Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Yujin Lee

Heerim Song

Heejean Park

Mukyung Jeon

Cheol-Gon Lee

Sunhwa Lee

Jaeyong Jang

Cheolgon Lee

Junhyun Park

Youngwan Seo

Hyeongseok Kim

Haemin Kim

Cheol-gon Lee

Gyungsoon Park

Chongchul Chai

Yeon-Mun Jeon

Taegyun Kim

YoungJe Cho

Bonyong Koo

Yongkoo Her

Min-chul Song

A display device includes: a pixel driving circuit configured to drive the light emitting elements of pixels; and sensors including a light sensing element and a sensor driving circuit connected with the light sensing element and configured to output a sensing signal corresponding to a light, the sensor driving circuit including: a reset transistor including a first electrode configured to receive a reset signal, a second electrode connected with a first sensing node, and a third electrode configured to receive a reset control signal; an amplification transistor including a first electrode configured to receive a sensing driving voltage, a second electrode connected with a second sensing node, and a third electrode connected with the first sensing node; and an output transistor including a first electrode connected with the second sensing node, a second electrode connected with a sensing line, and a third electrode configured to receive an output control signal.

Display device

A display device includes a base layer and a pixel layer that is disposed on the base layer and that includes a plurality of reference pixel units and a plurality of sensors. Each of the plurality of reference pixel units includes a first light emitting element, a second light emitting element, and a third light emitting element. Each of the plurality of sensors includes a light sensing element disposed between two second light emitting elements adjacent to each other in a first direction and disposed between the first and third light emitting elements in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The second light emitting element has a different shape from the first and third light emitting elements, and the light sensing element has a different shape from the first and third light emitting elements.

A display device includes a light emitting element, a pixel circuit disposed below the light emitting element and electrically connected to the light emitting element, a first light receiving element disposed adjacent to the light emitting element, a sensing circuit disposed below the first light receiving element and electrically connected to the first light receiving element, a second light receiving element spaced apart from the first light receiving element and electrically connected to the sensing circuit and adjacent to the light emitting element, and a dummy circuit pattern disposed below the second light receiving element.

Display device including light receiving element

A display panel includes a substrate including a corner display area including a strip portion between cut portions; and corner pixels in the strip portion and corner pixel circuits which drives the corner pixels, wherein each of the corner pixels includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel, and each of the corner pixel circuits includes a first pixel circuit which drives the first sub-pixel, a second pixel circuit which drives the second sub-pixel, and a third pixel circuit which drives the third sub-pixel, and the first pixel circuit, the second pixel circuit, and the third pixel circuit included in an n-th corner pixel circuit in a first direction that is a lengthwise direction of the strip portion are arranged differently from the first pixel circuit, the second pixel circuit, and the third pixel circuit in an (n+1)-th corner pixel circuit.

Display panel and display apparatus including the same

A display device includes: a pixel including a light emitting element; a sensor including a sensing element and a sensor driving circuit; and a sensor driver to output a sensor scan signal to the sensor driving circuit. The sensor driver includes: a switching circuit connected between a first input terminal for receiving a first clock signal of a first operating frequency and a first clock node, and to output a first filtering clock signal of a second operating frequency to the first clock node in response to a first enable signal; and a driving circuit to output the sensor scan signal in response to the first filtering clock signal of the first clock node.

A display panel may include: a substrate including a front display area, a corner display area extending from a corner of the front display area, and a peripheral area outside the corner display area, where the corner display area includes a first corner display area and a second corner display area; a first corner driving circuit positioned in the second corner display area and electrically connected to each of a front pixel arranged in the front display area and a corner pixel arranged in the first corner display area; a second corner driving circuit positioned in the second corner display area, electrically connected to the corner pixel arranged in the first corner display area, and not electrically connected to the front pixel; and a load portion positioned in the peripheral area and electrically connected to the second corner driving circuit.

