Field Period Polarity Reversal Patents (Class 345/209)
  • Publication number: 20120098807
    Abstract: An active level shift (ALS) driver circuit and a liquid crystal display apparatus including the ALS driver circuit are disclosed. The ALS driver circuit includes an input unit configured to apply a first polarity voltage to a first node and to apply a second polarity voltage to a second node, a level compensation unit configured to adjust the voltages of the first node and the second node, and an output unit configured to alternately output a first power voltage and a second power voltage according to the adjusted voltages of the first and second nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Kyu Lee, Dong-Hoon Lee, Chul-Ho Kim, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Se-Hyang Kim
  • Patent number: 8164558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a driving method for a driver IC, comprising: detecting a polarity of a gate line being driven; when the polarity changes, the driver integrated circuit drives the gate line with a first mode signal; when the polarity does not change, the driver integrated circuit drives the gate line with a second mode signal, a driving current of the first mode signal is greater than that of the second mode signal. In the present invention, the driver IC drives a gate line in different driving modes according to a condition that a polarity of the droved gate line changes. Since a driving current of the first mode signal is greater than that of the second mode signal, the present invention is enabled to minimize a difference between charging delays of pixel electrodes on gate lines, improving a dim line phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyungkyu Kim
  • Patent number: 8164586
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a substrate; a gate line disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction; a capacitive electrode separated from the gate line and elongated in a second direction; a data line intersecting the gate line; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line and including a drain electrode; a coupling electrode overlapping the capacitive electrode and connected to the drain electrode; and a pixel electrode including at least one first subpixel electrode connected to the drain electrode and a second subpixel electrode connected to the capacitive electrode and spaced apart from the at least first subpixel electrode by a gap that overlaps the capacitive electrode or the coupling electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Ju Shin, Chong-Chul Chai, Cheol-Woo Park
  • Publication number: 20120092317
    Abstract: A display driving circuit which carries out CC driving is configured such that a polarity of a data signal to be supplied to a source line is reversed every two horizontal scanning periods and a signal electric potential written from the source line to a pixel electrode changes in a different direction every two adjacent rows. In at least one example embodiment, this allows, in a display device which carries out CC driving, enhancement of a display quality by removing lateral stripes that are produced in a display video while n-line reversal driving is being carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Etsuo Yamamoto, Shige Furuta, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Seijirou Gyouten
  • Publication number: 20120092316
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device and a driving display method thereof which firstly provides a first data signal; generates a driving control signal according to the first data signal that the driving control signal divides a first pixel to a N-th pixel of a pixel column into a first pixel group and a second pixel group according to the positive or negative polarity of each of pixel-voltages that are to be correspondingly received by the first pixel to the N-th pixel; orderly provides a scanning signal to the pixels of the first pixel group according to the driving control signal to activate the pixels of the first group one by one to input corresponding pixel-voltages thereto; and then orderly provides another scanning signal to the pixels of the second pixel group to activate the pixels of the second group one by one to input corresponding pixel-voltages thereto, so as to complete a frame of image display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chengming He, Chiayin Hung, Chihsien Li
  • Publication number: 20120086688
    Abstract: During the first frame, a first common electric potential is used, all picture elements of an identical line have an identical write polarity, there is another line of picture elements having a write polarity different from the identical write polarity, a data signal having a first electric potential lower than the first common electric potential is supplied to a line for a negative write polarity, a picture element electrode electric potential is changed to a second electric potential greater than a second common electric potential and lower than the first common electric potential by changing a storage capacitor electric potential from Low to High after a selection period ends, a data signal having a third electric potential greater than the first common electric potential is supplied to a line for a positive write polarity, and the storage capacitor electric potential is still kept Low after the selection period ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daiji Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20120086689
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention switches, in a display driving circuit of a liquid crystal display device which carries out CC driving, between a two-line reversal driving mode in which a polarity of a data signal supplied to a source line is reversed every two horizontal scanning periods and a one-line reversal driving mode in which a polarity of a data signal supplied to a source line is reversed every one horizontal scanning period. In at least one example embodiment, a polarity signal reverses its polarity every two horizontal scanning periods in the two-line reversal driving mode, and reverses its polarity every one horizontal scanning period in the one-line reversal driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shige Furuta, Etsuo Yamamoto, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Seijirou Gyouten
