Entries |
Document | Title | Date |
20080231576 | Pixel circuit and display apparatus as well as fabrication method for display apparatus - Disclosed herein is a pixel circuit including: at least one transistor whose conduction state is controlled by a drive signal received by a control terminal; and a driving wiring line to which the drive signal is propagated, the control terminal of the transistor being connected to the driving wiring line. The driving wiring line is connected to a wiring line in a different layer so as to form a multilayer wiring line. | 09-25-2008 |
20080231577 | Displaying method - A displaying method for trans-flective type display device is provided. The pixel array of the display device has a selected pixel unit formed by three sub-pixels selected from three basic-color sub-pixels and one enhancement sub-pixel, wherein there is a reflective area within the enhancement sub-pixel. The displaying method includes the following steps. Firstly, an original image having an image data is provided to the display device. Next, when the backlight is turned off, the resolution of the original image is scaled down for obtaining an adjusted image data. Then, another pixel unit consisting of the three basic-color sub-pixels and the enhancement sub-pixel is re-selected, and the driving value of the enhancement sub-pixel is calculated according to the adjusted image data for driving the enhancement sub-pixel. | 09-25-2008 |
20080238850 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE, PIXEL CIRCUIT, ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal device includes a lateral electric field mode liquid crystal element that controls alignment of liquid crystal molecules by applying an electric field in a direction of a substrate plane to a liquid crystal layer. A voltage inverter circuit is provided in each pixel circuit, and inverts a voltage applied to the liquid crystal element by switching the supply of each of the first and second voltages, supplied from a memory circuit, to between a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode of the liquid crystal element. A holding capacitor holds a voltage applied to the liquid crystal element. The voltage inverter circuit includes switching elements. One end of the holding capacitor is connected to at least one of a common connecting point of first and second switching elements and a connecting point of third and fourth switching elements. | 10-02-2008 |
20080246715 | Image displaying apparatus and image displaying method - In an image displaying apparatus, first and second detecting units detect quantities of light propagating through a light path at two different locations. A variation calculating unit calculates the variation in the light quantity in the light path based on the quantities of light detected by each of the first and second detecting units. A controlling unit controls the quantity of light propagated to the screen if the variation in the light quantity exceeds a predetermined value. | 10-09-2008 |
20080252583 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A liquid-crystal display apparatus comprising, a liquid-crystal display device driven by an AC voltage, an image divider configured to temporally divide input image data into N (N≧2) for each frame, a correction unit configured to correct a driving voltage for driving the liquid-crystal display device based on a difference between adjacent divided image data obtained by the N division, a polarity inverter configured to invert a polarity to make drive polarities of adjacent divided image data different, out of the divided image data obtained by the N division including the divided image data for which driving voltage is corrected by the correction unit, a driver configured to drive the liquid-crystal display device using the polarity-inverted divided image data, and an inversion order alteration unit which alters an inversion order for the drive polarities. | 10-16-2008 |
20080259016 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - 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. | 10-23-2008 |
20080273001 | Level converter circuit and a liquid crystal display device employing the same - A display device includes a pixel driver circuit. Each of level converter circuits in the pixel driver circuit has an input terminal supplied with a signal swinging between a first voltage and a second voltage lower than the first voltage; a first first-conductivity-type transistor having a gate electrode coupled to the input terminal, and a source region coupled to a reference voltage; a second second-conductivity-type transistor having a gate electrode coupled to a drain region of the first transistor, a source region-coupled to a power supply, and a drain region coupled to an output terminal; one circuit element among a diode, a resistor and a fourth second-conductivity-type transistor, coupled between the gate electrode of the second transistor and the power supply; a third first-conductivity-type transistor having a source region coupled to the input terminal, a drain region coupled to the output terminal, and a gate electrode supplied with a do voltage. | 11-06-2008 |
