Field Period Polarity Reversal Patents (Class 345/96)
  • Patent number: 9041700
    Abstract: The stereoscopic display device has a display panel, a barrier liquid crystal panel disposed on the display panel, and a driving circuit for driving the display panel and the barrier liquid crystal panel, in which the frame frequency of the display panel and the alternating frequency of the barrier liquid crystal panel are different, the barrier liquid crystal panel is driven by a driving voltage input from the driving circuit, the driving circuit has an inverter circuit for outputting the driving voltage, independently controls a p-type transistor and an n-type transistor in the inverter circuit, and has time periods in which both the p-type transistor and the n-type transistor are turned off when the driving voltage is switched from a high level to a low level or a low level to a high level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shibata, Yoshihiro Kotani, Shouji Nagao
  • Patent number: 9035863
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of pixels, and a data driver connected to the plurality of data lines, where the data driver supplies data voltage to the plurality of data lines, where the data driver includes a data latch which outputs input image data in response to image data corresponding to the plurality of pixels, wherein the data latch rearranges a sequence of the image data, and a digital-to-analog converting unit which includes a positive digital-to-analog converter which generates a positive data voltage in response to the input image data, and a negative digital-to-analog converter which generates a negative data voltage in response to the input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Il Ban, Jong Min Lee, Sun Kyu Son, Ok-Kwon Shin, Jae-Han Lee
  • Patent number: 9030453
    Abstract: An LCD driving circuit includes a first buffer configured to have a terminal for a first voltage, a terminal for a second voltage and a terminal for an intermediate voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage, and be driven in a range from the first voltage to the intermediate voltage; and a second buffer configured to have a terminal for the first voltage, a terminal for the second voltage and a terminal for the intermediate voltage, and be driven in a range from the intermediate voltage to the second voltage. The terminal for the intermediate voltage of the first buffer and the terminal for the intermediate voltage of the second buffer are connected with each other, and the first voltage is a highest voltage, the second voltage is a lowest voltage, and the intermediate voltage is in a range from the first voltage to the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Ho Cho, Young Icc Jung, Young Suk Son, Joon Ho Na, Hyung Seog Oh, Dae Seong Kim, Dae Keun Han
  • Patent number: 9030400
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display, including: pixels; a signal controller receiving an input image signal and an input control signal and outputting a processing image signal and a control signal; and a data driver changing the processing image signal to data voltage on the basis of the control signal to supply the data voltage to the pixel and sharing charges of odd channel data voltage of an odd channel and even channel data voltage of an even channel which have different polarities on the basis of a temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Whee-Won Lee, Jae Hoon Lee, Young-Su Kim
  • Publication number: 20150123961
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a display panel; a signal controller configured to receive an input image signal and an input control signal, output an output image signal and an output control signal, and determine a charge sharing between two or more data lines having voltages in the same polarity; and a data driver configured to convert, based on the output control signal, the image signal into data voltages to be supplied to the data lines connected to the pixels, the data voltages having positive levels and negative levels. The data driver is further configured to perform a first charge sharing by short-circuiting first and second data lines that are adjacent to each other, and a second charge sharing by short-circuiting third and fourth data lines having data voltages in the same polarity, wherein the first charge sharing and the second charge sharing may not temporally overlap with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Su Hyeong PARK, Ung Gyu MIN, Ji Myoung SEO, Cheol Woo PARK, Ho Yong JUNG
  • Publication number: 20150123959
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device supplies an active scan signal to each scan line while skipping a portion of a plurality of the scan lines, per one horizontal scan period, in a direction of the m-th to the first scan lines, by a first scan line drive circuit, and supplies the active scan signal to each scan line while skipping the portion of the plurality of the scan lines, per one horizontal scan period, in a direction of the m+1-th to the 2m-th scan lines, by a second scan line drive circuit. Therefore, the liquid crystal display device synchronizes with a timing of supplying the active signal with the first scan line drive circuit and the second scan line drive circuit, and supplies a data signal whose polarity is inverted to a positive polarity potential and a negative polarity potential per one horizontal scan period, to a data line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi YATABE, Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO, Nariya TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20150116193
