Field Period Polarity Reversal Patents (Class 345/96)
  • Patent number: 8330695
    Abstract: A plurality of groups each of which includes a plurality of scanning signal lines are sequentially selected; a polarity of the data signal electric potentials in one (first group) of sequentially-selected groups is set to be different from that of the other (second group) of the two groups; two pieces of dummy scan periods are put between (i) a horizontal scan period corresponding to a last horizontal scan in the first group and (ii) a horizontal scan period corresponding to a first horizontal scan in the second group; dummy signal electric potentials are supplied to the data signal line in the dummy scan periods; and a time period from when a scanning pulse which corresponds to the last horizontal scan in the first group becomes nonactive to when the dummy scan period is started is set to be longer than a time period from when a scanning pulse corresponding to one of consecutive two horizontal scans becomes nonactive in the first group to when a horizontal scan period corresponding to the other of the consec
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentaroh Irie, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Masae Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20120306835
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device (1) includes a liquid crystal panel (69) having, for each of pixels (60), a digital memory element (68) for holding an electric potential according to image data and a liquid crystal cell (64) for displaying an image by receiving the electric potential from the digital memory element (68); and a liquid crystal driver circuit (10) having an AC control section (22) for reversing a polarity of an AC voltage applied to the liquid crystal cell (64) on a given cycle and an image transmission control section (21) for issuing instruction on outputting of image data to the liquid crystal panel (69).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Kouji Kumada
  • Publication number: 20120299971
    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 these visual artifacts by applying voltage to a data line more than once during the write sequence. Doing so can allow erroneous brightening or darkening caused by large voltage swings to be overwritten without causing additional large voltage swings on the data line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Steven Porter Hotelling, Marduke Yousefpor, Hopil Bae
  • Patent number: 8319716
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) and method for driving the LCD using one or more polarity inversion methods is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a method of driving an LCD comprising a liquid crystal panel partitioned by a plurality of gate lines and data lines and including a plurality of liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix and auxiliary lines adjacent to and parallel to the gate lines, the auxiliary lines coupled with the plurality of liquid crystal cells, the method including supplying an auxiliary voltage that increases from a low level to a high level on a first pair of auxiliary lines adjacent to each other for a jth frame period, supplying an auxiliary voltage that decreases from a high level to a low level on a second pair of auxiliary lines adjacent to each other for the jth frame period, supplying the auxiliary voltages at levels opposite to the levels of the jth frame period on the first and second pairs of auxiliary lines in a (j+1)th frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shawn Kim, Chul-Woo Park, Sam-Ho Ihm, Mitsuru Fujii, Jin-Woo Park
  • Patent number: 8319717
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiment relates to a liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof for reducing heat and electric consumption power of the data driving circuit. The exemplary embodiment includes: a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines crossing a plurality of gate lines and liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix e; a timing controller generating a polarity control signal, deciding if a predetermined weak pattern data is input, and shifting a phase of the polarity control signal in a next frame period following a frame showing the weak pattern data when the weak pattern data is input; a data driving circuit reversing the polarity of the data voltage in response to the polarity control signal and supplying to the data lines; and a gate driving circuit supplying a gate pulse to the gate lines sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinsung Kim, Suhyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20120287100
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device increasing transmittance to improve brightness while employing ferroelectric liquid crystals in a half-V mode. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including ferroelectric liquid crystals of a half-V mode, and a driving circuit driving a liquid crystal panel so that a first frame period, which the positive data voltages are supplied to the liquid crystal panel, becomes longer than a second frame period, which the negative data voltages are supplied to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Jong-Hoon WOO, Su-Seok CHOI, Dong-Guk KIM, Jae-Hyung LIM, Joong-Ha LEE
  • Patent number: 8310433
