Lg Display Co., Ltd.

Db Hitek Co., Ltd.

Seok Noh

Ki Min Son

Chang Hee Kim

Kimin Son

In-Hyo Han

Ki Won Son

Kyung-Min Kim

Young Chul Kim

Seung Ho Heo

Joon Tae Jang

Dong Hyun Lee

Kyungmin Kim

Ki Bok Park

Myungho Ban

Seo Jun Yeom

Inhyo Han

InHyo Han

Hun Ki Shin

Hae-Jin Park

Ki-Min Son

Injune Kim

Ye Won Hong

Joon Hyeok Byeon

A pixel circuit comprises a first switch element comprising a first electrode to which an initialization voltage is applied, a gate electrode to which a initialization pulse is applied, and a second electrode connected to a second node; a second switch element comprising a first electrode connected to a third node or a fourth node, a gate electrode to which a sensing pulse is applied, and a second electrode to which a reference voltage is applied; a third switch element comprising a first electrode to which a data voltage is applied, a gate electrode to which a scan pulse is applied, and a second electrode connected to the second node; and a fourth switch element comprising a first electrode connected to the third node, a gate electrode to which a first emission control pulse is applied, and a second electrode connected to the fourth node.

Pixel circuit and display device including the same

Provided are a gate driving circuit and a display device including the same. The gate driving circuit includes a first controller configured to control a first control node to act as a pull-up control node to turn on a first transistor when an activation clock is input to the first controller for a first unit time, and to be deactivated when a deactivation clock is input thereto for a second unit time; and a second controller configured to control a second control node to act as a pull-up control node to turn on a second transistor when the activation clock is input to the second controller for the second unit time, and to be deactivated when the deactivation clock is input thereto for the first unit time.

Gate driving circuit and display device including the same

A gate driver according to an embodiment and a display device using the same are disclosed. The gate driver includes a plurality of signal transmitters, wherein an nth signal transmitter includes, a (1-1)th output circuit configured to output a carry signal to a first output node according to a voltage of a first control node and a voltage of a second control node, a (1-2)th output circuit configured to output a boosting signal to a second output node according to a voltage of the first control node and a voltage of the second control node, wherein the (1-2)th output circuit includes a pull-up transistor configured to apply a gate high voltage to the first output node, a pull-down transistor configured to apply a gate low voltage to the first output node, and a first capacitor connected between a gate of the pull-up transistor and the second output node.

Gate driver and display device using the same

An inverter circuit, a gate driver using the same, and a display device according to an embodiment are discussed. The inverter circuit can include a first transistor connected between a high potential voltage line and a first node; a second transistor having a gate connected to the first node and turned on according to a voltage of the first node to charge a second control node to a high potential voltage of the high potential voltage line; a third transistor having a gate connected to a first control node, a first electrode connected to the first node, and a second electrode connected to the second control node; and a fourth transistor having a gate connected to the first control node, a first electrode connected to the second control node, and a second electrode connected to a low potential voltage line.

Inverter circuit, gate driver using the same, and display device

A display panel and an electronic device including the same are disclosed. A circuit layer of the display panel includes at least a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first oxide semiconductor pattern, a gate electrode, a first electrode in contact with one side of the first oxide semiconductor pattern, a second electrode in contact with the other side of the first oxide semiconductor pattern, and a first-first metal pattern disposed on the substrate to overlap the first oxide semiconductor pattern. The second transistor includes a second oxide semiconductor pattern, a gate electrode, a first electrode in contact with one side of the second oxide semiconductor pattern, a second electrode in contact with the other side of the second oxide semiconductor pattern, a first-second metal pattern disposed on the substrate to overlap the second oxide semiconductor pattern, and a second metal pattern disposed between the second oxide semiconductor pattern and the first-second metal pattern.

Display panel and electronic device including same

The present disclosure is directed to a gate driver circuit configured to prevent a light-emitting element of a display device from emitting light in a sensing mode. The gate driver circuit allows a plurality of scan lines of the display device being concurrently sensed by pre-charging a node of the gate driver circuit prior starting a sensing mode. The present disclosure provides the benefit of sensing a greater number of pixels of a display in a shorter time while also ensuring that a sufficient charge is provided by the pre-charged node for a plurality of pixels of the plurality of scan lines to be sensed concurrently.