  • Publication number: 20120086687
    Abstract: Pixel electrodes (17a and 17b) are provided in a pixel (101), and the pixel (101) is associated with a data signal line (15x), scanning signal lines (16a and 16b), and transistors (12a and 12b). One pixel electrode (17a) is connected to the data signal line (15x) via the transistor (12a). The other pixel electrode (17b) is connected to the pixel electrode (17a) via a capacitor (C101) and is connected to the data signal line (15x) via the transistor (12b). Storage capacitance (Cha and Chb) is formed between the pixel electrodes (17a and 17b) of the pixel (101) and a scanning signal line (16d) associated with a pixel (100). Thus, a configuration of a liquid crystal display device of a capacitively coupled pixel division mode is proposed in which a decline in display quality caused by image sticking of a sub-pixel is less likely to occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshihide Tsubata
  • Patent number: 8155445
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing method, an image processing apparatus and an image processing program for dealing with inverted characters (outlined characters) constituted by white pixels on a black ground in a tree structure same as that of normal characters constituted by black pixels on a white ground. In the present invention, black pixel blocks and white pixel blocks are sampled recursively from a binary image, tree structure data indicating a positional relation between the sampled black pixel blocks and white pixel blocks is created, an inverted image is created by white-black-inverting the insides of black pixel blocks that can include inverted characters, of black pixel blocks included in the tree structure data, white pixel blocks and black pixel blacks are sampled from the created inverted image, and data regarding the sampled white pixel blocks and black pixel blocs is added to corresponding nodes of the tree structure data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomotoshi Kanatsu
  • Patent number: 8154494
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal modulation element including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer, a potential difference providing unit that provides a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an illumination optical system that illuminates the liquid crystal modulation element by using light from a light source. The liquid crystal display device includes a charge adjusting mode for reducing the intensity of an electric field generated by electric charge stored between the liquid crystal layer and at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Koide, Masayuki Abe, Yuya Kurata, Teppei Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 8154495
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for improving the image quality of a MSHD (Multi-Switch Half source Driving) display panel and a device used the same. The method comprising following steps: First, using a polarity-line-inversion source driver to drive a plurality of pixels of a MSHD display panel, then a frame displaying in polarity-dot-inversion. The device comprises a polarity-line-inversion source driver and a MSHD display panel, wherein the polarity-line-inversion source driver drives a plurality of pixels of the MSHD display panel. The pixels of the MSHD display panel displays a frame in polarity-dot-inversion form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Wen-Fa Hsu
  • Publication number: 20120081345
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of sufficiently decreasing power consumption in permanent display of still images while keeping high quality display in transparent mode, in high resolution display panels. In each pixel circuit, a pixel electrode is connected to a source line via a third transistor. When a refreshing circuit performs a refreshing operation, a boosting signal line is supplied with a voltage pulse. If the pixel electrode is at a high voltage level at this time point, a voltage at a node is boosted and a first transistor turns ON to supply a reference voltage to the pixel electrode as a refreshing voltage. If the pixel electrode is at a low voltage level, there is no boost, and the first transistor stays in OFF state, so a node assumes a voltage which is given by an off-resistance ratio of the first and the third transistors, and this voltage is supplied to the pixel electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshimitsu Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20120081346
    Abstract: Provided is a shift register of a display-driving circuit which carries out simultaneous selection of a plurality of signal lines by using a simultaneous selection signal. A stage of the shift register includes (i) a set-reset type flip-flop and (ii) a signal generating circuit which generates an output signal of the stage by selectively outputting a signal in response to an output of the flip-flop. The output signal of the stage (i) becomes active due to an activation of the simultaneous selection signal and then (ii) remains active while the simultaneous selection is being performed, and the output from the flip-flop is inactive during a period in which a setting signal and a resetting signal are both being active. This makes it possible to quickly carry out the simultaneous selection of all the signal lines and the initialization of the shift register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shige Furuta, Makoto Yokoyama, Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami
  • Publication number: 20120075277
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes an active-matrix type display panel and a signal drive circuit. The active-matrix type display panel includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates, pixel electrodes arranged on one of the substrates in rows and columns, switching elements connected to the pixel electrodes, scan lines connected to the switching elements, and signal lines connected to the switching elements. Each signal line extends between two columns of the pixel electrodes, and any two pixel electrodes adjacent in the row direction use one signal line in common. One of two pixel electrodes is connected to an odd-numbered scan line, and the other of two pixel electrodes is connected to an even-numbered scan line. The signal drive circuit supplies display signals to the pixel electrodes through the signal lines, and to invert the display signal in polarity at every two other scan lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryuichi HIRAYAMA