20080284701 | METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A method for driving a liquid crystal display is provided. The method includes: turning on a display-enable switch to pass through time of liquid crystal response and light display of a first frame until a reset time appeared. At the same time, turn on a second write-enable switch to pre-deliver a pixel signal corresponding to a second frame to a second storage capacitor. During reset time of the first frame time, turn on a reset switch and provide a reset voltage signal to a pixel electrode while the first and the second display-enable switches and the first and the second write-enable switches are turned off, in which the reset voltage signal has a first voltage level during a first period, and a second voltage level in a second period. Therefore, the method can increase brightness of the display, and decrease image sticking effect thereof. | 11-20-2008 |
20080284702 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: an average value calculating section which inputs video signals having linear property and calculates an average value of levels of the video signals in each pixel; an average value memory section which sequentially stores the average values calculated by the average value calculating section; a still image determining section which determines whether a still image is displayed on a present screen based on a difference between the average value stored in the average value memory section and a last average value; a coefficient calculating section which, when the determination is made that a still image is displayed on the present screen as a result of the determination in the still image determining section, calculates coefficients for lowering luminance of an image displayed on the display device; and a coefficient multiplying section which multiplies the video signals by the coefficients calculated by the coefficient calculating section. | 11-20-2008 |
20080303768 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - In a display apparatus having a plurality of pixel parts, each pixel part receives a data signal in response to a present gate signal and charges first and second pixel voltages having the same voltage level. A plurality of voltage controllers includes a level-down part to lower a voltage level of the second pixel voltage using a previous pixel voltage charged in a previous frame in response to a next gate signal and a level-up part to receive the lowered second pixel voltage in response to the next gate signal to boost up a voltage level of the first pixel voltage. | 12-11-2008 |
20080309604 | Liquid crystal display having polarity analyzing unit for determining polarities pixels thereof - A liquid crystal display ( | 12-18-2008 |
20090002304 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display including a data driver, a gate driver and a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixels and a plurality of pixel memories. According to embodiments of the present invention, the pixels and the pixel memories are configured to reduce power consumption of pixels displaying still images and improve image quality of the liquid crystal display. | 01-01-2009 |
20090058780 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display apparatus including: a pixel section having a plurality of pixel circuits arranged two-dimensionally by being each provided at an intersection of a scan line and a signal line as a circuit including a switching device, a display element and a storage capacitor; and a correction circuit for correcting a storage-capacitor voltage supplied to the storage capacitors, wherein the correction circuit employs a comparator for detecting the difference between electric potentials received from a portion of the pixel section as a pixel electric potential having a positive polarity and a pixel electric potential having a negative polarity and for comparing the difference in electric potential with a reference voltage, and an output-voltage control circuit for converting a comparison result output by the comparator into a correction signal used for correcting the storage-capacitor voltage to be asserted on a storage-capacitor line used for supplying the storage-capacitor voltage. | 03-05-2009 |
20090085851 | NAVIGATION FOR A NON-TRADITIONALLY SHAPED LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY FOR MOBILE HANDSET DEVICES - A method, apparatus, and electronic device for displaying data are disclosed. A non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display | 04-02-2009 |
20090102772 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - The invention provides an image display system including a detection module, an adjusting module, and a display module. The display module includes a control unit and a panel. The detection module is used to determine whether an image signal includes a black stripe area. If the determination is true, the detection module will transmit out a control signal. The adjusting module is used to adjust a gray level of the black stripe area to a predetermined value. The control unit lowers the brightness corresponding to the black stripe area according to the control signal. The panel is used to display the image signal. | 04-23-2009 |
20090135121 | DRIVING CIRCUIT AND RELATED METHOD OF A DISPLAY APPARATUS - A driving circuit includes a data driving circuit, including a plurality of driving circuit modules respectively corresponding to a plurality of channels; and a control unit, positioned in at least one circuit sub-module of each driving circuit module of the plurality of driving circuit module. When the control unit is enabled, the control unit controls the driving circuit modules output auxiliary display data having a predetermined gray value to drive the display apparatus. When the control unit is disabled, utilizing the driving circuit module to drive the display apparatus according to original display data. A related method of a display apparatus is also disclosed. | 05-28-2009 |
