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20080198122 | Display device and method of driving the same - A display device includes a gate driving part, a data driving part, a display panel and a kickback voltage compensating part. The gate driving part outputs a gate signal, and the data driving part outputs a data signal. The display panel displays an image in response to the gate signal and the data signal. A pixel voltage of the display panel is reduced by a kickback voltage varied based on a gray scale and induced when the gate signal falls. The kickback voltage compensating part compensates an image control signal externally provided to the kickback voltage compensating part for the kickback voltage to output a data control signal to the data driving part. | 08-21-2008 |
20080246718 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device including an image line drive circuit having an amplifier circuit for outputting an image voltage to an image line. The amplifier circuit has a switching unit for connecting one of two input terminals to either of an inverting input terminal or a non-inverting input terminal and also for connecting the other of the two input terminals to the remaining one out of the inverting input terminal or the non-inverting input terminal. The switching unit switches, according to a switching control signal input every two display lines, one of the two input terminals of the amplifier circuit to an inverting input terminal and the other of the two input terminals to a non-inverting input terminal or switches one of the two input terminals of the amplifier circuit to the non-inverting input terminal and the other of the two input terminals to the inverting input terminal. | 10-09-2008 |
20080252584 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of scanning lines, a scanning line drive circuit which supplies a scanning voltage to the plurality of scanning lines, and a counter voltage supply circuit which supplies a counter voltage to a counter electrode of each pixel, the counter voltage supply circuit supplies a voltage which is obtained by multiplying a voltage detected from the counter electrode by correction coefficients corresponding to the plurality of respective scanning lines to the counter electrodes. The present invention provides a liquid crystal panel which can perform favorable display by preventing crosstalk attributed to coupling noises to the counter electrodes generated by AC driving of a video voltage. | 10-16-2008 |
20080259017 | REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - Embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus to reduce power consumption in a passive matrix LCD driver circuit by using a plurality of drive buffers and active power management of sub-blocks in the passive matrix LCD drive circuit. Each drive buffer may operate in a first phase, which may include a high-drive mode to drive an LCD voltage to a threshold voltage level and a low-drive mode to modify the LCD voltage to approximate an input voltage of the drive buffer, and to maintain a constant LCD voltage level. The low-drive buffer consumes less current than the high-drive buffer, thus reducing power consumption. The drive buffer may also operate in a second phase, also a no-drive mode, in which the drive buffer and the bias voltage generator may be completely turned off, to further reduce power consumption. The drive buffer may be used to drive capacitive loads, as well as partially-resistive loads and inductive loads. | 10-23-2008 |
20080284704 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof - A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a method for driving the LCD device are disclosed. The LCD device includes a frame rate adjusting circuit for controlling a frame rate to be maintained at a 1-fold rate in frame periods other than an Nth frame period (“N” is a multiple of 8 or more), while being increased to an “i”-fold-accelerated rate (“i” is a positive integer of 2 or more) in the Nth frame period, to output reference timing signals in the frame periods other than the Nth frame period, and to output accelerated timing signals in the Nth frame period, a timing controller for generating data and gate timing control signals, based on at least one of each reference timing signal and each accelerated timing signal, and a logic circuit for accelerating a frequency of a polarity control signal in the Nth frame period. | 11-20-2008 |
20080303771 | DISPLAY AND TWO STEP DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display and a two step driving method thereof are provided. The method includes: converting an image signal to a corresponding data driving voltage by using a driver; providing a pre-driving voltage by using a voltage generator; and finally, driving the display panel by using the pre-driving voltage and data driving voltage orderly during a horizontal synchronizing period. A display includes a display panel, a voltage generator, and a driver. The display panel also includes at least one data line. The voltage generator outputs a pre-driving voltage to the data line of the display. The driver outputs a data driving voltage to the data line according to an image signal, in which the data line receives the pre-driving voltage and the data driving voltage orderly during the horizontal synchronizing period. | 12-11-2008 |
