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US 9,135,854 · App. 14/146,406 · Granted Sep 15, 2015

Organic light emitting diode display device and driving method thereof

Inventors: Injae Chung (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Kiyong Kim (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Chulsang Jang (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Insu Joo (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Woojin Nam (Gyeonngi-do, KR)
Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
G09G3/3225G09G3/3291G09G2300/0852G09G2310/0262G09G2320/0285G09G2320/043
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Patent No.
US 9,135,854
App. No.
14/146,406
Granted
Sep 15, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

An organic light emitting diode display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The organic light emitting diode display device according to an embodiment of the invention comprises a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate line pairs crossing the data lines, and a plurality of light emitting cells which include an organic light emitting diode device, first and second cell driving circuits for alternately driving the organic light emitting diode device; a data voltage generator supplying a data voltage of a first polarity to the data lines; a compensation voltage generator supplying a compensation voltage of a second polarity to the data lines; and a scan driver for sequentially supplying scan pulses to the gate line pairs, wherein the first and second cell driving circuits are alternately supplied with the data voltage and the compensation voltage in response to the scan pulses to alternately driven the organic light.

Claims (34)

1. An organic light emitting diode display device, comprising:

a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate line pairs crossing the data lines, and a plurality of light emitting cells which include an organic light emitting diode device, first and second cell driving circuits for alternately driving the organic light emitting diode device;

a data voltage generator supplying a data voltage of a first polarity to the data lines;

a compensation voltage generator supplying a compensation voltage of a second polarity to the data lines; and

a scan driver for sequentially supplying scan pulses to the gate line pairs,

wherein first electrodes of the first and second cell driving circuits are commonly connected to one electrode of the organic light emitting diode device,

wherein the first and second cell driving circuits are alternately supplied with the data voltage and the compensation voltage in response to the scan pulses to alternately driven the organic light emitting diode,

wherein the first cell driving circuit is supplied with the data voltage during a first emission period, and supplied with the compensation voltage during a first non-emission period; and

the second cell driving circuit is supplied with the data voltage during a second emission period overlapping with the first non-emission period of the first cell driving circuit, and supplied with the compensation voltage during a second non-emission period overlapping with the first emission period of the first cell driving circuit, and

wherein the scan driver supplies a first scan pulse synchronized with the data voltage to the first gate lines included in the gate line pairs within a first period and then supplies the first scan pulse synchronized with the compensation voltage to the first gate lines within a second period; and

supplies a second scan pulse synchronized with the compensation voltage to the second gate lines included in the gate line pairs within the first period and then supplies the second scan pulse synchronized with the data voltage to the second gate lines within the second period.

2. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 1 , wherein the scan driver supplies a first scan pulse synchronized with the data voltage to the first gate lines included in the gate line pairs; and

supplies a second scan pulse synchronized with the compensation voltage to the second gate lines included in the gate line pairs.

3. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 1 , wherein the pulse width of the first scan pulse generated within the first period is different from the pulse width of the first scan pulse generated within the second period; and

the second scan pulse generated within the first period is different from the pulse width of the second scan pulse generated within the second period.

4. The organic light emitting diode display device according to claim 3 , wherein the pulse width of the scan pulses synchronized with the data voltage is wider than the pulse width of the scan pulses synchronized with the compensation voltage.

5. A driving method of an organic light emitting diode display device, the organic light emitting diode display device comprising a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate line pairs crossing the data lines, and a plurality of light emitting cells which include an organic light emitting diode device, first and second cell driving circuits for alternately driving the organic light emitting diode device, comprising:

supplying a data voltage of a first polarity to the data lines;

supplying a compensation voltage of a second polarity to the data lines;

sequentially supplying scan pulses to the gate line pairs;

wherein first electrodes of the first and second cell driving circuits are commonly connected to one electrode of the organic light emitting diode device,

alternately supplying the data voltage and the compensation voltage to the first and second driving circuits in accordance with the scan pulses to drive the organic light emitting diode,

wherein the first cell driving circuit is supplied with the data voltage during a first emission period, and supplied with the compensation voltage during a first non-emission period; and

the second cell driving circuit is supplied with the data voltage during a second emission period overlapping with the first non-emission period of the first cell driving circuit, and supplied with the compensation voltage during a second non-emission period overlapping with the first emission period of the first cell driving circuit, and

wherein the supplying of scan pulses comprises:

supplying a first scan pulse synchronized with the data voltage to the first gate lines included in the gate line pairs within a first period and then supplying the first scan pulse synchronized with the compensation voltage to the first gate lines within a second period; and

supplying a second scan pulse synchronized with the compensation voltage to the second gate lines included in the gate line pairs within the first period and then supplying the second scan pulse synchronized with the data voltage to the second gate lines within the second period.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the supplying of scan pulses comprises:

supplying a first scan pulse synchronized with the data voltage to the first gate lines included in the gate line pairs; and

supplying a second scan pulse synchronized with the compensation voltage to the second gate lines included in the gate line pairs.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the first period and the second period include more than one frame period, respectively.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the pulse width of the first scan pulse generated within the first period is different from the pulse width of the first scan pulse generated within the second period; and

the second scan pulse generated within the first period is different from the pulse width of the second scan pulse generated within the second period.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the pulse width of the scan pulses synchronized with the data voltage is wider than the pulse width of the scan pulses synchronized with the compensation voltage.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2007-0044821 · May 9, 2007 · national
Continuity (2)
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