IP Library Granted Patent US 8,284,135
Granted Patent B2
US 8,284,135 · App. 12/725,972 · Granted Oct 9, 2012

Display apparatus and electronic instrument

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Patent No.
US 8,284,135
App. No.
12/725,972
Granted
Oct 9, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixel circuits; and a signal supply circuit which supplies any one of a potential of a video signal, an extinction potential for extinguishing light-emitting devices, and a high-level potential higher than the extinction potential, wherein each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes a storage capacitor which retains a voltage corresponding to the video signal, a drive transistor which supplies a current based on the voltage retained in the storage capacitor to the corresponding light-emitting device, a light-emitting device which emits light in accordance with the current supplied from the drive transistor, and a write transistor which writes the voltage corresponding to the video signal to the storage capacitor after the potentials supplied by the signal supply circuit in order of the high-level potential and the extinction potential are given to the gate terminal of the drive transistor.

Claims (26)

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a plurality of pixel circuits; and

a signal supply circuit which supplies any one of a potential of a video signal, an extinction potential for extinguishing light-emitting devices, a reference potential lower than the extinction potential, and a high-level potential higher than the extinction potential,

wherein,

the pixel circuits are driven in an extinction period, a threshold correction period and a light-emission period; and

each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes

a storage capacitor which retains a voltage corresponding to the video signal,

a drive transistor which supplies a current based on the voltage retained in the storage capacitor to the corresponding light-emitting device,

a light-emitting device which emits light in accordance with the current supplied from the drive transistor, and

a write transistor connected to receive each of the potential of a video signal, the extinction potential for extinguishing light-emitting devices, the reference potential, and the high-level potential higher than the extinction potential, and which writes the voltage corresponding to the video signal to the storage capacitor after supplying the high-level potential and the extinction potential during the extinction period and the reference potential during the threshold correction period, in that order, to a gate of the drive transistor.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a power supply circuit which supplies the same power supply potentials to the plurality of pixel circuits for every plural number of rows,

wherein the drive transistor supplies to the light-emitting device the current based on the voltage retained in the storage capacitor by receiving the power supply potential.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the signal supply circuit supplies the high-level potential within the range of the potential of the video signal.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the signal supply circuit supplies the high-level potential within the range lower than half of the range of the potential of the video signal.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting devices are organic electroluminescence devices.

6. An electronic instrument comprising:

a plurality of pixel circuits; and

a signal supply circuit which supplies any one of a potential of a video signal, an extinction potential for extinguishing a light-emitting device, a reference potential lower than the extinction potential and a high-level potential higher than the extinction potential,

wherein,

the pixel circuits are driven in an extinction period, a threshold correction period and a light-emission period; and

each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes

a storage capacitor which retains a voltage corresponding to the video signal,

a drive transistor which supplies a current based on the voltage retained in the storage capacitor to the corresponding light-emitting device,

a light-emitting device which emits light in accordance with the current supplied from the drive transistor, and

a write transistor connected to receive each of the potential of a video signal, the extinction potential for extinguishing light-emitting devices, the reference potential, and the high-level potential higher than the extinction potential, and which writes the voltage corresponding to the video signal to the storage capacitor during a current horizontal scan period after supplying the high-level potential and the extinction potential during the extinction period and the reference potential during the threshold correction period, in that order to a gate of the drive transistor.

Assignments (5)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 18, 2025
From: JDI DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT G.K.
To: MAGNOLIA BLUE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 072039/0656 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2024
From: JOLED, INC.
To: JDI DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT G.K.
Reel/Frame 066382/0619 →
CORRECTION BY AFFIDAVIT FILED AGAINST REEL/FRAME 063396/0671 Recorded Jun 12, 2023
From: JOLED, INC.
To: JOLED, INC.
Reel/Frame 064067/0723 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Apr 20, 2023
From: JOLED, INC.
To: INCJ, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063396/0671 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 15, 2015
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: JOLED INC.
Reel/Frame 036106/0355 →