  • Patent number: 8144141
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display which may suppress image quality deterioration and enhance image contrast is provided. The liquid crystal display includes: a light source unit including a light source having divided lighting sections and a light source control section; a liquid crystal display panel including pixels and modulating light from the light source; and a display driving section performing a polarity inversion driving based on the inputted video signal. The display driving section corrects the inputted video signal, for each of divided display regions in the liquid crystal display panel corresponding to ON-state divided lighting sections, based on a light control signal from the light source control section, so that a amplitude center potential of the driving voltage with a waveform of alternately-inverting polarity substantially agrees with the common potential. The driving voltage based on a corrected video signal is then applied to the liquid crystal element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Hirose, Tsuyoshi Kamada
  • Patent number: 8139051
    Abstract: The present invention provides a driver, including: data lines disposed in parallel with each other; gate lines disposed in parallel with each other and at right angles to the data lines so as to be electrically insulated from the data lines; odd-numbered pixel cell connected to the odd-numbered data line from the head one, and the odd-numbered gate line from the head one; even-numbered pixel cell connected to the even-numbered data line from the head one, and the even-numbered gate line from the head one; driving means for driving the odd-numbered gate lines and the even-numbered gate lines independently of each other; inputting means for inputting a signal having a predetermined potential to each of the odd-numbered gate lines and the even-numbered gate lines; and comparing means for comparing potentials of the each adjacent odd-numbered data line and even-numbered data line with each other, and outputting a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Ando
  • Patent number: 8139013
    Abstract: An image display according to the present invention includes a driving device which performs pulse width modulation drive, restrains power consumption, and produces a good multi-tone display. The image display makes the difference between the scan line voltage and the signal line voltage equal in positive polarity writing and negative polarity writing by which pixels are AC driven, so as to make the on-resistances of transistors equal. This allows a maximum pulse width, the size of switching elements, etc. to be determined first so that they match positive polarity writing in which the resistances value of the switching elements rise. No high frequency clock is required to produce subtle differences of charge ratio in negative polarity writing in which the resistances of the switching elements fall. Power consumption which depends on the clock frequency drops too.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouji Kumada, Takashige Ohta, Haruhito Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20120062535
    Abstract: In an electro-optical device, a liquid crystal element can be driven more appropriately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 8130216
    Abstract: An example control signal generating circuit CTL for controlling the writing into pixels PIX instructs a data signal line drive circuit SD2, which is for driving pixels in a non-display area, to write a voltage VB or a voltage VW which are for non-displaying, not only in the first frame but also once in a predetermined number of frames. In other words, the pixels in the display area are refreshed at intervals longer than those in the case of refreshing the pixels in each frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime Washio, Yasuyoshi Kaise, Sachio Tsujino, Kazuhiro Maeda, Keiji Takahashi, Yasushi Kubota, Toshiya Aoki
  • Publication number: 20120050243
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixel electrodes, a counter electrode arranged facing the pixel electrodes, and liquid crystal cells held in a space between the pixel electrodes and the counter electrode. The optical characteristics of the liquid crystal cells change based on potential differences between the pixel electrodes and the counter electrode. The counter electrode includes row counter electrodes divided in accordance with rows of pixels. The display apparatus also includes a counter scanning circuit for sequentially scanning the row counter electrodes in accordance with a pixel row sequentially selected by a vertical scanning circuit and for applying a counter potential of one inverting polarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: KAZUHIRO NODA
  • Publication number: 20120044225
    Abstract: A flat display device includes a flat panel including a plurality of gate lines; a first gate driving portion connected to odd gate lines among the plurality of gate lines; a second gate driving portion connected to even gate lines among the plurality of gate lines; a driving mode selection portion generating a driving mode signal corresponding to source output inputted thereto; and a timing control portion operating in a moving image mode or a still image mode in response to the driving mode signal, wherein the first and second gate driving portions alternately operate per a frame in the still image mode, or wherein the first and second gate driving portions alternately operate per a field in the moving image mode, in which the field is shorter than the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventors: Hak-su KIM, Myung-Jong Park
  • Patent number: 8120565
