IP Library Granted Patent US 11,176,885
Granted Patent B2
US 11,176,885 · App. 15/519,987 · Granted Nov 16, 2021

Display device, method for driving display device, and electronic device

Inventors: Naobumi Toyomura (Kanagawa, JP); Katsuhide Uchino (Kanagawa, JP); Yuki Seo (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
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Patent No.
US 11,176,885
App. No.
15/519,987
Granted
Nov 16, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device includes a pixel array unit in which pixel circuits are disposed in a matrix form, the pixel circuits each including a light emission unit, a write transistor that writes a signal voltage of a video signal, a retention capacitor that retains the signal voltage written by the write transistor, and a drive transistor that drives the light emission unit on the basis of the signal voltage retained by the retention capacitor; and a common line that is wired along a pixel row, for each pixel row. The pixel circuit includes a switching transistor which selectively connects the common line and a source electrode of the drive transistor.

Claims (31)

1. A display device comprising: a pixel array unit in which pixel circuits are disposed in a matrix form, the pixel circuits respectively including a light emission unit, a write transistor that writes a signal voltage of a video signal in response to a first control signal from a first control signal line, a retention capacitor that retains the signal voltage written by the write transistor, and a drive transistor that drives the light emission unit on the basis of the signal voltage retained by the retention capacitor; and a common line that is wired along a pixel column, for each pixel column, wherein the pixel circuit includes a switching transistor which selectively connects the common line and a source electrode of the drive transistor over a period from before a threshold value correction process begins to alter a mobility correction process ends, in response to a second control signal from a second control signal line.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , comprising:

a switch element that is provided in a peripheral circuit region of the pixel array unit and selectively applies a predetermined voltage to the common line.

3. The display device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the threshold value correction process changes a source voltage of the drive transistor toward a voltage obtained by subtracting a threshold value voltage of the drive transistor from an initialization voltage of a gate voltage of the drive transistor, with reference to the initialization voltage.

4. The display device according to claim 3 ,

wherein the switching transistor and the switch element enter a conductive state before the threshold value correction process to write a predetermined voltage into the source electrode of the drive transistor.

5. The display device according to claim 4 ,

wherein the switch element enters a non-conductive state after writing of the predetermined voltage and the initial voltage to execute the threshold value correction process.

6. The display device according to claim 5 ,

wherein the mobility correction process applies negative feedback to a potential difference between a gate electrode and the source electrode of the drive transistor by a correction amount corresponding to a current flowing in the drive transistor, to correct a mobility of the drive transistor, and

the threshold value correction process and the mobility correction process are executed within 1 horizontal period.

7. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the common line is provided in a state in which the common line overlaps a wire that supplies a fixed voltage to the pixel circuit.

8. The display device according to claim 7 ,

wherein the wire that supplies the fixed voltage is a power supply line that supplies a drive current to the drive transistor.

9. The display device according to claim 7 ,

wherein the wire that supplies the fixed voltage is a wire that applies a back gate voltage to the drive transistor.

10. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein a parasitic capacitor of the common line increases a capacitance value of the entire pixel circuit.

11. The display device according to claim 10 ,

wherein the parasitic capacitor of the common line compensates for a shortage of a capacitance value of an equivalent capacitor of the light emission unit.

12. The display device according to claim 10 ,

wherein a capacitance value of the parasitic capacitor of the common line is larger than a capacitance value of a parasitic capacitor of the retention capacitor.

13. The display device according to claim 1 , comprising:

a write scanning unit that drives the write transistor; and

a control scanning unit that drives the switching transistor,

wherein the write scanning unit and the control scanning unit are provided in a peripheral circuit region on the same side with respect to the pixel array unit.

14. A method for driving a display device including: a pixel array unit in which pixel circuits are disposed in a matrix form, the pixel circuits respectively including a light emission unit, a write transistor that writes a signal voltage of a video signal in response to a first control signal from a first control signal line, a retention capacitor that retains the signal voltage written by the write transistor, and a drive transistor that drives the light emission unit on the basis of the signal voltage retained by the retention capacitor; and a common line that is wired along a pixel column, for each pixel column, wherein, in the pixel circuit including a switching transistor which selectively connects the common line and a source electrode of the drive transistor over a period from before a threshold value correction process begins to after a mobility correction process ends, in response to a second control signal from a second control signal line, a capacitance value of a pixel capacitor increases as the switching transistor enters a conductive state.

15. An electronic apparatus comprising a display device that includes: a pixel array unit in which pixel circuits are disposed in a matrix form, the pixel circuits respectively including a light emission unit, a write transistor that writes a signal voltage of a video signal in response to a first control signal from a first control signal line, a retention capacitor that retains the signal voltage written by the write transistor, and a drive transistor that drives the light emission unit on the basis of the signal voltage retained by the retention capacitor; and a common line that is wired along a pixel column, for each pixel column, wherein the pixel circuit includes a switching transistor which selectively connects the common line and a source electrode of the drive transistor over a period from before a threshold value correction process begins to after a mobility correction process ends, in response to a second control signal from a second control signal line.

16. The display device according to claim 1 , the pixel circuits respectively including an auxiliary capacitor disposed in parallel with the light emission unit.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 30, 2021
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057392/0183 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 18, 2017
From: TOYOMURA, NAOBUMI; UCHINO, KATSUHIDE; SEO, YUKI
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 042045/0003 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2014-224095 · Nov 4, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
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