Grouped Electrodes (e.g., Matrix Partitioned Into Sections) Patents (Class 345/103)
  • Publication number: 20140320467
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of drive electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged side-by-side in a second direction with an inter-electrode slit in between; and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in matrix in the first and second directions. Each of the drive electrodes has one or more inner-electrode slits, and a center of the pixel electrode is located in the inter-electrode slit or in the inner-electrode slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Eiji Sakai, Masanobu Ikeda, Koji Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 8860697
    Abstract: A display driving device includes a plurality of data drivers; and a timing controller including a data transmission unit. The data transmission unit transmits data to the data drivers, The data transmission unit controls an electrical signal based on a distance difference between each of the data drivers and the data transmission unit, to reduce distortion of the electrical signal and/or power consumption due to the distance difference, and transmits the controlled electrical signal. The electrical signal corresponds to the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: ANAPASS Inc.
    Inventor: Yong-Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 8847852
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display device and a control method thereof are disclosed. A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel of the stereoscopic display device is configured to display left-eye frames and right-eye frames alternately. Each of the left-eye frames includes a left-eye sub-frame and a black sub-frame that are displayed by a first display region and a second display region alternatively. Each of the right-eye frames includes a right-eye sub-frame and a black sub-frame that are displayed by the first display region and the second display region alternately. The backlight module includes a first backlight and a second backlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia-Chiang Hsiao, Chih-Wen Chen, Chengming He
  • Patent number: 8836688
    Abstract: A display device which can prevent deterioration of a liquid crystal and reduction in display quality at low power consumption without lowering an aperture ratio is provided. An opposite voltage (Vcom) is applied to an opposite electrode (80) of a liquid crystal capacitive element (Clc). One ends of a pixel electrode (20), a first switch circuit (22), a second switch circuit (23), and a first terminal of a second transistor (T2) form an internal node (N1). The other ends of the first switch circuit (22) and the second switch circuit (23) are connected to a source line (SL) and a voltage supply line (VSL), respectively. A control terminal of a first transistor (T1) in the second switch circuit (23), a second terminal of the second transistor (T2), and one end of a boost capacitive element (Cbst) form an output node (N2). The other end of the boost capacitive element (Cbst) and the control terminal of the second transistor (T2) are connected to a boost line (BST) and a reference line (REF), respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshimitsu Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20140253490
    Abstract: A 2D/3D switchable and touch sensitive display, comprising a display panel with a plurality of pixels and a LC cell is disclosed. The LC cell is disposed on the display panel for providing 2D/3D switchable and touch sensitive function. The LC cell comprises a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other, a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first substrate, a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first electrodes and the second electrodes. The second electrodes interlaced with the first electrodes. The liquid crystal layer is controlled by a voltage between the first electrodes and the second electrodes for adjusting light path from the display panel and/or touch sensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki SUMI, Kazuyuki HASHIMOTO, Toshihiko ARAKI, Satoru TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20140232703
    Abstract: A display unit includes: a pixel array section configured of pixels arranged in a matrix form, each of the pixels including an electro-optical device, a drive transistor, and a write transistor, the drive transistor configured to drive the electro-optical device, and the write transistor connected between a signal line and a gate electrode of the drive transistor and configured of a plurality of transistor devices connected to one another in series; and a drive circuit section configured to drive each of the pixels of the pixel array section, in which a potential of an intermediate node between two transistor devices selected from the plurality of transistor devices configuring the write transistor is turned to an intermediate potential between a potential of the signal line and a potential of the gate electrode of the drive transistor after completion of signal writing by the write transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Tatara
  • Patent number: 8810505
    Abstract: A liquid crystal television (1) includes a backlight (110a) which emits light toward an outside of the liquid crystal television (1) so that an image is displayed on a liquid crystal panel (110b) and a backlight control circuit (110c) which controls whether or not the backlight (110a) emits light. The backlight control circuit (110c) carries out control with respect to backlight (110a) so that a light-emitting period in which the backlight (110a) emits light alternates with a non-light-emitting period in which the backlight (110a) does not emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Koike, Masahiko Takiguchi, Mihoko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8804081
