Method for sensing display panel, and display panel

1. A method for sensing a display panel, comprising:

sensing an electrical characteristic parameter of a driving transistor of a pixel circuit of a sub-pixel in an X-th row in a blank stage between an N-th frame and an (N+1)-th frame;

wherein both N and X are positive integers, and the X is a random number;

wherein the sensing an electrical characteristic parameter of a driving transistor of a pixel circuit of a sub-pixel in an X-th row in a blank stage between an N-th frame and an (N+1)-th frame comprises:

generating a sensing clock signal by using a random control signal; and

generating, by a sensing driving circuit, a sensing control signal provided for the pixel circuit of the sub-pixel in the X-th row in the blank stage between the N-th frame and the (N+1)-th frame by using the sensing clock signal, a sensing starting signal, and an enable control signal;

wherein the sensing clock signal, the sensing starting signal, and the enable control signal are pulse signals; a pulse width of a sensing pulse of the sensing starting signal is greater than a pulse width of a clock pulse of the sensing clock signal and is not greater than twice the pulse width of the clock pulse, and a pulse width of the enable control signal is greater than the pulse width of the sensing pulse.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the X is a non-repeating random number determined by traversing a first range, wherein the first range comprises positive integers not greater than R, and the R is a total number of rows of sub-pixels of the display panel.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein in a first sensing cycle, a value range of the N is the first range.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a relationship between N and X within at least one sensing cycle is determined by a Randperm function.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein a random array is obtained by the Randperm function, and the X is an N-th element value in the random array.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sensing starting signal comprises a sensing pulse, and R clock pulses are at least comprised between adjacent sensing pulses, wherein the R is a total number of rows of sub-pixels of the display panel.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein a sensing pulse provided by the sensing starting signal in the N-th frame is shifted to output to the pixel circuit of the sub-pixel in the X-th row by the sensing driving circuit in the blank stage between the N-th frame and the (N+1)-th frame.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the sensing clock signal provided for the sensing driving circuit in the N-th frame comprises a first clock pulse group, wherein the first clock pulse group comprises X clock pulses, and a starting moment of a first clock pulse in the X clock pulses is not earlier than a starting moment of the sensing pulse in the sensing starting signal provided for the sensing driving circuit in the N-th frame.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: after completing sensing the electrical characteristic parameter of the driving transistor of the pixel circuit of the sub-pixel in the X-th row, resetting the sensing driving circuit by using a second clock pulse group of the sensing clock signal, wherein the second clock pulse group comprises X1 clock pulses, X1 is greater than R−X, and the R is a total number of rows of sub-pixels of the display panel.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising: generating, by the sensing driving circuit, a sensing control signal provided for a pixel circuit of a sub-pixel in a Y-th row in a blank stage between an (N+1)-th frame and an (N+2)-th frame by using a sensing pulse provided by the sensing starting signal in the (N+1)-th frame, a first clock pulse group provided by the sensing clock signal in the (N+1)-th frame, and the enable control signal, wherein the first clock pulse group provided by the sensing clock signal in the (N+1)-th frame comprises Y clock pulses; and the Y is a random positive integer, and the Y is different from the X.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein Y clock pulses and X1 clock pulses are not continuous.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising: after completing sensing the electrical characteristic parameter of the driving transistor of the pixel circuit of the sub-pixel in the Y-th row, resetting the sensing driving circuit by using a second clock pulse group of the sensing clock signal, wherein the second clock pulse group comprises Y1 clock pulses, the Y1 is greater than R−Y, and the R is a number of rows of sub-pixels of the display panel.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sensing an electrical characteristic parameter of a driving transistor of a pixel circuit of a sub-pixel in an X-th row in a blank stage between an N-th frame and an (N+1)-th frame comprises:

sensing the electrical characteristic parameter of the driving transistor of the pixel circuit of sub-pixels of b colors in the X-th row of sub-pixels in the blank stage between the N-th frame and the (N+1)-th frame, wherein b is a positive integer, and b is less than or equal to a number of sub-pixels comprised in one pixel unit.

14. A display panel, comprising a pixel array and a gate driver, wherein

the pixel array comprises a plurality of sub-pixels, and at least one sub-pixel comprises a light emitting element and a pixel circuit that drives the light emitting element to emit light;

the gate driver is configured to provide a sensing control signal for the pixel circuit of a sub-pixel in an X-th row by a sensing control line in a blank stage between an N-th frame and an (N+1)-th frame, to sense an electrical characteristic parameter of the driving transistor of the pixel circuit of the sub-pixel in the X-th row;

wherein both N and X are positive integers, and the X is a random number;

further comprising a timing controller, wherein

the timing controller is configured to generate a sensing clock signal by using a random control signal, and provide the sensing clock signal for the gate driver; and

the gate driver is configured to generate a sensing control signal provided for the pixel circuit of the sub-pixel in the X-th row in the blank stage between the N-th frame and the (N+1)-th frame by using the sensing clock signal, a sensing starting signal, and an enable control signal;

wherein the sensing clock signal, the sensing starting signal, and the enable control signal are pulse signals; a pulse width of a sensing pulse of the sensing starting signal is greater than a pulse width of a clock pulse of the sensing clock signal and is not greater than twice the pulse width of the clock pulse, and a pulse width of the enable control signal is greater than the pulse width of the sensing pulse.

15. The display panel of claim 14 , wherein the timing controller comprises: a random signal generation circuit, configured to generate the random control signal.

16. The display panel of claim 14 , wherein the gate driver comprises: a sensing driving circuit, wherein the sensing driving circuit comprises: a plurality of cascaded shift register units and a plurality of logical AND gates;

an output end of an i-th-stage shift register unit is connected to an input end of an (i+1)-th-stage shift register unit, and an input end of a first-stage shift register unit is connected to a sensing starting signal line that provides a sensing starting signal; and

clock ends of the plurality of shift register units are connected to a sensing clock signal line that provides a sensing clock signal;

an input end of an i-th logical AND gate is connected to an output end of the i-th-stage shift register unit and an enable control line that provides an enable control signal, and an output end of the i-th logical AND gate is connected to a sensing control line connected to the pixel circuit of the sub-pixel in an i-th row;

wherein i is a positive integer.

17. The display panel of claim 14 , wherein the pixel circuit comprises: an input transistor, a driving transistor, a sensing transistor, and a first storage capacitor;

a control electrode of the input transistor is connected to a scanning signal line, a first electrode of the input transistor is connected to a data signal line, and a second electrode of the input transistor is connected to a control electrode of the driving transistor;

a first electrode of the driving transistor is connected to a first power supply line, and a second electrode of the driving transistor is connected to a light emitting element;

a first electrode of the first storage capacitor is connected to the control electrode of the driving transistor, and a second electrode of the first storage capacitor is connected to the second electrode of the driving transistor; and

a control electrode of the sensing transistor is connected to a sensing control line, a first electrode of the sensing transistor is connected to the second electrode of the driving transistor, and a second electrode of the sensing transistor is connected to a sensing signal line.