20090167661 | Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof - A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel, a data drive circuit, a gate drive circuit, and a timing controller. The data drive circuit generates a pre-charge data voltage during pre-charge time and generates a real-charge voltage to be displayed on the liquid crystal display panel during real-charge time. The gate drive circuit supplies a first gate pulse synchronized with the pre-charge data voltage to the gate lines during the pre-charge time while shifting a gate pulse in a downward direction and an upward direction depending on an up/down signal, and then supplies a second gate pulse synchronized with the real-charge data voltage to the gate lines from a falling edge of the first gate pulse at intervals equal to or longer than scanning time of 1 line during the real-charge time. | 07-02-2009 |
20090167662 | POWER MOSFET INTEGRATION - A cellular transistor includes an N-type heavily doped (N+) buried layer (NBL), an N-well connected to the NBL, an N+ layer connected to the N-well and multiple drains. The N-well is formed after formation of the NBL. The N+ layer is formed after formation of the N-well. The multiple drains are connected to the NBL via the N-well and the N+ layer. | 07-02-2009 |
20090195488 | Liquid crystal display - A segmented-pixel liquid crystal display has a plurality of pixels of which each has three sub-pixels | 08-06-2009 |
20090201239 | DISPLAY ELEMENT - A display element in which a tone variation in halftone color is reduced at the time of repetitive driving. The display element contains electrolyte which contains silver between counter electrodes or contains a compound including silver in the chemical structure, and performs drive operation of the counter electrodes to cause dissolution deposition of silver. The display element is characterized by satisfying a relation A | 08-13-2009 |
20090201240 | Liquid crystal display, driver chip and driving method thereof - A liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof. The LCD includes a timing controller, a plurality of driver chips and a display panel. The driver chips are cascaded together for driving the display panel to display frames. A driver chip includes a differential receiver, a single-ended receiver, a shift register, a differential transmitter, a single-ended transmitter and a pixel driver. The driver chip receives a pixel signal and drives the display panel according to the pixel signal, and outputs the pixel signal to the next driver chip. | 08-13-2009 |
20090207115 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a substrate, gate lines that extend in a first direction, data lines that cross the gate lines and extend in a second direction, and unit pixels. Each unit pixel includes a first subpixel electrode connected to an i | 08-20-2009 |
20090213056 | Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof - An impulsive driving liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display comprises a liquid crystal display panel on which a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines cross each other; a data driving circuit for supplying a video data voltage and a black voltage to the data lines; and a plurality of gate drive ICs for sequentially supplying a gate pulse, synchronized with the video data voltage during a first period, to adjacent gate lines, and then simultaneously supplying a gate pulse, synchronized with the black voltage during a second period, to the gate lines spaced at intervals of at least one line. | 08-27-2009 |
20090231258 | Liquid Crystal Driving Device - A liquid crystal driving device comprising: a scanning line driving circuit including, for each of scanning lines, a first series circuit having a 1st-PMOSFET/1st-NMOSFET connected in series, both ends thereof connected respectively to points of 1st-potential/2nd-potential, configured to receive at a 1st-PMOSFET's gate a binary signal having two levels not higher than 1st-potential's level and higher than 2nd-potential's level, a second series circuit having a 2nd-PMOSFET/2nd-NMOSFET connected in series, both ends thereof connected respectively to points of 3rd-potential (>1st-potential)/2nd-potential, a 2nd-NMOSFET's gate connected to a connection point of the 1st-PMOSFET/1st-NMOSFET, and an output buffer circuit configured to buffer and output a voltage of a connection point of the 2nd-PMOSFET/2nd-NMOSFET, a 1st-NMOSFET's gate applied with a 1st-bias-voltage adapted such that the 2nd-NMOSFET is turned ON-or-OFF in response to the binary signal's level, a 2nd-PMOSFET's gate applied with a 2nd-bias-voltage adapted such that the 2nd-PMOSFET becomes higher in on-resistance than the 2nd-NMOSFET. | 09-17-2009 |