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a dual passivation layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The dual passivation layer includes a first passivation layer and a second passivation layer. A refractive index of the first passivation layer is different from a refractive index of the second passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-Kun Song, Yeon-Sik Ham, Kang-Woo Kim, Yeon-Mun Jeon, Jeong Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 8786542
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed which is capable of suppressing characteristic changes due to a long period of conduction, thereby achieving high-quality video display, and also to provide a drive method therefor. In at least one embodiment, while sequentially activating n first scanning signal line groups G1(1) to G1(n), a predetermined voltage, which is the same as a voltage for turning off a thin-film transistor included in each pixel formation portion in that the polarity thereof is negative and is at a higher level than that voltage, is applied simultaneously to n second scanning signal line groups G2(1) to G2(n). Thereafter, while sequentially activating the n second scanning signal line groups G2(1) to G2(n), the predetermined voltage is applied simultaneously to the n first scanning signal line groups G1(1) to G1(n). By repeating this, charges accumulated in the vicinity of the thin-film transistors are eliminated, thereby suppressing changes in off characteristics thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Morimoto
  • 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: 8766889
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of scan lines, and a plurality of data lines. Each pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel is coupled to the data line, and includes a switch, a storage capacitor, and a sub-pixel electrode. The switch is coupled to a scan line to receive a scan signal. The switch is turned on by the scan signal to receive a data signal transmitted from the data line. The storage capacitors of the sub-pixels of each pixel are coupled to the scan lines, or the storage capacitor of one of the sub-pixels of each pixel is coupled to a common electrode and the storage capacitors of the other sub-pixels are coupled to the scan lines. The switch and the storage capacitor of each sub-pixel are coupled to different scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Sheng Lai, Chih-Wei Wang, Hsueh-Ying Huang, Chen-Kuo Yang
  • Patent number: 8766907
    Abstract: A drive control method for a display panel configured to constantly provide a good display quality with ensuring that EMI countermeasures are properly carried out is accomplished. Image data used to display a plurality of drive regions of a display panel obtained by dividing the display panel is supplied to data drivers of the plurality of drive regions based on transmission clock signals respectively having different transmission clock frequencies suitable for the plurality of divided drive regions, a common drive-start control signal used for all of the plurality of drive regions is generated based on a reference clock signal having a clock frequency different from any of the transmission clock frequencies, and drive signals start to be output from the data drivers of the plurality of drive regions to display elements corresponding to the respective data drivers at a same timing based on the supplied drive-start control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirotaka Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 8743047
    Abstract: At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: pixels each of which includes a plurality of sub-pixels; and scanning signal lines provided in a 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, the polarity POL of 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 plurality of (for example, two) dummy scanning periods being inserted between a horizontal scanning period corresponding to last horizontal scanning (scanning of G23) in the preceding group and a horizontal scanning period corresponding to first horizontal scanning (scanning of G2) in the succeeding group, and a scanning signal line (for example, G2) which belongs to a group selected after the preceding group being subjected to dummy scanning during each dummy scanning period so as to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masae Kawabata, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 8736544
    Abstract: At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including a display unit having scan signal lines divided into a plurality of groups which are successively selected. While the scan signal lines belonging to the selected group are successively scanned horizontally, signal potentials of the same polarity are successively supplied to a data signal line. The polarity of the signal potential is reversed between a preceding group and a subsequent group which are selected continuously. A plurality of dummy scan periods are inserted between the horizontal scan period corresponding to the last horizontal scan in the preceding group and the horizontal scan period corresponding to the first horizontal scan in the subsequent group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Masae Kawabata
  • Patent number: 8723785
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a transmissive liquid crystal display device having a display region made up of pixels arrayed in a matrix fashion. The liquid crystal display device includes a planar light source unit formed of planar light source units corresponding to respective display region units on an assumption that the display region is divided into the display region units and configured in such a manner that each planar light source unit irradiates a corresponding display region unit with light, and a drive circuit driving the liquid crystal display device and the planar light source device. The liquid crystal display device is scanned line-sequentially and the pixels making up each display region unit are scanned line-sequentially. A planar light source unit corresponding to a display region unit is held in a luminous state over a predetermined period since a line-sequential scan on the display region unit has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Sugimoto, Hiroshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8723897