20080316160 | COMMON VOLTAGE DRIVING CIRCUIT OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A common voltage driving circuit of a liquid crystal display, includes: a clock signal input unit that comprises a plurality of transistors and inputs first and second clock signals according to a gate output voltage; an output node voltage controller that comprises a plurality of transistors and condensers and changes voltages of positive and negative polarity output nodes by the first and second clock signals and first to third gate output voltages; an initialization voltage supply unit that comprises a plurality of transistors and supplies an initialization voltage of the output node voltage controller; and a common voltage output unit that comprises a plurality of transistors and a single condenser and prevents the voltages of the positive and negative polarity output nodes from being changed by using the condenser in alternately outputting higher and lower common voltages according to the voltages of the positive and negative polarity output nodes. | 12-25-2008 |
20090002305 | Liquid crystal display with common voltage generator for reducing crosstalk - An exemplary liquid crystal display ( | 01-01-2009 |
20090002306 | Common voltage generating circuit having square wave generating unit and liquid crystal display using same - A common voltage generating circuit includes a square wave generating unit, a diode, a NOT gate, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a third capacitor, a first resistor, a second resistor, and an output terminal. The square wave generating unit includes an output terminal, which is coupled to the output terminal of the common voltage generating circuit via the first resistor, a positive terminal of the diode, a negative terminal of the diode, and the second resistor in series. The output terminal of the square wave generating unit is coupled to the negative terminal of the diode via the NOT gate and the first capacitor. The positive terminal of the diode is grounded via the second capacitor, and the output terminal of the common voltage generating circuit is grounded via the third capacitor. A duty ratio of the output square wave generating unit is capable of being modulated. | 01-01-2009 |
20090009460 | Display device and driving circuit for the same, display method - A display device is for carrying out display by supplying a data signal, that is supplied from a video signal line, to one of a plurality of pixel electrodes via a switching element, and by supplying a scanning signal for controlling ON/OFF state of the switching element to the switching element via a scanning signal line that is orthogonal to the video signal line and is connected to the switching element. When the scanning signal is outputted to the scanning signal line, the scanning signal has a falling waveform that first falls substantially vertically from an ON-level of the switching element in a direction of an OFF-level of the switching element, and then starts falling with a slope, and again falls substantially vertically before reaching the OFF-level of the switching element. As such, the writing of the data signal to the pixel electrode may be securely carried out even when the writing period for each scanning signal is reduced, thereby displaying a high-quality image. | 01-08-2009 |
20090040160 | Flat display and method for modulating a clock signal for driving the same - A flat display and a method for modulating a clock signal for driving a flat display are provided. The flat display includes a clock generator and a clock modulator. The clock generator provides a clock signal that includes at least a first cycle waveform and a second cycle waveform following said first cycle waveform. The first cycle waveform is modulated by the clock modulator as a first modulated cycle waveform divided by a first positive modulated cycle waveform and a first negative modulated cycle waveform, and the second cycle waveform is modulated as a second modulated cycle waveform divided by a second positive modulated cycle waveform and a second negative modulated cycle waveform. The first positive modulated cycle waveform and the first negative modulated cycle waveform have a first duration difference, and the second positive modulated cycle waveform and the second negative modulated cycle waveform have a second duration difference different from the first duration difference. | 02-12-2009 |
20090040161 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a panel part having a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixels, a data driver and a gate driver part. Each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel is connected to a first gate line of the plurality of gate lines and the second sub-pixel is connected to a second gate line of the plurality of gate lines. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are each commonly connected to one data line of the plurality of data lines. The gate driver part is disposed on the panel part and applies a plurality of gate signals to the plurality of gate lines. A current gate signal of the plurality of gate signals is temporally overlapped with a previous gate signal for a predetermined time interval. | 02-12-2009 |
20090058782 | METHOD OF DRIVING AN ACTIVE MATRIX LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A method for driving an active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) to perform partial display area displaying on a portion of a display area thereof is disclosed. The method includes: using a common electrode voltage for line alternate-driving in a first write period of a partial display area, and for frame alternate-driving in at least a portion of a second write period outside of the partial display area; and in a frame alternate-driving period of the second write period outside of the partial display area, controlling the common electrode voltage to adjust one of two voltage durations of the common electrode voltage which are respectively before and after the first write period of the partial display area and in which the common electrode voltage are of the same polarity, to make the two voltage durations have equal lengths. | 03-05-2009 |
