Patent ID: 8643575

Claim:
An organic light emitting display, comprising: a pixel unit comprising a plurality of pixels formed in regions defined by scan lines, emission control lines, data lines, and current sink lines, wherein each pixel comprises a pixel node configured both to be initialized by one of the current sink lines and to receive a data voltage from one of the data lines after being initialized, wherein an initialization current is sunk on the current sink lines to initialize the pixel node, and wherein the data voltage is received from the data lines to change the voltage of the pixel node from a voltage induced by the initialization current, and wherein the data lines and the current sink lines are separate; and a data driver configured to sink the initialization current from the pixels through the current sink lines and to supply data voltages to the data lines, wherein the data driver comprises: a sink current generator including a digital to analog converting unit configured to generate the initialization current to correspond to bit values of initialization data; and a data voltage generator configured to generate the data voltages, wherein each of the pixels comprises: an OLED coupled between a first pixel power source and a second pixel power source; a driving transistor coupled between the first pixel power source and the OLED to supply current to the OLED in response to a voltage supplied to a gate electrode thereof; a first transistor coupled between the data line and a first node to transmit the data voltage supplied to the data line to a first node in response to a scan signal supplied from a current scan line; a second transistor coupled between a second electrode of the driving transistor and the current sink line to electrically couple the driving transistor with the current sink line in response to a scan signal supplied from a previous scan line; a third transistor coupled between the second electrode of the driving transistor and a gate electrode of the driving transistor to diode couple the driving transistor in response to the scan signal supplied from the previous scan line; and a first capacitor coupled with the first node, wherein the first capacitor is coupled between the first node and the first pixel power source, and wherein each of the pixels further comprises: a fourth transistor coupled between the first node and the gate electrode of the driving transistor to electrically couple the first node with the gate electrode of the driving transistor in response to an emission control signal supplied from the emission control line; a second capacitor coupled between the first pixel power source and the gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a fifth transistor coupled between the driving transistor and the OLED to supply current supplied from the driving transistor to the OLED in response to the emission control signal.