Special-shaped display panel and display device
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of display panels, and particularly relates to a special-shaped display panel and a display device.
Technical Field
Compared with the conventional display panel, the special-shaped display panel has the main difference that the display area of the special-shaped display panel is not a single rectangular structure any more, and in the application of watches and vehicles, the display area of the panel can be required to be in a special shape such as a circle, an arc, a diamond and the like. The pixel units in the display panel are mostly rectangular or other more regular structures, so when the pixel units of such structures are applied to a special-shaped display panel, the situation that the pixel units cannot be completely fitted with the boundary of the display panel occurs at the edge of the display panel. At this time, if the integrity of the RGB pixel unit is maintained, the edge of the shaped display panel may appear microscopically significantly jagged, which may cause a visual jagged feeling; if the incomplete RGB pixel unit structure is adopted at the edge of the display panel, the saw-tooth feeling is improved, but the color cast problem of the edge area is also caused.
As shown in fig. 1, which is a schematic structural diagram of a conventional sub-Pixel unit 100, if the conventional Pixel unit structure is maintained at the boundary of the irregular-shaped display panel, the edge of the irregular-shaped display panel appears as a distinct zigzag (the area of the dotted line 200 shown in fig. 2) as shown in fig. 2 without changing the Pixel blocking layer (Pixel BM). If the pixel shielding layer is changed according to the edge of the irregular display panel, the RGB transmittance in one pixel unit is inconsistent and a serious color shift is generated, as shown in the area marked by 300 in fig. 3.
In order to improve the sawtooth-shaped problem of the special-shaped display panel, the following technical schemes exist in the prior art: one is to adopt a special light-shielding structure to improve the zigzag display, as shown in fig. 4, but this method significantly reduces the aperture ratio of the peripheral pixels, reduces the screen pixel density (PPI) through phase inversion, and the stripe light-shielding structure may cause the display of dark lines; another is to improve the zigzag display by using a special pixel size/gap, as shown in fig. 5, but this method also reduces the PPI on the screen while changing the pixel gap, and the special pixel size causes the circuit to be modified; there is also a method for improving the zigzag display by using a special circuit, that is, applying different operating voltages to the pixels in the edge display area of the special-shaped display device through the special circuit to weaken the brightness of the pixels at the edge, but this method is less operable.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a special-shaped display panel and a display device, wherein the special-shaped display panel and the display device are used for processing effective areas of a common electrode and a pixel electrode in a pixel to weaken an edge electric field (strength and range) to reduce the transmittance of the pixel and optimize the jagged defects of the edge of the special-shaped display panel.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
the invention discloses a special-shaped display panel, which comprises: the display device comprises a main display area and a secondary display area positioned at the edge of the main display area, wherein the main display area is provided with a plurality of first pixel units which are repeatedly arranged, and the secondary display area is provided with a plurality of second pixel units which are repeatedly arranged, and is characterized in that the sub-pixel units of the first pixel units and the sub-pixel units of the second pixel units have the same width; the sub-pixel units of the first pixel unit and the second pixel unit respectively comprise a pixel shielding layer positioned at the edge of the sub-pixel unit, a plurality of pixel electrodes positioned in the sub-pixel unit and arranged at intervals, and a pixel electrode slit positioned between two adjacent pixel electrodes;
the width of the pixel electrode slit of the sub-pixel unit of the second pixel unit is larger than that of the pixel electrode slit of the sub-pixel unit of the first pixel unit; the width of the pixel electrode of the sub-pixel unit of the second pixel unit is smaller than that of the pixel electrode of the sub-pixel unit of the first pixel unit.
Preferably, the first pixel unit and the second pixel unit each have m (m-3 or 4) sub-pixel units.
Preferably, the number of pixel electrode slits per sub-pixel unit is 3.
Preferably, the second pixel unit of the secondary display area is composed of multiple sets of gradually changed sub-pixel units, and different sub-pixel units have pixel electrode slits and pixel electrodes with different widths.
Preferably, the widths of the pixel electrode slits of the sub-pixel units from the inside to the outside in the sub-display area show an increasing trend, and the widths of the pixel electrodes show a decreasing trend.
Preferably, there are at least three kinds of sub-pixels in each row of the gradation sub-pixels in the sub-display area.
The invention also discloses a liquid crystal display device which comprises any special-shaped display panel.