    Abstract: The invention provides a display device and an electronic apparatus which can reduce power consumption in the case of being driven by using a digital time grayscale method. According to the invention, a row in which all the pixels display black is focused on in a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix, and sampling of data which is to be inputted to the pixels arranged in the row is not performed. Then, in a period during which the data sampling is not performed, the operation of a shift register in a source driver and, sampling operation of a video signal in a first latch circuit are stopped. The invention which has the aforementioned characteristics can temporally stop operation of the source driver to reduce power consumption. In particular, the invention can stop operation of the source driver which consumes much power in the display device, leading to dramatic reduction in power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Tanada, Tadafumi Ozaki
  • Patent number: 8310428
    Abstract: A driving voltage output circuit for a matrix display panel includes high-side voltage followers and low-side voltage followers. Each voltage follower includes a differential input stage, a control stage, and an output stage. First and second transistors in the differential input stage receive non-inverting and inverting inputs and produce first and second potentials that control the control stage. Third and fourth transistors of different channel types in the control stage are connected in a push-pull configuration between high-side and low-side power supply potentials to generate a control potential. Fifth and sixth transistors of identical channel types in the output stage are connected in series between an intermediate reference potential and one of the power supply potentials, and are controlled by the first potential and the control potential to generate an output potential. The output potential is fed back as the inverting input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8310475
    Abstract: For the purpose of providing a display apparatus capable of improving display quality by expanding the light-emission area of pixels by improving the layout of pixels and common power-feed lines formed on a substrate, pixels (7A, 7B) including a light-emission element (40), such as an electroluminescence element or an LED element, are arranged on both sides of common power-feed lines (com) so that the number of common power-feed lines (com) is reduced. Further, the polarity of a driving current flowing between the pixels (7A, 7B) and the light-emission element (40) is inverted so that the amount of current flowing through the common power-supply lines “com” is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tokuroh Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8305319
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes an LCD panel, and a common voltage generating circuit configured for providing common voltages to the LCD panel. The common voltage generating circuit includes a microprocessor, a timer, a voltage adjustment circuit, and a look up table. The microprocessor is electrically connected to the timer, the look up table, and the voltage adjustment circuit. The timer is configured for recording a continuous operated time of the LCD panel. The look up table is configured for storing optimal common voltages corresponding to each continuous operated time. The microprocessor is configured for reading the optimal common voltage at set intervals corresponding to the continuous operated time, and controlling the voltage adjustment circuit to provide the corresponding optimal common voltage to the LCD panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Chimei InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Sheng Chang, Chao-Yi Hung, Sz-Hsiao Chen, Sheng-Tien Cho, Chueh-Ju Chen, Tsau-Hua Hsieh, Chiu-Lien Yang
  • Patent number: 8300006
    Abstract: Electrophoretic display units (1) comprising pixels (11) situated between common electrodes (6) and pixel electrodes (5) need, for shortening the total image update times, increased driving voltages across the pixels (11) which endanger transistors (12) coupled to the pixel electrodes (5). These increased driving voltage (V6) to the common electrode (6). To protect the transistors (12) against these increased driving voltages, a setting signal (S1, S2) is supplied to the pixel electrode (5) via the transistor (12) for reducing a voltage across the pixel (11) resulting from a transition in the alternating voltage signal (V6). During driving frame periods (Fd) data pulses (D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6) are supplied, and during setting frame periods (Fs), the setting signals (S1, S2) are supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Guofu Zhou, Masaru Yasui, Mark Thomas Johnson, Robert Waverly Zehner, Karl Raymond Amundson
  • Patent number: 8300000
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device with a driving method includes an LCD panel, a data driving circuit, a common voltage generating circuit, and a gate driving circuit. The LCD panel includes multiple data lines and multiple scanning lines intersecting with the data lines, and a common electrode. The gate driving circuit provides multiple gate-scanning signals to scan the scanning lines. The common voltage generating circuit provides a common voltage to the common electrode. The data driving circuit provides a gray level voltage signal including multiple voltage levels to the data lines. The common voltage is serial square waves having at least two non-identical frame periods. The square waves in each non-identical frame period of the common voltage in one frame have a constant period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Rui-Fu Shi
