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US 10,950,170 · App. 16/652,586 · Granted Mar 16, 2021

Display panel, driving method thereof, and display device

Inventor: Zhenzhen Li (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd
G09G3/3208G09G2300/0465G09G2320/0626G09G2320/0673
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Patent No.
US 10,950,170
App. No.
16/652,586
Granted
Mar 16, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display panel, a driving method thereof, and a display device. The display method includes: upon displaying each frame, determining an initial gray scale value corresponding to each sub-pixel according to image data corresponding to the frame; controlling display brightness of the sub-pixels in the second display region and the third display region according to the initial gray scale values corresponding to the sub-pixels, and reducing a display brightness difference between the sub-pixels in the second display region and the sub-pixels in the third display region so as to enhance the brightness uniformity of the regions of a display panel.

Claims (91)

1. A display method of a display panel, wherein a display region of the display panel comprises a first display region, a second display region and a third display region, and the third display region is arranged between the first display region and the second display region, and surrounds the second display region; and a distribution density of sub-pixels in the third display region is greater than a distribution density of sub-pixels in the second display region, and the distribution density of the sub-pixels in the third display region is not greater than a distribution density of sub-pixels in the first display region;

wherein the display method comprises:

when displaying a frame, determining initial gray scale values corresponding to respective sub-pixels according to image data corresponding to the frame; and

controlling display brightness of sub-pixels in the second display region and the third display region according to the initial gray scale values corresponding to the respective sub-pixels, to reduce a display brightness difference between the sub-pixels in the second display region and the sub-pixels in the third display region.

2. The display method according to claim 1 , wherein the controlling the display brightness of sub-pixels in the second display region and the third display region to reduce the display brightness difference between the sub-pixels in the second display region and the sub-pixels in the third display region comprises:

controlling the sub-pixels in the second display region to display according to brightness higher than brightness corresponding to corresponding initial gray scale values.

3. The display method according to claim 2 , wherein the controlling the sub-pixels in the second display region to display according to brightness higher than brightness corresponding to the corresponding initial gray scale values comprises:

when the display panel is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel, performing display by increasing luminous current corresponding to the sub-pixels in the second display region.

4. The display method according to claim 3 , wherein the performing display by increasing luminous current corresponding to the sub-pixels in the second display region comprises:

for any sub-pixel whose initial gray scale value is less than a preset gray scale value, adjusting the initial gray scale value x according to a formula

b

⁡

(

x

255

)

Gamma

=

(

y

255

)

Gamma

to obtain a target gray scale value y, and performing display according to the target gray scale value y;

wherein b is determined according to the distribution density of the sub-pixels in the third display region and the distribution density of the sub-pixels in the second display region, and Gamma is a gamma value of the display panel.

5. The display method according to claim 3 , wherein the performing display by increasing luminous current corresponding to the sub-pixels in the second display region comprises:

for any sub-pixel whose initial gray scale value is greater than or equal to a preset gray scale value, increasing the luminous current by increasing a supply voltage corresponding to the sub-pixel.

6. The display method according to claim 1 , wherein the controlling the display brightness of sub-pixels in the second display region and the third display region to reduce the display brightness difference between the sub-pixels in the second display region and the sub-pixels in the third display region comprises:

controlling the sub-pixels in the third display region to display according to brightness lower than brightness corresponding to corresponding initial gray scale values, and controlling the sub-pixels in the first display region to display according to brightness corresponding to corresponding initial gray scale values.

7. The display method according to claim 6 , wherein the controlling the sub-pixels in the third display region to display according to the brightness lower than the brightness corresponding to the corresponding initial gray scale values comprises:

dividing the third display region into n sub-regions in a direction from the second display region to the first display region in sequence, and for sub-pixels of each of the sub-regions:

adjusting initial gray scale values corresponding to the respective sub-pixels to obtain target gray scale values so as to reduce brightness, and performing display according to the target gray scale values; wherein

for any of sub-pixels with same corresponding initial gray scale values, the closer a distance from the sub-region where the any sub-pixel is arranged to the second display region, the smaller the target gray scale value corresponding to the any sub-pixel.

8. The display method according to claim 7 , wherein for any of the sub-pixels in the third display region, the initial gray scale value x is adjusted according to a formula

1

b

⁢

(

x

255

)

Gamma

=

(

y

255

)

Gamma

to obtain a target gray scale value y;

wherein b is determined according to a ratio of the distribution density of the sub-pixels in the third display region to the distribution density of the sub-pixels in the second display region, and Gamma is a gamma value of the display panel.

9. The display method according to claim 7 , wherein for the sub-pixels with the same corresponding initial gray scale values, in the third display region, brightness corresponding to the respective sub-regions sequentially increases in equal proportion in the direction from the second display region to the first display region.

10. The display method according to claim 9 , wherein, the initial gray scale value x is adjusted to obtain a target gray scale value y according to a formula

[

1

b

+

(

b

-

1

)

⁢

(

i

-

1

)

bn

]

⁢

(

x

255

)

Gamma

=

(

y

255

)

Gamma

,

for any sub-pixel in an i th sub-region in the direction from the second display region to the first display region, in the third display region;

wherein b is determined according to the ratio of the distribution density of the sub-pixels in the second display region to the distribution density of the sub-pixels in the third display region, Gamma is the gamma value of the display panel, and i is an integer greater than 0 and less than or equal to n.

11. The display method according to claim 1 , wherein the controlling the display brightness of the sub-pixels in the second display region and the third display region to reduce the display brightness difference between the sub-pixels in the second display region and the sub-pixels in the third display region comprises:

controlling the sub-pixels in the second display region to display according to brightness higher than brightness corresponding to corresponding initial gray scale values;

controlling the sub-pixels in the third display region to display according to brightness lower than brightness corresponding to corresponding initial gray scale values; and

controlling the sub-pixels in the first display region to display according to the brightness corresponding to corresponding initial gray scale values.

12. The display method according to claim 4 , wherein b is obtained by dividing the distribution density of sub-pixels in the first display region by the distribution density of sub-pixels in the second display region.

13. A display panel, wherein the display panel performs display according to the display method of claim 1 .

14. A display device, comprising the display panel according to claim 13 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 31, 2020
From: LI, ZHENZHEN
To: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 201810608433.3 · Jun 13, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200234634A1 · Jul 23, 2020
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