Pixel arrangement structures, display panels, and display devices
The present application relates to a pixel arrangement structure, comprising a plurality of first pixel units and a plurality of second pixel units. The plurality of first pixel units and the plurality of second pixel units are alternately arranged in a first direction and a second direction. The first pixel units and the second pixel units respectively comprises a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel is located at one side of an imaginary connecting line between a center of the third sub-pixel and a center of the fourth sub-pixel, and the second sub-pixel is located at another side of the imaginary connecting line between the center of the third sub-pixel and the center of the fourth sub-pixel. After the second pixel units are rotated by a predetermined angle, sub-pixel arrangement structures thereof are mirror-symmetrical to that of the first pixel units.
1 . A pixel arrangement structure, comprising a plurality of first pixel units and a plurality of second pixel units, the plurality of first pixel units and the plurality of second pixel units being alternately arranged in a first direction and a second direction;
wherein the first pixel units and the second pixel units respectively comprising;
a first sub-pixel;
a second sub-pixel;
a third sub-pixel; and
a fourth sub-pixel;
wherein the first sub-pixel is located at one side of an imaginary connecting line between a center of the third sub-pixel and a center of the fourth sub-pixel, and the second sub-pixel being located at another side of the imaginary connecting line between the center of the third sub-pixel and the center of the fourth sub-pixel;
wherein after the second pixel units are rotated by a predetermined angle, sub-pixel arrangement structures thereof being mirror-symmetrical to sub-pixel arrangement structures of the first pixel units;
wherein the predetermined angle is greater than 0° and less than 360°; and
wherein in each of the first pixel units and the second pixel units, the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel have a same color, and a distance between a center of the third sub-pixel and a center of the fourth sub-pixel is greater than that between a center of the first sub-pixel and a center of the second sub-pixel.
2 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 1 , wherein a length of an imaginary connecting line between a center of the second sub-pixel and the center of the third sub-pixel in the first pixel unit is not equal to that of an imaginary connecting line between the center of the second sub-pixel and the center of the fourth sub-pixel in the first pixel unit; and
wherein a length of an imaginary connecting line between a center of the second sub-pixel and the center of the third sub-pixel in the second pixel unit is not equal to that of an imaginary connecting line between the center of the second sub-pixel and the center of the fourth sub-pixel in the second pixel unit.
3 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 1 , wherein two of the first pixel units and two of the second pixel units adjacent to each other form a repetitive unit:
wherein a plurality of repetitive units is arranged along the first direction and the second direction; and
wherein in each of the repetitive units, the two second pixel units are located at two sides of an imaginary connecting line between geometric centers of the two first pixel units, respectively.
4 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 3 , wherein in one of the repetitive units, in any of the second pixel units and the first pixel unit adjacent thereto in the first direction, a length of an imaginary connecting line between the center of the second sub-pixel and the center of the third sub-pixel in the second pixel unit is L 1 , and a length of an imaginary connecting line between the center of the second sub-pixel in the first pixel unit and the center of the third sub-pixel in the second pixel unit is L 2 ; L 1 is not equal to L 2 ; and
wherein in the second pixel unit and another first pixel unit adjacent thereto in the second direction, a length of an imaginary connecting line between the center of the second sub-pixel in the second pixel unit and the center of the fourth sub-pixel in the other first pixel unit is L 3 , and in the other first pixel unit, a length of an imaginary connecting line between the center of the second sub-pixel and the center of the fourth sub-pixel is L 4 ; L 3 is not equal to L 4 .
5 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 3 , wherein in one of the repetitive units, in any of the second pixel units and the first pixel unit adjacent thereto in the first direction, imaginary connecting lines between centers of the second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel in the second pixel unit and the second sub-pixel in the first pixel unit form a scalene triangle; and
wherein in the second pixel unit and the other first pixel unit adjacent thereto in the second direction, imaginary connecting lines between centers of the second sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel in the other first pixel unit and the second sub-pixel in the second pixel unit form a scalene triangle.
6 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 3 , wherein in one of the repetitive units, an imaginary connecting line between the centers of any two of the second sub-pixels does not overlap with an imaginary connecting line between the center of any one of the second sub-pixels and the center of the third sub-pixel, and the imaginary connecting line between the centers of the any two second sub-pixels does not overlap with an imaginary connecting line between the center of any one of the second sub-pixels and the center of the fourth sub-pixel.