    Abstract: An exemplary display panel includes a plurality of monochrome pixels, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of control lines. Each monochrome pixel provides a specific color on the display panel. The data lines are electrically coupled to the monochrome pixels for providing the display data. The data lines includes a first data line electrically coupled to a part of the monochrome pixels, and the specific colors provided by the part of the monochrome pixels are of the same color. Besides, each of the control lines is electrically coupled to a part of the monochrome pixels for controlling the part of the monochrome pixels electrically coupled thereto whether to receive the display data from the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yuan Cheng, Shih-Hsun Lo, Shan-Fu Yuan, Chen-Lun Chiu, Yu-Wei Liao, Chia-Yang Cheng
  • Patent number: 8723786
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including: a pixel array including a plurality of scanning lines arranged in rows, a plurality of signal lines arranged in columns, a plurality of liquid crystal elements arranged in a matrix corresponding to an intersection of each scanning line and each signal line, and a plurality of common connection lines arranged one by one corresponding to the liquid crystal elements of each line; a scanning line drive circuit; a signal line drive circuit; and a common connection line drive circuit electrically separating, from each other, one or a plurality of common connection lines (first common connection lines), and a plurality of common connection lines (second common connection lines), and electrically connecting the plurality of second common connection lines to each other to independently drive the first common connection line and the second connection lines from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Takeya Takeuchi, Werapong Jarupoonphol, Tomohiko Sato, Yoshitoshi Kida
  • Patent number: 8717265
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for various inversion techniques for an LCD array, such as a staggered 2-line inversion, a staggered 1-line inversion, or a staggered N-line inversion. The staggered inversion may invert 2-lines, 1-line or N-lines of an array over the duration of a frame displayed on the array. Additional systems and methods may include a high impedance power reduction technique that may be applied alone or in combination with the various inversion techniques. Specifically, electrode drivers for “idle” lines of a staggered 1-line, 2-line, or N-line inversion may be switched to a high impedance state such that the corresponding drivers for the idle lines use reduced power during the inversion of the “active” lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Yongman Lee
  • Patent number: 8698859
    Abstract: A display device including: a display screen having first region and second region, the first region having a first pixel density and the second region having a second pixel density, the second pixel density being higher than the first pixel density, an input for receiving image data, a power source; and wherein the display screen is operable in a full screen mode in which an image is displayed in both the first region and the second region and a reduced screen mode in which power to the first region is turned off and the image is displayed in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Michael Joseph DeLuca
  • Patent number: 8681081
    Abstract: In an active matrix display device including pixels of three colors having a stripe arrangement or a delta arrangement, n (n denotes a multiple of 3 that is 6 or larger) adjacent data lines form one group and are connected to a source signal output line. The ON/OFF of a selection switch provided for each data line is controlled so that, among the n data lines forming one group, data lines corresponding to pixels of a color with a contribution to brightness smaller than a contribution of at least another color among the three colors are connected first and last with the source signal output line during one horizontal period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Tsuda, Maki Sasagawa, Ken Inada
  • Patent number: 8681137
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an ambient light sensor configured to determine the direction of a beam of light incident thereon are disclosed. In one embodiment, an ambient light sensor is provided that comprises a plurality of light detectors arranged in a spatial array upon a light sensing surface. Each of the light detectors in the array is configured to generate an analog output voltage in response to the beam of ambient light falling thereon. The amount of light incident on the individual light detectors in the spatial array varies according to the position of each such sensor with respect to direction of the beam of ambient light. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is operably coupled to the plurality of light detectors and is configured to receive the analog output signals generated thereby as inputs thereto, and to provide digital output values representative of the analog signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chee Heng Wong, Yu Feng Yao, Sze Ping Ong
  • Patent number: 8674917