The invention can bring the following beneficial effects:
in the invention, under the condition that the width of the sub-pixel unit of the second pixel unit is consistent with that of the sub-pixel unit of the first pixel unit, the fringe field intensity of the display area is weakened only by adjusting the width of the pixel electrode slit of the sub-pixel unit in the second pixel unit and the width of the pixel electrode, so that the driving capability of liquid crystal molecules is reduced, and the purpose of weakening the display effect of the edge of the panel is achieved.
Drawings
The present invention will be further described in the following detailed description of preferred embodiments, which is to be read in connection with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a sub-pixel cell in the prior art;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an edge saw-tooth shape of a prior art shaped display panel;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of edge color shift of a prior art profiled display panel;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a zigzag display improved by a special light shielding structure in the prior art;
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a prior art technique for improving jagged display using a special pixel size/gap;
FIG. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a sub-pixel unit according to the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a top view of a sub-pixel cell of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the distribution of the edge sub-pixel units of the special-shaped display panel according to the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of the Pixel electrode slit width and Pixel electrode width of the Normal sub-Pixel cell Pixel Normal and sub-Pixel cells Pixel1-Pixel5 of the present invention;
FIG. 10 is a table showing the transmittance of different sub-pixel cells of the present invention under a driving voltage of 0-5V;
FIG. 11 is a comparative illustration of the display of the improved front and improved back panel edges of the present invention.
Detailed Description
In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the following description will be made with reference to the accompanying drawings. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some examples of the invention, and that for a person skilled in the art, other drawings and embodiments can be derived from them without inventive effort.
For the sake of simplicity, the drawings only schematically show the parts relevant to the present invention, and they do not represent the actual structure as a product. In addition, in order to make the drawings concise and understandable, components having the same structure or function in some of the drawings are only schematically illustrated or only labeled. In this document, "one" means not only "only one" but also a case of "more than one".
The technical solution of the present invention is described in detail with specific examples below.
The invention provides a special-shaped display panel, which comprises: the display device comprises a main display area and an auxiliary display area positioned at the edge of the main display area, wherein the main display area is provided with a plurality of first pixel units which are repeatedly arranged, and the auxiliary display area is provided with a plurality of second pixel units which are repeatedly arranged. The first pixel unit and the second pixel unit both have m (m is 3 or 4) sub-pixel units; the sub-pixel units of the first pixel unit and the sub-pixel units of the second pixel unit have the same width.
Fig. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a sub-Pixel unit, and fig. 7 is a top view of the sub-Pixel unit, as shown in fig. 6 and 7, each sub-Pixel unit includes a common electrode 10, a plurality of Pixel electrodes 20 disposed at intervals in the sub-Pixel unit, a spacing layer 30 spaced between the common electrode 10 and the Pixel electrodes 20, a liquid crystal layer 40, a Pixel blocking layer (Pixel BM)50 disposed between two adjacent sub-Pixel units, and a Pixel electrode Slit (Slit)21 disposed between two adjacent Pixel electrodes 20. An electric field 50 for driving the liquid crystal layer 40 is generated between the common electrode 10 and the pixel electrode 20. The number of the pixel electrode slits of the sub-pixel unit is plural, and may be determined according to the size of the specific sub-pixel unit, and in the embodiment of the present invention, the number of the pixel electrode slits of the sub-pixel unit is 3.
The following are specific embodiments of the present invention:
defining the width of the pixel electrode slit 21 as W, the width of the pixel electrode 20 (i.e. the distance between two adjacent pixel electrode slits 21) as S, the width of the pixel electrode slit of the sub-pixel unit of the first pixel unit is W1, and the width of the pixel electrode slit of the sub-pixel unit of the second pixel unit is W2; the width of the pixel electrode of the sub-pixel unit of the first pixel unit is S1, and the width of the pixel electrode of the sub-pixel unit of the second pixel unit is S2.
The width W2 of the pixel electrode slit of the sub-pixel unit of the second pixel unit is larger than the width W1 of the pixel electrode slit of the sub-pixel unit of the first pixel unit; the width S2 of the pixel electrode of the sub-pixel unit of the second pixel unit is smaller than the width S1 of the pixel electrode of the sub-pixel unit of the first pixel unit.
In this embodiment, the second pixel unit in the sub-display region may be composed of multiple sets of sub-pixel units that are gradually changed, that is, different sub-pixel units in the second pixel unit have pixel electrode slits and pixel electrodes with different widths, and these different sub-pixel units are combined to form different second pixel units according to the specific display requirements of the edge of the display panel. The second pixel units with gradual change can present multiple groups of gradual change gray scales under the same voltage, and zigzag display can be well optimized.
Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram showing the distribution of sub-pixel units at the edge of the irregular display panel, in which the first pixel unit is located in the main display area and the second pixel unit is located in the sub-display area. The first Pixel unit is composed of normal sub-Pixel units Pixel normal, the second Pixel unit is composed of multiple groups of gradually changed sub-Pixel units (illustrated as Pixel1-Pixel5 in fig. 8), and the sub-Pixel units Pixel1-Pixel5 are respectively sub-Pixel units with different Pixel electrode slit widths and Pixel electrode widths.
In the sub-display area, the width of the pixel electrode slit 21 and the width of the pixel electrode 20 of the multiple sets of sub-pixel units which are gradually changed can be changed in various ways, and in the sub-display area, the width of the pixel electrode slit 21 of the sub-pixel unit from inside to outside presents an increasing trend, the width of the pixel electrode 20 presents a decreasing trend, and finally, the brightness is gradually reduced visually. In this embodiment, there may be any combination of sub-Pixel units Pixel1-Pixel5, and there are at least three kinds of sub-Pixel units in each row of the gradation sub-Pixel units in the sub-display area, considering that the sub-display area has a certain width from inside to outside and must be a complete Pixel unit.
Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of the slit width of the Pixel electrode 21 and the width of the Pixel electrode 20 of the Normal sub-Pixel unit Pixel Normal and the sub-Pixel units Pixel1-Pixel5 in the present embodiment, wherein the slit width W of the Pixel electrode 21 and the width S of the Pixel electrode 20 of the Normal sub-Pixel unit Pixel Normal are 2.9 μm and 2.7 μm, respectively, and the slit width W21 of the Pixel electrode 21 and the width S21 of the Pixel electrode 20 of the sub-Pixel unit Pixel1 are 3.1 μm and 2.5 μm, respectively; the slit width of the Pixel electrode 21 and the width of the Pixel electrode 20 of the sub-Pixel unit Pixel2 were 3.3 μm and 2.3 μm, respectively; the slit width of the Pixel electrode slit 21 and the width of the Pixel electrode 20 of the sub-Pixel unit Pixel3 are 3.5 μm and 2.1 μm, respectively; the slit width of the Pixel electrode 21 and the width of the Pixel electrode 20 of the sub-Pixel unit Pixel4 were 3.7 μm and 1.9 μm, respectively; the width of the Pixel electrode slit 21 and the width of the Pixel electrode 20 of the sub-Pixel unit Pixel5 are 3.9 μm and 1.7 μm, respectively. The slit widths of the Pixel electrodes 21 of the Normal sub-Pixel unit Pixel Normal and the sub-Pixel units Pixel1-Pixel5 gradually increase, and the widths of the Pixel electrodes 20 gradually decrease. It should be noted that the present embodiment only proposes the values of the slit widths of the Pixel electrodes 21 and the widths of the Pixel electrodes 20 of the sub-Pixel units Pixel1-Pixel5, and other values are also within the protection scope of the present invention.
Fig. 10 is a table showing the transmittance variation of different sub-pixel units under the driving voltage of 0-5V, and it is shown that, under the same voltage, the transmittance exhibited is different due to the difference between the width of the pixel electrode slit 21 and the width of the pixel electrode 20 of the sub-pixel unit, so that different sub-pixel units can form different gray levels (gray levels), which is beneficial to the realization of the weak display of the edge of the display panel and the reduction of the jaggy feeling.
The invention also discloses a liquid crystal display device which comprises the special-shaped display panel.
FIG. 11 is a comparison graph of the display before and after the improvement of the present invention, in which the width of the sub-pixel unit of the second pixel unit is not changed, but the width of the sub-pixel unit of the second pixel unit is kept consistent with the width of the sub-pixel unit of the first pixel unit, and the present invention only adjusts the width of the pixel electrode slit 21 and the width of the pixel electrode 20 of the sub-pixel unit in the second pixel unit, so that the electric field strength of the edge of the display area is weakened, thereby reducing the driving capability of the liquid crystal molecules, and achieving the purpose of weakening the display effect of the edge of the panel.
It should be noted that the above mentioned embodiments are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to the details of the above embodiments, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, it is possible to make various modifications and amendments within the technical concept of the present invention without departing from the principle of the present invention, and various modifications, amendments and equivalents of the technical solution of the present invention should be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.