Abstract: A method for controlling an analog/digital converter circuitry includes generating a digital signal by accumulating a predetermined increment at a predetermined time interval in accordance with a value of a first analog signal input to the analog/digital converter. The digital signal is converted to a second analog signal, the second analog signal is subtracted from the first analog signal, and a detection signal is generated in accordance with a subtraction result. An accumulation mode is selected from accumulation modes in accordance with the detection signal and accumulation is performed at the time interval and in the increment in accordance with the selected accumulation mode.

Abstract: A method for controlling an analog/digital converter circuitry includes generating a digital signal by accumulating a predetermined increment at a predetermined time interval in accordance with a value of a first analog signal input to the analog/digital converter. The digital signal is converted to a second analog signal, the second analog signal is subtracted from the first analog signal, and a detection signal is generated in accordance with a subtraction result. An accumulation mode is selected from accumulation modes in accordance with the detection signal and accumulation is performed at the time interval and in the increment in accordance with the selected accumulation mode.

Abstract: A picture control device is used for driving a flat-panel display having a plurality of horizontal pixel lines each formed of display pixels arranged in one line, and composed of first and second driver groups which are arranged to divide the display pixels into groups and drive the groups of display pixels, respectively, and a drive circuit board for controlling the driver groups to output pixel data assigned to the respective display pixels during a scanning period for each horizontal pixel line and to drive the display pixels according to the pixel data. In particular, the drive circuit board includes a gate-array control section connected to the first and second driver groups by first and second wiring lines electrically separated from each other, for distributing pixel data assigned to the display pixels of each group to a corresponding driving group via a corresponding wiring line.

Abstract: A matrix type display apparatus includes a video signal voltage compensation circuit for suppressing distortion of a video signal produced on a video signal transmission bus mainly by the wiring resistance and a parasitic capacitance. The video signal voltage compensation circuit is connected to the input end of the video signal transmission bus to compensate waveform distortion of a video signal occurring on the video signal transmission bus while it is supplied to sample-hold circuits connected to the bus. The compensation circuit also includes a filter whose correction coefficient is varied in response to elapsed time from reception of a horizontal synchronizing signal.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is composed of a liquid crystal panel having a matrix array of liquid crystal pixels, a plurality of scanning lines formed along rows of the liquid crystal pixels, and a plurality of signal lines formed along columns of the liquid crystal pixels, and a display control circuit for selecting a row of the liquid crystal pixels via each of the scanning lines and controlling voltages across the liquid crystal pixels of the selected row via the signal lines. The display control circuit includes a signal line driver for sequentially driving the signal lines, and the signal line driver includes a plurality of driver ICs which are connected in cascade by inter-module wirings for transmitting a clock signal and a pixel data signal and each of which sequentially supplies the pixel data signal to a predetermined number of signal lines in synchronism with the clock signal.

Abstract: A signal line driver is used for a liquid crystal display device including a matrix array of 230.times.720 pixels arranged in a predetermined color order for each row, 230 scanning lines for selecting the row of the pixels, and 720 signal lines for setting the potentials of the pixels of the selected row. The signal line driver has three bus lines for receiving color video signals of three primary colors.

Abstract: In a driving system of so-called enable chain system for dividing signal electrodes of a liquid crystal display device into a plurality of signal electrode groups and driving the respective signal electrode groups by drivers formed in an IC form, a data register in the driver includes a control circuit for creating an internal start signal for controlling the timing at which the display data fetching operation is started in synchronism with a clock signal.

Abstract: A flat-panel display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix, the pixels in each row forming one horizontal pixel array, first to eighth driver sections arranged in series to divide pixels in each horizontal pixel array into eight pixel blocks, for driving the pixel blocks, respectively, first and second data supply buses each connected to at least one of the driver sections, and a liquid crystal controller for distributing pixel data sequentially supplied from outside to the first and second data supply buses.

Abstract: A display control apparatus includes an X-driver for sequentially obtaining the horizontal picture signals from a PAL video signal, and supplying the obtained signal to each of the horizontal pixel lines of an NTSC liquid crystal display panel, and a Y-driver for sequentially selecting the horizontal pixel lines, in a preset number every time the X-driver supplies a horizontal picture signal to each of the horizontal pixel lines. In particular, the Y-driver includes logic gate circuit for updating the preset number on the basis of a selection pattern in which at least first and second numbers of horizontal picture lines are determined as selection units of lines to be selected at one time, the selection units are combined at a predetermined ratio, and the combination of the selection units is repeated for each predetermined number of the horizontal picture signals, thereby assigning the horizontal pixel lines to almost all the horizontal picture signals.