    Abstract: A method and system for adjusting a gray-scale level of an LCD device. The method includes: checking a default gray-scale value A; comparing default brightness value YA with a target brightness value YX; inputting a trial gray-scale value B; and outputting a target gray-scale value X. The method employs a preselected Similarity of Triangles technique. The system employs a image-capturing unit determining screen brightness and a control unit using a preselected Similarity of Triangles technique to adjust the gray-scale level of a connected display device, reducing a single-screen-capture gray-scale level adjustment interval to about 1.8 to 2.1 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Won Lee, Jae-Ho Oh, Kwan-Young Oh
  • Patent number: 8659534
    Abstract: A backlight driving apparatus is disclosed which is capable of simplifying a circuit configuration for driving of a plurality of light emitting diode arrays and making the current balance of the light emitting diode arrays uniform. The backlight driving apparatus includes n light emitting diode arrays that include a plurality of light emitting diodes connected in series, a power source for generating a driving current, a current generator for generating currents to drive the light emitting diode arrays using the driving current, respectively, and a current mirror circuit for allowing substantially the same amount of currents to flow respectively through the light emitting diode arrays based on current from any one of the n light emitting diode arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pu Jin Kim, Seung Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 8654069
    Abstract: In a display device, pixel electrodes I, II and III corresponding to color filters R, G and B are coupled to TFTs which are turned on in accordance with signals on gate lines G, and the drain (source) of the TFT coupled to the pixel electrode II is connected with the source (drain) of the TFT coupled to the pixel electrode III. A signal voltage is written in the pixel electrode I when the gate line G1a is in the “on” state, a signal voltage is written in the pixel electrode II when the gate line G1b is in the “on” state, and a signal voltage is written in the pixel electrode III when the gate lines G1a and G1b are both in the “on” state. Signal voltages are written in the pixel electrodes III, I and II in this order mentioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Mamba, Tsutomu Furuhashi, Shinichi Komura
  • Patent number: 8648884
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a printed circuit board connected to the display panel, and a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit mounted on the display panel or the printed circuit board, in which each of the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit includes a gray scale voltage generating circuit generating a gray scale voltage to be applied to a first electrode of the pixel based on a gray scale reference voltage and a reference gray scale voltage circuit generating the gray scale reference voltage, and each of the gray scale voltage generating circuit of the first drive circuit and the gray scale voltage generating circuit of the second drive circuit generates the gray scale voltage based on the gray scale reference voltage generated in the reference gray scale voltage circuit of the first drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuuichirou Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8633903
    Abstract: A capacitive touch screen panel (TSP) includes multiple TSP sections assembled in a planar arrangement to provide a unitary user interface area. Each one of the TSP sections is configured for independent activation/deactivation with respect to other TSP sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyoung Rae Kim, Yoon Kyung Choi
  • Patent number: 8629827
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a data driving part and a gate driving part. The display panel includes a first pixel row. The first pixel row includes a first pixel connected to an (n+1)-th gate line and an (m+1)-th data line (where ‘n’ and ‘m’ are natural numbers), and a second pixel connected to an n-th gate line and an (m+2)-th data line. The data driving part applies a data voltage having a first polarity with respect to a reference voltage to the (m+1)-th data line, and applies a data voltage having a second polarity with respect to the reference voltage to the (m+2)-th data line. The gate driving part sequentially applies a gate signal to the n-th gate line and the (n+1)-th gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hoon Lee, Yong-Soon Lee, Young-Su Kim, Yu-Han Bae
  • Patent number: 8624830
    Abstract: Provided is a display device (1), including: two pixels in a region (A) surrounded by two video signal lines (DL) and two scanning signal lines (GL); a first dummy wiring, which is connected to one video signal line of the two video signal lines; and a second dummy wiring, which is connected to a different one of the two video signal lines (DL) from the one video signal line to which the first dummy wiring is connected, in which the first dummy wiring and the second dummy wiring each extend along a contour of the region (A) to a position between the two pixels, and further extend so that respective end portions are opposed to each other between the two pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Sato, Takeshi Sato
  • Patent number: 8624961
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for 3-D display based on random constructive interference. It produces a number of discrete secondary light sources by using an amplitude-phase-modulator-array, which helps to create 3-D images by means of constructive interference. Next it employs a random-secondary-light-source-generator-array to shift the position of each secondary light source to a random place, eliminating multiple images due to high order diffraction. It could be constructed with low resolution liquid crystal screens to realize large size real-time color 3-D display, which could widely be applied to 3-D computer or TV screens, 3-D human-machine interaction, machine vision, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Inventor: Zhiyang Li
