CN105374315A - Flexible display device and driving method thereof - Google Patents

Flexible display device and driving method thereof Download PDF

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CN105374315A
CN105374315A CN201511000332.0A CN201511000332A CN105374315A CN 105374315 A CN105374315 A CN 105374315A CN 201511000332 A CN201511000332 A CN 201511000332A CN 105374315 A CN105374315 A CN 105374315A
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丁立薇
张婷婷
杨楠
朱晖
张小宝
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Abstract

The invention provides a flexible display device and a driving method thereof. According to the flexible display device and the driving method thereof provided by the invention, when being bent, the flexible display device is divided into a plurality of display area blocks, and all display area blocks are controlled by different driving circuits, so that different display, comprising different display pictures, display quality and the like, of all the display area blocks can be realized when the flexible display device is in a bent state, as a result, the advantages of the flexible display device can be exerted greatly.

Description

A kind of flexible display apparatus and driving method thereof
Technical field
The present invention relates to display technique field, particularly a kind of flexible display apparatus and driving method thereof.
Background technology
Along with the continuous progress of science and technology, LCD (LiquidCrystalDisplay, liquid crystal display), PDP (PlasmaDisplayPanel, plasma display panel), the flat panel displays such as OLED (OrganicElectroluminescenceDisplay, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAYS) reach its maturity, traditional CRT (CathodeRayTube, cathode-ray tube (CRT)) display is substituted substantially.
In recent years, the potential advantages of flexible display apparatus become increasingly conspicuous.Flexible display apparatus refers to the bending deformed display device of display panel, and it comprises the polytypes such as flexible organic electro-luminescence display device, flexible electrophoretic display apparatus, flexible liquid crystal device.Flexible display apparatus at least comprises flexible display panels and controls the driving circuit of described flexible display panels, wherein, described flexible display panels is made up of flexible flexible material, thus described flexible display panels is flexible, and then described flexible display apparatus is flexible.
As the display device of a new generation, because it has thin and advantages such as light, high-contrast, fast response, wide viewing angle, high brightness, full color, therefore in prospects that is all widely used such as mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), digital camera, car-mounted display, notebook computer, wall hung television and military fields.
Especially, flexible display apparatus can keep rolled state when accommodating, to be convenient for carrying; Launch during work, handled easily; With it can also hanging over, present wearable state.Various advantages like this, makes it by extensive concern more.
But still there is a lot of weak point in existing flexible display apparatus, such as, its driving method is substantially identical with the driving method of common panel display apparatus, do not have the feature according to flexible display apparatus and be designed with corresponding driving method, making some advantages of flexible display apparatus to maximize thus.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of flexible display apparatus and driving method thereof, the problem of flexible display apparatus advantage can not be played with the driving method solving flexible display apparatus in prior art very well.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, the invention provides a kind of driving method of flexible display apparatus, the driving method of described flexible display apparatus comprises: multiple driving circuit, when flexible display panels bending, when described flexible display panels is divided into multiple display block, each display block respectively controls by a different driving circuit.
Optionally, in the driving method of described flexible display apparatus, when described flexible display panels is smooth, whole flexible display panels controls by a driving circuit.
Optionally, in the driving method of described flexible display apparatus, when each display block respectively controls by a different driving circuit, the resolution of each display block is identical or different.
Optionally, in the driving method of described flexible display apparatus, when described flexible display panels bends, when described flexible display panels is divided into multiple display block, bending place exports a control signal, according to described control signal, multiple drive circuit works, each display block respectively controls by a different driving circuit.
Optionally, in the driving method of described flexible display apparatus, the quantity of described driving circuit is two, described flexible display panels can left and right or bend up and down.
Optionally, in the driving method of described flexible display apparatus, bending place is positioned at the intermediate pixel side of described flexible display panels.
Optionally, in the driving method of described flexible display apparatus, the quantity of described driving circuit is four, and described flexible display panels can bend up and down.
The present invention also provides a kind of flexible display apparatus, described flexible display apparatus comprises: flexible display panels and the multiple driving circuits be connected with described flexible display panels, described flexible display panels is provided with control element, when described flexible display panels bends, when described flexible display panels is divided into multiple display block, described control element controls multiple drive circuit works, and each display block respectively controls by a different driving circuit.
Optionally, in described flexible display apparatus, described control element is on-off element, and when described flexible display panels bending, described on-off element disconnects and controls multiple drive circuit works.
Optionally, in described flexible display apparatus, when described flexible display panels is smooth, described on-off element is communicated with and controls a drive circuit works.
In flexible display apparatus provided by the invention and driving method thereof, when flexible display panels bending, when described flexible display panels is divided into multiple display block, each display block respectively controls by a different driving circuit, each display block is made to carry out different displays under can realizing flexible display apparatus case of bending thus, comprise different display frame, display quality etc., the advantage of flexible display apparatus can be played thus greatly.
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Fig. 1 is the structural representation of the flexible display apparatus of the embodiment of the present invention.
