Temporal Processing (e.g., Pulse Width Variation Over Time Patents (Class 345/691)
  • Publication number: 20140071188
    Abstract: An LCD device is disclosed which includes: a liquid crystal display panel in which there are a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a data driver configured to apply data voltages to the data lines; a gate driver configured to apply gate pulses to the gate lines; and a charge share device configured to selectively perform a charge share operation by storing charges corresponding to a data voltage applied to one of the data lines during a first interval and providing the stored charges to said one or another one of the data lines during a second interval based on a comparison of first video data corresponding to said one of the data lines in the first interval with second video data corresponding to said one or another one of the data lines in the second interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae Seok Oh, Bo Gun Seo, Yong Hwa Park
  • Patent number: 8665193
    Abstract: An OCB (Optically Compensated Bend) liquid crystal display in which impulse driving is performed such that an impulse data voltage is applied between normal data voltages used for displaying an image. The impulse data voltage is divided into a first impulse data voltage and a second impulse data voltage having a voltage value that will not break a bent alignment of the OCB liquid crystals. Referring to the application of the first impulse data voltage between the normal data voltages as first impulse driving and the application of the second impulse data voltage between the normal data voltages as second impulse driving, the second impulse driving is performed at every two or more of the first impulse drivings, so as to not break the bent alignment of the liquid crystals and to thereby improve luminance of the LCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Hee Han, Hee-Seop Kim, Jun-Young Lee, Chang-Hun Lee, Jun-Woo Lee, Sung-Wook Kang
  • Patent number: 8665252
    Abstract: A display uses x illuminator systems to produce x primary colors and y overlap colors, which are combinations of primary colors, to illuminate a spatial light modulator in a display system. A first set of n duty cycles for the x primary colors over a frame is provided, wherein the display system can select any one of the duty cycles to produce a desired white point. A second set of n duty cycles of x+y colors over a frame corresponding to the first set of duty cycles is determined, where the second set of duty cycles are generated responsive to a specified desired allocation of the frame to the y overlap colors, such that each of the overlap colors can be displayed from a dark shade to a bright shade while maintaining a constant color point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Todd A. Clatanoff
  • Publication number: 20140055509
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit and corresponding display panel and electronic apparatus. A pixel element includes a self-luminous element and a drive transistor connected to a power supply line. In an emission period of the self-luminous element, an active voltage and an intermediate voltage are sequentially applied between the power supply line and a potential line with a pulse-shaped waveform such that a predetermined luminance duration is obtained in the emission period. In a non-emission period of the self-luminous element, an off-state voltage is applied between the power supply line and the potential line so as to maintain the self-luminous element in a non-emission state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Teppei Isobe
  • Patent number: 8659628
    Abstract: A method for controlling gate signals of a liquid crystal display (LCD), including generating gate signal with a modulated pulse width according to the gate signal with a default pulse width; when the LCD is booting up, outputting the gate signal with the modulated pulse width; and when a backlight module of the LCD is turned on, switching the gate signal with the modulated pulse width to the gate signal with the default pulse width. This way, the pulse width of the gate signal is increased after the LCD is boot up and before the backlight module is turned on, enabling the LCD to be boot properly in low temperature, without the need to raise the voltage level of the gate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Kuei Wen, Shih-Hsun Lo, Shih-Chieh Kuo, Che-Hsien Chen
  • Patent number: 8659709
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a display device having excellent display quality by appropriately modifying the chromaticity of images. In this display device, a correction processing part (CPU 30) determines a first chromaticity change amount stored in memory (31) on the basis of a first cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of an LED (17) up to a present time, the cumulative value having been measured by a counter (32), and the correction processing part also determines a second chromaticity change amount stored in the memory (31) on the basis of a second cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of the LED (17) up to a time when the chromaticity of a pixel is adjusted by a chromaticity adjusting part (CPU 30), the cumulative value having been measured by the counter (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Hanaoka, Fumio Kokubo, Eiji Kurimoto, Ryoji Ishimura, Shota Inoue, Fumiaki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20140049573