  • Patent number: 8619019
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a plurality of data lines which transmit a data signal received from a data driving unit, a plurality of first gate lines and a plurality of second gate lines, which cross the data lines and are arranged in such a manner that the first gate lines and the second gate lines alternate with each other, a plurality of pixels which are defined by the data lines, the first gate lines, and the second gate lines, each of the pixels including a first sub-pixel electrode to which a first data voltage is applied by a first switching device connected to one of the first gate lines and a second sub-pixel electrode to which a second data voltage is applied by a second switching device connected to one of the second gate lines, and a gate driving unit which selects a scanning group including two or more first gate lines and two or more second gate lines, applies a gate-on voltage to the first gate lines of the scanning group according to a first predetermined scanning order, and applies the gate
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-woo Lee, Hee-seop Kim, Chang-hun Lee, Eun-hee Han
  • Publication number: 20130300721
    Abstract: A display unit includes: a display section; and a barrier section including a plurality of first electrodes, one or a plurality of second electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer, the first electrodes and the second electrodes being disposed in different layers or a same layer to face each other, the liquid crystal layer being disposed outside the first electrodes and the second electrodes, in which the electrodes, the second electrodes, and the liquid crystal layer configure a plurality of liquid crystal barriers extending in a first direction and being arranged side by side in a second direction, each of arrangement regions of the first electrodes has a plurality of sub-regions extending in the first direction and being arranged side by side in the second direction, and each of the first electrodes includes a plurality of slits or a plurality of first branch portions belonging to each of the sub-regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 8581821
    Abstract: An LCD device includes a display unit including pixels having a multi-pixel structure; first and second driving units that drive scanning and signal lines, respectively; an image acquisition unit, and a control unit. Each of the pixels includes first and second pixels, and first and second pixels of pixels are connected to two corresponding signal lines in a checkerboard manner. The first driving unit is controlled to repeatedly scan a first sub-frame of odd lines and a second sub-frame of even lines, and the second driving unit is controlled in such a manner that the polarity of the first pixel of a pixel differs from that of the second pixel of the pixel, the polarities of the adjacent first pixels differ from each other and those of the adjacent second pixels differ from each other, and a polarity signal is inverted when switching is performed between first and second sub-frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kamada, Toshiaki Suzuki, Kazuhiro Nukiyama
  • Patent number: 8576367
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel device includes a thin film transistor array substrate having a gate line provided on a substrate, a data line intersecting the gate line and having a gate insulating pattern disposed therebetween to define a pixel area, a thin film transistor provided at the intersection between the gate line and the data line, a protective film for protecting the thin film transistor, a pixel electrode provided at the pixel area and connected to the thin film transistor, a gate pad connected to the gate line and formed from a transparent conductive film included in the gate line, and a data pad connected to the data line and formed from the transparent conductive film, and a color filter array substrate joined with the thin film transistor array substrate to be opposed to each other, wherein the protective film is provided at an area where it overlaps with the color filter array substrate to expose the transparent conductive films included in the gate pad and the data pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon Sung Yoo, Youn Gyoung Chang, Seung Hee Nam
  • Patent number: 8552945
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same is described for reducing a compensating deviation of a common voltage. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel; a data driver for driving data lines of the liquid crystal display panel; a gate driver for driving gate lines of the liquid crystal display panel; and a common voltage compensating unit for generating a plurality of compensating signals for compensating respective distortions of common voltages at a plurality of common regions of a common electrode of the liquid crystal display panel by using common voltages fed back from the common regions, and supplying compensating signals corresponding to each of the plurality of common regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chae Wook Lim
  • Patent number: 8552973
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device where one display region of the liquid crystal display panel is divided into a first display region and a second display region along a border line in the direction in which scanning signal lines extend, a video signal line to which TFT elements of pixels in the first display region are connected and a video signal line to which TFT elements of pixels in the second display region are connected are electrically isolated from each other. Pixels having TFT elements connected to one of two adjacent video signal lines and pixels TFT elements connected to the other of the two adjacent video signal lines are alternate in a column of a number of pixels aligned in the direction in which the video signal lines extend in the first display region and the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 8542414