20090058783 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - LCD device including: a first LCD panel for displaying an image in a transmission mode; a second LCD panel for displaying an image in a reflection mode; and a power supply circuit for supplying a first counter voltage for displaying in the transmission mode to a first counter electrode of the first LCD panel and a second counter voltage for displaying in the reflection mode to a second counter electrode of the second LCD panel, wherein the first counter voltage and the second counter voltage are at voltage levels mutually different from one another. | 03-05-2009 |
20090066627 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY COMPENSATING COMMON ELECTRODE VOLTAGE - The present invention directs to a method for automatically compensating a common electrode voltage, comprising: calculating an average shift amount of a common electrode voltage according to gray scale data in a line on a displayed image, processing the average shift amount of the common electrode voltage to be a digital signal then converting it into an analog signal then into an average shift amount voltage waveform, and superposing it with a common electrode voltage waveform to form a new output signal waveform for driving the common electrode; the present invention also directs to a device for automatically compensating a common electrode voltage, comprising a data input module, a looking up module, a data operation module, a data encoding and converting module, a waveform generator and an operational amplification module. In the method and device for automatically compensating the common electrode voltage according to the present invention, a common electrode is driven at same time when a pixel electrode in one line on a liquid crystal display screen is driven, charges on the common electrode are compensated, such that common electrode voltage delay is avoided and image quality displayed by the liquid crystal display screen is improved dramatically. | 03-12-2009 |
20090079685 | Liquid crystal display device, method for driving liquid crystal display device, and electronic apparatus - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device that carries out image displaying through application of a voltage dependent upon an image to a liquid crystal in units of a certain period, wherein in the case of applying an overdrive voltage higher than a voltage for displaying of the image to the liquid crystal before application of the voltage, an application period of the overdrive voltage is set shorter than the certain period. | 03-26-2009 |
20090085855 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY FOR REDUCING RESIDUAL IMAGE PHENOMENON - A liquid crystal display includes a source driver, for generating a pixel data voltage, a gate driver, for generating a scanning signal voltage, and a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit includes a switch unit for delivering the pixel data voltage upon receiving the scanning signal voltage, a pixel electrode electrically coupled to the switch unit, a first electrode for supplying a first common voltage, a second electrode for supplying a second common voltage, a liquid crystal capacitor electrically coupled between the first electrode and the pixel electrode for driving liquid crystal layer in response to the pixel data voltage and the first common voltage, and a storage capacitor electrically coupled between the pixel electrode and the second electrode. | 04-02-2009 |
20090085856 | Display Device - An overdrive device corrects IN data by referring to a look-up table based on IN data, ODA data outputted from the look-up table, which is previous by one frame and ODB data outputted from the look-up table, which is previous by two frames. | 04-02-2009 |
20090096736 | DRIVING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a driving circuit for a liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. A signal controller of the driving circuit generates a data signal according to an input image signal input to the display device, generates a clock signal according to the input control signal, and generates a differential pair image signal by modulating the clock signal to the data signal. Here, a data signal period of the differential pair image signal and a clock signal period are converted with a different level and are output. A data driver of the driving device receives the differential pair image signal, divides the data signal and the clock signal from the differential pair image signal, and generates a data voltage by sampling a data signal by using the clock signal. | 04-16-2009 |
20090102776 | TIMING CONTROLLER, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a first timing controller for receiving image signals in synchronization with a first clock signal and outputting representative image signals in synchronization with a second clock signal, the frequency of the second clock signal being lower than the frequency of the first clock signal; and circuitry for controlling luminance of light-emitting blocks of the liquid crystal display in response to the representative image signals. | 04-23-2009 |
20090109158 | Liquid crystal display panel driving method, liquid crystal display device, and LCD driver - 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. | 04-30-2009 |