20090237339 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE BASED ON DOT INVERSION OPERATION - An LCD device based on dot inversion operation is disclosed. The LCD device includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of common lines, and a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit includes a data switch and a storage capacitor. The data switch of each pixel unit is coupled to a corresponding data line, a corresponding gate line, and the storage capacitor of same pixel unit. The storage capacitor of each pixel unit is also coupled to the storage capacitor of a corresponding pixel unit disposed diagonal to the pixel unit via a corresponding common line. The LCD device is capable of writing a plurality of low-voltage data signals having different polarities based on different common voltages into the plurality of pixel units so that the dot inversion operation can be operated with lower gray-scale voltage swing. | 09-24-2009 |
20090237340 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY MODULE AND DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display (LCD) module and a display system including the LCD module are provided. The LCD module includes a common-voltage adjustment unit which is enabled by interfacing with an external device and thus adjusts a common voltage; a signal control unit which outputs a first reverse signal that reverses the polarity of a voltage at intervals of at least two frames; and a data driving unit which reverses the polarity of an image data voltage with respect to the common voltage at intervals of at least two frames in response to the first reverse signal. | 09-24-2009 |
20090295694 | Liquid Crystal Display and Array Substrate Thereof - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display and an array substrate thereof The array substrate comprises scan lines, data lines and a plurality of pixel defined by a crosswise arrangement of the scan lines and the data lines. The pixel comprises a first sub-pixel electrode; a second sub-pixel electrode electrically isolated from the first sub-pixel electrode; a first switching element for controlling the first sub-pixel electrode; and a second switching element for controlling the second sub-pixel electrode. When the control of the first sub-pixel electrode by the first switching element cannot be carried out normally, the second switching element can control at least a part of the first sub-pixel electrode in place of the first switching element. | 12-03-2009 |
20090303168 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME - One embodiment of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which auxiliary capacitance lines are driven, thereby allowing the range of drive voltage to be kept narrow while increasing the difference between the maximum and minimum absolute values of voltage to be applied to liquid crystal, and in the present liquid crystal display device, the voltage ranges for an auxiliary capacitance line drive signal, a video signal, and a common potential are equally maintained as low as from 0V to 4V, while inverting the common potential every scanning period and causing the potential of the auxiliary capacitance line drive signal to rise in the same direction as the common potential at the time of the fall of the scanning signal such that the potential is maintained until the next frame. With this configuration, it is possible to set the maximum absolute value of the voltage applied to the liquid crystal at about 5V, which corresponds to an effective value of the applied voltage, while setting the minimum value at about 1.5V, which is also an effective value of the applied voltage, thereby increasing the difference between the maximum and minimum values. | 12-10-2009 |
20100001940 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a main pixel, a sub-pixel, and a boosting capacitor. The main pixel receives a data signal in response to a first gate signal and is charged with a main pixel voltage. The sub-pixel receives the data signal in response to a second gate signal, and is charged with a sub-pixel voltage. The boosting capacitor is provided between the main pixel and the sub-pixel to increase the main pixel voltage when the sub-pixel is charged with the sub-pixel voltage in response to the second gate signal. | 01-07-2010 |
20100020000 | IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE, PROJECTOR, AND CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE - An image output device which outputs an image signal to a liquid crystal display device dividing a screen by a plurality of channels to be operated by the plural channels, includes: a plurality of level controlling units provided for each of the channels to receive an image input signal from each of the channels, control the level of the image input signal, and output the controlled signal as the image signal to be outputted to the liquid crystal display device; a first reference signal supplying unit which supplies a first reference signal to the respective level controlling units in place of the image input signal in a predetermined period; and an adjustment correcting unit which compares output signals from the respective level controlling units with a second reference signal in the predetermined period and corrects corresponding adjustments of the level controlling units based on respective comparison results, wherein each of the level controlling units has a D/A converter which converts the image input signal as digital signal into an analog signal, and the adjustment correcting unit is provided in correspondence with the respective D/A converters and has a plurality of gain/offset correcting units each of which corrects at least either gain or offset of the corresponding D/A converter based on the comparison results. | 01-28-2010 |
