Field Period Polarity Reversal Patents (Class 345/96)
  • Publication number: 20140368481
    Abstract: A driving method for a liquid crystal device, which has a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode for trapping ions, includes applying AC signals having the same frequency but whose phases in an amount of time corresponding to a single cycle are shifted relative to each other to the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode, respectively, so that the distribution of an electrical field produced between the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode is scrolled from the first electrode to the third electrode over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventor: Naoki Tomikawa
  • Patent number: 8907993
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a gate circuit, a driver, and a data selector circuit that includes a plurality of switch groups each of which has a time division switch and a timing adjustment switch that are connected in parallel. The data selector circuit outputs output signals from the driver, which have different polarities every one or more data lines of the plurality of data lines, to the respective data lines. Each of the time division switches and the timing adjustment switches is an NMOS transistor. The driver turns on the timing adjustment switches connected to the data lines to which positive output signals are output from the driver, earlier than the time division switches connected to the data lines to which negative output signals are output from the driver, by a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Komatsu, Masahiro Maki, Hiroyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 8907883
    Abstract: An active matrix type liquid crystal display device may include a black signal insertion device to apply a voltage corresponding to a black display as a voltage for data signal lines only during a black signal insertion period that is a part of one frame period, a black insertion ratio change device to change the insertion period, and an unchanged-storage-capacitor-phase-keeping device to control the insertion period after the change. The control makes a time difference the same, before and after the change, between (i) a timing, among timings at which signal voltages of the first or second storage capacitor line rise, at which a storage capacitor voltage rises that is both prior to a start timing of the insertion period and a closest timing to the start timing of the insertion period, and (ii) the start timing of the insertion period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentaro Irie, Masae Kitayama, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 8896512
    Abstract: A pixel circuit for a display includes a pixel storage node for storing and presenting a pixel voltage to a pixel display element, a cell storage node for storing the data on the pixel storage node, and a first storage capacitor and a second storage capacitor each including a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode of the first storage capacitor is operatively coupled to the pixel storage node and the first electrode of the second storage capacitor operatively coupled to the cell storage node. The second electrode of the first and second storage capacitors is operatively coupled to a respective different one of first and second independent voltage signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Patrick Zebedee
  • Patent number: 8896584
    Abstract: A scan method for displaying image, wherein a display panel has N gate lines to display an image, and N?4. The image is displayed by dot inversion or line inversion. The method includes displaying a first image frame by a first scan sequence. The first frame has multiple first scan-line groups in relative darkness and multiple second scan-line groups in relative brightness, which are alternately displayed. Just after the second frame, a second scan sequence displays a second frame. The second frame has multiple first scan-line groups in relative darkness and multiple second scan-line groups in relative brightness, which are alternately displayed. The first and second scan-line groups of the first frame are complementary to the first and second scan-line groups of the second frame. The first scan-line groups of the first frame and second frame are relatively dark due to the pixels therein with insufficient charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Shang-I Liu
  • Patent number: 8896583
    Abstract: A common electrode driving method, comprises: generating a first common electrode signal to be applied to a storage electrode line of each row of pixels on an array substrate, and a second common electrode signal to be applied to a common electrode forming a liquid crystal capacitance with pixel electrodes of each row of pixels on the array substrate, the first common electrode signal being opposite to a gate signal for gate electrodes applied to the corresponding row of pixels in terms of transition timing; and inputting the first common electrode signal to each row of pixels, and inputting the second common electrode signal to the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hailin Xue, Yubo Xu, Cheng Li, Hongming Zhan, Jidong Zhang
  • Patent number: 8896510
    Abstract: A display device includes an image signal modifier for modifying input image signals based on the difference between the input image signal for a pixel in a first row and the input image signal for the pixel in the adjacent row. The gate-on voltages includes a pre-charging voltage and a main charging voltage, the main charging voltage for the first row overlaps the pre-charging voltage for the second row and the pre-charging voltage for the first grow overlaps the main charging voltage for the second row for a predetermined time. The first data voltage is applied to the pixels of the first and second rows after application of the main charging gate-on voltage for the first row and the pre-charging gate-on voltage for the row, and the second data voltage is applied to the pixel of the second row after application of the main charging gate-on voltage for the second row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Baek-Woon Lee