    Abstract: A source driver utilized for a display device and switching between two operational modes includes a reception module for receiving a plurality of display information and a plurality of transmission channels. Each transmission channel includes a register module for receiving one of the plurality of display information; a voltage level transformer for determining a voltage level of the one of display information; a polarization digital-to-analog converter for processing a digital-to-analog operation for the voltage level of the one display information; and an output module for outputting a plurality of voltage levels of the display information. The voltage levels of every two adjacent transmission channels include different polarization of voltage levels, and the output module processes an odd-number switching operation before outputting the plurality of voltage levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yueh-Hsun Tsai, Yi-Chuan Liu, Yueh-Hsiu Liu
  • Publication number: 20150116385
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixels each including first and second sub-pixels having different transmittances from each other under a same gray scale, gate lines commonly connected to the first and second sub-pixels to apply a gate signal to the first and second sub-pixels, a first data line applying a first data signal to one of the first and second sub-pixels, and a second data line applying a second data signal to the other one of the first and second sub-pixels. The first sub-pixel has the transmittance lower than the transmittance of the second sub-pixel, and the second sub-pixel connected to an i-th gate line of the gate lines is disposed between the first sub-pixel connected to the i-th gate line and the first sub-pixel connected to an (i+1)th gate line of the gate lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Neung-Beom LEE, Jeong-Hyun KIM, Jinseuk KIM, Jong Hyun SIM, Junpyo LEE
  • Patent number: 9019190
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving frame rate in electromechanical display devices are disclosed. Rows or columns in a display device are given priorities and are selected for updating or for skipping during updates based on the priorities, the target frame rate, and the visual effect of skipping the particular line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark M. Todorovich
  • Publication number: 20150109273
    Abstract: A polarity of a POL outputted from a polarity inversion control section (9) is always identical between a scanning period and a pause period immediately subsequent to the scanning period, and is reversed every time switching from a pause period to a scanning period is carried out. This makes it possible to both carry out pause driving and prevent image sticking on a display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Akizumi Fujioka, Kazuki Takahashi, Taketoshi Nakano, Toshihiro Yanagi, Yoshinori Shibata
  • Publication number: 20150109274
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid-crystal-driving method of driving liquid crystal by causing a potential difference between a pair of electrodes provided for one of upper and lower substrates, wherein a DC image sticking and a flicker are sufficiently reduced, and a liquid crystal display device driven by using the liquid-crystal-driving method. The present invention relates to a method of driving liquid crystal by causing a potential difference between a pair of electrodes provided for one of upper and lower substrates. In the liquid-crystal-driving method, a driving operation of driving liquid crystal by causing a potential between a pair of electrodes is executed. In the driving operation, the absolute value of a second offset voltage is larger than that of a first offset voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Takatomo Yoshioka, Yuichi Kita, Yoshiki Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20150109270
    Abstract: When a 2D display is performed, a controller causes a first selection signal to be in an active state during a given period, and causes a second selection signal to be in the active state during another given period after causing the first selection signal to be in a non-active state. When a 3D display is performed, the controller causes the first selection signal to be in the active state at a given timing point, cause the second selection signal to be in the active state during a period when the first selection signal is in the active state, and thereby cause an overlapping period to arise during a period which is part of a selection period for selecting signal lines corresponding to the first selection signal, and which is part of another selection period for selecting signal lines corresponding to the second selection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Akihiko ITO
  • Publication number: 20150102989