    Abstract: Display contrast in electro-optical display devices is improved using a drive circuit including pixel drive circuits and a common drive circuit. The pixel drive circuits are connected to pixel electrodes of the display device, and are operable to generate respective pixel drive signals that alternate between a first high voltage and a first low voltage differing in voltage by less than or equal to a process-limited maximum. The common drive circuit is connected to a common electrode of the display device, and is operable to generate a common drive signal alternating between a second high voltage and a second low voltage differing in voltage by more than the process-limited maximum. The common drive signal is asymmetrically bipolar with respect to the first low voltage of the pixel drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Avago Technologies ECBU IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken A. Nishimura, Charles D. Hoke, Thomas A. Knotts
  • Publication number: 20120038834
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment a ripple, generated in an electric potential of data signal lines even in long-term reversal driving, is reduced and display quality is improved. In at least one example embodiment, the liquid crystal display apparatus of the present invention includes scanning signal lines and data signal lines, in which one scanning pulse is outputted to select one scanning signal line, each of the data signal lines receives data signals whose polarities are reversed per one vertical scanning period while in one horizontal scanning period, one of two data signal lines receives a data signal having a polarity and the other of the two data signal lines receives another data signal having another polarity, the two data signal lines being arranged adjacent to each other, scanning pulses are successively outputted in sets of two, and at a timing in which two scanning pulses fall, two scanning pulses rise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masae Kitayama, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Kentaroh Irie
  • Patent number: 8115719
    Abstract: Provided is an electro-optical device including: pixel electrodes provided in intersections of gate lines and data lines; counter electrodes provided to face the pixel electrodes with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween; and storage capacitors each of which one end is connected to each of the pixel electrodes, wherein, if data line signals supplied to the pixel electrodes via the data lines correspond to writing of a positive polarity with respect to the potential of the counter electrodes, the potential of the other end of each of the storage capacitors is changed to a high potential side after the data line signals are written and, if the data line signals correspond to writing of a negative polarity with respect to the potential of the counter electrodes, the potential of the other end of each of the storage capacitors is held at a constant level before and after the data line signals are written.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shin Fujita
  • Publication number: 20120026206
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first pixel including a first pixel electrode connected to first data and gate lines, a second pixel including a second pixel electrode connected to a second data and gate lines, a third pixel including a third pixel electrode connected to a third data line and the first gate line, a fourth pixel including a fourth pixel electrode connected to a fourth data line and the second gate line, a fifth pixel including a fifth pixel electrode connected to a fifth data line and the second gate line, a sixth pixel including a sixth pixel electrode connected to a sixth data line and the first gate line, a seventh pixel including a seventh pixel electrode connected to a seventh data line and the second gate line, and an eighth pixel including an eighth pixel electrode connected to an eighth data line and the first gate line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: HOI-SIK MOON, Duc-Han Cho
  • Patent number: 8106870
    Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display (300) includes a liquid crystal panel (301) receiving reference voltages; and a polarity resetting circuit (354) receiving display signals from external circuit and resetting the received display signals to attain resetted display signals, which makes the voltage difference between the resetted display signals and the previous frame display signals smaller than that between the corresponding received display signals and the previous frame display signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Shun-Ming Huang
  • Patent number: 8102351
    Abstract: An exemplary method for driving a liquid crystal panel includes: defining the array of pixels as comprising an array of dithering units; providing a predetermined inversion driving pattern for each dithering unit; providing a series of predetermined dithering patterns for each dithering unit; driving the sub-pixel units according to a sequence of frames, a predetermined plurality of the frames defining a cycle of frames. For all the first, second, and third color sub-pixels in a same row of pixels of each dithering unit, summations of the polarities of the first, second, and third color sub-pixels cancel each other out, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Deng-Tzung Tang
  • Publication number: 20120013586
    Abstract: In a method of driving a dot matrix display panel using bistable nematic liquid crystal, a “blur” due to a parasitic signal is prevented from being caused. In a method of driving a dot matrix display panel using bistable nematic liquid crystal which may select white/black only by positive polarity driving or negative polarity driving, a direct current component due to a parasitic signal (40) caused at the time of non-selection is canceled by a cancel pulse (41) having a pulse width that is the same as that of the parasitic signal (40) and a polarity that is opposite to that of the parasitic signal (40). The cancel pulse (41) is generated by adding an additive pulse (35) to a common selection signal (25) and by adding an additive pulse (36) to a common non-selection signal (26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Masafumi Hoshino, Shinichi Nogawa, Hisayuki Hirayama