    Abstract: A position of a leading edge of an original sheet should be accurately detected utilizing a shadow thereof, irrespective of thickness of the original sheet. In a scanner, an image sensor recognizes the shadow of the leading edge of the original sheet projected on a projection screen when a light source emits light to the original sheet being automatically transported on a glass plate. The original sheet is determined to have reached a reading position, when the original sheet is further transported by a predetermined distance after the shadow is recognized. The projection screen is located above the glass plate at a position spaced apart from the image sensor by a predetermined distance, and hence the timing that the shadow of the leading edge of the original sheet is projected on the projection screen is constant irrespective of the thickness of the original sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoichiro Maki
  • Patent number: 8542183
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a timing controller, a liquid crystal display panel, multiple data drivers, and gate drivers. The timing controller supplies control data to specified drivers among the data drivers. The specified drivers generate gate driver control signals to control gate drivers in response to the control data, and supply gate driver control signals to the gate drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nose, Yoshihiko Hori
  • Patent number: 8531388
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel, a data driving circuit, a gate driving circuit, a plurality of light sources, a light source control circuit configured to differently modulate a unit frame data depending on a display location of the unit frame data on the liquid crystal display panel and to control turn-on and turn-off operations of the light sources, a timing controller configured to divide a unit frame period into first and second sub-frame periods and to repeatedly supply the modulated unit frame data to the data driving circuit during the first and second sub-frame periods, and a light source driving circuit configured to turn off all the light sources during the first sub-frame period and turn on all the light sources at a turn-on time within the second sub-frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunhwa Lee, Kiduk Kim, Daeheung Lee
  • Patent number: 8525824
    Abstract: There is provided a display driver device (liquid crystal driver) causing no degradation in display image quality even when a plurality of signal lines (source lines) of a display panel are divided into a plurality of groups as a countermeasure against EMI. With a liquid crystal display driver device (the liquid crystal driver) for generating image signals to be impressed to respective signal lines of a display panel upon receiving display image data, and outputting the image signals in a lump, corresponding to every one line, according to an output timing signal inputted from outside, output amplifiers, in the last stage of the liquid crystal driver, for outputting the image signals, respectively, are divided into a plurality of groups, and the output amplifiers of respective groups are caused to undergo a periodical change in output sequence while the respective image signals are slightly staggered in output timing by the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Okamura, Akihiko Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 8525767
    Abstract: The present invention directs to a method for automatically compensating a common electrode voltage, comprising: calculating an average shift amount of a common electrode voltage according to gray scale data in a line on a displayed image, processing the average shift amount of the common electrode voltage to be a digital signal then converting it into an analog signal then into an average shift amount voltage waveform, and superposing it with a common electrode voltage waveform to form a new output signal waveform for driving the common electrode; the present invention also directs to a device for automatically compensating a common electrode voltage, comprising a data input module, a looking up module, a data operation module, a data encoding and converting module, a waveform generator and an operational amplification module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xinshe Yin
  • Patent number: 8519926
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device with a register-type gamma reference voltage generating unit inside a data driving IC, thus to remove a source block dim phenomenon in a Chip on Glass (COG) cascade structure, and a driving method thereof. The LCD device comprises an LCD panel on which a plurality of gate lines and data lines intersect with each other. A TFT is formed at each intersection, to thus define images. A data driving unit supplies a gradation voltage to the LCD panel through a gamma voltage generating unit. A gate driving unit supplies a gate pulse to each gate line on the LCD panel. A timing controller controls the gate driving unit, the data driving unit and the gamma voltage generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hong-Youl Lim
  • Patent number: 8514340
    Abstract: An array substrate having double-layered metal patterns for use in a liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed in the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oh-Nam Kwon, Kyoung-Mook Lee, Nack-Bong Choi
  • Patent number: 8514205
    Abstract: A drive circuit includes a generator and a driver. The generator generates a signal having a period and a varying amplitude during a driving portion of the period, and the driver is coupled to the generator and drives a plate of an electrostatically drivable plant with the signal. The drive circuit may be used to drive a mirror plate of a comb-drive MEMS mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Microvision, Inc.