7 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 3 , wherein in one of the repetitive units, first virtual connecting lines passing through the centers of the first sub-pixels and the centers of the third sub-pixels in the two first pixel units are parallel to each other;
wherein second virtual connecting lines passing through the centers of the first sub-pixels and the centers of the fourth sub-pixels in the two second pixel units are parallel to each other; and
wherein the first virtual connecting lines do not overlap with the second virtual connecting lines.
8 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 3 , wherein in one of the repetitive units, an extension line of an imaginary connecting line between a center of the first sub-pixel and the center of the second sub-pixel in one of the first pixel units does not overlap with an extension line of an imaginary connecting line between the center of the first sub-pixel and the center of the second sub-pixel in the other of the first pixel units;
wherein an extension line of an imaginary connecting line between a center of the first sub-pixel and the center of the second sub-pixel in one of the second pixel units does not overlap with an extension line of an imaginary connecting line between the center of the first sub-pixel and the center of the second sub-pixel in the other of the second pixel units; and
wherein the extension line of the imaginary connecting line between the center of the first sub-pixel and the center of the second sub-pixel in either of the first pixel units does not overlap with the extension line of the imaginary connecting line between the center of the first sub-pixel and the center of the second sub-pixel in either of the second pixel units.
9 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 3 , wherein in one of the repetitive units, third virtual connecting lines passing through the centers of the second sub-pixels and the centers of the third sub-pixels in the two first pixel units are parallel to each other; and
wherein fourth virtual connecting lines passing through the centers of the second sub-pixels and the centers of the fourth sub-pixels in the two second pixel units are parallel to each other; and extension lines of the third virtual connecting lines do not overlap with extension lines of the fourth virtual connecting lines.
10 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 3 , wherein, in the first pixel unit and the second pixel unit adjacent to each other in the first direction, a distance between the second sub-pixel in the first pixel unit and the fourth sub-pixel in the second pixel unit is greater than that between the third sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel in the first pixel unit, and the distance between the second sub-pixel in the first pixel unit and the fourth sub-pixel in the second pixel unit is greater than that between the fourth sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel.
11 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined angle is 90°; and
the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.
12 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 1 , wherein the first sub-pixel is in a blue color, the second sub-pixel is in a red color, the third sub-pixel is in a green color, and the fourth sub-pixel is in a green color; and
in a row direction, a connecting line of centers of the first sub-pixels in each row is a straight line; a connecting line of centers of the second sub-pixels in each row is a straight line, and a connecting line of centers of the third sub-pixels or centers of the fourth sub-pixels in each row is a non-straight line, an angle between the first direction and the row direction being 45°.
13 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 12 , wherein the first sub-pixel is in the shape of a square or a quasi-square, and the second sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel each are in the shape of a rectangle or quasi-rectangle.
14 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 13 , wherein a light-emitting area of the first sub-pixel is greater than that of the second sub-pixel, and the light-emitting area of the second sub-pixel is greater than or equal to that of the third sub-pixel or the fourth sub-pixel.
15 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 14 , wherein the light-emitting areas of the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel are equal.
16 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 15 , wherein the light-emitting areas of the second sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel are equal.
17 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 13 , wherein a long edge of the second sub-pixel is parallel to a set of opposite edges of the first sub-pixel, a long edge of the third sub-pixel and a long edge of the fourth sub-pixel.
18 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 17 , wherein, in the first pixel unit, an extension line of an edge of the first sub-pixel adjacent to a first margin of the first pixel unit overlaps with an extension line of a short edge of the third sub-pixel adjacent to the first margin of the first pixel unit; and
wherein an extension line of another edge of the first sub-pixel adjacent to a second margin of the first pixel unit overlaps with an extension line of a long edge of the fourth sub-pixel adjacent to the second margin of the first pixel unit.
19 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 18 , wherein an extension line of at least one of two long edges of the second sub-pixel passes through a gap between the first sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel; or
wherein an extension line of one long edge of the second sub-pixel passes through the gap between the first sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel, and an extension line of another long edge of the second sub-pixel overlaps with an edge of the first sub-pixel near the third sub-pixel; or
wherein the extension lines of the two long edges of the second sub-pixel both pass through the gap between the first sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel.
20 . The pixel arrangement structure according to claim 13 , wherein lengths of long edges of the second sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel are equal to an edge length of the first sub-pixel.