Field Period Polarity Reversal Patents (Class 345/96)
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Patent number: 8022912Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device performing multi-picture element driving, gate OFF timing of a switching element connected between each sub picture element and a signal line is matched with phase timing when all the subsidiary capacity wires are at the same potential. This prevents the occurrence of uneven luminance appearing in a lateral streak.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2005Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
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Publication number: 20110221727Abstract: A display panel includes first and second data lines and a first pixel column containing pixels that are alternately connected to the first and second data lines. In a method of driving the display panel, a second data voltage having a first polarity is outputted to the second data line during an N-th horizontal period. A first data voltage having a second polarity phase-inverted with respect to the first polarity and a first compensating voltage having the second polarity are respectively outputted to the first data line during first and second intervals of the N-th horizontal period. The first data voltage having the second polarity is outputted to the first data line during an (N+1)-th horizontal period. The second data voltage having the first polarity and a second compensating voltage having the first polarity are respectively outputted to the second data line during first and second intervals of the (N+1)-th horizontal period.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2010Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kwi-Hyun KIM, Kee-Bum PARK, Byoung-Sun NA, Kyong-Sik CHOI
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Patent number: 8018412Abstract: Display bright in contrast can be obtained without discrination and flicker in the display device of the direct vision type whose pixel pitches are short to 20 ?m or less. A liquid crystal panel is driven through the frame inverse driving method, and the vertical frame frequency is set to 120 Hz or more. Also, each of the pixels is arranged to correspond to one of R, G and B of color filters disposed on a TFT substrate side.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama, Hirokazu Yamagata
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Patent number: 8018415Abstract: A display device includes a display unit in which pixels are arranged in a matrix state and a drive circuit selecting respective pixels in the display unit by each row and giving additional potential to pixel electrodes of the pixels by using coupling, in which the drive circuit has a function of allowing the reverse polarity of potential added to pixel electrodes to be a potential which can add suitable voltage to additional potential lines in a frame before adding the additional potential.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2007Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotoshi Koyama, Yoshiharu Nakajima, Yoshitoshi Kida, Daisuke Ito
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Patent number: 8018407Abstract: A driver includes a first signal processor adapted to receive clock, input and negative input signals and to output a first output signal to a first node, a second signal processor adapted to receive the first output signal, a negative clock signal, and first and second negative feedback signals and to output a second output signal to a second node, a third signal processor adapted to receive the second output, the input and the clock signals and to output a third output signal to a third node and prevent first and second voltages from being simultaneously applied to the third node, a fourth signal processor adapted to receive the second and third output signals and to output a fourth output signal to a fourth node, and a fifth signal processor adapted to receive the third and fourth output signals and to output a fifth output signal to a fifth node.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Boyong Chung
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Patent number: 8018420Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has facing substrates, pairs of data lines, gate lines intersecting the data lines to define pixel areas, pixel electrodes formed in the pixel areas, a gate driver, a source driver and a latch circuit. Each pair of data lines includes first and second data lines adjacent each other. The gate driver applies a gate signal to the gate lines, and the source driver outputs data signals to the first and second data lines. The latch circuit stores a data signal output from the source driver and transmits relevant data signals to odd and even pixel electrodes formed between the first and second data lines. During high-speed operation, the data signal from the source driver is bisected and applied as an odd and even data signal to two neighboring data lines at certain time intervals.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seok Woo Lee, Dong Il Chung
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Patent number: 8004483Abstract: Display bright in contrast can be obtained without discrination and flicker in the display device of the direct vision type whose pixel pitches are short to 20 ?m or less. A liquid crystal panel is driven through the frame inverse driving method, and the vertical frame frequency is set to 120 Hz or more. Also, each of the pixels is arranged to correspond to one of R, G and B of color filters disposed on a TFT substrate side.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama, Hirokazu Yamagata