Display panel having front, side, and corner display areas and display apparatus including the same

A display panel includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area around the display area, the display area including a front display area, a corner display area extending from a corner of the front display area, and a middle display area between the front display area and the corner display area, a pixel arranged on the front display area and including a display element, a gate driving circuit arranged on a side of the peripheral area, a data driving circuit arranged on the side on which the gate driving circuit is arranged, a gate line connected to the gate driving circuit and extending to be connected to the pixel, and a data line connected to the data driving circuit and extending to be connected to the pixel.

Display panel and display apparatus

A display apparatus includes: a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area; a first conductive layer on the substrate in the peripheral area and including a first hole; a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer and overlapping the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer including a second hole; a planarization layer extending from the display area to the peripheral area and including at least two organic insulating layers between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer; and a display element on the planarization layer in the display area, wherein a part of a portion of the second conductive layer except for the second hole is in contact with a part of a portion of the first conductive layer except for the first hole.

Display apparatus including multi-level conductive layer contact area

A display panel includes a substrate including a first display area, a first side display area, a second side display area, and a corner display area, the corner display area being arranged between the first side display area and the second side display area and surrounding at least a portion of the first display area, a first wiring extending in a first direction in the first display area, a second wiring extending in a second direction in the first display area, a first corner wiring arranged in the corner display area and connected to the first wiring, a second corner wiring arranged in the corner display area and connected to the second wiring, and a pixel circuit arranged in the corner display area, where the first corner wiring and the second corner wiring extend in a first extension direction in the corner display area.

Display panel including corner display area and display apparatus including the display panel

A display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. The display panel includes a plurality of first pixel groups in the first display area, a plurality of second pixel groups in the second display area, and a plurality of scan lines connected to the first and second pixel groups. The second display area includes a plurality of light emitting areas in which the second pixel groups are respectively disposed, and a plurality of open areas in which the second pixel groups are not disposed. One of a second pixel group of an n-th row is cut and does not overlap an adjacent open area of the n-th row, and is connected in the second display area to a scan line of a second pixel group of an (n−1)-th row or a scan line of a second pixel group of an (n+1)-th row.

Display panel and display device with scan line electrically connected to adjacent scan line

A display device includes: a base layer; a plurality of scan lines configured to sequentially receive scan signals, the plurality of scan lines being on the base layer; a plurality of pixels on the base layer and connected to each of the plurality of scan lines; a plurality of sensing control lines configured to simultaneously receive sensing control signals, the sensing control lines being on the base layer; and a plurality of sensors on the base layer and connected to respective ones of the sensing control lines, wherein the scan line and the sensing control line are on the same layer.

A pixel includes a light emitting element, a driving switching element, an initialization voltage terminal, a data initialization switching element set, and an adjustment switching element. The driving switching element may provide a driving current to the light emitting element. The adjustment switching element is electrically connected to the data initialization switching element in series. At least one of the data initialization switching element set and the adjustment switching element may control an electrical connection between the control electrode of the driving switching element and the initialization voltage terminal. A control electrode of the adjustment switching element is electrically connected to an input electrode of the adjustment switching element.

Pixel and display apparatus having the same

Disclosed is a display device including a base layer and a pixel layer that is disposed on the base layer and that includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of sensors. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting element and a pixel drive circuit connected to the light emitting element to control driving of the light emitting element. Each of the plurality of sensors includes a light sensing unit including a plurality of light sensing elements, a sensor drive circuit that is connected to at least two light sensing elements and that outputs a sensing signal in response to light, and a routing wire that electrically connects the at least two light sensing elements to each other.

A display device includes an inorganic insulating layer having a groove surrounding pixel areas, a first thin film transistor in a first pixel area of a substrate, a second thin film transistor in a second pixel area of the substrate, a first electrode layer overlapping a first gate electrode of the first thin film transistor and a second gate electrode of the second thin film transistor, an organic material layer disposed in the groove, a data line extending over the organic material layer in a second direction, and a first connecting line extending across the organic material layer in a first direction, disposed between the first electrode layer and the data line, and overlapping the first electrode layer.

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Yujin Lee