    Abstract: An image display device includes a color component ratio extracting unit that extracts a color component ratio for reproducing a target display color included in a target image as a light emission color component ratio candidate, a light emission color component ratio selecting unit that selects a light emission color component ratio (a color component ratio when LEDs of a plurality of colors included in an LED unit emit light) in each sub-frame period from among light emission color component ratio candidates extracted by the color component ratio extracting unit, and a pixel modulation degree calculating unit that obtains a light modulation degree of each pixel formation portion in each sub-frame period. One frame period is configured by a plurality of sub-frame periods in which mixed-color display is possible, and achromatic display is performed in at least one sub-frame period among the plurality of sub-frame periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20140049572
    Abstract: A system may include a graphics controller and a display. The graphics controller may generate video data to display on the display. The display may include a display panel for displaying the video data, a backlight unit for providing the display panel with backlight, and a display timing controller for communicating with the graphics controller over a communications path. The communications path may include a video data path for conveying video data bits, an interrupt path for conveying interrupts, and a sideband control path for conveying control signals such as a backlight enable signal for the backlight unit. The graphics controller and timing controller may perform link training operations to assess link quality between the graphics controller and timing controller. The timing controller may use interrupts to inform the graphics controller of system status. Use of the interrupts may help the system minimize the time consumed during display power-up operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paolo Sacchetto, David J. Redman, Colin Whitby-Strevens
  • Patent number: 8654141
    Abstract: Techniques are described that can be used to provide color space conversion for images and video to a display color gamut space. Some techniques provide for accessing an sRGB gamut color table, determining a color conversion matrix based on the sRGB gamut color table and chromaticity values of RGBW primary and gamma stored in the display or associated with the display, applying color space conversion to the pixels for pixels using the color conversion matrix, and applying linear correction of pixels by applying a normalization factor to the color conversion matrix. In addition, some techniques provide analysis of content gamut with respect to display gamut in HSV space, adjustment in HSV space, and conversion back to RGB space before applying color space conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yanli Zhang, Akihiro Takagi, Sunil Jain
  • Patent number: 8654156
    Abstract: A driver circuit for driving at least a pixel of a displayer, including an output stage, a calibration device and a surge suppression device. The output stage is coupled to the pixel and controlled by a pixel signal to switch an output voltage on the pixel between a high level and a low level. The calibration device is coupled between the output stage and the pixel and comprises an input end controlled by a bias voltage to calibrate an equivalent resistance of the calibration device for further calibrating a brightness level of the pixel. The surge suppression device is coupled between the input end of the calibration device and the pixel signal, and is used to suppress surges in the bias voltage which occur due to switching of the output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Princeton Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Yen-Ynn Chou
  • Patent number: 8654068
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to techniques for enhancing luminance resolution in a backlight unit. A backlight unit may have light-emitting diode (LED) light sources arranged in strings. In one embodiment, a backlight controller provides enhanced luminance resolution by drive each LED string at either first or second consecutive luminance values corresponding to first and second duty cycles of a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal. The outputs of the LED strings are optically mixed to achieve intermediate luminance values between the first and second luminance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew P. Aitken
  • Patent number: 8654158
    Abstract: A pixel circuit relating to an organic light emitting diode (OLED) and a display using the same and a driving method thereof are provided. The pixel circuit submitted by the present invention adopts a 3T2C architecture (i.e. three TFTs plus two capacitors), and which circuit topology being driven by the corresponding scan signals and data signal may make the luminance shown by the pixel circuit only relate to the data signal and do not relate to the threshold voltage of a transistor used to drive a lighting element (i.e. OLED), a system high voltage received by the pixel circuit, and a potential between an anode and a cathode of the lighting element, such that the problem of non-uniform displaying on the OLED display panel may be improved or resolved effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tsung-Ting Tsai, Chia-Ling Chou
  • Patent number: 8654044
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display unit having pixels, each of which includes a luminescence element that individually becomes luminous depending on a current amount and a pixel circuit for controlling a current applied to the luminescence element according to a voltage signal, where the pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern. The display device includes an average luminance calculator (200) for calculating average luminance for a predetermined period of the input picture signal, and also includes a luminous time setter (202) for setting an effective duty depending on the calculated average luminance by the average luminance calculator (200), the effective duty regulating for each one frame a luminous time for which the luminescence element is luminous. The luminous time setter (202) sets the effective duty such that a luminescence amount regulated by a preset reference duty and possible maximum luminance of a picture signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Inoue, Yoshihiro Kosugi, Ken Kikuchi, Takeya Meguro, Hideto Mori, Toyo Osumi