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The flexible display apparatus proposed the present invention below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments and driving method thereof are described in further detail.According to the following describes and claims, advantages and features of the invention will be clearer.It should be noted that, accompanying drawing all adopts the form that simplifies very much and all uses non-ratio accurately, only in order to object that is convenient, the aid illustration embodiment of the present invention lucidly.
Please refer to Fig. 1, it is the structural representation of the flexible display apparatus of the embodiment of the present invention.As shown in Figure 1, in the embodiment of the present application, N-th row M row pixel 10, N-th row M+n row pixel 13, N+1 capable M row pixel 14 and N+1 capable M+n row pixel 17 are all connected with driving circuit, concrete, N-th row M row pixel 10 is connected with the first driving circuit 18 with N+1 capable M row pixel 14, and N-th row M+n row pixel 13 is connected with the second driving circuit 19 with N+1 capable M+n row pixel 17.Further, N-th row M+1 row pixel 11 and N-th row M+2 row pixel 12 and be respectively arranged with on-off element T1 and T2 between N+1 capable M+1 row pixel 15 and N+1 capable M+2 row pixel 16.
In the embodiment of the present application, described flexible display apparatus 1 is mainly used in carrying out left and right bending operation, and concrete, the flexible display panels of described flexible display apparatus 1 can bend along on-off element T1 and T2.Now, described flexible display panels just can be divided into two pieces of display blocks, be respectively the display block comprising pixel N-th row M row pixel 10, N-th row M+1 row pixel 11, N+1 capable M row pixel 14 and N+1 capable M+1 row pixel 15, and comprise another display block of pixel N-th row M+2 row pixel 12, N-th row M+n row pixel 13, N+1 capable M+2 row pixel 16 and N+1 capable M+n row pixel 17.
After the flexible display panels of described flexible display apparatus 1 bends along on-off element T1 and T2, described on-off element T1 and T2 all disconnects, now, N-th row M row pixel 10, N-th row M+1 row pixel 11, N+1 capable M row pixel 14 and N+1 capable M+1 row pixel 15 controls by the first driving circuit 18, and N-th row M+2 row pixel 12, N-th row M+n row pixel 13, N+1 capable M+2 row pixel 16 and N+1 capable M+n row pixel 17 controls by the second driving circuit 19.By the first driving circuit 18 and the second driving circuit 19, two display blocks are controlled respectively, then these two display blocks resolution can identical also can not be identical.Further, picture and the image quality of these two display blocks also can control respectively, thus obtain identical or different pictures and image quality.
In the embodiment of the present application, after described on-off element T1 and T2 all disconnects, send control signal to described first driving circuit 18 and the second driving circuit 19, thus control described first driving circuit 18 and the second driving circuit 19 works.
Further, when the flexible display panels of described flexible display apparatus 1 is in formation state, described on-off element T1 with T2 is all communicated with, now described first driving circuit 18 or the second driving circuit 19 work, namely a drive circuit works is only had between the first driving circuit 18 and the second driving circuit 19, also namely described first driving circuit 18 drives N-th row M row pixel 10, N-th row M+1 row pixel 11, N+1 capable M row pixel 14, N+1 capable M+1 row pixel 15 or the second driving circuit 19 drive N-th row M+2 row pixel 12, N-th row M+n row pixel 13, N+1 capable M+2 row pixel 16 and N+1 capable M+n row pixel 17.
In the embodiment of the present application, after described on-off element T1 with T2 is all communicated with, also can send a control signal to described first driving circuit 18 and the second driving circuit 19, thus control a drive circuit works in described first driving circuit 18 and the second driving circuit 19.
Also, namely in the embodiment of the present application, when flexible display panels bending, when described flexible display panels is divided into multiple display block, each display block respectively controls by a different driving circuit; When described flexible display panels is smooth, whole flexible display panels controls by a driving circuit.
Further, according to use habit and the convenience of general flexible display apparatus, the more normal bending of the center line along described flexible display apparatus (flexible display panels) of described flexible display apparatus (flexible display panels), therefore, preferably, on-off element or other control elements are arranged at the intermediate pixel side of flexible display panels, and namely bending place is positioned at the intermediate pixel side of described flexible display panels.
Further, in other embodiments of the application, flexible display apparatus (flexible display panels) also can bend up and down, form upper and lower two display blocks or bend up and down, form upper left, lower-left, upper right and four, bottom right display block, or other how middle modes can also be carried out bend, this application is not limited.But according to a use-pattern and the custom of flexible display apparatus, described flexible display apparatus to bend up and down, left and right bending and bend in the majority up and down.When described flexible display apparatus only can bend up and down or left and right bends, it only adopts two driving circuits; When described flexible display apparatus can bend up and down, it need adopt four driving circuits.Namely the quantity of described driving circuit is corresponding to the display block counts that described flexible display apparatus can be bent to form.
In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, described driving circuit can adopt any one driving circuit existing, such as basic 2T1C (two transistors electric capacity) circuit, or there is 6T2C (six transistors, two electric capacity) circuit of voltage compensating function, or other display device drive circuits, do not limit this application.
As fully visible, in the flexible display apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present invention and driving method thereof, when flexible display panels bending, when described flexible display panels is divided into multiple display block, each display block respectively controls by a different driving circuit, make each display block to carry out different displays under can realizing flexible display apparatus case of bending thus, comprise different display frame, display quality etc., the advantage of flexible display apparatus can be played thus greatly.
Foregoing description is only the description to present pre-ferred embodiments, any restriction not to the scope of the invention, and any change that the those of ordinary skill in field of the present invention does according to above-mentioned disclosure, modification, all belong to the protection domain of claims.