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Patent number: 7995015Abstract: Display bright in contrast can be obtained without discrination and flicker in the display device of the direct vision type whose pixel pitches are short to 20 ?m or less. A liquid crystal panel is driven through the frame inverse driving method, and the vertical frame frequency is set to 120 Hz or more. Also, each of the pixels is arranged to correspond to one of R, G and B of color filters disposed on a TFT substrate side.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama, Hirokazu Yamagata
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Patent number: 7990357Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a driving method for preventing a phenomenon causing a non-uniform charge characteristic between liquid crystal cells are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a picture display part having a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines and having liquid crystal cells sharing a data line. A gate driver sequentially supplies a scanning pulse to the gate lines. A source output enable signal generator alternately generates a first source output enable signal having a first horizontal period and a second source output enable signal delayed from the first source output enable signal by a time longer than a half of the first horizontal period and shorter than the first horizontal period. A data driver supplies data voltages to the data lines in response to the first and second source output enable signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2006Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jung Wook Shin
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Patent number: 7986296Abstract: A thin-film-transistor liquid crystal display comprises a display unit which contains a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines arranged to cross the plurality of scanning lines and defining a plurality of pixels, and a data driving circuit providing pixel data signals to the plurality of data lines. The pixels of each scanning line are divided into groups of N successive pixels, where N is an integer greater than 1. A polarity of the respective pixel data signals for the data lines within each group is the same as each other. The polarity of the respective pixel data signals for each successive group along at least one of the scanning lines alternates between a first polarity and a second polarity.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2004Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventor: Kuo-Hsing Cheng
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Patent number: 7982385Abstract: To improve color reproduction areas in a display device having light-emitting elements. A display region has a plurality of picture elements. Each picture element includes: first and second pixels each including a light-emitting element which has a chromaticity whose x-coordinate in a CIE-XY chromaticity diagram is 0.50 or more; third and fourth pixels each including a light-emitting element which has a chromaticity whose y-coordinate in the diagram is 0.55 or more; and fifth and sixth pixels each including a light-emitting element which has a chromaticity whose x-coordinate and y-coordinate in the diagram are 0.20 or less and 0.25 or less, respectively. The light-emitting elements in the first and second pixels have different emission spectrums from each other; the light-emitting elements in the third and fourth pixels have different emission spectrums from each other; and the light-emitting elements in the fifth and sixth pixels have different emission spectrums from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2006Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Atsushi Miyaguchi
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Publication number: 20110169797Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines to which a data voltage is supplied, a plurality of gate lines to which a gate pulse is supplied, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells, a data drive circuit to invert a polarity of the data voltage in response to a polarity control signal and to output the data voltage to the data lines in response to a source output enable signal, a gate drive circuit to supply the gate pulse to the gate lines, and a POL/SOE logic circuit to invert the polarity control signal for every frame period except at Nth-multiple frame period (where N is a positive integer), wherein the POL/SOE logic circuit controls the polarity control signal at every Nth-multiple frame period such that the polarity of the data voltage is the same as the previous frame period and controls a pulse width of the source output enable signal at every Nth-multiple frame period to be longer than for the other frame periods.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Byung Jin Choi, Dong II Kim, Su Hyuk Jang
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Patent number: 7978163Abstract: An system is disclosed for driving a liquid crystal display for automatically adjusting a level of a common voltage at the point that a positive polarity gray scale level voltage and a negative polarity gray scale level voltage are supplied to a liquid crystal display panel. A plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines are provided at a liquid crystal display panel. A gate driver supplies a gate pulse to the plurality of gate lines. A data driver supplies a positive polarity gray scale level voltage and a negative polarity gray scale level voltage to the plurality of data lines. A controller controls a common voltage level supplied to the liquid crystal display panel in accordance with a supply point of a gate pulse.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2006Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Boo Young Kim