  • Patent number: 8648845
    Abstract: With respect to liquid crystal display inversion schemes, a large change in voltage on a data line can affect the voltages on adjacent data lines due to capacitive coupling between data lines. The resulting change in voltage on these adjacent data lines can give rise to visual artifacts in the data lines' corresponding sub-pixels. Various embodiments of the present disclosure serve to prevent or reduce persisting visual artifacts by offsetting their effects or by distributing their presence among different colored sub-pixels. In some embodiments, this may be accomplished by using different write sequences during the update of a row of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shih Chang Chang, Cheng Ho Yu, Zhibing Ge, Hopil Bae
  • Publication number: 20140035969
    Abstract: In a display apparatus including a switching transistor, a correction voltage for eliminating an effect of a variation in a characteristic of a driving transistor is stored in a storage capacitor. The switching transistor is disposed between one current terminal of the driving transistor and a light emitting element. The switching transistor turns off during the non-light emission period thereby to electrically disconnect the light emitting element from the one current terminal of the driving transistor thereby preventing a leakage current from flowing through the light emitting element during the period in which the correction unit operates, and thus preventing the correction voltage from having an error due to the leakage current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Masatsugu Tomida, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20140035968
    Abstract: A two-dimension (2D) and three-dimension (3D) switchable display device and display driving method thereof are provided. Each pixel unit of the 2D and 3D switchable display device includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel, driven by a first gate line, has a first sub-pixel voltage, and the third sub-pixel, driven by a second gate line, has a third sub-pixel voltage different from the first sub-pixel voltage. The charge of the second sub-pixel is shared by a first gate line of an adjacent pixel unit, and the second sub-pixel has a second sub-pixel voltage different from the first sub-pixel voltage and the third sub-pixel voltage. The first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel of the pixel unit can be driven in a pre-charge driving manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yi-Ching Chen, Yu-Sheng Huang, Chia-Lun Chiang, Chia-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 8643681
    Abstract: A color display device including: at least one spatial light modulation element forming a display picture by modulated light obtained by modulating illumination light, a color sequential light generation device changing in a time series the illumination light or the modulated light into multiple groups of different color lights in one frame of a display period of the display picture, a control device controlling the spatial light modulator, and a color sequential light generation device based on the input picture data. The control device controls the spatial light modulator and the color sequential light generation device to change the ratio of the display time of each color of the reflected light time-shared in the display period of the frame depending on the character and/or the set value of the input picture data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignees: Silicon Quest Kabushiki-Kaisha, Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Endo, Fusao Ishii, Yoshihiro Maeda, Hirotoshi Ichikawa, Hirokazu Nishino
  • Publication number: 20140028740
    Abstract: A method of displaying a three-dimensional image, the method includes sequentially displaying a first three-dimensional image on a plurality of horizontal lines of a display panel along a scan direction, and simultaneously displaying a black image on the horizontal lines of the display panel, the black image being inserted between the three-dimensional images having different images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Ju SHIN, Jung-Won KIM, Cheol-Woo PARK, Hee-Soon JEONG
  • Publication number: 20140022289
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic light emitting diode display device capable of sensing driving current of each pixel with a simple configuration to compensate for a luminance deviation between pixels and a pixel current sensing method thereof. The organic light emitting diode display device includes a display panel including 2N (N being a natural number) pixels that share a reference line though which a reference signal is supplied and are respectively connected to 2N data lines through which data signals are applied, and a data driver for driving the 2N pixels sharing the reference line in a time division manner through the data lines, sensing currents of the time-division-driven 2N pixels as voltages through the shared reference line and outputting the sensed currents, in a sensing mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Eun Lee, Bum-Sik Kim, Seung-Tae Kim, Won-Kyu Ha, Kil-Hwan Oh
  • Publication number: 20140015870