  • Patent number: 8299990
    Abstract: A flat panel display sequentially supplying data signals to a pixel portion using a demultiplexer and a method of driving the flat panel sufficiently supply scan signals in a horizontal period to prevent deformation and distortion of the data signal supplied to each pixel and compensate for a threshold voltage of a drive transistor of the pixel. The flat panel display includes a pixel portion having a plurality of pixels, a scan driver to supply scan signals to the pixel portion, a data driver to generate data signals, a demultiplexer portion to sequentially supply the data signals to the pixel portion, and a lighting tester to supply a lighting test signal and an initialization signal to the pixel portion. Alternatively, the flat panel display includes a pixel portion having a plurality of pixels, a scan driver to supply scan signals to the pixel portion, a data driver to output data signals and a demultiplexer portion to sequentially supply an initialization signal and the data signal to the pixel portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Park, Mi-Hae Kim, Seon-I Jeong, Chang-Soo Pyon, Sam-Il Han
  • Patent number: 8299999
    Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixel units each including a pixel electrode for receiving data voltages and a common electrode for receiving a common voltage having a constant value. The data voltages applied to each pixel electrodes are equal to a sum of a main data voltage having a square waveform and an auxiliary voltage that is periodically changed at intervals each formed by four continuous frames. An absolute value of the auxiliary voltage is less than a voltage difference between the main data voltage and the common voltage, a sum of the auxiliary voltage is zero in a minimum period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Chien-Fan Tung, Shun-Ming Huang
  • Patent number: 8294653
    Abstract: A driving voltage output circuit for a matrix display panel includes high-side voltage followers and low-side voltage followers. Each voltage follower includes a differential input stage, a control stage, and an output stage. The differential input stage receives non-inverting and inverting inputs and produces first and second potentials. The control stage generates third and fourth potentials from the first and second potentials. The output stage includes three transistors connected respectively to the high-side power supply, the low-side power supply, and an intermediate reference potential, and connected in common to an output terminal. Two of the three transistors are of identical channel type and are controlled by the first and fourth potentials. The third transistor is of the opposite conductive type and is controlled by the third potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8294741
    Abstract: Novel three-color and four-color subpixel arrangements and architectures for display and the like are herein disclosed. Novel techniques for subpixel rendering on the above subpixel arrangements are also herein disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Edward Eastle Thompson, Michael Francis Higgins
  • Patent number: 8294652
    Abstract: A driving method for driving an LCD panel having a counter electrode and a source line. In a first period, the counter electrode is driven to a potential VCOMH. In a second period, the counter electrode and the source line are short-circuited to a power supply interconnection having a power supply potential VCI. In a third period, the counter electrode is connected to a ground interconnection while the source line is kept to be short-circuited to the power supply interconnection. In a fourth period, the counter electrode is pulled down to a potential VCOML lower than a ground potential In a fifth period, the source line is driven to a potential corresponding to an image data while the counter electrode is kept to the potential VCOML. The electric power consumed in pulling down the counter electrode from a positive potential to a negative potential can be effectively reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Shirai
  • Patent number: 8294654
    Abstract: A display device and driving method are provided. A display device includes a display area that includes a plurality of pixel cells in respective pixel regions defined by a plurality of gate and data lines crossing each other. A data driver is operable to supply data signals to the pixel cells. The pixel cells are connected with the first data line and are divided into a plurality of pixel-cell groups. The data driver is operable to supply the data signal of first polarity to the pixel cells included in the odd-numbered pixel-cell groups, and to supply the data signal of second polarity to the pixel cells included in the even-numbered pixel-cell groups. The first polarity is opposite to the second polarity. A shift register that is operable to drive the gate lines to supply the scan pulses of different amplitudes to neighboring pixel cells included in the different pixel-cell groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Ho Jang
  • Patent number: 8289308