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Patent number: 7978162Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device which inputs analogue video signals after phase development, the deterioration of display quality due to the irregularities of circuit can be reduced. To correct the irregularities due to a plurality of analogue circuits, the liquid crystal display device includes look up tables for a plurality of analogue circuits in the inside of a digital signal processing circuit. The liquid crystal display device performs the correction of irregularities of the analogue circuits based on data set in the look up tables.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2005Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshio Maruoka, Toshiki Misonou, Toshio Maeda, Akihiro Watanabe, Hideki Nakagawa
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Patent number: 7978167Abstract: A display section of a portable phone includes a first polarizer, a switching panel section, a reflective polarizer, and a main panel section. The switching panel section has a liquid crystal layer including a plurality of regions having at least two different alignment directions. This makes it possible, by utilizing the difference in the alignment direction of the liquid crystal layer, to make the image difficult to observe by a sight-line from an oblique direction. Furthermore, it is also possible, by utilizing the mirror-surface displaying caused by the reflective polarizer, to make the image significantly difficult to observe.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2006Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Yabuta, Hiroshi Fukushima, Akira Imai, Tomoo Takatani
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Patent number: 7973754Abstract: A display substrate includes a base substrate, a gate line, a data line, a pixel electrode and a shielding electrode. The base substrate includes a plurality of unit pixel areas arranged in a matrix shape. The gate line extends between the unit pixel areas. The data line crosses the gate line. The data line extends between the unit pixel areas. The pixel electrode is disposed in the unit pixel area. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to an output electrode of a switching element electrically connected to the gate and data lines. The shielding electrode is disposed the gate and data lines. The shielding electrode has an opening an opening formed therein, the opening disposed above and extending along a direction of the gate line.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2007Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dong-Gyu Kim
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Publication number: 20110157120Abstract: A drive circuit for driving a display panel includes a first operation amplifier for operating using a first power source voltage and a second power source voltage; a second operation amplifier for operating using a third power source voltage and a fourth power source voltage; a control unit for supplying a first control voltage and a second control voltage; and a switch circuit for switching the first operation amplifier and the second operation amplifier. The switch circuit includes an n-channel type field effect transistor. The control unit applies the first control voltage to the n-channel type field effect transistor, so that the n-channel type field effect transistor transits from a non-conductive state to a conductive state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: Hideaki HASEGAWA, Kunihiro Harayama, Koji Higuchi, Atsushi Hirama
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Patent number: 7961170Abstract: A drive circuit of a display device and a method for driving the display device are disclosed. The drive circuit includes at least one data transfer line to receive analog data signals including information for an image; a first latch to sequentially sample analog data signals transferred from the at least one data transfer line and to sequentially store the sampled analog data signals; and a second latch to receive the sampled analog data signals from the first latch and to simultaneously supply the sampled analog data signals to a display.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kyoung Moon Lim
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Patent number: 7961166Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display panel in which data lines and gate lines cross and a plurality of liquid crystal cells are arranged; a data discrimination part to detect data in which a dominant polarity is generated; a data driver to shift a polarity of the data in which the dominant polarity is generated in a horizontal direction and to supply the data to the data lines; and a gate driver to sequentially supply a scanning signal to the gate lines.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hyeong Seok Kim
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Patent number: 7956835Abstract: An image display device includes a first display panel having a substrate with first scanning lines, first signal lines which intersect the first scanning lines, and first switching elements, a second display panel having another substrate with second scanning lines, second signal lines which intersect the second scanning lines, and second switching elements, and a flexible printed circuit board connecting the first display panel with the second display panel. The image display device drives the first display panel in a line inversion mode when only the first display panel displays images, drives the second display panel in a frame inversion mode when only the second display panel displays images, and drives the first display panel and the second display panel in the line inversion mode when both of the first display panel and second display panel display images.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Tsuyuki, Hiroyuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 7948462Abstract: A method for driving an LCD monitor includes providing a common-voltage signal having a level conversion during each frame duration, dividing each frame duration into a first sub-frame duration and a second sub-frame duration according to a position having the level conversion of the common-voltage signal, driving a first set of pixel units during the first sub-frame duration according to a level of the common-voltage signal within the first sub-frame duration, and driving a second set of pixel units during the second sub-frame duration according to a level of the common-voltage signal within the second sub-frame duration.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2007Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Ching-Wu Tseng
