organic light emitting diode display device comprising:

a display panel where pixels having an organic light emitting diode device is arranged in a matrix;

a data driver that supplies any one of a data voltage and an inverted voltage of the data voltage to any one pixel of two pixels adjacent in a vertical and horizontal directions and supplies another one of the data voltage and the inverted voltage to another pixel of the two pixels for a first half frame period of one frame period, and supplies the another one of the data voltage and the inverted voltage to the another one pixel of the two pixels and supplies the any one of the data voltage and the inverted voltage to the any one pixel of two pixels for a second half frame period of the one frame period, wherein the inverted voltage is symmetric to the data voltage relative to a reference voltage;

a scan driver that sequentially supplies scan signals to scan lines for the first half frame period of the one frame period, and sequentially supplies the scan signals to the scan lines for the second half frame period of the one frame period, wherein a same scan signal is supplied to each of the scan lines twice during the first and second half frame periods of the one frame period;

a drive device that drives the organic light emitting diode device using the data voltage and the inverted voltage;

a high level voltage source that supplies a high level power supply voltage to the drive device;

a low level voltage source that supplies a low level power supply voltage to a cathode electrode of the organic light emitting diode;

a switch device that alternately supplies the data voltage and the inverted voltage from data lines to a gate electrode of the drive device in response to the scan signal from the scan line;

a p-decoder configured to convert digital video data into voltages of a first polarity;

an n-decoder configured to convert the digital video data into voltages of a second polarity;

multiplexers configured to alternately output the voltages of the first polarity and the voltages of the second polarity by a ½ frame period unit of the one frame period in response to a polarity control signal; and

an inverter connected to an input terminal of even numbered multiplexer of the multiplexers,

wherein the reference voltage comprises a positive voltage larger than 0V.

2. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 1 , wherein the reference voltage and the high level power supply voltage comprises substantially the same voltage.

3. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 1 , wherein the drive device and the switch device are comprises n-type transistors.

4. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 1 , wherein the drive device and the switch device comprise a p-type transistors.

5. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 1 , wherein the drive device and the switch device comprise transistors having different conductivity.

6. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 1 , wherein the data voltage and the inverted voltage, which are supplied to the adjacent pixels, are inverted by a ½ frame period unit of the one frame period.

7. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 1 , wherein the polarity control signal indicates a polarity of the voltage of first polarity and a polarity of the voltage of second polarity, and a logical value thereof is inverted by a horizontal period and a vertical period.

8. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a timing controller configured to supply the digital video data to the data driver and to control an operation timing of the scan driver and the data driver.

9. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 8 further comprising: a frame memory that stores and delays digital video data corresponding to a (n+1)th frame during the digital video data corresponding to an nth frame that is supplied to the data driver.

10. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 9 , wherein the frame memory is mounted in the timing controller.

11. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 1 , wherein a voltage difference between the reference voltage and the data voltage comprises substantially the same magnitude as a voltage difference between the reference voltage and the inverted voltage.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 20, 2008
From: LG PHILIPS LCD CO., LTD
To: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021006/0571 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 24, 2007
From: LEE, HONG KOO; JUNG, SANG HOON
To: LG PHILIPS LCD CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 019625/0772 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2006-0106612 · Oct 31, 2006 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20080100609A1 · May 1, 2008