    Abstract: An equalizing method for a driving device includes determining whether a polarity of an output voltage changes from a first time period to a second time period according to an inversion method of a display device coupled to the driving device, for generating a polarity inversion signal; and determining whether to perform an equalization operation on the output voltage in a switching period between the first time period and the second time period according to the polarity inversion signal, current line information and previous line information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsueh-Yi Lee, Yi-Nung Hu
  • Patent number: 9007287
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention has a vertical scanning period in which the polarity of a display signal is positive and a vertical scanning period in which the polarity of a display signal is negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masae Kitayama, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 9001015
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device (1) includes a liquid crystal panel (69) having, for each of pixels (60), a digital memory element (68) for holding an electric potential according to image data and a liquid crystal cell (64) for displaying an image by receiving the electric potential from the digital memory element (68); and a liquid crystal driver circuit (10) having an AC control section (22) for reversing a polarity of an AC voltage applied to the liquid crystal cell (64) on a given cycle and an image transmission control section (21) for issuing instruction on outputting of image data to the liquid crystal panel (69).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Kouji Kumada
  • Patent number: 9001167
    Abstract: A display device having subpixel repeating groups is presented. Each subpixel repeating group has an even number of four or more subpixels and includes odd-numbered subpixels and even-numbered subpixels alternately arranged in a row direction, each subpixel having a color. A data driver is configured to provide data signals to the subpixels such that the odd-numbered subpixels have a polarity that is opposite that of the even-numbered subpixels in each of the subpixel repeating groups. A first subpixel repeating group and a second subpixel repeating group are adjacent in the row direction. The first subpixel of the first subpixel repeating group and the first subpixel of the second subpixel repeating group have the same color and opposite polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Matthew Osborne Schlegel
  • Patent number: 8994707
    Abstract: Discussed are a display device and a method for controlling the same, which are capable of achieving a reduction in power consumption, through selective application of a charge share mode or a pre-charge mode in accordance with the swing width of a data voltage. The disclosed method includes the steps of determining a positive or negative polarity of input image data on the basis of reference data and outputting a pre-charge enable signal when two successive image data have the same polarity; supplying a pre-charge voltage to a corresponding output channel in response to the pre-enable signal; and converting the image data into a data voltage, supplying the converted data voltage to a corresponding data line through the corresponding output channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Hyoung Kim, Seung-Tae Kim, Ho-Min Lim
  • Patent number: 8994632
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of video signal lines that extends in columns in a display area, a plurality of inversion control signal line each supplied with an inversion control signal for controlling inversion, a first selector that selects one of a pair of amplifiers different in the polarity from each other to input signals corresponding to a pair of adjacent video signal lines on the basis of the inversion control signal, and a second selector that selects one of a pair of the corresponding adjacent video signal lines to input signals output from the pair of amplifiers on the basis of the inversion control signal, in which at least one of the signals to be supplied to the plurality of inversion control signal lines is a signal different from other signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Keitoku Kato, Hiroyuki Nitta, Gou Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8994565
    Abstract: An analog to digital conversion includes a multiplexor circuit for receiving analog input signals and, responsive to a select input, an analog to digital converter circuit to convert a selected analog signal into a digital signal, a conversion starting device to send a conversion start signal on the basis of a trigger event, the conversion starting device being responsive to a select input, a sequencer to control the analog to digital converter circuitry to execute one sequence conversion on the basis of one conversion sequence instruction, and a FIFO register block to receive conversion sequence instructions and being able to queue each new received conversion sequence instruction if an actual conversion sequence is in progress and to control the sequencer to execute a new sequence conversion instruction after the conversion sequence is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.R.L.