    Inventors: Wyatt O. Davis, Gregory T. Gibson, Thomas W. Montague, Robert J. Dunki-Jacobs, Michael P. Weir
  • Patent number: 8508535
    Abstract: Systems and methods for positioning a component of an inverse kinematics (IK) controlled animated object relative to a surface object. To help users deal with foot-ground (or other object-object) interactions efficiently, a foot-ground locking system is provided as a preprocessor to an inverse kinematics (IK) controller to automatically pose the foot on the ground. The foot is first rotated to reach the maximal contact area with the ground, then translated to touch the ground, and finally deformed to conform more tightly to the ground. The system works properly with other foot shape deformations, such as toe, heel, and ball rotations. The foot-ground locking can be used either as an interactive tool to help animators identify where the ground is or as a batch postprocessing tool to clean up foot-ground contacts whenever the animation or ground environment is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Pixar
    Inventors: Meng Yu, Chen Shen, William Reeves, Timothy S. Milliron
  • Publication number: 20130194170
    Abstract: Each pixel (31) includes an R pixel (41), a G pixel (42), and a B pixel (43) for displaying different colors and a W pixel (44) for displaying white obtained by combining the colors displayed in the R pixel (41), the G pixel (42), and the B pixel (43). The driving section (20) drives the R pixel (41), the G pixel (42), and the B pixel (43) with the target gamma curve C0 having the target gamma characteristic ?0 and drives, for each location or each frame, each of at least some of the W pixels (44) with a plurality of gamma curves including a gamma curve C1 having a gamma characteristic ?1 different from the target gamma characteristic ?0 and a gamma curve C2 having a gamma characteristic ?2 different from both the target gamma characteristic ?0 and the gamma characteristic ?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Jun Nakata, Yoshinori Shibata
  • Patent number: 8493302
    Abstract: The present invention aims to reduce flickers of the liquid crystal display device and enable the use of liquid crystal material exhibiting a high response speed, and to enhance light usage efficiency of the field sequential type liquid crystal display device. After writing the video signal to all the pixels in each sub-frame period, a correction voltage signal or an alternating signal having a frequency of greater than or equal to a certain frequency is input to the data line, so that the magnitude of the leakage current of each pixel TFT caused by the difference in polarity of the video signal with respect to the opposing electrode written to the pixel electrode is equalized, and the flickers are greatly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sekine
  • Patent number: 8487861
    Abstract: There is provided a driving circuit that drives an electro-optic device by outputting data signals that are subjected to serial-to-parallel conversion into m (m is a natural number greater than or equal to 2) channels through m image signal lines to a plurality of data lines. The driving circuit includes an adjusting section that adjusts the m-channel data signals so that, when a reference signal whose signal level is a reference level is input, the m-channel data signals at least partly reach signal levels different from the reference level for each channel, and the differences between the signal levels and the reference level fall within a predetermined range; and an interchanging section that interchanges the adjustment values adjusted by the adjusting section among the m-channel data signals every predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Yonemochi
  • Patent number: 8487864
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a display device includes: a display section in which a plurality of data signal lines and a plurality of scan signal lines are provided, the display section including (i) a first region including some of the plurality of scan signal lines to which a first scan signal is sequentially supplied and (ii) a second region including the others of the plurality of scan signal lines to which a second scan signal is sequentially supplied; and waveform adjusting sections for causing the first scan signal to have a waveform, during an active period, which is different from a waveform which the second scan signal has during an active period. This allows a display device, which drives a display section divided into a plurality of regions, to reduce a difference in luminance between the regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Motomitsu Itoh
  • Patent number: 8487847
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display capable of improving its viewing angle characteristic of luminance is provided. The liquid crystal display includes: a pair of signal lines extending so as to intersect to each other; a pixel provided for the pair of signal lines and configured of a plurality of sub pixels, each sub pixel including a liquid crystal element and a capacitive element; a driving element provided for each of the plurality of sub pixels so as to be connected to a corresponding pair of signal lines assigned to the pixel, and performs display driving by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal element based on a video signal; and a capacitance line provided for each of the plurality of sub pixels so as to be connected to one end of the capacitive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Ueda, Tsuyoshi Kamada
  • Patent number: 8487860
    Abstract: There is provided a driving circuit that drives an electro-optic device by outputting data signals that are subjected to serial-to-parallel conversion into m channels through m (m is a natural number greater than or equal to 2) image signal lines to a plurality of data lines. The driving circuit includes an adjusting section that adjusts the m-channel data signals so that, when a reference signal whose signal level is a reference level is input, the m-channel data signals at least partly reach signal levels different from the reference level for each channel, the number of continuous channels of signals at the same signal level is smaller than a predetermined number, and the differences between the signal levels and the reference level fall within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Yonemochi