IP Library Granted Patent US 7,663,299
Granted Patent B2
US 7,663,299 · App. 10/973,558 · Granted Feb 16, 2010

Full-color organic electroluminescence display panel having sub pixel regions

Assignees: Industrial Technology Research Institute; WorldLED Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 7,663,299
App. No.
10/973,558
Granted
Feb 16, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel includes a substrate and a plurality of full-color OEL pixel devices in a matrix form as a display frame. Each of the pixel devices is composed of a plurality of sub-pixel regions, corresponding to R, G or B colors. Each of the specific color sub-pixel regions in the pixel device abuts the same specific color sub-pixel region of the adjacent pixel device thereof to form a double-sized emission area. With this arrangement of sub-pixel regions, it is easier to manufacture (a) high-resolution full-color OLED panels by a metal-mask alignment process, and (b) high-resolution full-color PLED panels by an ink-jet printing process.

Claims (35)

1. A full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions, comprising:

a substrate; and

a plurality of pixel devices disposed on the substrate in a matrix form as a display frame, each pixel device including a plurality of the sub-pixel regions, wherein

each sub-pixel region has a specific color, and abuts a sub-pixel region of the same specific color in an adjacent pixel device, so that the abutting sub-pixel regions of the same specific color form a double-sized emission area of the same specific color; and

the plurality of the sub-pixel regions are arranged to repeat every four pixel devices, each of the four pixel devices having a different arrangement of the sub-pixel regions.

2. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 1 , wherein the substrate is comprised of a material selected from the group consisting of glass, quartz and plastic.

3. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the sub-pixel regions include a red sub-pixel region, a green sub-pixel region and a blue sub-pixel region.

4. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the sub-pixel regions are driven in one of active-matrix scheme or passive-matrix scheme.

5. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the sub-pixel regions are one of top-emission devices or bottom-emission devices.

6. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the sub-pixel regions is an organic light-emitting diode (OLED).

7. The pixel device arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the sub-pixel regions is a polymer light-emitting diode (PLED).

8. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 1 , wherein the geometrical shapes of all of the plurality of the sub-pixel regions are the same as each other within each one of the plurality of pixel devices.

9. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the sub-pixel regions of each pixel device is arranged non-linearly.

10. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 9 , wherein the non-linear arrangement of the plurality of the sub-pixel regions of each pixel device provide pixel devices having an approximately “delta” shape.

11. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the sub-pixel regions are arranged to repeat every four pixel devices along a horizontal arrangement direction.

12. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel of claim 1 , wherein each of the four pixel devices has a same combination of the sub-pixel regions, each combination of the sub-pixel regions forming a same shape.

13. A full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions, comprising:

a substrate; and

a plurality of pixel devices formed on the substrate in a matrix form as a display frame and each comprising a plurality of the sub-pixel regions having respective specific colors, wherein

each pixel device has edges thereof adjacent to other pixel devices, each sub-pixel region thereof along the edges of the pixel device abuts at least one same-color sub-pixel region of at least one of the other pixel devices to form a double-sized emission area of a single color, and

the plurality of the sub-pixel regions are arranged to repeat every four pixel devices, each of the four pixel devices having a different arrangement of the sub-pixel regions.

14. The full-color OEL display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of the sub-pixel regions of each pixel device is arranged non-linearly.

15. The full-color OEL display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 14 , wherein the non-linear arrangement of the plurality of the sub-pixel regions of each pixel device provide pixel devices having of an approximately “delta” shape.

16. The full-color OEL display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 14 , wherein each of the plurality of the sub-pixel regions has a geometrical shape which is one of triangular or trapezoidal, and the non-linear arrangement of the plurality of the sub-pixel regions of each pixel device provide pixel devices having a shape which is an approximately “delta” shape.

17. A full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions, comprising:

a substrate; and

a plurality of pixel devices disposed on the substrate in a matrix form as a display frame, each pixel device including a plurality of the sub-pixel regions, wherein

each sub-pixel region has a specific color, and abuts a sub-pixel region of the same specific color in an adjacent pixel device, so that the abutting sub-pixel regions of the same specific color form a double-sized emission area of the same specific color; and

the plurality of the sub-pixel regions are arranged to repeat every four pixel devices, at least one of the four pixel devices having a sub-pixel region arrangement different from sub-pixel region arrangements of the others of the four pixel devices.

18. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 17 , wherein the plurality of the sub-pixel regions have a geometrical shape selected from the group consisting of rectangular, trapezoid, angular, regular polygon and a geometrical shape having an arc.

19. The pixel device arrangement of claim 18 , wherein in each one of the plurality of pixel devices, the geometrical shapes of the respective sub-pixel regions thereof are not all the same.

20. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 17 , wherein each of the plurality of the sub-pixel regions of the pixel devices has a geometrical shape which is triangular.

21. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 17 , wherein each of the plurality of the sub-pixel regions of the pixel devices has a geometrical shape which is trapezoidal.

22. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 17 , wherein the plurality of the sub-pixel regions of each pixel device is arranged non-linearly and each of the plurality of the sub-pixel regions of the pixel devices has a geometrical shape which is one of triangular or trapezoidal, and the non-linear arrangement of the plurality of the sub-pixel regions of each pixel device provide pixel devices having a shape which is of an approximately “delta” shape.

23. The full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel having sub-pixel regions of claim 17 , wherein the plurality of the sub-pixel regions are arranged to repeat every two pixel devices along a horizontal arrangement direction, and to repeat every two pixel devices along a vertical arrangement direction.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 29, 2015
From: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE; WORLDLED CO., LTD.
To: WORLDLED CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 034846/0901 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2004
From: CHAO, CHING-IAN; LU, CHUN-TE
To: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE; WORLDLED CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 015934/0248 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 93123915 A · Aug 10, 2004 · national
Continuity (1)
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