    Inventors: Gianluigi Forte, Dino Costanzo, StelloMatteo Bille'
  • Patent number: 8994635
    Abstract: The invention provides an image display device capable of reducing the transmission delay of a scanning signal. A plurality of scanning signal lines are wired in one pixel circuit row. Pixel circuits of the pixel circuit row are connected to any of the plurality of scanning signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Kajiyama, Takeshi Izumida, Norihiro Nakamura, Naoki Tokuda
  • Patent number: 8994708
    Abstract: A driver circuit for dot inversion of liquid crystals includes a positive source supplying a first positive signal and a second positive signal; a negative source supplying a first negative signal and a second negative signal; a first selector unit connected with the sources to receive the first positive signal and the first negative signal; a second selector unit connected with the sources to receive the second positive signal and the second negative signal; a first source connected with the selection unit to alternatively output a first positive voltage and a first negative voltage; a second source connected with the selection unit to alternatively output a second positive voltage and a second negative voltage. When the first source outputs the first positive voltage, the second source outputs the second negative voltage. When the first source outputs the first negative voltage, the second source outputs the second positive voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Tsun-Sen Lin, Cheng-Chung Yeh
  • Patent number: 8994631
    Abstract: An LCD device includes at least one data line, a plurality of first pixel cells connected in common to one side of the data line, a timing controller for alternately outputting first and second-polarity data signals at intervals of at least two successive periods, a data modulator for outputting the first and second-polarity data signals supplied from the timing controller, the data modulator modulating a grayscale value of one of the first and second-polarity data signals respectively supplied in two successive periods from the timing controller, and outputting the modulated data signal, and a data driver for receiving the first and second-polarity data signals from the data modulator, and alternately outputting the first and second-polarity data signals at intervals of at least two successive periods, to supply the first and second-polarity data signals to the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Doo Chun, Nam Wook Cho, Soo Young Yoon, Seung Chan Choi
  • Publication number: 20150084941
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technical field of liquid crystal display, and particularly, to a polarity inversion driving method for a liquid crystal display panel, a driving apparatus and a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Jian He
  • Patent number: 8988334
    Abstract: Present techniques involve methods and systems of inversion patterns for pixels in a display. Inversion techniques involve driving image signals having a first polarity to data lines of a pixel matrix during a first time period and driving image signals having an opposite polarity to the data lines during a second time period. In some embodiments, the pixels may be configured to have electrodes having only two finger electrodes, thus widening the distance between electrodes and decreasing the susceptibility for crosstalk between pixels. In some embodiments, horizontal cross-talk of electromagnetic fields between pixels may be further reduced by configuring the data line driving scheme such that voltage polarity is flipped for the pixels along every two, three, or more data line columns. Furthermore, a Z inversion pattern may be employed to reduce the occurrence of undesirable display artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhibing Ge, Yongman Lee, Shih Chang Chang, Cheng Chen, Hopil Bae, Ming Xu, Shawn Robert Gettemy, Wei H. Yao
  • Patent number: 8982028
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a common electrode. The first substrate includes a gate line, a data line insulated from the gate line while crossing the gate line, and a pixel electrode connected to the gate line and the data line. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The common electrode is disposed on at least one of the first substrate or the second substrate to form an electric field in cooperation with the pixel electrode. A data voltage applied to the pixel electrode has a polarity inverted every at least one frame with reference to a predetermined reference voltage, and a common voltage applied to the common electrode has a polarity inverted every at least two frames with reference to the reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Neung-Beom Lee
  • Patent number: 8976100
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display includes pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, gate lines extending along rows, signal lines extending along columns, storage capacitance lines extending along the rows to superpose a voltage on the pixel electrodes, a counterelectrode opposed to the pixel electrodes, a driver to drive the gate lines, the signal lines, and the storage capacitance lines, and a controller to control the driver. The controller sequentially drives the gate lines to write from the signal lines to the pixel electrodes and, after the write to the pixel electrodes, changes a potential of each of the storage capacitance lines to cause alignment of the liquid crystal layer to make a transition from splay alignment to bend alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yukio Tanaka, Daiichi Suzuki, Kenji Nakao
  • Patent number: 8976097
    Abstract: A driving apparatus and a display driving system. The driving apparatus includes a first amplification unit receiving a first signal and outputting a driving signal of a positive polarity voltage with respect to a reference voltage, a second amplification unit receiving a second signal and outputting a driving signal of a negative polarity voltage with respect to the reference voltage, and a controller for determining a chopping signal applied to a chopping terminal of the second amplification unit such that an offset polarity of an output voltage of the first amplification unit and an offset polarity of an output voltage of the second amplification unit are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo-nyoung Lee, Hyun-sang Park, Seong-young Ryu