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Patent number: 7948463Abstract: The vertical scan period of the input video signal is divided into at least two sub-frames. In each of the sub-frames, a display signal voltage is written into each pixel. Two vertical scan periods in which the input video signals are continuous contain a sequence of two continuous sub-frames where a display signal voltage is written with the same polarity and a sub-frame where the polarity of the display signal voltage is inversed. The auxiliary capacity opposing voltage includes, in each of the sub-frames, a first waveform vibrating with a first cycle of the horizontal scan period multiplied by an integer not smaller than 2 and a second waveform in which an effective value of the auxiliary capacity opposing voltage is set to a predetermined constant value for each vertical scan period of a predetermined number of continuous input video signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2006Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masae Kitayama, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Makoto Shiomi
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Patent number: 7948459Abstract: A display device includes scanning lines disposed along rows of display pixels, signal lines disposed along columns of the display pixels, pixel switches disposed near intersections between the scanning lines and the signal lines, pixel electrodes connected to the pixel switches, a counter-electrode disposed to be opposed to the pixel electrodes, storage capacitance lines disposed substantially parallel to the scanning lines, first inspection switches connected to the scanning lines in a peripheral section, second inspection switches connected to the signal lines in the peripheral section, a first wiring line which supplies a signal for turning on/off the first inspection switches, a second wiring line which supplies a signal for turning on/off the second inspection switches, and a third wiring line which applies a signal to the counter-electrode and the storage capacitance lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2007Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Displays Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tetsuya Ohtomo
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Apparatus and method for LCD panel drive for achieving time-divisional driving and inversion driving
Patent number: 7936326Abstract: A method is provided for driving a liquid crystal display panel including first and second data line sets each including an even number of arrayed data lines, and a plurality of pixels sharing a common electrode having a constant potential. The method is composed of: time-divisionally selecting data lines from each of the first and second data line sets; and providing data signals on the selected data lines to write the data signals into the pixels therethrough. An order of selecting the data lines from each of the first and second data lines and polarities of the data signals written into the pixels are determined so that polarities of the data signals on the data lines selected from the first data line set are opposite to those of the data lines selected from the second data line set.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2005Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Yoshiharu Hashimoto, Masayuki Kumeta, Kouji Matsuura -
Patent number: 7936345Abstract: To reduce EMI and current consumption in internal wiring after display data have been input to a data driver. Display data DN/DP constituted by RSDS signals input to a data driver in a first stage are converted to display data DA constituted by CMOS signals, subjected to primary inversion control according to a data inversion signal INV generated inside, and transferred into internal wiring 31 in a data capturing circuit 30. Then, the display data are subjected to secondary inversion control by a secondary data inversion circuit 33 disposed immediately before data registers 34 according to the data inversion signal INV, and then captured by the data registers 34. Further, chip-to-chip transfer of the display data DA and the data inversion signal INV to the data drivers in second and subsequent stages is performed through the internal wiring 31 and internal wiring 32. Then, as in the data driver in the first stage, the display data DA are captured by the data registers 34.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2007Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventor: Motoo Fukuo