  • Patent number: 8890786
    Abstract: In a method of driving a display panel, a voltage of a first polarity with respect to a reference voltage is outputted to an n-th data line and an (n+1)-th data line (‘n’ is a natural number), respectively, and a voltage of a second polarity with respect to the reference voltage is outputted to an (n+2)-th data line and an (n+3)-th data line, respectively, during an N-th frame (‘N’ is a natural number). Then, a voltage of the first polarity is outputted to the n-th data line, a voltage of the second polarity is outputted to the (n+1)-th data line and the (n+2)-th data line, respectively, and a voltage of the first polarity is outputted to the (n+3)-th data line, during an (N+1)-th frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoi-Sik Moon, Yun-Seok Lee, Chang-Soo Lee, Jae-Han Lee
  • Publication number: 20140333595
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes providing a switching element of a pixel of the display panel with a first polarity gate signal through a gate line connected to the switching element when the switching element receives a first polarity data signal having a first polarity with respect to a reference signal, and providing the switching element with a second polarity gate signal through the gate line when the switching element receives a second polarity data signal having a second polarity with respect to the reference signal through the data line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Se-Hyoung CHO, Il-Gon KIM, In-Jae HWANG, Bong-Hyun YOU
  • Patent number: 8878760
    Abstract: At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: scanning signal lines provided in a display area; and a dummy scanning signal line provided in a non-display area, the scanning signal lines being divided into groups each of which includes a plurality of scanning signal lines, the groups being sequentially selected, signal electric potentials of an identical polarity being sequentially supplied to a data signal line while scanning signal lines belonging to a selected group are sequentially scanned horizontally, the polarity of the signal electric potentials being inverted when the selected group is changed from a preceding group to a succeeding group which is selected immediately after the preceding group, a dummy scanning period being inserted between a horizontal scanning period corresponding to last horizontal scanning in the preceding group and a horizontal scanning period corresponding to first horizontal scanning in the succeeding group, and the dummy scanning signal line being subje
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masae Kawabata, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Toshikazu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20140320470
    Abstract: This document discloses a stereoscopic image display device. In the image display device, a display device displays a first image data and a second image data in a time-dividing manner. A switchable retarder panel is configured to control light emitted from the display device and is made of electrically controlled birefringence (ECB) liquid crystals. Polarization glasses polarize the light emitted from the switchable retarder panel. The polarization glasses comprise a left eyeglass comprising a polarizer having a tilt of 45° about a light absorbing axis, and a right eyeglass comprising a polarizer having a tilt of 135° about the light absorbing axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sungmin JUNG
  • Patent number: 8872744
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masae Kitayama, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Kentaroh Irie
  • Publication number: 20140306871
    Abstract: A dual gate driving LCD device comprises a liquid crystal panel, a gate driving module, a source driving module, and an electric charge sharing unit. The liquid crystal panel comprises several pixels. The gate driving module comprises a plurality of scan lines connected to the pixels to control switching the pixels on or off. The source driving module comprises a plurality of data lines connected to a plurality of the pixels and charges the pixels by positive and negative polarity voltages and the adjacent data lines outputting voltages with different polarities at the same time. The electric charge sharing unit is connected to the source driving module and performs electric charge sharing of the voltage with different polarities between two adjacent data lines before charging the pixels to neutralize the electric charge for each of the pixels to make a charging time the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Chia-yi LU, Hsin-hung TSAI
  • Patent number: 8860645
    Abstract: A scan driving method for LCD panel comprises varying of polarity pattern adaptive to column data, wherein polarity patterns are dynamically determined from row to row, based on analysis of column drive signals for present and previous rows to obtain a parametric value and determination to either keep default polarity pattern or switch to alternate polarity pattern in accordance with parametric value obtained. Columns are regarded as in one or multiple groups for consideration. A total drive differential value is used as parameter, switching from default polarity pattern to alternate polarity pattern when a threshold is exceeded, to reduce total drive differential going from row to row. Column inversion is a default and dot inversion is an alternate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Solomon Systech Limited
