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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1999
Alan G. Knapp, Crawley, GB;
Neil C. Bird, Horley, GB;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An active matrix electroluminescent display device has an array of current-driven electroluminescent display elements ( ), for example comprising organic electroluminescent material, whose operations are each controlled by an associated switching means ( ) to which a drive signal for determining a desired light output is supplied in a respective address period and which is arranged to drive the display element according to the drive signal following the address period. Each switching means comprises a current mirror circuit ( ) in which the same transistor ( ) is used to both sense and produce the required drive current for the display element ( ) with the gate of the transistor being connected to a storage capacitance ( ) on which a voltage determined by the drive signal is stored. This allows variations in transistor characteristics over the array to be compensated and improved uniformity of light outputs from the display elements to be obtained.