20090128474 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - In a stereoscopic display apparatus having optical directory elements ( | 05-21-2009 |
20090135123 | Method for Driving Liquid Crystal Display Apparatus - In one embodiment of the present invention, when a still image is displayed, applied voltages respectively corresponding to a total of n (n being an integer of not less than 4) types of gradation 0 to (n−1) are outputted to pixels. When a moving image is displayed, an applied voltage corresponding to a predetermined gradation m (1≦m≦(n−2)) is applied to the pixels instead of applied voltages respectively corresponding to gradations of less than the predetermined gradation m. Overdrive driving is performed with respect to a total of n types of gradation. | 05-28-2009 |
20090135124 | Liquid crystal display device - The liquid crystal display device | 05-28-2009 |
20090160748 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device, which is configured such that a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of substrates, includes a scanning line which extends in a row direction of pixels, a signal line which extends in a column direction of the pixels, a pixel electrode which is disposed in association with each of the pixels and includes a slit, a first common electrode which is opposed to the pixel electrode via an interlayer insulation film, and a second common electrode which extends in parallel to the slit and is disposed adjacent to the pixel electrode in the same layer as the pixel electrode. | 06-25-2009 |
20090167664 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - 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. | 07-02-2009 |
20090167665 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A voltage having the positive polarity and a voltage having the negative polarity are alternately applied to a pixel between a counter electrode and a pixel electrode. A counter electrode voltage (Vcom) generating circuit or a source signal generating section is provided each of which controls effective voltages to be applied to the pixel for an identical tone so that an effective voltage having the positive polarity and an effective voltage having the negative polarity are asymmetrically applied to the pixel for all of the tones which can be displayed. The counter electrode voltage (Vcom) generating circuit or the source signal generating section shifts a counter electrode voltage Vcom-A or a source voltage by 0.3 V or more from a voltage causing the effective voltages to be symmetrically applied to the pixel. | 07-02-2009 |
20090167666 | LCD Driver IC and Method for Operating the Same - A LCD driver IC includes an operational amplifier configured to remove or reduce an offset voltage level by outputting offset voltages having different polarities according to a state of a clock while going through one frame. | 07-02-2009 |
20090174643 | LIGHTING A CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus comprises a cholesteric liquid crystal display device having cells comprising a layer of cholesteric liquid crystal material and an electrode arrangement capable of providing independent driving of a plurality of pixels across the layer of cholesteric liquid crystal material. A drive circuit generates drive signals supplied to the pixels to drive them into states reflectances in accordance with an image signal. The drive signals may have a waveform shaped to drive the respective pixels into the homeotropic state and the planar state alternately within successive drive periods for respective periods of time which are varied to provide an average reflectance as perceived by a viewer in accordance with the image signal. A light source illuminates the display device and is supplied with power by a power circuit. The power circuit supplies either: a) DC power, or b) AC power at a supply frequency F | 07-09-2009 |
20090174644 | Liquid crystal display device having an improved backlight - A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a pair of transparent substrates, at least one of which has patterned electrodes on an inner surface thereof, and a backlight disposed behind the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight has at least one discharge tube including a sealed-off transparent tube, a phosphor film formed on an inner surface of the sealed-off transparent tube, and a discharge gas within the sealed-off transparent tube and plural electrodes spaced in a direction of an axis of the sealed-off transparent tube and positioned at least partially around a circumference of the sealed-off transparent tube. At least two adjacent ones of the plural electrodes is supplied with alternating voltages different in frequency from each other, respectively. | 07-09-2009 |
20090184912 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal display includes a voltage providing unit for providing a common voltage which is a direct-current (DC) voltage level in each of a plurality of first periods of time, in each of a plurality of second periods of time, and in each of a plurality of third periods of time, wherein each first period of time is separated from each second period of time by at least one third period of time, wherein the DC voltage levels in at least one first period of time, at least one second period of time, and at least one third period of time are different from each other. | 07-23-2009 |