20100045583 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display and a method of operating the liquid crystal display, in which the liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel, a gate driver, a gamma voltage generator, a data driver, and a gamma voltage compensator. The liquid crystal panel has a plurality of pixels respectively arranged in pixel areas defined by gate lines and data lines. The gate driver drives the gate lines, and the gamma voltage generator generates gamma voltages having different voltage levels from each other. The data driver drives the data lines according to the gamma voltages. The gamma voltage compensator compensates for at least one of the gamma voltages, which are generated from the gamma voltage generator, by using one of a gate-off voltage provided to the gate lines and a storage voltage provided to a storage capacitor included in the pixel. | 02-25-2010 |
20100060559 | DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sections for cutting. With this arrangement, it is possible to easily and properly recover the signal lines from disconnection. | 03-11-2010 |
20100073272 | Display Device - In a display device having driving circuits formed on the same substrate where pixels are formed, the lateral frame area of the display device is reduced. A gate signal line driving circuit is placed in parallel with a source signal line driving circuit, so that no driving circuits are provided in at least two opposing directions out of four directions with respect to a pixel region. With the above-described structure, the area the gate signal line driving circuit occupies in prior art is removed to reduce the width (side to side) of the display device. Therefore a display device that has a small frame area in the lateral direction can be provided. | 03-25-2010 |
20100194673 | Device and a method for an image sensor and a method for manufacturing an image sensor - A device comprises an image sensor having a group of pixels, wherein each pixel of the group of pixels comprises a microlens located on top of the pixel, the microlens being configured to transmit light to the pixel. The device further comprises at least one optical element, wherein each pixel of the group of pixels is covered with an optical element. The optical element comprises two transparent electrode layers aligned with the covered pixels, and a material between the two transparent electrode layers, the material being configured to change its refractive index when a voltage is applied over it, wherein the device is configured to control the transmission of the light to the covered pixels by varying the voltage of the electrode layer being aligned with the covered pixels. The invention also relates to a method and to a method for manufacturing an image sensor. | 08-05-2010 |
20100207861 | Advanced Pixel Design for Optimized Driving - Systems, devices, and methods for reducing common voltage loading and/or enabling a simplified manner of polarity inversion in liquid crystal display (LCD) devices are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, a device may include a processor, a memory device, and a liquid crystal display having a pixel array including rows and columns of pixels. The pixels of each row of the pixel array may be configured to cause an approximately even amount of common voltage loading to be shared between one of a first plurality of common electrodes and one of a second plurality of common electrodes when the pixels of each row of the pixel array receive a scanning signal and a data signal. | 08-19-2010 |
20100207862 | Pseudo Multi-Domain Design for Improved Viewing Angle and Color Shift - Aspects of the present disclosure relate to single-domain electrode configurations that may be implemented in the unit pixels of a LCD device, such as a fringe field switching (FFS) LCD, to provide a “pseudo-multi-domain” effect, wherein the benefits of both conventional single-domain and multi-domain pixel configuration devices are retained. In accordance with aspects of the present technique, single-domain unit pixels are angled or tilted in differing directions with respect to a vertical axis of the LCD panel (e.g., y-axis) to provide an alternating and/or periodic arrangement of different-angled pixel electrodes along each scanning line, data line, or a combination of both scanning and data lines. In this manner, the transmittance rates of conventional single-domain LCD panels may be retained while providing for improved viewing angle and color shift properties typical of conventional multi-domain LCD panels. | 08-19-2010 |
20100231494 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display device includes a data line, a first gate line, a second gate line, a first sub-pixel unit, and a second sub-pixel unit. The first sub-pixel unit includes a first switch, a first liquid-crystal capacitor and a first storage capacitor. The first switch functions to control writing the data signal of the data line into the first liquid-crystal and storage capacitors based on the first gate signal of the first gate line. The second sub-pixel unit includes a second switch, a second liquid-crystal capacitor, an auxiliary switch, a second storage capacitor and a third storage capacitor. The second and auxiliary switches are employed to control writing the data signal into the second liquid-crystal capacitor, the second storage capacitor and the third storage capacitor based on the first gate signal and the second gate signal of the second gate line respectively. | 09-16-2010 |
