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Display comprising organic smart pixels

Patent 6384804 Issued on May 7, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject November 25, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Application

No. 199364 filed on 11/25/1998

US Classes:

345/82, Solid body light emitter (e.g., LED)257/40, ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL345/76, Electroluminescent345/205Physically integral with display elements

Examiners

Primary: Hjerpe, Richard
Assistant: Nguyen, Francis

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 0755042 EP 01/13/1997
  • 0905673 EP 03/13/1999
  • WO9848403 WO 10/13/1998

International Class

G09G 003/32

Abstract

A display apparatus according to our invention comprises a multiplicity of nominally identical smart pixels, a given pixel comprising an organic light emitting diode and an organic or inorganic (e.g., amorphous or polycrystalline Si) pixel FET. The display also comprises drive/compensation circuitry adapted for mitigating or eliminating non-idealities associated with the organic components. Among the non-idealities are variations in mobility and/or threshold voltage of the pixel FET from transistor to transistor, change in mobility and/or threshold voltage with time in a given pixel FET, change over time of the LED characteristics, capacitive signal feed-through through the gate insulator of the pixel FETs by short rise/fall time pulses, poor on-off ratio of the pixel FET, and charge leakage through the gate dielectric. Exemplary drive/compensation circuitry is disclosed.

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