    Abstract: A method of driving an electrophoretic display device (a display device) having a first electrode, a second electrode, a microcapsule-containing layer (a display section), a capacitance element, and a voltage application switching element, comprising a first state in which the voltage application switching element is placed in ON state to apply a voltage between the electrodes and to charge an electric charge in the capacitance element, a second state in which the voltage is applied between the electrodes through discharging of the electric charge stored in the capacitance element, and a third state in which the voltage is not applied between the electrodes and the electric charge stored in the capacitance element is discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Harunobu Komatsu, Hironobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8284146
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device and, more particularly, to an active matrix-type display device employing a line inversion drive scheme as a drive scheme. In a liquid crystal display device employing the line inversion drive scheme as a drive scheme, a predetermined video signals are applied to video signal lines in a predetermined period after start of a vertical blanking period. When a vertical scanning period starts in an even-numbered frame, a source potential (VS) decreases by ½ of amplitude in an effective video period. After the decreased source potential (VS) is maintained only for one horizontal scanning period, source bus lines are set to a high-impedance state. When a vertical scanning period starts in an odd-numbered frame, the source potential (VS) rises by ½ of amplitude in the effective video period. After the risen source potential VS is maintained only in one horizontal scanning period, the source bus lines are set to a high-impedance state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Imai, Noriyuki Nakane
  • Patent number: 8284368
    Abstract: A flat display device includes an array substrate. The array substrate includes a plurality of gate lines, data lines and pixels. The pixels include a plurality of first pixel units and second pixel units, and each of the first pixel units and each of the second pixel units include more than three pixels. The first pixel units and the second pixel units disposed in between two adjacent data lines are arranged alternately, wherein the first pixel units are electrically connected with one of the two adjacent data lines, and the second pixel units are electrically connected with the other data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yi-Suei Liao, Chien-Liang Chen, Kai-Yuan Siao
  • Patent number: 8284144
    Abstract: A method for driving a liquid crystal display device that decreases a sticking of the display image. The liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode and a counter electrode. A polarity of the signal supplied to the pixel electrode is periodically inverted at the first period and the second period. The length of the first period is different from that of the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiki Misonou, Toshio Maeda, Katsumi Matsumoto, Hideki Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20120249909
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an array substrate includes auxiliary capacitance electrodes, auxiliary capacitance lines, signal lines, and pixel electrodes. The auxiliary capacitance electrode connected to one of the pixel electrodes adjacent to each other in a column direction and the auxiliary capacitance electrode connected to the other pixel electrode are opposed to the same auxiliary capacitance line, and extend in a row direction by intersecting the signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Yukio TANAKA, Kenji Nakao
  • Patent number: 8279153
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a timing controller generating a polarity control signal. A logic inverting period of the polarity control signal during frame periods ranging from an Nth frame period among M frame periods to 2 to 4 frame periods following the Nth frame period is longer than a logic inverting period of the polarity control signal in the other frame periods, where N is an integer equal to or larger than 4 and M is larger than N. The liquid crystal cells in one frame period of the M frame periods are charged to the data voltage whose a polarity is opposite to a polarity of the data voltage in a previous frame period of one frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongsung Song, Woongki Min, Yonggi Son, Suhyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8274462
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a pixel that has an electro-optical element with a light transmittance that changes to a predetermined value in response to an applied voltage, which changes in response to the temperature. A light source irradiates light to the pixel. A driving unit includes a predetermined number of sub-fields having the same length in one frame. The driving unit provides either an on-voltage indicating light-on or an off-voltage indicating light-off to the pixel in each of the predetermined number of the sub-fields in response to the grayscale to be displayed. A temperature measuring unit measures the temperature and outputs a temperature signal. A time controlling unit controls the length of one sub-field on the basis of the temperature signal. A light intensity controlling unit controls the intensity of the light incident on the pixel on the basis of the temperature signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Okuyama, Tetsuro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8274500
