Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and corresponding method of control are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines which are arranged to intersect source signal lines. A pixel provided with an EL device corresponds to each intersection of the gate signal lines and the source signal lines. A driving transistor is provided for each pixel to supply a current to the EL device. A first switch transistor is provided for each pixel on a current path through which the current is supplied to the EL device. A gate driver circuit is connected to the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit is configured to turn the first switch transistor on and off to simultaneously generate band-shaped non-display regions and band-shaped display regions on the display screen and to move the band-shaped non-display regions and the band-shaped display regions relative to the display screen.

Abstract: A plurality of pixel circuits included in a display device each includes: a drive transistor; a capacitor connected to a gate electrode and a source electrode of the drive transistor; a light-emitting element which is driven by the drive transistor; a write transistor having a gate electrode connected to a write control line for transmitting a write signal, one of a drain electrode and a source electrode connected to a data line for transmitting a data voltage corresponding to luminance, and the other of the drain electrode and the source electrode connected to the gate electrode of the drive transistor; and a compensation transistor having a gate electrode connected to the data line, and at least one of a drain electrode and a source electrode connected to the write control line, the compensation transistor being of same conductivity type as the write transistor.

Abstract: A display panel includes a contact area which includes an upper conductive layer forming first electrodes of the organic EL elements, a lower conductive layer disposed below the upper conductive layer, a middle layer between the upper conductive layer and the lower conductive layer, and an insulating layer between the lower conductive layer and the middle layer. The middle layer includes a first area and a second area which are conductive and electrically connected to the upper conductive layer, and an insulating separating area which separates the first area and the second area. The lower conductive layer includes a first line which is electrically connected to the first area via a first contact hole, and a second line which is electrically connected to the second area via a second contact hole.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a control circuit which controls the display panel. The display panel includes pixel circuits and one or more dummy pixel circuits. Each pixel circuit includes an organic EL element having a first electrode and a second electrode, and a drive transistor. Each dummy pixel circuit includes a dummy capacitance element having a first dummy electrode, and a second dummy electrode shared with the second electrode of the organic EL element. The control circuit performs at least one of initialization control to initialize a potential of the first electrode in a different pixel circuit and dummy initialization control to initialize a potential of the first dummy electrode in the dummy pixel circuit within a period for which threshold compensation control to compensate for a threshold voltage of the drive transistor is performed on each of the pixel circuits.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and corresponding method of control are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines which are arranged to intersect source signal lines. A pixel provided with an EL device corresponds to each intersection of the gate signal lines and the source signal lines. A driving transistor is provided for each pixel to supply a current to the EL device. A first switch transistor is provided for each pixel on a current path through which the current is supplied to the EL device. A gate driver circuit is connected to the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit is configured to turn the first switch transistor on and off to simultaneously generate band-shaped non-display regions and band-shaped display regions on the display screen and to move the band-shaped non-display regions and the band-shaped display regions relative to the display screen.

Abstract: A power off method of a display device includes: detecting a power off operation on the display device; setting, when the power off operation is detected, a voltage for suppressing electrical stress on a drive transistor, in a capacitance element in each of a plurality of pixel circuits; and stopping power supply to a display panel immediately after the voltage is set.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and corresponding method of control are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines which are arranged to intersect source signal lines. A pixel provided with an EL device corresponds to each intersection of the gate signal lines and the source signal lines. A driving transistor is provided for each pixel to supply a current to the EL device. A first switch transistor is provided for each pixel on a current path through which the current is supplied to the EL device. A gate driver circuit is connected to the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit is configured to turn the first switch transistor on and off to simultaneously generate band-shaped non-display regions and band-shaped display regions on the display screen and to move the band-shaped non-display regions and the band-shaped display regions relative to the display screen.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method of controlling are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines and source signal lines. A pixel corresponds to each intersection of the gate and source signal lines. Each pixel includes: an EL device including an anode and cathode terminals; a driving transistor to flow a current to the EL device; a first switch transistor provided on a current path through which the current flows from a power line through the driving transistor to the EL device; a second switch transistor to supply, to the driving transistor, an image signal from one of the source signal lines; and a third switch transistor provided between the anode terminal of the EL device and a voltage line. The voltage line is configured to supply a reverse bias voltage for reverse biasing the anode terminal of the EL device.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method of control are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines which intersect source signal lines. A pixel provided with an EL device corresponds to each intersection of the gate and source signal lines. A driving transistor is provided for each pixel to supply a current to the EL device. A first switch transistor is provided on a current path through which the current is supplied to the EL device. A gate driver circuit is connected to the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit includes a shift register circuit, and outputs a select or non-select signal for the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit turns the first switch transistor on and off to control a duty ratio of the display screen. The duty ratio is controlled by a start pulse fed to the shift register circuit.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and corresponding method of control are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines which are arranged to intersect source signal lines. A pixel provided with an EL device corresponds to each intersection of the gate signal lines and the source signal lines. A driving transistor is provided for each pixel to supply a current to the EL device. A first switch transistor is provided for each pixel on a current path through which the current is supplied to the EL device. A gate driver circuit is connected to the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit is configured to turn the first switch transistor on and off to simultaneously generate band-shaped non-display regions and band-shaped display regions on the display screen and to move the non-display regions and the display regions relative to the display screen.

