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US 12,444,381 · App. 18/292,812 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Method for driving display panel that during a blanking time phase loads a compensation voltage to each data line, display drive circuit, and display device

Inventors: Yuhang Tian (Beijing, CN); Yanping Liao (Beijing, CN); Dongchuan Chen (Beijing, CN); Shulin Yao (Beijing, CN); Yingmeng Miao (Beijing, CN); Yinlong Zhang (Beijing, CN); Pengfei Hu (Beijing, CN); Wenpeng Ma (Beijing, CN); Zheng Zhang (Beijing, CN); Jiantao Liu (Beijing, CN)
Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.; BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
G09G3/3607G09G3/3614G09G2310/08G09G2320/02G09G2340/0435
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Patent No.
US 12,444,381
App. No.
18/292,812
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The method includes, during a data refresh stage of at least one display frame, loading a gate turn-on voltage to a gate line, and loading, on each data line, a data voltage of an image to be displayed, so that each sub-pixel inputs a corresponding data voltage, and during a blanking time period, loading a gate turn-off voltage to a gate line, and loading a compensation voltage to each data line. When a data voltage in a sub-pixel connected to a data line is greater than a common electrode voltage, a compensation voltage is less than the data voltage in the sub-pixel connected to the data line, and/or when the data voltage in the sub-pixel is less than the common electrode voltage, the compensation voltage is greater than the data voltage in the sub-pixel.

Claims (74)

1. A method for driving a display panel, wherein

the display panel works in a plurality of continuous display frames, and each display frame comprises a data refresh phase and a blanking time phase; and

the method comprises:

in the data refresh phase of at least one of the plurality of continuous display frames, loading a gate-on voltage to a gate line in the display panel, and loading a data voltage of a to-be-displayed image to each data line, to input a corresponding data voltage to each sub-pixel; and

in the blanking time phase of the at least one of the plurality of continuous display frames, loading a gate-off voltage to the gate line in the display panel, and loading a compensation voltage to each data line;

wherein when the data voltage in the sub-pixel connected with the data line is greater than a common electrode voltage, the compensation voltage loaded on the data line is lower than the data voltage in the sub-pixel connected with the data line; and/or

when the data voltage in the sub-pixel connected with the data line is lower than a common electrode voltage, the compensation voltage loaded on the data line is greater than the data voltage in the sub-pixel connected with the data line;

wherein the display frame, in which the compensation voltage is loaded to each data line in the blanking time phase, is defined as a set display frame;

part of the plurality of continuous display frames are set display frames;

display frames other than the set display frames among the plurality of continuous display frames are non-set display frames;

the non-set display frames comprise:

in the data refresh phase, loading the gate-on voltage to the gate line in the display panel, and loading the data voltage of the to-be-displayed image to each data line, to input the corresponding data voltage to each sub-pixel; and

in the blanking time phase, loading the gate-off voltage to the gate line in the display panel, to enable each data line to be in a suspension joint state.

2. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the compensation voltage is loaded throughout the blanking time phase of the at least one of the plurality of continuous display frames.

3. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 1 , wherein at least one non-set display frame exists between two adjacent set display frames.

4. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 3 , wherein a quantity of the non-set display frames between every two adjacent set display frames is the same.

5. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 1 , wherein a gray scale corresponding to the compensation voltage loaded on each data line is the same.

6. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 5 , wherein, for each data line, the gray scale corresponding to the compensation voltage loaded on the data line is the same as a gray scale corresponding to one data voltage of the sub-pixel connected with the data line.

7. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 6 , wherein the gray scale corresponding to the compensation voltage is determined by using following formula:

VS

⁢

11

=

(

VA

⁢

11

+

VA

⁢

12

)

/

2

;

wherein, VS11 represents the gray scale corresponding to the compensation voltage, VA11 represents a maximum gray scale in a display frame selected from the plurality of continuous display frames, VA12 represents a minimum gray scale in the display frame selected from the plurality of continuous display frames, and VA11+VA12 is an even number.

8. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 6 , wherein the gray scale corresponding to the compensation voltage is determined by using following formula:

VS

⁢

21

=

(

VA

⁢

21

+

VA

⁢

22

+

1

)

/

2

;

wherein, VS21 represents the gray scale corresponding to the compensation voltage, VA21 represents a maximum gray scale in a display frame selected from the plurality of continuous display frames, VA22 represents a minimum gray scale in the display frame selected from the plurality of continuous display frames, and VA21+VA22 is an odd number.

9. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 8 , wherein the display frame selected from the plurality of display frames is one of a previous display frame adjacent to a set display frame and the set display frame.

10. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the loading the compensation voltage to each data line, comprises:

in a blanking time phase of a set display frame, selecting a display frame from the plurality of display frames, and for each data line, loading a voltage of a gray scale, corresponding to a data voltage input into a row of sub-pixels of the display panel in the selected display frame, to the data line.

11. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the loading the compensation voltage to each data line, comprises:

in a blanking time phase of a set display frame, selecting a display frame from the plurality of display frames, and for each data line, loading a voltage of a gray scale, corresponding to a data voltage input into a last row of sub-pixels of the display panel in the selected display frame, to the data line.

12. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the loading the compensation voltage to each data line, comprises:

in a blanking time phase of a set display frame, selecting a display frame from the plurality of display frames, and for each data line, sequentially loading a voltage of a gray scale, corresponding to a data voltage input into the data line in the selected display frame, to the data line.

13. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the display panel adopts a column inversion method or a frame inversion method; the compensation voltage comprises a second sub-compensation voltage;

for each data line, a polarity corresponding to the second sub-compensation voltage loaded on the data line is the same as a polarity corresponding to the data voltage in the sub-pixel connected with the data line.

14. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the display panel adopts a column inversion method or a frame inversion method; the compensation voltage comprises a first sub-compensation voltage;

for each data line, a polarity corresponding to the first sub-compensation voltage loaded on the data line is opposite to a polarity corresponding to the sub-pixel connected with the data line.

15. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 14 , wherein the display frame, in which the compensation voltage is loaded to each data line in the blanking time phase, has a first display frame and a second display frame;

the first display frame corresponds to a first refresh rate, and the second display frame corresponds to a second refresh rate; and the first refresh rate is greater than the second refresh rate; and

a duration of the blanking time phase in the first display frame is shorter than a duration of the blanking time phase in the second display frame.

16. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 14 , wherein the display frame, in which the compensation voltage is loaded to each data line in the blanking time phase, is defined as a set display frame; in two adjacent set display frames, for a same data line, the first sub-compensation voltage loaded to the data line in a previous set display frame and the common electrode voltage have a first difference therebetween, and the first sub-compensation voltage loaded to the data line in a next set display frame and the common electrode voltage have a second difference therebetween; and

an absolute value of the first difference is equal to an absolute value of the second difference.

17. The method for driving the display panel according to claim 14 , wherein the compensation voltage further comprises a transition compensation voltage that appears before the first sub-compensation voltage;

for each data line, a polarity corresponding to the transition compensation voltage loaded on the data line is the same as the polarity corresponding to the sub-pixel connected with the data line.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 30, 2024
From: TIAN, YUHANG; LIAO, YANPING; CHEN, DONGCHUAN; YAO, SHULIN; MIAO, YINGMENG; ZHANG, YINLONG; HU, PENGFEI; MA, WENPENG; ZHANG, ZHENG; LIU, JIANTAO
To: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.; BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
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