    Abstract: A display device includes: a timing controller (10) for driving a scanning line driving circuit (4) and a signal line driving circuit (6) by providing a scanning period (T1) and a pause period (T2) which follows the scanning period (T1); a data analyzing section (101) for obtaining detection data on an external light intensity; and a BL luminance setting section (104) for outputting, at least during the pause period (T2), a BL control signal for adjusting, in accordance with the detection data obtained by the data analyzing section (101), a luminance of light to be emitted to a screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohzoh Takahashi, Kohji Saitoh, Asahi Yamato, Taketoshi Nakano, Toshihiro Yanagi, Akizumi Fujioka, Jun Nakata
  • Patent number: 8624806
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display using the pixel circuit is provided. The pixel circuit includes: an OLED; a third N-channel metal-oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor coupled to a data line and a first scan line and configured to apply a data signal to a first node; a storage capacitor having one terminal coupled to the first node and the other terminal coupled to a second node; a fourth NMOS transistor coupled between a first power and the second node and configured to apply a voltage of the first power to the second node; a first NMOS transistor having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode coupled to the second node; and a second NMOS transistor coupled between the second node and the first electrode of the first NMOS transistor and configured to diode-connect the first NMOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Yong Chung, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8624886
    Abstract: A light emission driving device sequentially on a time division basis drives a red light source (200R), a green light source (200G), and a blue light source (200B), to calculate a light emission amount control parameter (PWM(k+1)) for setting the light emission amount for one of the light sources. The following values are used: a detected light emission amount (DET(k)) detected for a previous illumination of the same light source, a predetermined value (REF(k+1)) for comparison to the detected light emission amount (DET(k)), and the light emission amount control parameters (PWM(k)) for a previous illumination of the same light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidenori Uehara
  • Publication number: 20140002515
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) pixel circuit includes a driving node, a pixel driving unit, an electroluminescent device, and a compensation unit. The pixel driving unit is coupled to a data line receiving a data voltage and provides a driving voltage to the driving node. The display electroluminescent device is coupled to the driving node for illuminating in response to the driving voltage, wherein the level of the driving voltage is related to an aging factor voltage, corresponding to a usage time of the display electroluminescent device. The compensation unit, including a compensation electroluminescent device, is couple to the driving node and drives the compensation electroluminescent device to illuminate in response to the driving voltage, so as to compensate the aging decay of the display electroluminescent device with the electroluminescent compensation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicants: WINTEK CORPORATION, DONGGUAN MASSTOP LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hieng-Hsiung Huang, Wen-Chun Wang, Wen-Tui Liao, Tsung-Yu Wang, Chih-Hung Huang
  • Publication number: 20140002513
    Abstract: The present invention provides an edge-lit backlight module containing 2n+1 sequentially and equally separated backlight partitions where the 2n+1 backlight partitions are lit or turned off individually under a time-sequence control; a LCD panel scanned by the edge-lit backlight module is correspondingly separated into 2n+1 display partitions; the signal to the LCD panel is loaded into the LCD panel frame by frame and display partition by display partition under a time-sequence control; the time sequences to the signal to the LCD panel and the signal to the backlight partitions are controlled so that, whenever the signal loaded into the 2n+1 display partitions of the LCD panel constitutes a complete frame, the n+1 backlight partition in the middle of the edge-lit backlight module is always lit. The present invention also provides a scanning method of an edge-lit backlight module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Kuangyao Chang
  • Publication number: 20140002512
    Abstract: A micro-electro-mechanical (MEM) display module including a MEM display panel and a light-emitting apparatus is provided. The MEM display panel includes a plurality of first light-shielding units, a plurality of second light-shielding units, a light-shielding pattern layer and a reflective pattern layer. Each first light-shielding unit includes a first movable light-shielding device having at least one first opening. Each second light-shielding unit includes a second movable light-shielding device having at least one second opening. The light-shielding pattern layer has a plurality of third openings. In a display mode, the first opening of at least one first movable light-shielding device overlaps at least one third opening, and each second movable light-shielding device covers the reflective pattern layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Weng-Chang Shen, Hsu-Hsiang Tseng
  • Publication number: 20140002514