  • Patent number: 8963906
    Abstract: A display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The disclosed display device includes a display panel for displaying an image corresponding to a plurality of data signals transferred via a plurality of data lines, a data driver for driving the plurality of data lines, a timing controller for controlling driving timing of the data driver, and a charge sharing unit comprising a first charger allocated to a first data line group of the plurality of data lines, and a second charger allocated to a second data line group of the plurality of data lines, the charge sharing unit selectively performing charging and discharging operations among the first data line group, the first charger, the second data line group and the second charger under control of the timing controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dae-Seok Oh
  • Patent number: 8963895
    Abstract: A ubiquitously mountable image display system includes a shape-reconfigurable display screen component to which is attached a plurality of circuit modules each having at least one light source. The shape-reconfigurable display screen component is formed of a material that accommodates flexing of the display screen component without creating a perceivable aberration in separation distance between two or more picture elements of an image that is rendered upon a viewing plane of the display screen component when light from the plurality of light sources is directed towards the viewing plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nano Lumens Acquisition Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Cope, Aris Silzars
  • Patent number: 8963908
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display of the present invention lowers the power consumption and heat generation of the data driving circuit by controlling the polarity of a data voltage by divided block-type column inversion to maintain the polarity of the data voltage within one block, and prevents picture quality degradation by inverting the polarity of a data voltage between neighboring blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Inrae Park
  • Publication number: 20150042549
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a gate driver thereof are disclosed. The gate driver comprises a first output unit, a second output unit, a first counter, a second counter and a multiplex unit. The first counter counts a clock to control the first output unit to output odd gate driving signals according to a first start signal and a polarity signal. The second counter counts the clock to control the second output unit to output even gate driving signals according to a second start signal and the polarity signal. The multiplex unit selectively outputs the polarity signal to the first counter or the second counter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Jen-Chieh HU
  • Publication number: 20150042629
    Abstract: A source driver and a method for determining polarity of pixel voltage thereof are provided. The source driver includes a data register unit, a plurality of data groups and a plurality of polarity determining units. The data register unit receives an image data signal and provides a plurality of display data. The data groups have at least two data channels respectively. The data channels are coupled to the data register unit to receive the corresponding display data and provide a plurality of pixel voltages. The polarity determining units are respectively coupled to the data channels corresponding to different data groups, and each of the polarity determining units determines whether to invert polarities of a part of the pixel voltages provided by the coupled data channels according to the received display data of the coupled data channels and previous display data corresponding to the received display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Pang-Chen Hung, Jhih-Siou Cheng, Hung-Cheng Hsiao
  • Patent number: 8952955
    Abstract: A display driving circuit for driving a liquid crystal display panel includes a shift register including a plurality of shift register circuits provided in such a way as to correspond to a plurality of gate lines, respectively, the display driving circuit having latch circuits provided in such a way as to correspond one-by-one to the shift register circuits, a polarity signal being inputted to the latch circuits. When a internal signal generated by a shift register circuit becomes active, a latch circuit loads and retains the polarity signal, and an output from the latch circuit is supplied to a CS bus line. The internal signal becomes active before a first vertical scanning period of a display picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Yokoyama, Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Shige Furuta
  • Patent number: 8952879
    Abstract: A hold type image display system for displaying a video on a display panel includes a source driver for outputting a video signal to a source line, a gate driver for outputting a scanning signal to a gate line; and a controller for receiving an input video signal and thereby controlling the source driver and the gate driver. The controller outputs a video signal in which a black or gray line is inserted between video lines to the source driver, outputs a start pulse signal for writing the video lines for one or more times and a start pulse signal for writing black or gray lines for one or more times to the gate driver within one frame period, and independently inverts a write polarity of the video signal and a write polarity of the black or gray signal in frame periods in each frame cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Gold Charm Limited
    Inventor: Hiroaki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20150035740