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Patent number: 7936328Abstract: A data driver used for driving a display panel is provided with a grayscale voltage generator circuit generating a plurality of grayscale voltages; and a drive circuitry selecting a selected grayscale voltage from the plurality of grayscale voltages in response to input display data, and outputting a data signal having a voltage level corresponding to the selected grayscale voltage to the display panel. The grayscale voltage generator circuit comprises an amplifier generating a voltage bias; and a voltage generator circuit generating the plurality of grayscale voltages from the voltage bias. The amplifier is designed so that a polarity of an offset voltage of the amplifier is reversible.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2007Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose, Kouichi Nishimura
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Patent number: 7936295Abstract: A selection section (105) selects a step voltage, among a plurality of step voltages (SV1, SV2, SV3, . . . ) each having a voltage value changing stepwise, corresponding to the digital value of digital data (D-DATA). For each of the plurality of step voltages (SV1, SV2, SV3, . . . ), different digital values are allocated to different steps of the step voltage. An amplifier section (106) amplifies the step voltage selected by the selection section (105). An output section (107) outputs the step voltage amplified by the amplifier section (106) as an output voltage (Vout) for a time period corresponding to the digital value of the digital data (D-DATA).Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2007Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yusuke Tokunaga, Shiro Sakiyama, Shiro Dosho, Yasuyuki Doi, Kurumi Nakayama
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Publication number: 20110096050Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel having n gate lines and m data lines intersecting one another to form a frame to display an image; a gate driving unit supplying a scan signal to the n gate lines arranged in rows on the liquid crystal panel; a data driving unit supplying a data signal to the m data lines arranged in columns on the liquid crystal panel; and a common voltage driving unit applying a first common voltage to a plurality of odd common voltage lines arranged in rows on the liquid crystal panel, and applying a second common voltage to a plurality of even common voltage lines, wherein the odd common voltage lines and the even common voltage lines are alternately arranged in rows.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Sic LEE, Chul-Ho Kim, Dong-Hoon Lee
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Patent number: 7932884Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines to which a data voltage is supplied, a plurality of gate lines to which a gate pulse is supplied, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells, a data drive circuit to invert a polarity of the data voltage in response to a polarity control signal and to output the data voltage to the data lines in response to a source output enable signal, a gate drive circuit to supply the gate pulse to the gate lines, and a POL/SOE logic circuit to invert the polarity control signal for every frame period except at Nth-multiple frame period (where N is a positive integer), wherein the POL/SOE logic circuit controls the polarity control signal at every Nth-multiple frame period such that the polarity of the data voltage is the same as the previous frame period and controls a pulse width of the source output enable signal at every Nth-multiple frame period to be longer than for the other frame periods.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Byung Jin Choi, Dong Il Kim, Su Hyuk Jang
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Publication number: 20110090196Abstract: A liquid crystal display having pixel data self-retaining functionality includes a gate line for delivering a gate signal, a data line for delivering a data signal, a control unit for providing a first control signal and a second control signal, a data switch, a voltage-control inverter, a liquid crystal capacitor, and a pass transistor. The data switch is utilized for inputting the data signal to become a first data signal according to the gate signal. The voltage-control inverter is utilized for inverting the first data signal to generate a second data signal furnished to the liquid crystal capacitor according to the enable operation of the first control signal. The pass transistor is used for passing the second data signal to become the first data signal or for passing the first data signal to become the second data signal according to the second control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Yu-Hsuan Li, Yu-Jung Liu, Chun-Hung Kuo, Chun-Huai Li
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Patent number: 7928948Abstract: The invention aims at preventing an occurrence of artefacts while reducing power consumption. A matrix addressing method for alternately driving pixels. The frame period of the images is formed by successively sequencing on a time series a plurality of block periods, the block periods each being composed of a first half block being a period for successively sequencing on a time series application timings of the pixel voltages for one or more row electrodes to be provided with one polarity, the second half block being a period for successively sequencing on a time series application timings of the pixel voltages for one or more row electrodes to be provided with the other polarity. Ones of even-numbered row electrodes and odd-numbered row electrodes in arrangement order on the display screen are selected in the first half block. The others spatially adjoining the ones are selected in the second half block.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2005Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: TPO Hong Kong Holdings Limited Corp.Inventors: Shuji Hagino, Hidetoshi Watanabe, Akihiro Iwatsu, Keitaro Yamashita