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device where a common driver circuit formed of only a single channel transistor can be made smaller, wherein the counter electrode driving circuit has M basic circuits that are connected to M counter electrodes (M?2), the (n?1)th selection scan signal, the nth selection scan signal, an alternating current signal and an inverse alternating current signal are inputted in the nth basic circuit (1?n?M), there is a difference in phase between said selection scan signal and said alternating current signal, as well as between said selection scan signal and said inverse alternating current signal, and said nth basic circuit supplies a positive or negative counter voltage to the Nth counter electrode on the basis of said inputted (n?1)th selection scan signal, nth selection scan signal, alternating current signal and inverse alternating current signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Hideo Sato, Masahiro Maki
  • Patent number: 8269707
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) that includes a plurality of pixels, a switch unit, and a gate line driving unit. Each of the pixels includes a liquid crystal capacitor having a pixel electrode and a common electrode, and the pixels are located at intersections of a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of source lines. The switch unit applies source line driving voltages having levels opposite to a common voltage applied to the common electrode, to the source lines. The gate line driving unit sequentially outputs via gate lines gate line driving voltages to control the source line driving voltages to be applied to the pixel electrodes of the pixels. The common voltage transits from a first level to a second level or vice versa at the boundary between a first half frame and a second half frame. At the first half frame, the switch unit applies the source line driving voltages to only odd-numbered source lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-hyuck Woo, Jae-goo Lee, Won-sik Kang
  • Patent number: 8269706
    Abstract: An operating unit of an LCD panel and a method for operating the same are disclosed, to improve the picture quality by removing superior polarity. The operating unit includes a plurality of data driver ICs for supplying data to the data lines of the LCD panel, a plurality of gate driver ICs for sequentially operating the gate lines of the LCD panel, and a timing controller for supplying polarity control signals having opposite polarities respectively to first and second blocks of the data driver ICs formed by dividing the data driver ICs into multiple blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Hee Hwang
  • Publication number: 20120229525
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel circuits, data lines, and a data-line driving circuit connected to the data lines. Each of the pixel circuits includes a pixel capacitance having one end provided with a common potential. In accordance with a grayscale value for one of the plurality of pixel circuits, the data-line driving circuit selectively outputs a positive-polarity signal and a negative-polarity signal to the one pixel circuit. The data-line driving circuit outputs the positive-polarity signal and the negative-polarity signal so that an average of a potential of the positive-polarity signal and a potential of the negative-polarity signal corresponding to the grayscale value changes in accordance with the grayscale value, a temperature, and a position of the one pixel circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi NAKAI, Goki TOSHIMA, Ryutaro OKE, Junichi MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 8264446
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for a display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, and each pixel includes first and second sub-pixels. The driving apparatus includes a memory for storing digital data, a controller for calling the digital data to output the digital data together with a clock signal and at least one selection signal, and a gray voltage generator formed of an integrated circuit to receive the digital data from the controller and to generate gray reference voltage sets. The gray voltage generator includes first and second registers for storing the digital data, a selector including a plurality of multiplexers for receiving the outputs of the first and second registers, and a converter including a plurality of digital-analog converters connected to the multiplexers. As described above, the gray voltage generator is provided in the form of a chip so that it is possible to reduce the area occupied on a printed circuit board (PCB) and to reduce the cost of the gray voltage generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Woo Lee, Tae-Sung Kim, Jae-Hyoung Park
  • Publication number: 20120223926
    Abstract: An object is to provide at low cost a Power-supply circuit that can generate positive and negative analog power source voltages of which absolute values of voltage values are equal. A Power-supply circuit (210) is configured by a DCDC converter circuit (212) and a charge pump circuit (214). The charge pump circuit (214) includes a diode (D3) that passes a current when a control switch (51) is in an off state, and a diode (D4) that passes a current when the control switch (51) is in an on state. A DCDC converter circuit (212) includes two diodes (D1, D2) that pass a current when the control switch (S1) is in an off state. A rectifying unit that includes the diodes (D1, D2) is configured such that a forward drop voltage of the rectifying unit becomes equal to a sum of a forward drop voltage of the diode (D3) and a forward drop voltage of the diode (D4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Morii, Akihisa Iwamoto, Takayuki Mizunaga, Kei Ikuta