20100283714 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes; a gate line, a plurality of pairs of a first data line and a second data line which border a plurality of pixel regions and are disposed respectively on both sides of each pixel region, a plurality of pairs of first and second thin-film transistors (“TFTs”) which are connected to the gate line and a pair of the first and second data lines, and a first and second subpixel electrode disposed in each pixel region and connected to the first and second TFTs, respectively, wherein the pixel regions include first through third pixel regions arranged in the first direction, wherein at least one of the first and second TFTs of the second pixel region is disposed on a same side of an adjacent data line as the first and second subpixel electrodes of one of the first and third pixel regions. | 11-11-2010 |
20110006974 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes an array of pixels. Each pixel is divided into a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, and different data voltages are separately applied to (or evolved at) the two sub-pixels, thereby enhancing the lateral side visibility. Each sub-pixel includes a sub-pixel electrode (connected to the drain electrode of a sub-pixel's switching element) overlapped with the sub-pixel's storage electrode. A first predetermined voltage is applied to the first sub-pixel and second predetermined voltage is applied the second sub-pixel, and thus the first sub-pixel electrode may receive a voltage lower than the voltage of the second sub-pixel electrode. The first sub-pixel electrode may be larger in area than the second sub-pixel electrode. The overlapping area between the first drain electrode and the storage electrode of a first sub-pixel may be larger than the overlapping area between the drain electrode and the storage electrode of a second sub-pixel. Thus the kickback voltage of the first sub-pixel may be substantially the same as the kickback voltage of the second sub-pixel. | 01-13-2011 |
20120001839 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel that includes a scan signal line ( | 01-05-2012 |
20120092240 | DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY PANEL HAVING THE SAME - An active device, a pixel structure, and a display panel are provided. The pixel structure includes a scan line, a data line, an active device, a first insulating layer, a pixel electrode, a capacitor electrode, and a second insulating layer. The active device includes a gate, a channel, a source, and a drain. The gate is electrically connected to the scan line. The source is electrically connected to the data line. The first insulating layer is disposed between the gate and the channel. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the drain. The capacitor electrode is located on the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is located between the capacitor electrode and the drain. | 04-19-2012 |
20130002528 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, PIXEL CIRCUIT, AND DRIVING METHOD - A liquid crystal display device includes: pixels each composed of n sub-pixels, the pixels being arranged in a matrix; a switching element provided for each sub-pixel; a liquid crystal element provided for each sub-pixel; n reference potential trunk lines having a mutually different magnitude of potential; a first display signal line that supplies a display signal; a scanning line; a controller; a first substrate on which the n reference potential trunk lines and the switching elements are disposed; and a second substrate on which the first display signal lines are disposed. The liquid crystal elements are formed in between the first substrate and the second substrate. A pole at one end of each liquid crystal element of the n sub-pixels is connected to the first display signal line, and a pole at the other end of each liquid crystal element of the n sub-pixels is connected to the respective first to nth reference potential trunk lines via the respective switching elements. From the scanning line, the controller supplies an on-state signal to each switching element of the n sub-pixels with the same timing. | 01-03-2013 |
20130021230 | Apparatus, Method and Module for Selective Pixel Control of Display - An apparatus including: a pixellated polarizer including a first array of pixels wherein each pixel can be selectively controlled either to provide a defined polarization or not to provide a defined polarization; a pixellated light emitter including a second array of pixels wherein each pixel can be selectively controlled to emit light; a reflector; and a controller configured to control the pixellated polarizer and pixellated light emitter to adopt in a first context a transmissive mode, in a second context a reflective mode and in a third context a selective transflective mode. In the respective transmissive/reflective/selective transflective mode, pixels of the respective pixellated light emitter are selectively controlled to emit light/controlled not to emit light/selectively controlled to emit light and the pixels of the pixellated polarizer are unselectively controlled to provide the defined polarization/controlled to selectively provide the defined polarization/controlled to selectively provide a defined polarization. | 01-24-2013 |