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1. a driving method for flexible display apparatus, is characterized in that, comprising: multiple driving circuit, and when flexible display panels bending, when described flexible display panels is divided into multiple display block, each display block respectively controls by a different driving circuit.
2. the driving method of flexible display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, when described flexible display panels is smooth, whole flexible display panels controls by a driving circuit.
3. the driving method of flexible display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, when each display block respectively controls by a different driving circuit, the resolution of each display block is identical or different.
4. the driving method of flexible display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, when described flexible display panels bends, when described flexible display panels is divided into multiple display block, bending place exports a control signal, according to described control signal, multiple drive circuit works, each display block respectively controls by a different driving circuit.
5. the driving method of the flexible display apparatus as described in any one in Claims 1 to 4, is characterized in that, the quantity of described driving circuit is two, described flexible display panels can left and right or bend up and down.
6. the driving method of flexible display apparatus as claimed in claim 5, it is characterized in that, bending place is positioned at the intermediate pixel side of described flexible display panels.
7. the driving method of the flexible display apparatus as described in any one in Claims 1 to 4, is characterized in that, the quantity of described driving circuit is four, and described flexible display panels can bend up and down.
8. a flexible display apparatus, it is characterized in that, comprise: flexible display panels and the multiple driving circuits be connected with described flexible display panels, described flexible display panels is provided with control element, when described flexible display panels bends, when described flexible display panels is divided into multiple display block, described control element controls multiple drive circuit works, and each display block respectively controls by a different driving circuit.
9. flexible display apparatus as claimed in claim 8, it is characterized in that, described control element is on-off element, and when described flexible display panels bending, described on-off element disconnects and controls multiple drive circuit works.
10. flexible display apparatus as claimed in claim 9, it is characterized in that, when described flexible display panels is smooth, described on-off element is communicated with and controls a drive circuit works.
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