Patent ID: 9117406
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
1. A display apparatus, comprising: a light emitting element; a power line that supplies a current to the light emitting element; a capacitor that stores a charge; a driver that flows the current through the power line to the light emitting element, the current corresponding to the charge stored in the capacitor; a memory that stores a plurality of trap levels in association with a plurality of use durations of the light emitting element, each of the plurality of trap levels corresponding to an energy level generated in the light emitting element as the current is supplied to the light emitting element; an obtainer configured to determine one of the plurality of use durations of the light emitting element; a shorting transistor that provides an electrical short between an anode and a cathode of the light emitting element; and a controller configured to (i) read, from the memory, one of the plurality of trap levels associated with the one of the plurality of use durations of the light emitting element, and (ii) remove a charge generated in the light emitting element by controlling the shorting transistor to provide the electrical short for a short circuit duration associated with the one of the plurality of trap levels, wherein as the one of the plurality of use durations of the light emitting element increases, the short circuit duration increases.