20130076610 | ENERGY-SAVING METHOD FOR MARKING AN AREA OF A LIQUID CRYSTAL SCREEN - The present invention relates to a method of addressing a bistable matrix screen, in which the following two steps are reiterated: | 03-28-2013 |
20130127697 | DISPLAY PANEL AND MULTIPLEXER CIRCUIT THEREIN, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNALS IN DISPLAY PANEL - A multiplexer circuit includes multiple groups of switches and multiple groups of control lines. Each control line in each one of the groups of control lines is coupled to a control end of at least one switch in corresponding one of the groups of switches, and each group of control lines is configured for synchronously transmitting an identical group of control signals. A display panel and method for transmitting signals in a display panel is also disclosed herein. | 05-23-2013 |
20130285891 | LCD PANEL AND PIXEL ELECTRODE THEREOF - The present invention discloses a pixel electrode of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel. The pixel electrode has a specific pattern or layout. The pixel electrode has a peripheral portion and branches surrounded by the peripheral portion. The pixel electrode further has at least one opening located inside a region surrounded by the peripheral portion. Each branch has a part connecting to the peripheral portion and said part has a width smaller than respective widths of other parts in each branch. The pixel electrode can improve the aperture rate of the LCD panel and suppress the appearance of disclination line at the center domain of the pixel. | 10-31-2013 |
20140049459 | AREA-SAVING DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR DISPLAY PANEL - The present invention relates to an area-saving driving circuit for a display panel, which comprises a plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits convert input data, respectively, and produce a pixel signal. A plurality of driving units are coupled to the plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits, respectively. They produce a driving signal according to the pixel signal and transmit the driving signal to the display panel for displaying. A plurality of voltage booster units are coupled to the plurality of driving units, respectively, and produce a supply voltage according to a control signal. Then the supply voltage is provided to the plurality of driving units. Thereby, by providing the supply voltage to the plurality of driving units of the display panel by means of the plurality of voltage booster units, the area of the external storage capacitor is reduced. Alternative, the external storage capacitor can be even not required. | 02-20-2014 |
20140091995 | DRIVING CIRCUIT, LCD DEVICE, AND DRIVING METHOD - A driving circuit for a multi-subpixel charge sharing type LCD panel includes a plurality of scan lines directly driven by gate driver chips. The driving circuit further includes a compensating line, and a level conversion module coupled to the compensating line. The level conversion module outputs a control signal to drive the compensating line after the level conversion module ends scanning of a last scan line and before the level conversion module begins scanning of next frame. | 04-03-2014 |
20140139416 | LCD PANEL - An LCD panel includes first to fifth data lines, which are sequentially arranged, intersecting first to third scan lines, which are sequentially arranged, for forming first to fourth pixel units sequentially arranged in an identical row as well as fifth to eighth pixel units sequentially arranged in another row. The first pixel unit and the fourth pixel unit are respectively coupled to the first data line and the fifth data line, and the second pixel unit and the third pixel unit are respectively coupled to the second data line and the fourth data line. The fifth pixel unit and the eighth pixel unit are respectively coupled to the second data line and the fourth data line, and both the sixth pixel unit and the seventh pixel unit are coupled to the third data line. | 05-22-2014 |
20140168043 | DATA DRIVER CIRCUIT, LCD DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD - The present disclosure provides a data driver circuit, a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, and a driving method. The data driver circuit for an LCD panel includes a source driver module, a pixel electrode, a common electrode opposite to the pixel electrode, and a gamma calibration module coupled to the source driver module. The source driver module is coupled to the pixel electrode. The data driver circuit further includes a compensation module. The compensation module detects and obtains a changed voltage of the common electrode voltage to generate a compensation voltage, and combines the compensation voltage and the gamma voltage of the gamma calibration module, then sends the combined voltage to the source driver module. The compensation voltage output by the compensation module and the changed voltage of the common electrode voltage can be mutually counteracted. | 06-19-2014 |