  • Patent number: 8259093
    Abstract: One frame period of image data is divided into a plurality of subframes and driven. A first subframe included in one frame and a second subframe following the first subframe are output at opposite polarities. The image data is output while switching a phase mode between a first mode of driving the first subframe at positive polarity and the second subframe at negative polarity and a second mode of driving the first subframe at negative polarity and the second subframe at positive polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukihiko Sakashita
  • Patent number: 8259046
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment of the present invention, deterioration of display quality is prevented from occurring in a display device provided with an active matrix substrate even when a larger size or a higher resolution is employed and a drive frequency is increased. In an active matrix substrate of a liquid crystal display device, a charge sharing control signal line is disposed so as to be arranged along each gate line and charge sharing TFTs are provided for each source line in numbers equal to the number of the gate lines. The gate terminal of the charge sharing TFT is connected to the charge sharing control signal line and the source and drain terminals are connected with neighboring source lines via connection electrode portions, respectively. Each of the charge sharing control signal lines is provided with a signal which turns on the charge sharing TFT for a predetermined period of every one horizontal period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihide Tsubata
  • Patent number: 8253677
    Abstract: Provided are a display device with improved display quality and a method of driving the same. The display device includes: a display panel which includes a plurality of dither blocks displaying an image that corresponds to a dither image signal; and an image signal controller which generates the dither image signal by using a dither pattern that determines a plurality of dither pixels, which are to be dithered, from among a plurality of pixels included in each of the dither blocks, wherein each of the dither blocks includes a plurality of pixels, whose respective polarities are inverted every frame and which are driven accordingly, and comprises equal numbers of positive-polarity dither pixels and negative-polarity dither pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Seok Choi, Se-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 8253676
    Abstract: A method for driving an active matrix liquid crystal display device of the invention is provided to drive a common voltage applied on a common electrode facing a pixel electrode by inversion for displaying a part of the display area, wherein the common voltage is controlled by synchronizing the polarity inversion timing of the common electrode with the scan timing of the pixel electrode in an initial position of the displayed area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Watanabe, Yasuyuki Onda
  • Patent number: 8253670
    Abstract: The present invention prevents deterioration of image quality by lowering a heat value of a data driver connected to a liquid crystal display panel. In a liquid crystal display device, a pixel which connects a TFT thereof to one of two neighboring scanning signal lines and a pixel which has a TFT thereof connected to the other scanning signal line are alternately arranged in the extending direction of the scanning signal lines, two pixels which are arranged close to each other with one video signal line sandwiched therebetween have respective TFTs connected to the video signal line, and the connection relationship between the TFT of each pixel and the scanning signal line is inverted for every pair of two pixels arranged in the extending direction of the video signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 8248347
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a driving method for a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display has a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form. The method includes the following steps. The first step is to write black data to the pixels using an over driving voltage. The second step is to select partial of the pixels or all pixels to write color data based on a color image signal. The third step is to turn on the corresponding backlight based on the color data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Yang Chen, Po-Sheng Shih, Sweehan Jui-Hsien Yang
  • Patent number: 8248345
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for displaying an image are provided. The display apparatus includes a pixel array, a polarity (POL) signal generator, and a drive circuit. The pixel array which includes a plurality of pixels is configured to display a plurality of frames of the image. The POL signal generator is configured to generate a plurality of POL signals. The drive circuit is configured to adjust the frames of the image according to the POL signals, and output the frames to the pixel array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ken-Ming Chen, Chi-Mao Hung
  • Patent number: 8248351