  • Publication number: 20120001881
    Abstract: An object is to provide a driving method of a liquid crystal display device with a low power consumption and a high image quality. A pixel includes a liquid crystal element and a transistor which controls supply of an image signal to the liquid crystal element. The transistor includes, in a channel formation region, a semiconductor which has a wider band gap than a silicon semiconductor and has a lower intrinsic carrier density than silicon, and has an extremely low off-state current. In inversion driving of pixels, image signals having opposite polarities are input to a pair of signal lines between which a pixel electrode is disposed. By employing such a structure, the quality of the displayed image can be increased even in the absence of a capacitor in the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MIYAKE, Hideaki SHISHIDO, Ryo ARASAWA
  • Patent number: 8085263
    Abstract: A power supply circuit which outputs a common electrode voltage to a common electrode of an electro-optical device provided opposite to pixel electrodes through an electro-optical material includes a voltage booster circuit which generates a boost voltage boosted by a charge-pump operation in synchronization with a charge clock signal, and a common electrode voltage generation circuit which outputs a high-potential-side voltage or a low-potential-side voltage generated based on the boost voltage to the common electrode as the common electrode voltage. The charge clock signal has a rising edge and a falling edge in a period in which a sign of voltages between the pixel electrode and the common electrode are either positive or negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Uehara
  • Patent number: 8085232
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a pixel matrix. The plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines define pixel areas. The pixel matrix is formed on each pixel area, and includes a plurality of pixel columns and pixel rows. Each pixel column has a first pixel group and a second pixel group. The first pixel group is electrically connected to a first gate line adjacent to the pixel column. The second pixel group is electrically connected to a second gate line adjacent to the pixel column. Each pixel row is electrically connected to one data line adjacent to the pixel column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soong-Yong Joo, Myung-Koo Kang, Lintao Zhang, Jung-Sun Lee, Suk-Ki Jung, Dong-Yub Lee, Jong-Hwa Park
  • Patent number: 8081178
    Abstract: Pixels include liquid crystal capacitors and holding capacitors having first ends connected to pixel electrodes and second ends connected to common electrodes corresponding to the first to 320th rows. A common electrode driving circuit includes TFTs for individual rows. In a partial mode, when a period in which a level of a scanning signal is high is long, a control signal Vg-c is brought to a high level during the period so that the TFTs are turned on. Since gate voltages are applied to the TFTs, a problem in that the gate voltages are reduced due to voltage leakage and the common electrodes are brought into high-impedance states is avoided. Alternatively, potentials of the common electrodes are fixed to a voltage of a common signal, which is a low-level when positive-polarity writing is specified to all the rows and a high-level when negative-polarity writing is specified to all the rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20110304601
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display element having a unit of display comprising sub pixels displaying images for first and second view points, respectively, and an optical unit that distributes lights emitted from respective sub pixels into different directions. When a region surrounded by a data line, a gate line and a storage capacitor electrode in the sub pixel is defined as an aperture, the sub pixels form a base unit that is an adjoining pixel pair including two sub pixels arranged via a data line therebetween. The two sub pixels have switching elements connected to the data line between the two sub pixels and controlled by different gate lines. When virtual lines each evenly dividing a width of the sub pixel in the first direction into K+1 pieces are presumed, K number of storage capacitor lines are each arranged across at least one virtual line in the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya NIIOKA, Koji SHIGEMURA
  • Publication number: 20110298769
    Abstract: An LCD driving circuit includes a first buffer configured to have a terminal for a first voltage, a terminal for a second voltage and a terminal for an intermediate voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage, and be driven in a range from the first voltage to the intermediate voltage; and a second buffer configured to have a terminal for the first voltage, a terminal for the second voltage and a terminal for the intermediate voltage, and be driven in a range from the intermediate voltage to the second voltage. The terminal for the intermediate voltage of the first buffer and the terminal for the intermediate voltage of the second buffer are connected with each other, and the first voltage is a highest voltage, the second voltage is a lowest voltage, and the intermediate voltage is in a range from the first voltage to the second voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Ho Cho, Young Icc Jung, Young Suk Son, Joon Ho Na, Hyung Seog Oh, Dae Seong Kim, Dae Keun Han
  • Publication number: 20110292012
    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 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: SHUN-MING HUANG, DENG-TZUNG TANG, YAW-SHING TSENG, KUN-HSIEN YANG, WEN-HAO WU
  • Patent number: 8068080
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel having a data line and a source driver for supplying a data signal to the data line based on a polarity signal. A polarity of the data signal is determined based on the polarity signal. The source driver includes an offset cancel control circuit for generating an offset cancel control signal and an output amplifier used to generate the data signal. The output amplifier is constructed so as to invert a polarity of an offset voltage based on the offset cancel control signal. The offset cancel control signal is generated based on the polarity signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8063896