Abstract: A method for powering off a display apparatus includes: detecting a power-off operation input to a display apparatus; upon detection of the power-off operation, setting capacitive elements of a plurality of pixel circuits so as to have a black-level voltage; and stopping supply of power to a display panel immediately after the voltage is set.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method of controlling are provided. A display screen includes gate and source signal lines. A pixel corresponds to each intersection of the gate and source signal lines. Each pixel includes: an EL device including anode and cathode terminals, the cathode terminal being connected to a common reference voltage; a driving transistor to flow a current to the EL device; a first switch transistor provided on a current path through which the current flows from a power line through the driving transistor to the EL device; a second switch transistor to supply, to the driving transistor, an image signal from one source signal line; and a third switch transistor provided between the anode terminal of the EL device and a voltage line. The voltage line is configured to supply a reverse bias voltage for reverse biasing the anode terminal of the EL device.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method are provided. A display screen includes pixels. A pixel circuit of each of pixel includes, in part: a first switch transistor on a path through which current flows from a power line through a driving transistor to an EL device; a second switch transistor to supply an image signal to the driving transistor; and a third switch transistor for initially resetting the pixel circuit before the second switch transistor supplies the image signal. A gate terminal of the first switch transistor is connected to a first gate driver circuit. Gate terminals of the second and third switch transistors are connected to a second gate driver circuit, which includes a second gate signal line connected to both the gate terminal of the second switch transistor of a Nth row and the gate terminal of the third switch transistor of a (N+1)th row.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method of control are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines which intersect source signal lines. A pixel provided with an EL device corresponds to each intersection of the gate and source signal lines. A driving transistor is provided for each pixel to supply a current to the EL device. A first switch transistor is provided on a current path through which the current is supplied to the EL device. A gate driver circuit is connected to the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit includes a shift register circuit, and outputs a select or non-select signal for the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit turns the first switch transistor on and off to control a duty ratio of the display screen. The duty ratio is controlled by a start pulse fed to the shift register circuit.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method are provided. A display screen includes pixels. A pixel circuit of each of pixel includes, in part: a first switch transistor on a path through which current flows from a power line through a driving transistor to an EL device; a second switch transistor to supply an image signal to the driving transistor; and a third switch transistor for initially resetting the pixel circuit before the second switch transistor supplies the image signal. A gate terminal of the first switch transistor is connected to a first gate driver circuit. Gate terminals of the second and third switch transistors are connected to a second gate driver circuit, which includes a second gate signal line connected to both the gate terminal of the second switch transistor of a Nth row and the gate terminal of the third switch transistor of a (N+1)th row.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method of controlling are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines and source signal lines. A pixel corresponds to each intersection of the gate and source signal lines. Each pixel includes: an EL device including an anode and cathode terminals; a driving transistor to flow a current to the EL device; a first switch transistor provided on a current path through which the current flows from a power line through the driving transistor to the EL device; a second switch transistor to supply, to the driving transistor, an image signal from one of the source signal lines; and a third switch transistor provided between the anode terminal of the EL device and a voltage line. The voltage line is configured to supply a reverse bias voltage for reverse biasing the anode terminal of the EL device.

Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel region in which plural pixels, each including a light emitting element, a capacitor, a drive transistor, and a switch transistor, are arranged in rows and columns; scanning lines; signal lines; and parasitic capacitance which occurs between a source node of the light emitting element of each of the plural pixels and a signal line among the signal lines, wherein when images having different grayscales are displayed in the pixels on adjacent rows which are a 1st-row pixel and a 2nd-row pixel, a difference between a gate-source voltage of the drive transistor of the 1st-row pixel and a gate-source voltage of the drive transistor of the 2nd-row pixel is less than a voltage value of one grayscale, the difference being represented by ?Vdata×Cad/(Cs+Cad+Coled).

Abstract: An EL display apparatus according to the present invention includes an EL device adapted to emit light at a luminance corresponding to a current fed thereto. A source driver outputs a current higher than a current corresponding to an analog video signal to the EL device through a source signal line. This operation charges/discharges a parasitic capacitance present in the source signal line. A second gate driver circuit controls a transistor formed between the EL device and the source driver to operate so that the EL device is fed with the current for only a part of a one-frame period. As a result, the El device emits light for only the part of the period.

Abstract: An active-matrix display device according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes: a drive transistor disposed on a substrate; and an organic EL element that is caused by the drive transistor to emit light and includes an AM layer disposed above the substrate and a transparent electrode layer disposed above the AM layer. The active-matrix display device further includes: a source line that supplies data to the pixels; and a power supply line that supplies electric power to the pixels. The power supply line is shared by, among the plurality of pixels, two pixels that are adjacent to each other in a second direction that crosses a first direction in which the power supply line is extended. The source line and the AM layer are disposed not to overlap each other in a plan view of the substrate.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and corresponding method of control are provided. A display screen includes pixels arranged in a matrix. A pixel circuit of each of the pixels includes, in part: a second switch transistor to supply, to a driving transistor, an image signal; and a third switch transistor for initially resetting the pixel circuit before the second switch transistor supplies the image signal. A gate terminal of the second switch transistor and a gate terminal of the third switch transistor are connected to a second gate driver circuit. The second gate driver circuit includes a first gate driver circuit and a second gate driver circuit. The second gate driver circuit includes a second gate signal line connected to both the gate terminal of the second switch transistor of a Nth row and the gate terminal of the third switch transistor of a (N+1)th row.