Driving circuit and driving method for a display panel, and display device

1. A driving method for a display panel, wherein the display panel comprises a base substrate, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanlines; wherein the plurality of data lines and the plurality of scanlines intersect to define a plurality of sub-pixels; wherein each of pixel units is formed by adjacent N sub-pixels, the adjacent N sub-pixels comprise a plurality of sub-pixels of different colors;

wherein N=3, and the each of the pixel units comprises a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a blue sub-pixel; and

wherein the display panel further comprises a touch trace, and a vertical projection of the touch trace on a plane of the base substrate is overlapped at least in part with that of a data line corresponding to the blue sub-pixel on the plane of the base substrate;

the method comprises:

defining every X data lines of the plurality of data lines connected to M columns of the pixel units as a data line group, wherein the data line group is connected to a data signal output line through a multiplexer; wherein X=M*N, N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3, and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2;

controlling, through the multiplexer, data lines in a same data line group and corresponding to sub-pixels of a same color to continuously input data signals.

2. The driving method of claim 1 , further comprising:

in adjacent ith and (i+1)th rows of the pixel units, controlling a clock control signal of a data line corresponding to a sub-pixel in the ith row, into which a data signal is last inputted in a scanning process of the ith row of the pixel units, to be maintained as a logic enable level until a clock control signal of a data line corresponding to a sub-pixel in the (i+1)th row, into which a data signal is first inputted in a scanning process of the (i+1) row of the pixel units, is the logic enable level, wherein the sub-pixel in the ith row and the sub-pixel in the (i+1)th row are connected to a same data line, wherein i is a positive integer.

3. The driving method of claim 2 , wherein

the method further comprises:

in the adjacent ith and (i+1)th rows of the pixel units, controlling a sub-pixel in an odd-numbered row, into which a data signal is last inputted in a scanning process of the odd-numbered row of the pixel units, to be the green sub-pixel, and controlling a sub-pixel in an even-numbered row, into which a data signal is last inputted in a scanning process of the even-numbered row of the pixel units, to be the red sub-pixel.

4. The driving method of claim 2 , wherein

the method further comprises: in the adjacent ith and (i+1)th rows of the pixel units, controlling a sub-pixel in an odd-numbered row, into which the data signal is last inputted in a scanning process of the odd-numbered row of the pixel units, to be the red sub-pixel, and controlling, a sub-pixel in an even-numbered row, into which the data signal is last inputted in a scanning process of the even-numbered row of the pixel units, to be the green sub-pixel.

5. The driving method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

in adjacent jth and (j+1)th rows of the pixel units, inputting the data signals to sub-pixels of the jth row of the pixel units in a sequence of the red sub-pixel, the blue sub-pixel, and the green sub-pixel; and inputting the data signals to sub-pixels of the (j+1)th row of the pixel units in a sequence of the green sub-pixel, the blue sub-pixel, and the red sub-pixel; wherein j is a positive integer.

6. The driving method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

in adjacent jth and (j+1)th rows of the pixel units, inputting the data signals to sub-pixels of the jth row of the pixel units in a sequence of the green sub-pixel, the blue sub-pixel, and inputting the red sub-pixel; and the data signals to sub-pixels of the (j+1)th row of the pixel units in a sequence of the red sub-pixel, the blue sub-pixel, and the green sub-pixel; wherein j is a positive integer.

7. The driving method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

inputting the data signals to sub-pixels in each row of the pixel units in a sequence of the red sub-pixel, the blue sub-pixel and the green sub-pixel.

8. A display panel, comprising: a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scanlines; wherein the plurality of data lines and the plurality of scanlines intersect to define a plurality of sub-pixels;

wherein each of pixel units is formed by adjacent N sub-pixels, a data line group is formed by every X data lines of the plurality of data lines connected to M columns of the pixel units, and a driving circuit comprises a multiplexer; the data line group is connected to a data signal output line through the multiplexer; wherein X=M*N, N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3, and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; wherein the N sub-pixels in one of the pixel units comprise a plurality of sub-pixels of different colors;

wherein N=3, and the each of the pixel units comprises a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a blue sub-pixel;

wherein the display panel further comprises a touch trace, and a vertical projection of the touch trace on a plane of the base substrate is overlapped at least in part with that of a data line corresponding to the blue sub-pixel on the plane of the base substrate; and

wherein the driving circuit is configured to control, through the multiplexer, data lines in a same data line group and corresponding to sub-pixels of a same color to continuously input data signals.

9. A display device, comprising the display panel of claim 8 .

10. A driving method for a display panel, wherein the display panel comprises a base substrate, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanlines; wherein the plurality of data lines and the plurality of scanlines intersect to define a plurality of sub-pixels; wherein each of pixel units is formed by adjacent N sub-pixels, the adjacent N sub-pixels comprise a plurality of sub-pixels of different colors;

wherein N=4, and the each of the pixel units comprises a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a blue sub-pixel and a white sub-pixel; and

wherein the display panel further comprises a touch trace, and a vertical projection of the touch trace on a plane of the base substrate is overlapped at least in part with that of a data line corresponding to the white sub-pixel on the plane of the base substrate

the method comprises:

defining every X data lines of the plurality of data lines connected to M columns of the pixel units as a data line group, wherein the data line group is connected to a data signal output line through a multiplexer; wherein X=M*N, N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3, and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2;

controlling, through the multiplexer, data lines in a same data line group and corresponding to sub-pixels of a same color to continuously input data signals.

11. The driving method of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:

in adjacent kth and (k+1)th rows of the pixel units, inputting the data signals to sub-pixels of the kth row of the pixel units in a sequence of the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel, the white sub-pixel and the blue sub-pixel; and inputting the data signals to sub-pixels of the (k+1)th row of the pixel units in a sequence of the blue sub-pixel, the white sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel and the red sub-pixel; wherein k is a positive integer.

12. The driving method of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:

in adjacent kth and (k+1)th rows of the pixel units, inputting the data signals to sub-pixels of the kth row of the pixel units in a sequence of the blue sub-pixel, the white sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel and the red sub-pixel; and inputting the data signals to sub-pixels of the (k+1)th row of the pixel units in a sequence of the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel, the white sub-pixel and the blue sub-pixel; wherein k is a positive integer.

13. The driving method of claim 10 , wherein

the data signals are inputted to sub-pixels of each row of the pixel units in a sequence of the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel, the white sub-pixel and the blue sub-pixel.