    Abstract: Pixel electrodes in odd-numbered rows and even-numbered rows of a liquid crystal display panel are connected to source lines arranged on the left side of the pixel electrodes and source lines on the right side of the pixel electrodes, respectively. A DA converter switches between whether a potential higher than a common electrode potential is output from an odd-numbered output terminal and a potential lower than the common electrode potential is output from an even-numbered potential output terminal, and whether a potential lower than the common electrode potential is output from the odd-numbered potential output terminal and a potential higher than the common electrode potential is output from the even-numbered potential output terminal. A switch mechanism switches between whether a pixel electrode potential is set using the source line on the left side or is set using the source line on the right side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji GONDO
  • Publication number: 20150035816
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral electric-field type of liquid crystal display device includes a display panel including a plurality of liquid crystal pixels arranged in a matrix, and a controller configured to perform intermittent driving to rewrite an image signal to the liquid crystal pixels, wherein a frame frequency falls within a range of 10 Hz to 20 Hz, and an absolute value of a flexo coefficient (e11, e33) of a liquid crystal applied to the liquid crystal pixels is 1.6 pC/m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Daiichi SUZUKI, Yukio Tanaka, Kenji Nakao, Kazuhiro Nishiyama, Shinichi Komura, Shinichiro Oka, Mika Oiwa
  • Publication number: 20150036055
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment a ripple, generated in an electric potential of data signal lines even in long-term reversal driving, is reduced and display quality is improved. In at least one example embodiment, the liquid crystal display apparatus of the present invention includes scanning signal lines and data signal lines, in which one scanning pulse is outputted to select one scanning signal line, each of the data signal lines receives data signals whose polarities are reversed per one vertical scanning period while in one horizontal scanning period, one of two data signal lines receives a data signal having a polarity and the other of the two data signal lines receives another data signal having another polarity, the two data signal lines being arranged adjacent to each other, scanning pulses are successively outputted in sets of two, and at a timing in which two scanning pulses fall, two scanning pulses rise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Masae KITAYAMA, Fumikazu SHIMOSHIKIRYOH, Kentaro IRIE
  • Patent number: 8947413
    Abstract: Displaying an image on a display screen is provided by periodically changing the scanning order in which rows of sub-pixels of the display screen are scanned. One scanning order can be selected to scan the rows in the update of a first image frame of the display, and then a different scanning order can be selected to scan the rows in the update of a second image frame. Particular scanning orders can be selected in order to reduce or eliminate the appearance of visual artifacts by changing the location of the visual artifacts across multiple image frames. For example, different scanning orders that result in visual artifacts at different positions on the display screen can be used, and the selection of scanning order can periodically change among the different scanning orders such that the position of the visual artifacts changes periodically during the updating of multiple image frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Porter Hotelling, Marduke Yousefpor, Hopil Bae
  • Patent number: 8941725
    Abstract: A method of processing three-dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image data is provided that includes comparing the polarity of image data of a present frame with the polarity of image data of a previous frame. The image data of the present frame are compensated according to the result of the comparison. The image data of the present frame is compensated to generate first compensation data, when the polarity of the image data of the present frame is opposite to the polarity of the image data of the previous frame, with respect a reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Moon Moh, Mi-Sun Lee, Sang-Yong No, Seung-Cheol Lee
  • Patent number: 8941574
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines crossing each other; a first source drive IC for outputting a data voltage to the data lines and inverting the polarity of the data voltage in response to a first polarity control signal; a second source drive IC for outputting the data voltage to the data lines and inverting the polarity of the data voltage in response to a second polarity control signal; and a timing controller for generating the first and second polarity control signals in the same phase when the source drive ICs output data voltages whose polarity is inverted by horizontal 1-dot inversion and generating the first and second polarity control signals in the opposite phase to each other when the source drive ICs output data voltages whose polarity is inverted by horizontal 2-dot inversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongwoo Kim, Hyuntaek Nam, Myungkook Moon
  • Publication number: 20150015555
    Abstract: A drive device of the present invention includes a VCOM selection circuit (122) for switching, before a display panel (102) is turned off, an electric potential of a counter electrode COM of each of pixels P from a VCOM1 to a VCOM2 which causes an electric potential of a drain electrode of each of the pixel P to be identical to the electric potential of the counter electrode COM after the display panel (102) is turned off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Asahi Yamato, Kohzoh Takahashi, Taketoshi Nakano, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Patent number: 8933901
    Abstract: A method and system for enabling a near field communication antenna to be disposed adjacent to electrodes of a touch sensing device, the near field communication antenna being operated, and the magnetic field inductance and electric field coupling between the electrodes and the near field communication antenna being minimized in order to substantially reduce or eliminate induced currents on the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Cirque Corporation
    Inventor: Keith L. Paulsen