20140168044 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT, GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of display technique. Provided are a shift register unit, a gate driving circuit and a display device capable of reducing influence of the gate bias of the pull-down transistor and improving the stability of the shift register unit. The shift register unit comprises a first pull-up module, a first scanning module, a control module, a first pull-down module and a second pull-down module. The embodiments of the present disclosure can achieve a gate driving scanning from top to bottom or from bottom to top. | 06-19-2014 |
20140306870 | METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In an image signal writing period, a first image signal is supplied to a first liquid crystal element and a first capacitor from a first signal line. In a backlight lighting period, display is performed in a light-transmitting pixel portion in response to the first image signal. In a black grayscale signal writing period, a signal for black display is supplied to a second liquid crystal element and a second capacitor from a second signal line. In a still image signal writing period, a second image signal is supplied to the first liquid crystal element, the first capacitor, the second liquid crystal element, and the second capacitor from the first signal line. In a still image signal holding period, display is performed in the reflective pixel portion in response to the second image signal. | 10-16-2014 |
20150029080 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING HIGHER APERTURE RATIO AND LOWER POWER CONSUMPTION - A display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a column direction and in a row direction, as well as a data line connected to a pixel of a k-th column (where ‘k’ is a natural number) and a (k+1)-th column in an odd-numbered row of the pixels, and connected to a pixel of a (k−1)-th column and a (k+2)-th column in an even-numbered row of the pixels. A data driving part is configured to apply a data signal to the data lines. | 01-29-2015 |
20150061986 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes pixels which is disposed in row and column directions, respectively includes pixel electrodes, and arranged along a first pixel column to a sixth pixel column, gate lines including pairs of two adjacent gate lines for each pixel row in the row direction, data lines including a first data line at a left side of the first pixel column, a second data line between the second and third pixel columns, a third data line between the fourth and fifth pixel columns, and a fourth data line at a right side of the sixth pixel column; and common voltage lines including a first common voltage line between the first and second pixel columns, a second common voltage line between the third and fourth pixel columns, and a third common voltage line between the fifth and sixth pixel columns. | 03-05-2015 |
20150070257 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY USING BACKLIGHT INTENSITY TO COMPENSATE FOR PIXEL DAMAGE - A computer program product (CPP) for controlling a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes code for applying a test voltage to each liquid crystal element (LCE) disposed in an addressable array forming the LCD, and code for detecting an amount of light received by photosensors while applying the test voltage applied to the LCEs, wherein each photosensor is aligned behind and logically associated with one of the LCEs. The CPP further includes code for applying selected voltage levels to each LCE to display an image, and code for controlling an amount of backlight produced by backlighting elements in an addressable array while the image is displayed. Each backlighting element is aligned behind and logically associated with one LCE, and at least one backlighting element is controlled to compensate for a difference between the amount of light detected by the photosensor logically associated with at least one LCE and the other photosensors. | 03-12-2015 |
20150091788 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a liquid crystal display device that enables increasing the capacitance between a pixel electrode and a common electrode without bringing about a significant decrease in the pixel aperture ratio. An In-Plane Switching LCD device in which a drain signal is supplied from one drain signal line to two pixel columns is configured such that there is a section having no drain signal line between adjacent pixels and a source electrode which is connected to a pixel electrode of a thin-film transistor extends into a contiguous pixel region that does not serve as an effective pixel region to provide one electrode of a capacitive element. A common electrode is formed in each pixel and the one electrode of the capacitive element is laid overlapping the common electrode with an insulation film intervening therebetween. | 04-02-2015 |
20150102987 | Non-Overlap Data Transmission Method For Liquid Crystal Display And Related Transmission Circuit - The present disclosure provides a non-overlap data transmission method for a liquid crystal display (LCD). The non-overlap data transmission method includes obtaining an entire fame image data; dividing the entire frame image data into a plurality of image data segments and individually sending the image data segments to a plurality of display processing units at the same time, wherein each of the image data segments is sent to one of the display processing units and image data of each image data segment does not overlap with image data of the other image data segments; and mutually sending image data of the image data segments through the display processing units. | 04-16-2015 |