    Inventors: Jun Chen, Cheung Fai Lee, Yiu Sang Lei
  • Patent number: 8860643
    Abstract: A display device includes an image signal modifier for modifying input image signals based on the difference between the input image signal for a pixel in a first row and the input image signal for the pixel in the adjacent row. The gate-on voltages includes a pre-charging voltage and a main charging voltage, the main charging voltage for the first row overlaps the pre-charging voltage for the second row and the pre-charging voltage for the first grow overlaps the main charging voltage for the second row for a predetermined time. The first data voltage is applied to the pixels of the first and second rows after application of the main charging gate-on voltage for the first row and the pre-charging gate-on voltage for the row, and the second data voltage is applied to the pixel of the second row after application of the main charging gate-on voltage for the second row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Baek-Woon Lee
  • Publication number: 20140292627
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes providing at least one gate line among a plurality of gate lines disposed in the display panel with a gate signal of a gate-on level during a vertical blanking period of a frame period and providing a data line disposed in the display panel with data voltages of a first polarity and a second polarity opposite to the first polarity during the vertical blanking period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-Hyun Pyun, Ju-Hyun Kim, Yong-Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 8847868
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a frame rate control (FRC) device which adds an FRC compensation value to digital video data using a plurality of FRC patterns defining subpixels, to which the FRC compensation value will be written, and a data driving circuit which converts the digital video data received from the FRC device into a data voltage and invert a polarity of the data voltage based on a previously determined inversion method. The FRC device counts frame periods and increases a frame count value each time the frame period changes. The FRC device changes to a next FRC pattern in previously determined order in response to the frame count value, and holds or skips the frame count value when the frame period reaches a previously determined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myungkook Moon, Jongwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 8847867
    Abstract: A driving circuit and driving method for liquid crystal display is disclosed. The driving circuit comprises a time sequence controller, a first data driving chip and a second data driving chip connected to the time sequence controller, and a reference voltage buffer connected to the first data driving chip and the second data driving chip respectively. The two data driving chips output a pixel voltage signal of positive polarity and a pixel voltage signal of negative polarity to a liquid crystal display panel respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8847937
    Abstract: An LCD device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The LCD device and the driving method thereof accurately recognize an input pattern and perform the operation of any one of several inversion systems corresponding to the recognized pattern. Also, the LCD device and the driving method thereof detects the priority order of at least two different patterns and perform the operation of an optimized inversion system, even though at least two different patterns may be input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Hoon Lee, Beon Young Kim
  • Patent number: 8842063
    Abstract: A LCD driving method is described. The driving method includes the steps of: (a) applying first scan voltage to first scan line for switching on first TFT, wherein data voltage of data line is transmitted to first pixel electrode via first drain electrode and first source electrode; (b) discharging first scan voltage, wherein first pixel voltage of first pixel electrode decreases first feed-through voltage; (c) applying second scan voltage to second scan line for switching on second TFT, wherein data voltage of data line is transmitted to second pixel electrode via second drain electrode and second source electrode for charging second LC capacitor in a second pixel voltage; and (d) discharging second scan voltage, wherein second pixel voltage of second pixel electrode decreases a second feed-through voltage, and first and second scan voltages are positively relative to the first and second feed-through voltages respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hung-lung Hou
  • Publication number: 20140267473
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a display device and a driving method thereof, in which uniformity of a video image displayed after charge sharing does not deteriorate. In a first horizontal period, a positive voltage and a negative voltage according to a video signal are alternately applied to source signal lines, and then, reset voltages of +5V and ?5V are respectively applied to source signal lines. As a result, the voltages of the source signal lines become +5V or ?5V. In this state, when the source signal lines to which +5V and ?5V are applied are short-circuited in the beginning of a second horizontal period, charge sharing is performed between the source signal lines, and the voltages of these source signal lines become 0V. Subsequently, when the voltage according to the video signal is applied, the liquid crystal display device can display a color video image having reduced display unevenness and high uniformity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Hajime Washio
  • Publication number: 20140267472
    Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, a source driver for driving a display panel to display an image data in an adaptive column inversion includes a data processing unit having a logic circuit adapted for determining N most-significant bits (MSBs) of image data signals of two neighboring data lines, such that when all of the N MSBs are equal to 1 or 0, the output of the logic circuit is 1, otherwise, the output of the logic circuit is 0, and a MUX coupled to the data processing unit and adapted for receiving a frame polarity control signal, FramePOL, and a pixel polarity control signal, XPOL, and selectively outputting the frame polarity control signal FramePOL when the output of the logic circuit is 1, or the pixel polarity control signal POL when the output of the logic circuit is 0, as a polarity control signal, POL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chao-Ching Hsu, Jen-Chieh Chen, Mu-Lin Tung
  • Patent number: 8836634
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The stereoscopic image display includes a display panel that displays a 2D image data in a 2D mode and displays a 3D image data in a 3D mode, a backlight unit providing light to the display panel, a timing controller that supplies a left eye image data during a data addressing period of a (2N?1)th frame period and supplies a right eye image data during a data addressing period of a 2Nth frame period in the 3D mode, where N is a natural number, and a backlight controller generating a backlight control signal for controlling light sources of the backlight unit so that the light sources of the backlight unit are turned on during a vertical blanking interval of each of the (2N?1)th frame period and the 2Nth frame period in the 3D mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jaeyong Lee
  • Patent number: 8836627
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus and a pixel driving method are provided. The liquid crystal display apparatus comprises a pixel array, a scan driving circuit and a data driving circuit. The pixel array comprises a plurality of first pixels, a plurality of second pixels, a plurality of third pixels and a plurality of fourth pixels. The scan driving circuit is configured to activate the first pixels and the fourth pixels sequentially and then activate the second pixels and the third pixels sequentially. The data driving circuit is configured to supply a first polarity data signal when the first pixels and the fourth pixels are activated and supply a second polarity data signal when the second pixels and the third pixels are activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tien-Chin Huang, Chia-Tsung Chaing
  • Patent number: 8836628
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal panel driving method and device employing a dot inversion system. The liquid crystal panel driving method includes the steps of: (a) generating an alternating signal; (b) adding a signal of a different potential to the alternating signal, to then be applied to input ends of a gamma voltage generating unit (72) and a common voltage generating unit (73); (c) applying an alternating common voltage generated from the common voltage generating unit (73) to a common electrode (220); and (d) generating the data voltage whose polarity is inverted in the gamma voltage generating unit (72) on the basis of the alternating common voltage generated by the common voltage generating unit (73). In the dot inversion system, a common voltage is formed to alternate and a data voltage is inverted on the basis of the alternating common voltage, to thereby provide an effect of performing touch detection by using the alternating common voltage in a high-definitive liquid crystal display device (LCD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Inventor: Sung Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8836680
    Abstract: A pixel circuit is disclosed that includes a video mode, a memory mode and an inversion mode of operation. The pixel circuit includes a pixel storage node for storing data to be output by a liquid crystal cell, a pixel write circuit configured to receive display data and provide the display data to the pixel storage node for storage thereon. Further, the pixel circuit includes a hold circuit operatively coupled to the pixel write circuit and configured to minimize leakage of charge from the pixel storage node through the pixel write circuit, and an internal inversion circuit operatively coupled to the hold circuit and the pixel storage node and configured to invert a voltage of the data stored on the pixel storage node and a voltage applied to a liquid crystal cell that receives data stored on the pixel storage node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Patrick Zebedee
  • Patent number: 8836235
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically controlling illuminance, which transmits a dimming signal based on the zero-crossing of AC power using an illuminance control electronic switch. An apparatus for automatically controlling illuminance of Light-Emitting Diode (LED) lighting according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a dimming control electronic switch for, if manipulation of a switch by a user is sensed during supply of Alternating Current (AC) power to an LED lamp, interrupting supply of the AC power during a preset period of time based on zero-crossing of the AC power, and an LED lamp control device for controlling illuminance of the LED lamp by detecting supply and interruption of the AC power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Planet System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung Ha Park, Jung Chul Wee, Jae Heon Kim
  • Publication number: 20140253529
    Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) provides data lines, gate lines, and pixel units arranged as a matrix array. A method for driving the LCD includes a step of analyzing and determining polarities of one column of the pixel units as determining pixels, thereby defining a first polarity group and a second polarity group, and a step of sequentially applying corresponding data signals to a part of the whole pixel units that are arranged at same rows with the first polarity group in a part of a period of a frame. Corresponding data signals are sequentially applied to the other part of the whole pixel units that are arranged at same rows with the second polarity group in another part of a period of a frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: SHUN-MING HUANG, DENG-TZUNG TANG, YAW-SHING TSENG, KUN-HSIEN YANG, WEN-HAO WU
  • Publication number: 20140253530
    Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) provides data lines, gate lines, and pixel units arranged as a matrix array. A method for driving the LCD includes a step of analyzing and determining polarities of one column of the pixel units as determining pixels, thereby defining a first polarity group and a second polarity group, and a step of sequentially applying corresponding data signals to a part of the whole pixel units that are arranged at same rows with the first polarity group in a part of a period of a frame. Corresponding data signals are sequentially applied to the other part of the whole pixel units that are arranged at same rows with the second polarity group in another part of a period of a frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: SHUN-MING HUANG, DENG-TZUNG TANG, YAW-SHING TSENG, KUN-HSIEN YANG, WEN-HAO WU
  • Patent number: 8830411
    Abstract: In an array substrate and a method of manufacturing the array substrate, an array substrate includes a first switching element, a second switching element, a third switching element and a fourth switching element. The first switching element is electrically connected to a first data line. The second switching element is electrically connected to a second data line adjacent to the first data line. The third switching element is electrically connected to a data power line interposed between the first and second data lines. The fourth switching element is electrically connected to a gate power line receiving a voltage having different polarity from a voltage applied to the data power line. Therefore, light transmittance, opening ratio and display quality are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwa-Sung Woo, Joo-Nyung Jang, Cheol Shin, Yoon-Sung Um, Mi-Jeong Song
  • Patent number: 8823725
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining a duty cycle for a pixel (e.g. of alternating pixel values to achieve an average pixel color). In use, a first value of a sub-color component bit of a pixel is determined. Additionally, a second value for the sub-color component bit of the pixel is calculated. Further, a duty cycle for alternating between the first value and the second value is determined (e.g. which when applied at normal display frame rate may achieve an average color).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: David Wyatt, Daniel William Nolan, Michael A. Ogrinc
  • Patent number: 8823623
    Abstract: A liquid crystal driver is provided, in which a frame rate of an input image signal is multiplied by 2N (N is an integer of one or more); each frame is divided into N positive field(s) and N negative field(s) respectively; the image signal is supplied to a liquid crystal panel with a positive polarity in a positive field; and the image signal is supplied to the liquid crystal panel with a negative polarity in a negative field. The liquid crystal driver includes a corrected image signal generator configured to generate a corrected image signal having the same amount of correction added to the positive field and negative field. The corrected image signal is supplied to the liquid crystal panel with the positive polarity in the positive field and the corrected image signal is supplied to the liquid crystal panel with the negative polarity in the negative field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Katagawa, Hideo Morita, Yoshiki Shirochi, Hideaki Kawaura
  • Patent number: 8823622
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of gate lines having odd-numbered gate lines and even-numbered gate lines, a plurality of source lines, a first gate driver which drives the odd-numbered gate lines, a second gate driver which drives the even-numbered gate lines and a driving controller which outputs an overdriven image signal in at least one driving period of a plurality of driving periods and outputs a normal image signal in remaining driving periods of the plurality of driving periods. The overdriven image signal is obtained by adding an overdrive voltage to the normal image signal, and the overdrive voltage is set according to a level of the normal image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiru Senda, Ryoichi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8816950
    Abstract: In a timing controller and a display apparatus, the timing controller generates an internal enable signal based on an external enable signal and processes image data using the internal enable signal. The timing controller determines a width of each of the plurality of pulses of the external enable signal and subtracts a predetermined reference value from the count value to generate a control signal faster than an effective period of the external enable signal. The control signal is applied to a driver which drives a display panel on which an image is displayed. In an exemplary embodiment, the control signal serves as a vertical start signal which starts an operation of a gate driver applying a gate signal to the display panel, thus preventing or effectively eliminating a delay of the image data applied to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Su Han, Po-Yun Park