    Abstract: Light from an array of laser light sources are spread to cover the modulating face of a DMD or other modulator. The spread may be performed, for example, by a varying curvature array of lenslets, each laser light directed at one of the lenslets. Light from neighboring and/or nearby light sources overlap at a modulator. The lasers are energized at different energy/brightness levels causing the light illuminating the modulator to itself be modulated (locally dimmed). The modulator then further modulates the locally dimmed lights to produce a desired image. A projector according to the invention may utilize, for example, a single modulator sequentially illuminated or separate primary color modulators simultaneously illuminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventor: Martin J. Richards
  • Patent number: 8619104
    Abstract: It is an object to suppress deterioration of a displayed still image which is caused when a refresh rate is reduced. A liquid crystal display device includes a display portion controlled by a driver circuit and a timing controller for controlling the driver circuit. An image signal for displaying a still image is supplied to the timing controller. By the timing controller, a refresh rate in displaying an image corresponding to an image signal on the display portion reduced as a gray level number of the image signal is smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Umezaki, Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 8619009
    Abstract: A display control drive device sequentially reads display data from a display memory in which the display data is stored, produces three primary color image signals that are applied to pixel locations in a dot-matrix color display device, and transmits the signals through a common external output terminal in a time-sharing manner. The display control drive device produces control signals applied to selection switching elements in the display device and that selectively apply an input image signal to any of three source lines. The display control drive device includes: a unit that determines one horizontal period based on a clock received from outside synchronously with display data; and a signal production circuit that produces and transmits the control signals, applied to the selection switching elements, so that the control signals will have a pulse duration equivalent to a time calculated by trisecting one horizontal period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhito Kurokawa, Kunihiko Tani
  • Publication number: 20130342590
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including left-eye pixels and right-eye pixels, a three-dimensional controller which separates a first image signal into left-eye and right-eye image signals, outputs a second image signal such that the left-eye image signal is applied to the left-eye pixels during a left-eye frame, a black image signal corresponding to a black data is applied to the right-eye pixels during the left-eye frame, the black image signal is applied to the left-eye pixels during a right-eye frame, and the right-eye image signal is applied to the right-eye pixels during the right-eye frame, and an image display controller which controls the second image signal in response to a control signal, where the left-eye pixels are alternately arranged with the right-eye pixels in the unit of two pixels in a first direction and in the unit of a predetermined number of pixels in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Je-Yun LEE, Yunjae PARK, Choongseob OH, JeongA LEE, Hyun-Seok JEONG
  • Publication number: 20130342517
    Abstract: A field-sequential display is operated in one of a color mode or a grayscale mode. In the color mode, a video source provides image content in the form of multiple-color image data having a frame rate of X Hz and a display controller uses the multiple-color image data to drive the field-sequential display so as provide multiple-color image content at the field-sequential display. In the grayscale mode, the display controller generates grayscale image data from the multiple-color image data and the display controller then drives the field-sequential display with the grayscale image data at a lower frame rate of Y Hz. While in the grayscale mode, the display controller can take advantage of the enhanced contrast provided by the grayscale image content to reduce or disable backlighting at the field-sequential display. The reduced timing requirements afforded by the lower frame rate, as well as the reduction or elimination of backlighting, can reduce power consumption compared to the color mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Eugen Munteanu, Stefan Peana, John M. Knadler
  • Patent number: 8614722
    Abstract: In a display using a time gradation method, as the number of the subframes in one frame period increases, the number of writings of video data to a pixel and the operating quantity of a driver circuit of the display increase so that power consumption increases. In a display device of the invention, one frame period is divided into n subframe periods using a display controller, the subframe periods are made to emit light or not, to express m-bit gradation by the total sum of lighting time in one frame period, and the number of subframe periods n provided in one frame period and the number of gradations m capable of being expressed are changed corresponding to each row arranged in matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadafumi Ozaki
  • Patent number: 8614702
    Abstract: A display control/drive device (a liquid crystal controller driver and a semiconductor integrated circuit for driving liquid crystals) which can serve to reduce peak currents and thereby restrain the occurrence of EMI is to be provided. In a liquid crystal display control/drive device in which image signals to be applied to signal lines of a color liquid crystal panel are generated in response to display image data that are received, image signals for pixels of the same color are divided into a plurality of groups. And during a period in which the substantial frame frequency can be reduced, the period of a line clock matching one horizontal period is extended to slightly stagger the output timing of image signals from one to another of the groups and the sequence of outputs from the different groups is periodically varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Okamura
