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Granted Patent B2
US 11,264,431 · App. 16/818,901 · Granted Mar 1, 2022

Display panel and display device having regular and transparent display regions

Inventors: Guofeng Zhang (Wuhan, CN); Junqiang Wang (Wuhan, CN)
Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
H01L27/322H01L27/3234H01L27/3244H01L27/3211H01L27/3216H01L27/3218
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Patent No.
US 11,264,431
App. No.
16/818,901
Granted
Mar 1, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display panel includes a display region that includes a normal display region and a transparent display region. The normal display region and the transparent display region are connected. The transparent display region includes multiple transparent areas and multiple pixels. The transparent areas have the same shape. For two adjacent transparent areas, a shape of one transparent area has a different placement angle than a shape of another transparent area.

Claims (53)

1. A display panel, comprising:

a display region, comprising a regular display region, and a transparent display region connected to the regular display region, the transparent display region comprising:

a plurality of transparent areas; and

a plurality of pixels, wherein the plurality of transparent areas has a same shape, and for two adjacent transparent areas of the plurality of transparent areas, a shape of one transparent area has a different placement angle than a shape of another transparent area.

2. The display panel according to claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of transparent areas are arranged in an array, and

along a row direction or a column direction of the array, the shape of the one transparent area of the two adjacent transparent areas has the different placement angle than the shape of the another transparent area of the two adjacent transparent areas.

3. The display panel according to claim 2 , wherein:

a first direction is different from the row direction and the column direction, and

along the first direction, the shape of the one transparent area of the two adjacent transparent areas has the different placement angle than the shape of the another transparent area of the two adjacent transparent areas.

4. The display panel according to claim 2 , wherein:

placement angles of shapes of all of the plurality of transparent areas are different from each other in the transparent display region.

5. The display panel according to claim 2 , wherein:

transparent areas in a same row of the array are divided into a plurality of row repeating units, each row repeating unit including at least two transparent areas, and shapes of all of transparent areas that belong to a same row repeating unit having different placement angles; and/or

transparent areas in a same column of the array are divided into a plurality of column repeating units, each column repeating unit including at least two transparent areas, and shapes of all of transparent areas that belong to a same column repeating unit having different placement angles.

6. The display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of transparent areas are arranged in an array, and

geometric centers of transparent areas in a same row of the array are equally spaced apart; and/or

geometric centers of transparent areas in a same column of the array are equally spaced apart.

7. The display panel according to claim 1 , wherein:

each of the plurality of transparent areas has a same area.

8. The display panel according to claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of transparent areas each has an axisymmetric shape and has a plurality of axes, a smallest angle among angles between any two adjacent axes of the plurality of axes is a first angle, and

for the two adjacent transparent areas of the plurality of transparent areas, a placement angle of the shape of the one transparent area of the two adjacent transparent areas is rotated by a second angle to coincide with a placement angle of the shape of the another transparent area, the second angle being smaller than the first angle.

9. The display panel according to claim 8 , wherein the axisymmetric shape includes a polygon shape.

10. The display panel according to claim 8 , wherein an edge of the axisymmetric shape includes an arc.

11. The display panel according to claim 10 , wherein the axisymmetric shape includes an oval shape.

12. The display panel according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a substrate;

a light emitting functional layer on a side of the substrate; and

a light shielding layer on a side of the light emitting layer away from the substrate, wherein the light emitting functional layer includes a plurality of light emitting elements, and the light shielding layer includes a plurality of first openings in the plurality of transparent areas and a plurality of second openings that exposes the plurality of light emitting elements.

13. The display panel according to claim 12 , wherein:

the plurality of light emitting elements includes an organic light-emitting diode,

the organic light-emitting diode includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode,

the first electrode is disposed between the second electrode and the substrate, and

the first electrode does not overlap the plurality of transparent areas.

14. The display panel according to claim 1 , wherein:

the regular display region comprises a plurality of pixels, a pixel density in the regular display region being larger than a pixel density in the transparent display region.

15. The display panel according to claim 14 , further comprising:

a substrate;

a light emitting functional layer on a side of the substrate; and

a color film layer on a side of the light emitting functional layer, away from the substrate, wherein the color film layer comprises a plurality of color film units, the plurality of color film units at least including three colors for filtering light emitted by the plurality of pixels, a color film unit of the plurality of color film units comprising:

a first color film unit disposed in the transparent display region; and

a second color film unit disposed in the regular display region, wherein a thickness of the second color film unit is greater than a thickness of the first color film unit for a same color.

16. The display panel according to claim 15 , wherein:

the plurality of color film units does not overlap the plurality of transparent areas.

17. A display device, comprising:

a display panel comprising a display region, the display region comprising:

a regular display region; and

a transparent display region connected to the regular display region, the transparent display region comprising:

a plurality of transparent areas; and

a plurality of pixels, wherein the plurality of transparent areas has a same shape, and for two adjacent transparent areas of the plurality of transparent areas, a shape of one transparent area has a different placement angle than a shape of another transparent area.

18. The display device according to claim 17 , further comprising:

a camera disposed in the transparent display region.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 13, 2020
From: ZHANG, GUOFENG; WANG, JUNQIANG
To: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 052113/0420 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201911055982.3 · Oct 31, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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Cited By (1)
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