    Abstract: A source driver which can control the spatial cycle of inverting the polarity of offset voltage in response to the spatial cycle of inverting the polarity of data signal. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has an LCD panel, having data lines, and source drivers for supplying data signal to the data lines. The source driver includes an offset cancel control circuit for generating an offset cancel control signal and an amplifier used for generating the data signal, which is configured so as to invert the polarity of the offset voltage in response to the offset cancel control signal OCC. The offset cancel controller circuit receives the pattern select signal PSEL specifying the cycle of inverting the polarity of the offset voltage of the amplifier to generate the offset cancel control signal in response to the pattern select signal PSEL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20110279427
    Abstract: An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device using the common inversion driving that allows the amplitude voltage of a scan signal on a scan line to be low. The device including a first transistor having a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal electrically connected to a scan line, a signal line, and a first electrode of a liquid crystal element, respectively; and a second transistor having a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal electrically connected to the scan line, a common potential line, and a second electrode of the element, respectively. An image signal is supplied from the signal line to the first electrode to subject the element to inversion driving. A common potential is supplied from the common potential line to the second electrode in synchronization with supply of the image signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi UMEZAKI, Hiroyuki MIYAKE
  • Patent number: 8049697
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the plurality of data lines, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells, a timing controller to determine gray levels of input digital video data and a time when a polarity of a data voltage to be supplied to the data lines is inverted, and to generate a dynamic charge share control signal when the gray level of the data voltage is changed from a white gray level to a black gray level and the polarity of the data voltage is inverted, a data driving circuit to convert the digital video data from the timing controller into the data voltage, changing the polarity of the data voltage, and supplying any one of a common voltage and a charge share voltage to the data lines in response to the dynamic charge share control signal, and a gate driving circuit to sequentially supply scan pulses to the gate lines under the control of the timing controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungjo Koo, Suhyuk Jang, Jongwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 8049698
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a timing controller to activate a dynamic charge share control signal to indicate a time at which the gray level of the data voltage is changed from a white gray level to a black gray level and a time at which the polarity of the data voltage is inverted, and to activate a dot inversion control signal for widening a horizontal polarity inversion period of data voltages to be supplied to the data lines when a weakness patterns are input, and a data driving circuit supplying one of a common voltage and a charge share voltage to data lines only when the gray level of data is changed from the white gray level to the black gray level and when the polarity of the data voltage in response to the dynamic charge share control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungjo Koo, Suhyuk Jang, Jongwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 8044948
    Abstract: An LCD groups pixels in each row into a plurality of blocks, and calculates difference in gray between every two image data applied to a pair of adjacent odd and even pixels in each block including pixels in a row for each of first to third colors. It is determined that a block is first or second dot block depending on a sign of the gray difference when a magnitude of the gray difference between the odd pixel and the even pixel in each pair in the block for at least one color is equal to or larger than a critical value. A current block in a current row and in columns is determined to be a one-dot block when the current block is the first dot block and a previous block in a previous row and in the columns is the second dot block. When the number of the one-dot blocks is a predetermined percentage of the number of the total blocks, it is determined that a one-dot pattern is generated and one-dot inversion of the LCD is changed into another inversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung-Woo Lee
  • Publication number: 20110249046
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is disclosed. In the device an R or B pixel is driven and then a G or W pixel is driven, so that the polarity of the pixels is inversed every two data lines. Thus, problems, such as flicker and a non-uniform picture quality are reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Kyu Lee, Dong-Hoon Lee, Chul-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 8035599
    Abstract: A display is disclosed having crossover connections effecting polarity inversion. The display includes a panel comprising a subpixel repeating group having an even number of repeating subpixels in a first direction. The display also includes a driver circuit coupled to the panel to provide image data signals effecting polarity inversion to the panel. The display also includes a plurality of crossover connections from the driver circuit to the columns of the panel such that polarities of same color subpixels in the first direction alternate at a spatial frequency sufficient to abate undesirable visual affects on the panel when an image is displayed thereon; each crossover connection applying the same polarity to each subpixel in the column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Matthew Osborne Schlegel