  • Patent number: 8614723
    Abstract: An apparatus for, and method of, increasing compensation sequence storage density in a projection visual display system and a projection visual display system incorporating the apparatus or the method. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes: (1) a memory containing a first compensation sequence portion that is common to a plurality of effective transmission factors and a plurality of second compensation sequence portions that are unique to a corresponding plurality of effective transmission factors and (2) a compensation sequence generator coupled to the memory and configured to construct a compensation sequence for use in the projection visual display system using the first compensation sequence portion and one of the plurality of second compensation sequence portions selected as a function of a particular effective transmission factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Roman J. Pacheco, Donald B. Doherty, Larry D. Dickinson
  • Patent number: 8610704
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which includes a plurality of pixels in a matrix form, an image signal comparator which compares image signals corresponding to at least two successive frames and increases a count value if a proportion of the image signals that are the same as each other exceeds a preset critical value, and a panel driver which drives the display panel to display a non-image signal on at least a part of the display panel during at least one frame if the count value reaches a preset instruction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-man Yun, Yeun-mo Yeon
  • Patent number: 8605017
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a display system includes a subpixelated display panel and a backlight array of individually controllable multi-color light emitters. When the display panel comprises a multi-primary subpixel arrangement having a white (clear) subpixel, the backlight control techniques allows the white subpixel to function as a saturated primary display color. In another embodiment, the display system may calculate a set of virtual primaries for a given image and process the image using a novel field sequential control employing the virtual primaries. In another embodiment, a display system comprises a segmented backlight comprising: a plurality of N+M light guides, said light guides forming a N×M intersections; a plurality of N+M individually addressable light emitter units, each of said N+M light emitter unit being associated with and optically connected to one of said N+M light guide respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Michael Francis Higgins
  • Publication number: 20130321495
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (1), which is provided with a liquid crystal panel (display unit) (2) and a backlight device (backlight unit) (3), and which displays information by dividing one frame period into four sub-field periods. In the liquid crystal display device (1), a backlight control unit (23) controls a drive for lighting light-emitting diodes (4,4b) in such a manner that a first lighting period for emitting white light and a second lighting period for emitting blue light alternate in two sequential sub-field periods. A panel control unit (display control unit) (22) operates: a red pixel (Pr), a green pixel (Pg) and a transparent pixel (Pt) during the first lighting period; and the transparent pixel (Pt) during the second lighting period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takenori Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20130321494
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes a pixel electrode, a common electrode, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixel selection lines, and a pixel switching unit. A driving device includes a data line driving unit, a pixel selection line driving unit, a voltage generation unit for generating various voltages used for the data line driving unit, the pixel selection line driving unit, and the common electrode, and a control unit. The control unit has an input discrimination unit for discriminating between an input state where a video signal is inputted and a non-input state where the video signal is not inputted, and a regulation unit for regulating a potential difference between the pixel electrode and the common electrode to zero with respect to the plurality of pixels in the non-input state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jiro TAKAKI
  • Publication number: 20130321722
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a technique for controlling the slew rate and number of transition segments used to move the LC drive voltage level from one voltage to another. In one embodiment, a method of controlling a polarization modulator in a polarization-based stereoscopic display device may comprise providing digital signals to each of a plurality of drive circuits to generate a drive voltage from each drive circuit, where the drive voltages drive the polarization modulator. Such an exemplary method may also include determining a time sequential list of transition specifications configured to provide discrete transitions in one or more of the drive voltages. Then, in such methods, the digital signals provided to each of the one or more drive circuits receiving a transition may be adjusted, in accordance with the time sequential list, thereby altering their drive voltages based on the transition specifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: REAL D INC.