A gate driver according to an embodiment and a display device using the same are discussed. The gate driver can output a gate signal to a pixel circuit having a driving element connected between a first power line and a first node, a light-emitting element connected between the first node and a second power line, and a switching element connected between the first node and a third power line and driven by the gate signal. The gate driver includes a first circuit unit to receive a carry signal from a previous signal transmission unit to charge or discharge a first control node and a second control node, and a second circuit unit having a first buffer transistor and a second buffer transistor configured to output the gate signal based on a first clock signal and a first low potential voltage according to potentials of the first and second control nodes.

Disclosed are a gate driver and a display panel including the same. The gate driver according to an embodiment includes a plurality of signal transfer units cascade-connected via a carry line to which a carry signal is applied from a previous signal transfer unit, and an n(n is a positive integer) signal transfer unit includes a first output unit configured to output a first gate signal to a first output node according to a voltage of a first control node configured to pull up an output voltage and a second control node configured to pull down the output voltage; and a second output unit configured to output a second gate signal in which a phase of the first gate signal is reversed to a second output node, wherein the second output unit may include a first pull-up transistor configured to output a high potential voltage to the second output node according to a voltage of a second control node of an (n-i)(i is a positive integer less than n) signal transfer unit; and a second pull-down transistor configured to output a first low potential voltage to the second output node according to a voltage of a first control node of an (n+j)(j is a natural number greater than n) signal transfer unit.

Gate driver and display panel including the same

The disclosure provides a shift register including a node controller configured to control charging and discharging of a node Q and a node QB, and an output circuit including a first buffer transistor configured to output a first scan signal, a second buffer transistor configured to output a second scan signal and a third buffer transistor configured to output a carry signal in response to electric potentials of the node Q and the node QB. The first buffer transistor and the second buffer transistor have different channel region widths. The output circuit may further include a first dummy buffer transistor having a common gate and common drain connection structure with the first buffer transistor.

Shift register and display device using the same

An ESD protection SCR device includes an epitaxial layer provided on a P-type semiconductor substrate, the epitaxial layer having the P-type conductivity, element isolation layers provided on the epitaxial layer, the element isolation layers dividing the epitaxial layer into an anode region and a cathode region, a first well of an N-type conductivity, provided in a portion of the epitaxial layer corresponding to the anode region, a first impurity region provided on a surface of the first well, the first impurity region being connected to an anode terminal and having a high concentration P-type conductivity, a second well of the P-type conductivity, provided in a portion of the epitaxial layer corresponding to the cathode region, a second impurity region provided on a surface of the second well, the second impurity region being connected to a cathode terminal and having a high concentration N-type conductivity, and a floating well of the N-type conductivity, buried in the epitaxial layer.

ESD protection silicon controlled rectifier device

Disclosed herein are a gate driver capable of implementing a narrow bezel by deleting dummy gate-in-panels (GIPs) and a flat panel display device including the same. The gate driver includes gate-in-panels (GIPs) equal in number to a plurality of gate lines in order to sequentially supply scan pulses to the plurality of gate lines. A k-th GIP is enabled by a carry pulse from a GIP of a (k&#x2212;a)-th stage and is disabled by a carry pulse output from a GIP of a (k+b)-th stage (a and b are natural numbers), first a GIPs are enabled by a gate start signal output from a timing controller, and last b GIPs are disabled by a reset signal output from the timing controller.

Gate driver and flat panel display device including the same

A gate driver includes a gate shift register in which an A block and a B block each having a plurality of stages, the A block and the B block being alternately arranged; scan clock lines inputting a first scan clock group and a second scan clock group each including both image data writing (IDW) scan clocks synchronized with an image write timing and black data insertion (BDI) scan clocks synchronized with a black write timing to the A block and the B block; and carry clock lines inputting carry clocks to the A block and the B block and sense clock lines inputting sense clocks to the A block and the B block, wherein each of the stages belonging to the A block and the B block includes a BDI memory storing a BDI carry signal for outputting the BDI scan clocks.

Gate driver and display device including the same

Disclosed herein are a gate driver including at least two output buffers to drive at least two gate lines and capable of reducing an output deviation of each output buffer, and a flat panel display device including the same. The gate driver includes a plurality of gate-in-panels (GIPs) for sequentially supplying scan signals to a plurality of gate lines. Each GIP includes one carry signal output unit and at least two scan signal output units to drive at least two gate lines, and the carry signal output unit includes a pull-up transistor controlled by a voltage of a first node, a pull-down transistor controlled by a voltage of a second node, and a boosting capacitor formed between gate and source electrodes of the pull-up transistor.

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Paju-si, South Korea

Seok Noh