  • Publication number: 20110242076
    Abstract: A device for driving data used for a liquid crystal display includes: a first latch circuit and a second latch circuit for forming first latched data and second latched data; a first regulating circuit and a second regulating circuit for regulating the first latched data or the second latched data; a first switch, a second switch, a third switch and a fourth switch respectively coupled between the first latch circuit or the second circuit and the first regulating circuit or the second regulating circuit. The first and the second latched data become a first pair of differential signals when the first switch and the fourth switch are turned on. The first and the second latched data become a second pair of differential signals which are opposite to the first pair of differential signals when the second switch and the third switch are turned on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Chen-Ming Hsu, Yaw-Guang Chang
  • Publication number: 20110242077
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active matrix display device including a plurality of pixels and a source driver (23) which supplies image data (VIDEO), which has been externally supplied, to the plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels has: a data storing section (30) for storing the image data supplied from the source driver (23); a latch circuit (40) which latches, at a predetermined timing (LP signal), the image data which is stored in the data storing section (30); and a polarity reversing circuit (50) for reversing a polarity of the image data which is latched by the latch circuit (40). The image data, whose polarity is reversed by the polarity reversing circuit (50), is written into the each of the plurality of pixels. This makes it possible to improve a display quality by eliminating a difference of write time per pixel between frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 8031154
    Abstract: A display panel is scanned every two lines during a period of binary writing area in the first half of one frame period in partial display (or in small gradation display) and a steady-state current of an output amplifier for buffering gradation signals supplied to the display panel in a non-scanning period in the second half of one frame period is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Mamba, Tsutomu Furuhashi
  • Patent number: 8031153
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display for changing a supply sequence of a scanning pulse with which a plurality of gate lines are supplied to realize a one dot inversion, and a driving method thereof are disclosed. In the liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, which are crossed each other, and pixels, which are defined by the lines. A gate driver supplies scanning pulses to the gate lines, and changes a supply sequence of the scanning pulses for each frame. A data driver converts digital video data into data voltages and periodically inverts a polarity of the data voltages to supply the data voltages in accordance with a supply sequence of the scanning pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sin Ho Kang, Jin Cheol Hong, Tae Hun Kim, Man Gyu Park, Seung Cheol O, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20110234653
    Abstract: A source driver is supplied with a mode switch signal specifying an applied inversion driving method from among horizontal one-dot inversion driving, first horizontal n-dot inversion driving in which a number of outputs does not disturb regularity of a polarity pattern of data signals, and second horizontal n-dot inversion driving in which a number of outputs disturbs regularity of a polarity pattern of data signals. The source driver supplies data signals to data lines. The polarity pattern of the data signals depends on a polarity signal and the applied inversion driving method specified by the mode switch signal. The source driver supplies the polarity signal to a next source driver in the case of the horizontal one-dot inversion driving or the first horizontal n-dot inversion driving, and supplies the polarity signal whose polarity is inverted to the next source driver in the case of the second horizontal n-dot inversion driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiaki Ueda
  • Publication number: 20110234561
    Abstract: A display controller and a method for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel are disclosed. The display controller is electrically connected to the LCD panel and comprises a data processor and a control signal generator. The method comprises the following steps: determining whether an image data signal is a first image data signal or a second image data signal; providing a first polarity signal to the panel when the image data signal is the first image data signal; and providing a second polarity signal to the panel when the image data signal is the second image data signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: HANNSTAR DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syang-yun Tzeng, Wen-chi Lin
  • Patent number: 8026887
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel, a timing controller to generate a dynamic charge share control signal to indicate a time at which the gray level of a data voltage is changed from a white gray level to a black gray level and a time at which the polarity of the data voltage is inverted, and to detect weakness patterns and generate a dot inversion control signal for widening a horizontal polarity inversion time of data voltages when the weakness patterns are input, wherein the liquid crystal display panel includes first and second liquid crystal cell groups whose polarity is inverted every 2 frame periods, and a polarity inversion time of the first liquid crystal cell group and a polarity inversion time of the second liquid crystal cell group overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungjo Koo, Suhyuk Jang, Jongwoo Kim