    Inventors: Roger Landowski, Greg Graham, Terry Norton, Robert Rotzoll
  • Patent number: 8599228
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, a display apparatus and an image displaying system wherein both secure and public images can be efficiently displayed with high quality without lowering the contrast of the public images. There are included a memory (101) that stores the image data of input secure and reversed images; a data assigning circuit (102) that assigns a pulse train, which has the same pulse width for the secure images and reversed images stored in the memory (101), as an image signal consisting of a pulse train to be used for displaying images on a display apparatus of PWM drive mode in which one frame is divided into a plurality of subfields to express brightness gray scales; and a shutter spectacle control signal generating circuit (103) that outputs a shutter control signal only during outputting of image signals in accordance with the secure images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Miyasaka, Masao Imai, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8599226
    Abstract: A method and system for converting color image data (data outputting from element 202) from a, for example, three-dimensional color space format to a format usable by an n-primary display (206), wherein n is greater than or equal to 3. The system (converter 204) may define a two-dimensional sub-space having a plurality of two-dimensional positions, each position representing a set of n primary color values and a third, scaleable coordinate value for generating an n-primary display input signal (signal inputting toi display 206). Furthermore, the system may receive a three-dimensional color space input signal including out-of range pixel data not reproducible by a three-primary additive display, and may convert the data to side gamut color image pixel data suitable for driving the wide gamut color display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Genoa Color Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Moshe Ben-Chorin, Oded Ben-David
  • Publication number: 20130314457
    Abstract: A light source portion includes a plurality of back lights provided corresponding to respective regions obtained by virtually dividing a liquid crystal panel screen into a plurality of parts, the back lights have a light emission intensity controlled based on a light emission intensity value and have ON and OFF operations controlled in response to a light emission driving signal, and the light emission driving signal is constituted to sequentially turn ON the plurality of back lights synchronously with a stereoscopic image signal and to turn ON the plurality of back lights at the same time in a predetermined timing, and is constituted to individually control a light emission period for the plurality of back lights based on image information about the stereoscopic image signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironobu YASUI, Masaaki HANAI, Hideki YOSHII
  • Publication number: 20130314456
    Abstract: A method of digital-driving an organic light emitting display device, which divides one frame into a plurality of sub-frames, is provided. In this method, a total number of scan operations, which are to be performed during the frame, is calculated based on a number of scan-lines and a number of the sub-frames, an emission time of each of the sub-frames is set based on a gray level maximum value and the total number of the scan operations, the emission times of the sub-frames are modified by permitting errors to the emission times of the sub-frames to control a sum of the emission times of the sub-frames to be equal to the total number of the scan operations, and each sub-frame scan timing of the scan-lines is sequentially shifted by N horizontal scan intervals, where N is the number of the sub-frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Do-Ik Kim
  • Publication number: 20130314458
    Abstract: In order to display an image with a high contrast ratio while suppressing power consumed by a multi-display device and to adjust brightness of images displayed on image display devices, the multi-display device includes light emission APL value adjusting means 102. The light emission APL value adjusting means 102 sends, to light emission control means, a light emission APL value that has been adjusted, on the basis of light emission APL values calculated by light emission APL value calculating means of image display devices 11 to 19, so that total light emission power value of image-display light-emitting means 6 does not exceed an allowable power value and images are displayed at predetermined brightness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Murai, Hideki Ichioka, Kohji Fujiwara, Naoko Kondoh
  • Patent number: 8593439
    Abstract: A load driving device according to the present invention is provided with: an enabling control section generating an enabling signal from an externally inputted PWM signal; and a load driving section that is turned on/off according to the enabling signal, and that PWM-drives the load according to the PWM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kunihiro Komiya