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display section; latching sections configured to receive and hold display data to be displayed on the display section; input switches respectively connected with outputs of the latching sections, D/A converters respectively connected with the input switch groups; amplifiers configured to amplify and output the output gradation voltages from the D/A converters, respectively; output switches provided between outputs of the amplifiers and an output node, respectively; data line switches provided onto data lines, respectively; and a control section configured to sequentially supply input switching control signals to the input switches, sequentially supply output switching control signals to the output switches, and sequentially supplies data line switching control signals to the data line switches in synchronization with a Yth clock of the input switching control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8248346
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel that includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells for controlling light transmission, a common electrode driving circuit for providing a common voltage signal to a common electrode provided in the liquid crystal panel and a first signal driving circuit for providing a first signal to a transparent electrode provided in the liquid crystal panel. The first signal and the common voltage signal have the same frequency and amplitude, but are out of phase with each other. The transparent electrode is designed to cancel an acoustic noise generated by the application of the common voltage signal. The liquid crystal panel includes two substrates that face each other. In one embodiment, the common electrode and the transparent electrode are formed in the same substrate, and in another embodiment, the common electrode and the transparent electrode are formed in different substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Uk Kim, Shawn Kim, Seong-Woock Hwang, In-Young Cho, Jeong-Min Park
  • Patent number: 8248344
    Abstract: A method of driving a liquid crystal display panel of a dot inversion system having liquid crystal cells arranged at intersections between a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines in a matrix array, including supplying the data lines with (n?2)th data corresponding to the liquid crystal cells connected to an (n?2)th gate line, conducting a data supply channel for the liquid crystal cells connected to an nth gate line such that the (n?2)th data is supplied to the liquid crystal cells connected to the nth gate line, conducting a data supply channel for the liquid crystal cells connected to the nth gate line such that the (n?2)th data is supplied to the liquid crystal cells connected to the nth gate line, and conducting a data supplying channel for the liquid crystal cells connected to the (n?2)th gate line such that the (n?2)th data is supplied to the liquid crystal cells connected to the (n?2)th gate line, wherein conducting the data supply channel and conducting the data supplying channel are p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hong Sung Song
  • Patent number: 8248358
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving frame rate in MEMS display devices are disclosed. Lines are selected for skipping during updates based on the desired frame rate and the visual effect of skipping the particular line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark M. Todorovich
  • Publication number: 20120206510
    Abstract: A display device employing CC driving switches from (i) a first mode in which to carry out a display by converting resolution of a video signal by a factor of 2 in a column-wise direction to (ii) a second mode in which to carry out a display at the resolution of the video signal. During the first mode, signal potentials having the same polarity and the same gray scale are supplied to pixel electrodes included in respective two pixels that correspond to two adjacent scanning signal lines and that are adjacent to each other in the column-wise direction, and a direction of change in the signal potentials written to the pixel electrodes varies every two adjacent rows (2-line inversion driving). During the second mode, the direction of change in the signal potentials written to the pixel electrodes lines varies every single row (1-line inversion driving).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shige Furuta, Etsuo Yamamoto, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Seijirou Gyouten
  • Publication number: 20120206659
    Abstract: The present active matrix substrate is arranged such that each pixel region includes two pixel electrodes (17a and 17b), each data signal line extends in a column direction, each column of pixel regions is associated with two data signal lines (Sx and Sy), one pixel electrode (17a) of the pixel region included in the column of pixel regions is connected to one (Sx) of the two data signal lines via a transistor (12a) that is connected to a scanning signal line (Gn), the other pixel electrode (17b) of the pixel region is connected to the other one (Sy) of the two data signal lines via a transistor (12b) that is connected to another scanning signal line (Gn?1), and one (17a) of pixel electrodes included in one of two adjacent pixel regions of the column and one (17d) of pixel electrodes included in the other one of the two adjacent pixel regions of the column are connected to an identical scanning signal line (Gn) via respective transistors (12a and 12d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshihide Tsubata