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Patent number: 7911431Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first to third FRC portions. The first to third FRC portions converts n-bit R, G and B input data into (n?m)-bit R, G and B data having first to third FRC patterns for consecutive P frames according to lower m bits of the n-bit R, G and B input data, respectively. The (n?m)-bit R, G and B data for each of the consecutive P frames correspond to R, G and B sub-pixels of the pixels of the pixel block, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Han-Yung Jung
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Patent number: 7907111Abstract: A driving circuit for driving a liquid crystal device that has, a first substrate including a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes and a plurality of common electrodes, a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate, and liquid crystal, the common electrodes being partitioned every horizontal line, the driving circuit includes: a control circuit that alternately supplies a first voltage and a second voltage being higher than the first voltage to the common electrodes and that sets the common electrodes to a floating state; a scanning line driving circuit that sequentially supplies a selection voltage to the plurality of scanning lines; and a data line driving circuit that alternately supplies a positive image signal having a potential higher than the first voltage and a negative image signal having a potential lower than the second voltage to the plurality of data lines.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2007Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Shin Fujita
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Patent number: 7907107Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a display device includes a plurality of gate lines transferring gate signals, a plurality of data lines transmitting data voltages, a plurality of storage electrode lines transferring storage signals, and a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each pixel comprising a switching element connected to a gate line and a data line, a liquid crystal capacitor connected to the switching element and a common voltage, and a storage capacitor connected to the switching element and a storage electrode line. The display device may further include a plurality of signal generating circuits generating the storage signals, wherein the signal generating circuit is connected to a k-th storage electrode line, where k is a natural number.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jin Jeon
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Patent number: 7907108Abstract: Circuits and methods are provided for driving flat panel displays (e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD)), which provide reduced power consumption for driving data lines of flat panels displays. Source driving circuits and methods for driving data lines use both intermediate reference voltages and boosted driving voltages in each driving cycle (as opposed to entirely using boosted driving voltages) to reduce power consumption and provide charge recycling.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2004Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electroniccs Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kyu Young Chung
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Publication number: 20110050553Abstract: A liquid crystal display device employing a dot inversion drive method includes a pixel array, a data driver circuit, a short circuit, and a scanning circuit. The short circuit is disposed for respective outputs of the data driver circuit, and includes a switching element for connecting each of the outputs to a precharge voltage different from an output voltage. The short circuit includes the switching element disposed in one of a first switching group and a second switching group; the switching element of one of the first switching group and the second switching group is connected to respective pairs of pixel column units including an odd-numbered pixel column and an even-numbered pixel column which are adjacent to each other; and the pairs of pixel column units which are adjacent to each other are each connected to the switching element disposed in respective switching groups different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: Naoki TAKADA, Naruhiko KASAI, Norio MAMBA, Mitsuru GOTO, Shuuichirou MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 7898515Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes to which a data voltage is supplied, a plurality of common electrodes arranged to form electric fields with the pixel electrodes, a plurality of common wire lines commonly connected to the common electrodes in each horizontal line, a plurality of common voltage drive circuits to supply a common voltage to each of the corresponding common wire lines, and a controller for generating clock signals to control the common voltage drive circuits to invert an electric potential of the common voltage to be output from each of the common voltage drive circuits for each frame period.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2005Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Su Hwan Moon, Do Heon Kim, Ji Eun Chae
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Publication number: 20110043439Abstract: The liquid crystal display device inverts the polarity of the data signal once in the first one of n iterations (n is an integer of 2 or more) of the horizontal blanking period. Then, in each of the remaining n?1 iterations of the horizontal blanking period, the polarity of the data signal is inverted twice. A plurality of data lines are short-circuited together when inverting the polarity of the data signal, and a scan line is selected in a write period during which the data signal is applied to a picture element forming portion. Moreover, a scan line is selected in synchronism with a timing for short-circuiting the data lines before the once-selected scan line is selected again in a write period.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Inventor: Takashi Sasaki