  • Patent number: 8933869
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for driving a ferroelectric liquid crystal panel. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a ferroelectric liquid crystal panel having a ferroelectric liquid crystal provided between a pair of substrates, a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of drive electrodes, and a plurality of pixels constituted by intersections between the plurality of scanning electrodes and the plurality of signal electrodes, and a controller for applying driving pulses to the plurality of scanning electrodes and the plurality of signal electrodes. The controller applies to the plurality of pixels first reset pulses, first selection pulses for switching the plurality of pixels, second reset pulses having a voltage or pulse width different from that of the first reset pulses, and second selection pulses having a voltage or pulse width different from that of the first selection pulses and for switching the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Suguro
  • Publication number: 20150009112
    Abstract: The present invention includes first pixels formed to have a first slit having an inclination angle with respect to a rubbing direction and second pixels formed to have a second slit having an inclination angle opposite to the first slit, and at least one of the first pixels having a positive polarity allocated thereto and at least one of the first pixels having a negative polarity allocated thereto exist in the same frame, and at least one of the second pixels having the positive polarity allocated thereto and at least one of the second pixels having the negative polarity allocated thereto exist in the same frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazunori OKUMOTO
  • Patent number: 8928649
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display medium including a pair of substrates; pixel electrodes disposed on one of the pair of substrates; a common electrode disposed on the other substrate of the pair of substrates; and a display layer, the common electrode includes two or more common electrode layers containing a first common electrode layer and a second common electrode layer which being disposed across a gap in a thickness direction, and electrical voltages thereof being controlled independently of each other, the first common electrode layer containing at least one electrode unit and at least one non-electrode area corresponding to a disposition of the pixel electrodes, and the second common electrode layer containing at least one second electrode unit, the at least one second electrode layer completely overlapping with at least the at least one non-electrode area of the first common electrode layer in a thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Machida, Naoki Hiji, Ryota Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8928645
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, amplitude voltage of an image signal written into a signal line can be decreased. A liquid crystal display device in which frame inversion driving is performed includes pixels each including a liquid crystal element and a transistor that controls voltage applied to a first electrode of the liquid crystal element. A scan line is electrically connected to gates of transistors in pixels in a corresponding row. A common line is electrically connected to second electrodes of liquid crystal elements in pixels in the corresponding row. In a first frame period, a first potential is sequentially supplied to the common lines in synchronization with sequential selection of the scan lines. In a second frame period adjacent to the first frame period, a second potential different from the first potential is sequentially supplied to the common lines in synchronization with sequential selection of the scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyake, Koji Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 8928570
    Abstract: A method of driving a display device by using a pixel voltage corresponding to a difference between a common voltage and a data voltage comprises: operations of charging the pixel voltage by the common voltage and the data voltage having opposite polarities; and discharging the pixel voltage in a period where the polarity of the common voltage is reversed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il-Nam Kim, Jae-Ik Lim, Won-Sang Park
  • Patent number: 8928571
    Abstract: A driving method for a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device is used for reducing power consumption of the LCD device. The driving method includes determining a driving approach of the LCD device, and performing corresponding charge sharing on a plurality of data channels according to the driving approach. The driving approach of the LCD device is determined according to a latch data (LD) signal and a polarity signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ji-Ting Chen, Kuang-Feng Sung
  • Patent number: 8922470
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixel electrodes, a counter electrode arranged facing the pixel electrodes, and liquid crystal cells held in a space between the pixel electrodes and the counter electrode. The optical characteristics of the liquid crystal cells change based on potential differences between the pixel electrodes and the counter electrode. The counter electrode includes row counter electrodes divided in accordance with rows of pixels. The display apparatus also includes a counter scanning circuit for sequentially scanning the row counter electrodes in accordance with a pixel row sequentially selected by a vertical scanning circuit and for applying a counter potential of one inverting polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Noda
  • Patent number: 8922469
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode alternating with each other to form a horizontal electric field, a first data line transmitting a first data voltage to the first sub-pixel electrode, and a second data line transmitting a second data voltage to the second sub-pixel electrode, wherein the second sub-pixel electrode is formed to overlap the first and second data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang-Chul Jung, Chong-Chul Chai, Mee-Hye Jung