  • Publication number: 20130307886
    Abstract: A driving unit of a display panel includes a control part, a gate driving part, a grayscale compensating part, and a data driving part. The control part provides a control signal and a grayscale signal. The gate driving part provides a gate signal to the display panel. The display panel is divided into a plurality of blocks according to a distance from a light source to each of the blocks. The grayscale compensating part outputs a compensating signal of an n-th frame using look-up tables, and the look-up tables respectively correspond to the blocks of the display panel. The data driving part converts the compensating signal of the n-th frame into a grayscale voltage and provides the grayscale voltage to the display panel. Accordingly, the driving unit of the display panel may improve a response speed of liquid crystals and display quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: Hyoung-Rae LEE, Gyu-Su LEE, Min-Sik UM, Sang-Won LEE, Duk-Hwan KANG
  • Publication number: 20130307885
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display and its driving method, in which gate signals input to transistors may be input to one pixel at an interval corresponding to ½ period of a gate shift clock. The organic light emitting diode display comprises a panel including a plurality of pixels formed by crossings of gate lines and data lines, each pixel including an organic light emitting diode and transistors; a timing controller configured to generate a gate shift clock; and a gate driver configured to receive the gate shift clock and output a plurality of gate signals to the transistors of each of the pixels based on the gate shift clock, the gate driver outputting at least one of the gate signals to a corresponding one of the transistors shifted by a time interval of one half of a period of the gate shift clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Areum SHIN
  • Publication number: 20130307887
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is provided to display a smoothly moving image with a high resolution that includes: a light source 60; a light source drive part 20 that drives the light source; a deflector that repeatedly scans light from the light source in predetermined Lissajous patterns; and a drive waveform generation part 40. One of the Lissajous patterns is constituted by a first field and a second field, the first field being formed by first scanning trajectories and the second field being formed by second scanning trajectories. The light source drive part 20 drives the light source 60 based on image data corresponding to a field rate that is a repetition frequency to repeat the first field and the second field; and the drive waveform generation part 40 controls the deflector such that main scanning position X and sub-scanning position Y hold relationships represented by following equations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Hanada
  • Publication number: 20130300782
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a display panel and comprises a control section configured to control a duty pulse width for controlling an illumination period within a horizontal line period on a timing synchronized with a horizontal synchronization pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Mitsuru Tada, Atsushi Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20130300781
    Abstract: In first aspect of the invention, driving methods of gate interlaced scanning for color LCD are disclosed. This interlaced scanning involves powering odd gate lines sequentially first and then powering even gate lines sequentially, which can minimize the voltage polarity swing to reduce power consumption in source output block. In second aspect of the invention, driving methods of FSCLCD having an RGB LED backlight unit scanning with an increased LED lamp turn on time and reduced potential non-uniformity near modular light guid panel are disclosed. Novel driving methods of variabnt sub-color frame periods are also disclosed with various color sub-frames. In third aspect of the invention, a dual common electrode color LCD with a source driver IC block with lower driving voltage and lower power consumption in the display panel is disclosed, wherein each common electrode voltage has opposite voltage phase to reduce the source driving voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventor: Sang Tae Lee
  • Patent number: 8581887
    Abstract: A display method for driving a color-sequential display of an electronic device is provided. When the electronic device is not at low power mode, a first image is displayed first by using a second color data and a first color data of the first image sequentially to drive the display. Next, a second image is displayed by using a second color data and a third color data of the second image sequentially to drive the display. When the electronic device is at low power mode, the respective luminance of the first and the second images are obtained. Then, the respective luminance of the first image and the second image are sequentially used to drive the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Biing-Seng Wu, Lin-Kai Bu, Chien-Pin Chen