  • Patent number: 8816949
    Abstract: In a shift register circuit, a defective operation while an output signal is not outputted and a drive capability lowering while the output signal is outputted are prevented. A unit shift register comprises a first transistor for supplying a clock signal inputted to a first clock terminal to an output terminal, and the first transistor is driven by a drive circuit. A second transistor is connected between the gate of the first transistor and the output terminal and has a gate connected to the first clock terminal. The second transistor connects the gate of the first transistor to the output terminal based on the clock signal when the gate of the first transistor is at L (Low) level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Youichi Tobita
  • Patent number: 8817011
    Abstract: A drive device drives a display panel through alternately applying a positive polarity gradation voltage and a negative polarity gradation voltage to the display panel. The drive device includes an amplifier unit for amplifying a voltage applied to an input to obtain an amplified gradation voltage, and a voltage generation unit for generating the positive polarity gradation voltage and the negative polarity gradation voltage according to the amplified gradation voltage. The amplifier unit selects one of the positive polarity gradation voltage and the negative polarity gradation voltage immediately before the amplifier unit switches a gradation reference voltage. The selected gradation voltage has a polarity the same as that of the gradation reference voltage to be applied to the input line after the amplifier unit switches the gradation reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Norihiko Satani
  • Publication number: 20140232627
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving device for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) device. The driving device comprises a plurality of first charge sharing switches and a plurality of second charge sharing switches. Each of the plurality of first charge sharing switches is individually coupled between two adjacent odd data channels of a plurality of data channels. Each of the plurality of second charge sharing switches is individually coupled between two adjacent even data channels of the plurality of data channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ji-Ting Chen, Kuang-Feng Sung
  • Patent number: 8810495
    Abstract: The present application provides a display device having a pixel circuit including: a pixel electrode; a capacitive element configured to be connected to the pixel electrode of liquid crystal capacitance and hold a signal potential reflecting a grayscale; and an inverter circuit configured to invert polarity of a held potential read out from the capacitive element, wherein input potential of the inverter circuit is set to middle potential in an operating supply voltage range of the inverter circuit in operation of inverting the polarity of the held potential and writing an inverted potential to the capacitive element again after reading out the held potential from the capacitive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Teranishi
  • Patent number: 8810493
    Abstract: To provide a display device which can reduce driving frequency of a controller and a driver for inputting a signal to the display device and increase brightness of a screen without increasing the driving frequency. The display device includes: a display screen having a plurality of pixels provided by corresponding to intersection points between scan lines and data lines; a scan line drive circuit which drives the scan lines; a data line drive circuit which drives the data lines; and a display device body having an image display control device which operates the drive circuit so as to sequentially and repeatedly display two or more types of images. The image display control device causes the scan line drive circuit to simultaneously select two or more scan lines for at least one type of image among the two or more types of images sequentially displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Kimura, Masao Imai
  • Patent number: 8803780
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal display panel including data lines and gate lines crossing each other; a timing controller that maps data of an input image to polarity patterns of 1-dot inversion and 2-dot inversion, counts the number of positive data and the number of negative data, determines whether any one of the positive data and negative data becomes dominant or not based on a difference between the counted numbers, and selects either one of the 1-dot and 2-dot inversions; a data driving circuit that converts the data of the input image into data voltages to be supplied to the data lines and inverts the polarity of the data voltages by the selected dot inversion; and a gate driving circuit that sequentially supplies gate pulses synchronized with the data voltages to the gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongwoo Kim, Hyuntaek Nam, Suhyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8803779
    Abstract: An image display system includes an LCD (liquid crystal display) or other display driven by alternating current and driven in an inverted manner by a predetermined driving method on a pixel basis, and an LCD driving device for generating a Frame Rate Control (FRC) pattern which is the same as the pattern utilized by the predetermined driving method. The display is thereby driven so as to allow the display to make an expression in gradations higher (for example, 256 gradations) than gradations (for example, 64 gradations) natively supported by the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Huan Fund Pte. L.L.C.
