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Granted Patent B2
US 9,767,733 · App. 14/670,674 · Granted Sep 19, 2017

Scan sense driver and display device including the same

Inventor: Kyung-Hoon Chung (Yongin-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
G09G3/3266G09G3/3208G11C19/28G09G2310/0286G09G2320/0295G09G2320/045G09G2330/12
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,767,733
App. No.
14/670,674
Granted
Sep 19, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A scan sense driver includes a scan driver and a sense driver. The scan line driver provides a scan line enable signal based on a plurality of clock signals, a global clock signal, and a scan input signal during a scan time interval. The sense driver provides a sense enable signal based on the clock signals and a sense input signal during a sense time interval. The sense driver provides the sense enable signal during a period when an organic light-emitting diode of a pixel is to be tested for a malfunction.

Claims (53)

1. A scan sense driver, comprising:

a scan line driver to provide a scan line enable signal based on a plurality of clock signals, a global clock signal, and a scan input signal during a scan time interval; and

a sense driver to provide a sense enable signal based on the clock signals and a sense input signal during a sense time interval, wherein the sense driver is to provide the sense enable signal during a period when an organic light-emitting diode is to be tested.

2. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 1 , wherein waveforms of the clock signals provided during the scan time interval are different from the waveforms of the clock signals provided during the sense time interval.

3. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 2 , wherein:

a time interval when the clock signals provided during the scan time interval have a first logic level is a first time interval,

a time interval when clock signals provided during the sense time interval have the first logic level is a second time interval, and

the second time interval is different from the first time interval.

4. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the sense input signal has a second logic level during the scan time interval.

5. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the scan input signal has a second logic level during the sense time interval.

6. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 3 , wherein:

a time interval between adjacent ones of the clock signals provided during the scan time interval is a third time interval, and

a time interval between adjacent ones of the clock signals provided during the sense time interval is the second time interval.

7. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the first time interval is greater than the third time interval.

8. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 7 , wherein:

the first time interval is longer than a horizontal time having a predetermined time interval, and

the third time interval is substantially equal to the horizontal time.

9. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the second time interval is greater than the first time interval.

10. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the first time interval is substantially equal to the third time interval.

11. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 10 , wherein:

the first time interval and the third time interval correspond to a horizontal time, and

the horizontal time has a predetermined time interval.

12. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:

the sense driver is to provide the sense enable signal based on a total operation time, and

the total operation time includes a time when the scan sense driver is to operate.

13. The scan sense driver as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, the sense driver is to provide the sense enable signal when scan sense driver is turned-on.

14. A display device, comprising:

a controller to provide a plurality of clock signals, a global clock signal, a scan start pulse, and a sense start pulse;

a plurality of scan sense drivers to provide scan line enable signals and sense enable signals based on the clock signals, the global clock signal, the scan start pulse, and the sense start pulse; and

a pixel array to operate based on the scan line enable signals and the sense enable signals, wherein each of the scan sense drivers includes:

a scan line driver to provide the scan line enable signal based on the clock signals, the global clock signal, and a scan input signal during a scan time interval; and

a sense driver to provide the sense enable signal based on the clock signals and a sense input signal during a sense time interval, wherein the sense driver is to provide the sense enable signal during a period when an organic light-emitting diode of a pixel in the pixel array is to be tested.

15. The display device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein:

the scan input signal input into a first scan sense driver of the plurality of scan sense drivers is the scan start pulse, and

the sense input signal input into the first scan sense driver of the plurality of scan sense drivers is the sense start pulse.

16. The display device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the pixel includes:

a scan driver to provide a voltage corresponding to data voltage to a organic light-emitting diode; and

a sensor to test for a malfunction of the organic light-emitting diode based on the sense enable signal.

17. The display device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the controller is to control waveforms of the clock signals based on the scan time interval and the sense time interval.

18. The display device as claimed in claim 17 , wherein

the controller provides the clock signals,

a time interval when the clock signals provided during the scan time interval have a first logic level is a first time interval,

a time interval when the clock signals provided during the sense time interval have the first logic level is a second time interval, and

the second time interval is different from the first time interval.

19. The display device as claimed in claim 18 , wherein:

a time interval between adjacent ones of the clock signals provided during the scan time interval is a third time interval,

a time interval between adjacent ones of the clock signals provided during the sense time interval is the second time interval,

the first time interval is greater than the third time interval, and

the second time interval is greater than the first time interval.

20. The display device as claimed in claim 19 , wherein:

the first time interval is equal to the third time interval,

the first time interval and the third time interval correspond to a horizontal time, and

the horizontal time is a predetermined time interval.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 27, 2015
From: CHUNG, KYUNG-HOON
To: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 035271/0823 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2014-0147490 · Oct 28, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160117963A1 · Apr 28, 2016