  • Patent number: 8242990
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a timing signal multiplying circuit generating a first timing signal and a second timing signal whose frequency is higher than a frequency of the first timing signal, a frame counter detecting a multiplied frame period to be driven at the frequency of the second timing signal, a data processing circuit allowing a frequency of digital data output during the multiplied frame period to be higher than a frequency of the digital data output during a frame period except the multiplied frame period, a timing control signal generating circuit generating a polarity control signal for controlling polarities of the digital data, and a polarity control signal inverting circuit that increases a frequency of the polarity control signal during the multiplied frame period to generate an inverse polarity control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongsung Song, Woongki Min, Yonggi Son, Suhyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8243059
    Abstract: The invention discloses a driving method for a display. The method includes the following steps: providing a pixels structure; receiving a plurality of frames; driving the (2n?1)th scan line and the (2n)th scan line by turns while receiving the number of odd frame; driving (2n)th scan line and (2n?1)th scan line by turns while receiving the number of even frame; adjusting the voltage of the Vcom according to pixels voltage value which are the voltage to be written into the pixels by odd data lines and even data lines while the pixels structure receiving the number of odd frame and the number of the even frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Wintek Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Chang Lai, Lin Lin, Wen Hung Wang
  • Patent number: 8237647
    Abstract: A driving method for a liquid crystal display apparatus, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a pixel electrode and a counter electrode, and that controls a transmitted light in the liquid crystal layer by dividing a single frame period into multiple subfield periods and applying an on/off binary data signal between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in each subfield period. When a counter electrode potential applied to the counter electrode is used as a reference and a voltage higher than the reference is taken as a positive-polarity voltage and a voltage lower than the reference is taken as a negative-polarity voltage, the data signal is converted to the positive-polarity voltage and negative-polarity voltage alternately and cyclically every a cyclical period having subfield period or every several subfield periods. Further, the length of half the cyclical period is no less than 1.6 ms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hosaka
  • Patent number: 8232949
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of improving quality of moving images. A field dividing driving operation is performed in which an odd field during which each of scanning electrodes in odd-numbered rows is sequentially driven and an even field during which each of scanning electrodes in even-numbered rows is sequentially driven occur, alternately and repeatedly, with time width of a refresh rate. In the former half of the odd field, display data is written in each of pixel regions corresponding to scanning electrodes in odd-numbered rows and, in the latter half of the odd field, black data is written in each of the pixel regions corresponding to scanning electrodes in the odd-numbered rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Kimura
  • Patent number: 8232950
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel including data lines and gate lines crossing each other, and liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix forma, a horizontal polarity controller that compares digital video data with a critical value and inverts a logic state of a horizontal polarity conversion signal when polarities of the digital video data lean based on the comparative result, a data drive circuit that converts the digital video data into positive and negative data voltages and controls horizontal polarity inversion periods of the data voltages in response to the horizontal polarity conversion signal, and a gate drive circuit that supplies scan signals to the gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donghoon Cha, Suhyuk Jang, Hwanjoo Lee
  • Patent number: 8228318
    Abstract: A frame buffer apparatus is disclosed. The frame buffer apparatus includes a hold-type display for displaying and holding previous frame data; a data reading device for reading back the previous frame data held in the hold-type display. A driving circuit for a hold-type display is also disclosed. The data driving circuit for a hold-type display includes a video data input terminal for receiving video data; a driving voltage output terminal for outputting a driving voltage to a display panel of the hold-type display; a sample and hold unit for sampling and holding voltages of the driving voltage output terminal to generate a sampled voltage according to a sampling signal; and a driving voltage generation unit for performing signal processing for the video data to output the driving voltage according to a plurality of reference voltages, a polarity selection signal and the sampled voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Jui-Lin Lo