    Inventor: Moriyuki Tsuchihashi
  • Patent number: 8803784
    Abstract: A gate driver is provided with an odd-numbered stage shift register, an even-numbered stage shift register, and main lines including clock signal main lines. In at least one example embodiment, each stage of one of the shift registers receives the first clock and the second clock from the clock signal main lines, and the third clock and the fourth clock from an adjacently provided stage of the other shift register. Each stage of the shift register can receive the second clock from a different stage of the same shift register. With this, it is possible to reduce a picture-frame area of a panel in a display device provided with a scanning signal line drive circuit having the plurality of shift registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mayuko Sakamoto, Yasuaki Iwase
  • Patent number: 8797309
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a plurality of pixel circuits which is arranged in a matrix shape; a plurality of data lines; a selection unit which sequentially selects the plurality of pixel circuits for every group which is fewer in number than the number of rows of the pixel circuits; a control unit which sequentially changes the pixel circuits included in the groups; and a data signal supply unit which outputs a data signal to each data line. Each of the plurality of sequentially selected pixel circuits is connected to each of the different data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Ooishi
  • Patent number: 8797243
    Abstract: A method of driving a liquid crystal display device includes supplying data voltages to a pixel on a moving path of an image during a scroll operation, wherein the data voltages displaying the image have opposite polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Woong-Ki Min, Hong-Sung Song
  • Patent number: 8797310
    Abstract: In a display device (i) which carries out a display based on a video signal whose resolution has been converted to higher resolution (high-resolution conversion driving) and (ii) which carries out CC driving, when the resolution of the video signal is converted by a factor of 2 (double-size display), assuming that a direction in which the gate lines extend is a row-wise direction, signal potentials having the same polarity and the same gray scale are supplied to pixel electrodes included in respective two pixels that correspond to two adjacent gate lines and that are adjacent to each other in the column-wise direction (scanning direction), and a direction of change in the signal potentials written to the pixel electrodes from the source lines varies every two adjacent rows according to the polarities of the signal potentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Etsuo Yamamoto, Shige Furuta, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Seijirou Gyouten
  • Publication number: 20140210804
    Abstract: In a method of dynamic charge sharing for a display device, it is determined whether a current line of a data driver has polarity inverted from a preceding line. Charge sharing is performed globally, if it is determined that the current line is polarity inverted from the preceding line. It is further determined whether the current line and the preceding line are substantially different, if it is determined that the current line is not polarity inverted from the preceding line. Charge sharing is performed in groups if it is determined that the current line and the preceding line are substantially different; otherwise, no charge sharing is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Huan-Sen Liao, Jen Chun Peng
  • Patent number: 8791894
    Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for determining an operating mode of a display device that may include a flat panel display and a controller coupled to the flat panel display. The controller may be configured to determine an operating mode for the flat panel display among a plurality of operating modes including at least a first operating mode and a second operating mode. In the first operating mode, the controller may set the flat panel display to utilize a first frame rate and a first inversion mode to save power. In the second operating mode, the controller may set the flat panel display to utilize a second frame rate, a second inversion mode, and black frame insertion to improve image quality. The second frame rate may be faster than the first frame rate. The second inversion mode and black frame insertion may be mutually configured to maintain a DC balanced operation of the flat panel display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Takagi, Cheng-Shih Chin, Yanli Zhang, Maximino Vasquez
  • Patent number: 8786535
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a driving method of a liquid crystal display device is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Shiomi, Toshihisa Uchida, Toshihide Tsubata, Junichi Sawahata, Naoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 8773339
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes applying a common voltage to the display panel, sensing a frequency of the display panel to generate a frequency signal, adjusting a gain of an operational amplifier based on the frequency signal, receiving a feedback common voltage from the display panel, and compensating the common voltage using an input resistor, the operational amplifier and a feedback resistor based on the feedback common voltage to apply the compensated common voltage to the display panel. The operational amplifier includes an inverting input terminal connected to the input resistor, a non-inverting input terminal to which a reference common voltage is applied and an output terminal. The feedback resistor is between the inverting input terminal and the output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Su Kim, Jae-Hoon Lee, Chang-Ho Lee, Yu-Han Bae
  • Patent number: 8773343
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a capacitive electric potential line driving circuit that supplies one of a low-level and a high-level electric potential as a capacitive electric potential to each of the capacitive electric potential lines, reverses polarity of the capacitive electric potential as a write period for the row corresponding to the corresponding capacitive electric potential line is terminated in each subfield period included in a unit period, and, in a final subfield period included in the unit period, reverses polarity of the capacitive electric potential again at the time period of after reversing the polarity of the capacitive electric potential until terminating the corresponding final subfield period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinsuke Fujikawa