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Patent number: 7894007Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a display section which is composed of a plurality of display pixels, a driving unit which drives the display pixels, and a control unit which controls the driving unit. A first substrate includes pixel electrodes which are disposed in association with the plurality of display pixels. A second substrate includes a counter-electrode which is opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes. A pair of alignment films are disposed on the plurality of pixel electrodes and the counter-electrode, and control an alignment state of liquid crystal molecules, which are included in the liquid crystal layer, by rubbing treatment. Dummy display pixels are disposed on a terminal end side of the display section in a rubbing direction. A driving unit includes circuit for cyclically applying a reverse transition prevention signal to the dummy display pixels.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2008Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuo Fukami, Yukio Tanaka, Masaki Miyatake, Hiroshi Azuma, Kenji Nakao
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Patent number: 7893910Abstract: An exemplary method for driving a liquid crystal display (200) includes: (a) providing a liquid crystal panel (20) including a plurality of pixels (205) arranged in a matrix to define sub-matrices of pixels, each sub-matrix including a plurality of pixel blocks; (b) providing a predetermined polarity pattern for each pixel block for a first frame period, such that each pixel has a predetermined polarity; (c) reversing the polarity of one of the pixels of each pixel block of each sub-matrix in each successive frame period, wherein a different pixel of each pixel block has its polarity reversed with each succeeding frame period, such that in one cycle of frame periods the polarities of all the pixels in each pixel block are reversed once only, and after each pixel block has its polarity reversed, the polarity of the pixel block is maintained for at least four successive frames periods.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimel Innolux CorporationInventor: Sha Feng
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Patent number: 7893909Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display panel driving device and a method thereof are provided. The TFT liquid crystal display panel driving device is characterized by including a modulation signal generator for providing at least one modulation signal to at least one output buffer of a source driver of the TFT liquid crystal display panel. The output buffer(s) has chopper function. Each output buffer changes the offset voltages of the pixels of a same frame under the control of different modulation signals, thus eliminating the effect of the offset voltages of the output buffer(s) on the display quality.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Kuang-Feng Sung
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Publication number: 20110037760Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal display panel including data lines and gate lines crossing each other; a timing controller that maps data of an input image to polarity patterns of 1-dot inversion and 2-dot inversion, counts the number of positive data and the number of negative data, determines whether any one of the positive data and negative data becomes dominant or not based on a difference between the counted numbers, and selects either one of the 1-dot and 2-dot inversions; a data driving circuit that converts the data of the input image into data voltages to be supplied to the data lines and inverts the polarity of the data voltages by the selected dot inversion; and a gate driving circuit that sequentially supplies gate pulses synchronized with the data voltages to the gate lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Inventors: Jongwoo Kim, Hyuntaek Nam, Suhyuk Jang
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Patent number: 7889167Abstract: A liquid crystal display for recognizing a flicker with the naked eyes in a step of inspecting a flicker in the case where a liquid crystal display is driven with a frame frequency of 120 Hz is disclosed. In the liquid crystal display, a timing controller supplies a first frame inversion polarity signal which is used at a first frame inversion and, at the same time supplies a gate start pulse which indicates a supply of a scanning pulse. A frame polarity signal converting means converts a first frame inversion polarity signal into a second frame inversion polarity signal in response to the gate start pulse. And a data driver changes the inputted frame into a second frame inversion in response to the second frame inversion polarity signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jong Tae Kim
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Publication number: 20110025664Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for driving thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) and the storage medium for storing computer program representative of the method thereof. The method utilizes a timing controller to send polarity control signals to a plurality of source drivers in a TFT-LCD panel for changing the polarity distribution of the liquid crystal molecules in the panel. The method is characterized by dynamically changing the positions of polarity inversion for alleviating the problem of undercharging under high resolution and high frequency conditions; utilizing both polar and reverse polar driving signals for solving the problem of color shift in “checker board” checking signals; and providing a mechanism for mending the problem of undercharging of the first horizontal line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventors: Mu-Shan LIAO, Yuan-Jing Chang, Hung-Chun Li
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Patent number: 7880703Abstract: A liquid crystal display for automatically adjusting brightness of interference image displayed at ECB sub pixels of quad type cells of a liquid crystal display panel in accordance with brightness of a background screen is disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes first to n-th look-up tables each holding a mapping of one first to n-th mappings of ECB brightness data to cell location information for the quad cells of the liquid crystal display panel; an image processor that calculates a brightness data distribution of an image; and a viewing angle controller that selects one of the first to the n-th look-up tables depending on the calculated brightness data distribution.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joon Kyu Park, Hyun Suk Jin, Sook Kyung You, Hyun Seok Jang
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Patent number: 7880716Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes liquid crystal pixels, signal line groups each including a predetermined number of signal lines, and a drive circuit which selects the pixels on a row-by-row basis and drives the pixels of the selected row via the signal lines. The drive circuit includes a signal line driver which outputs a predetermined number of pixel voltages for each group driving period while the pixels of each row are being selected, a multiplexer which distributes to each signal line group the pixel voltages output from the signal line driver, and a controller which controls the multiplexer to electrically connect all of the signal line groups to the signal line driver and electrically disconnect the signal line groups one by one from the signal line driver for each group driving period, in a selection period of the pixels of an initial row that requires polarity inversion.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Tanaka, Tetsuo Fukami
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Patent number: 7880708Abstract: A power control method for polarity inversion in an LCD panel comprises the step of providing a storage capacitor on a circuit board. Thereafter, the storage capacitor is charged to a first middle voltage. Next, the voltage of the VCOM channel is pulled up by a common output amplifier, only from the first middle voltage to a first upper voltage during a positive polarity period. Also, the voltage of the VCOM channel is pulled down by the common output amplifier, only from the first middle voltage to a first lower voltage during a negative polarity period.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Himax Technologies LimitedInventor: Ping Po Chen
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Publication number: 20110007050Abstract: When displaying moving images by using liquid crystal panels and others, a problem exists in that tail streaks occur, and image degradation is resultantly caused. To solve this problem, an echo suppression circuit divides a video signal into a pair composed of two successive frames for comparison between these two frames in signal level for the purpose of suppressing an echo phenomenon occurring when a liquid crystal panel displays video signals including moving images. If these two frames are not the same in signal level, the signal is accordingly corrected so as to equalize the signal level of these frames. Based on the video signals and others corrected by the echo suppression circuit, a controller operates the liquid crystal panel with AC drive through a source driver and a gate driver. As such, the drive voltage used to operate the liquid crystal panel with AC drive is adjusted so as to be balanced between positive and negative.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Inventors: Ichiro SATO, Katsuhiko KUMAGAWA, Kazuo INOUE, Taro FUNAMOTO, Wataru MACHIDORI, Katsuyuki ARIMOTO
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Publication number: 20100328285Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a pixel array section having a plurality of scanning lines disposed in rows, a plurality of signal lines disposed in columns, a plurality of pixel circuits, a plurality of liquid crystal elements, and a plurality of common connection lines, and a drive circuit section having a scanning line drive circuit, a signal line drive circuit, and a common connection line drive circuit. The drive circuit section drives each of the pixel circuits so that a holding period in each frame period has a period during which a voltage of one liquid crystal element falls and a period during which the voltage rises.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Werapong Jarupoonphol, Takeya Takeuchi, Tomohiko Sato
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Patent number: 7859506Abstract: A mobile LCD device controls a common voltage signal VCOM to effectively display a landscape mode image instead of using a separate integrated chip (IC). The LCD device utilizes a method of displaying a landscape mode image including selecting a video frame from M video frames received from an external source where M is greater than or equal to 2. The selected video frame is stored in a video memory. The selected video frame is masked so as not to display the selected video frame while the selected video frame is stored. The stored video frame is displayed a predetermined number of times while the selected video frame is not stored thereby effectively displaying the landscape mode image.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Won-Sik Kang, Jong-Kon Bae