20090195490 | Driving method for display device - A liquid crystal display includes pixels each having an switching element, drain drivers and gate drivers for operating the switching elements and the pixels, and drain lines and gate lines supplying signals from the drain drivers and the gate drivers to the switching elements being formed on one of a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer. Wiring lines are formed on the one of a pair of substrates for transferring display data signals and a clock signal to the gate drivers. | 08-06-2009 |
20090195491 | Multi-domain display device - There is a problem inherent in a multi-domain display device having a configuration in which a plurality of domains are formed in one pixel or one sub-pixel, in that a resolving power beyond the size of a unit pixel or a unit sub-pixel cannot be obtained. Provided is a multi-domain display device, including: a display element including a unit pixel or a unit sub-pixel divided into a plurality of domains; and a mode switching circuit for switching, in response to a mode control signal, a mode in which the plurality of domains are collectively driven to enable a high-viewing-angle image display, and a mode in which the plurality of domains are independently driven to enable a high-resolving-power image display. | 08-06-2009 |
20090207116 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a first field generating electrode formed on the first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a second field generating electrode formed on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first field generating electrode and the second field generating electrode, wherein at least one of the first field generating electrode and the second field generating electrode includes zinc aluminum oxide (ZAO), and the driving voltage is in a range of about 3.7 volts to about 5.6 volts for a transmittance of 90% (T | 08-20-2009 |
20090213058 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display selectively operates in one of a full screen display mode, in which the full screen of the display panel is set as a display area, and a partial display mode, in which a partial area in the full screen is set as a display area and a remaining area is set as a non-display area. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of source lines, a plurality of storage capacitor lines that are provided to correspond to the plurality of gate lines, a plurality of pixels that are provided at intersections between the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of source lines, a polarity signal generation circuit that generates a polarity signal corresponding to a frame inversion signal to be repeatedly alternately inverted between a first level and a second level different from the first level for each frame in the display area, and generates a polarity signal corresponding to a fixed signal fixed at one of the first level and the second level in the non-display area, a storage capacitor line driving circuit that changes the potentials of the storage capacitor lines depending on the polarity signal generated by the polarity signal generation circuit, and a control circuit that changes the display area at a timing according to the frame inversion signal. | 08-27-2009 |
20090213059 | Liquid crystal display device - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can recover a charge stored in a liquid crystal display panel without using an exteriorly mounted part such as a coil thus achieving the low power consumption. A display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixels, a plurality of video lines which apply a video voltage to the plurality of pixels, and a drive circuit which supplies the video voltage to the plurality of video lines. In such a display device, the liquid crystal display panel has a common electrode to which a first voltage and a second voltage having a potential higher than a potential of the first voltage are alternately applied. The liquid crystal display panel further includes a charge recovering circuit which is connected between the respective video lines and a power source line and recovers charge when a voltage applied to the common electrode is changed over from the first voltage to the second voltage or when the voltage applied to the common electrode is changed over from the second voltage to the first voltage. | 08-27-2009 |
20090213060 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes, in each pixel including a pixel electrode and a counter electrode with liquid crystal therebetween, a memory part which stores video data written to the pixel electrode and a switch part which applies a first video voltage to the counter electrode and selects and applies the first video voltage or a second video voltage which is obtained by inverting the first video voltage to the pixel electrode in accordance with the video data stored in the memory part, in which a liquid crystal inversion AC cycle during which the first video voltage and the second video voltage are driven such that a magnitude of the first video voltage and a magnitude of the second video voltage are exchanged in a predetermined cycle is set longer than a rewrite cycle of video data to the pixel electrode. | 08-27-2009 |
20090231260 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - The invention provides a liquid crystal device and method thereof. Subsequent to applying a first electrical voltage on a liquid crystal to induce a reorientation of the liquid crystal, a second electrical voltage with proper polarity is applied on the liquid crystal to assist the relaxation of the reorientation that was induced by the first electrical voltage. The “switch-off” phase of the liquid crystal can therefore be accelerated or temporally shortened, and the device can exhibit better performance such as fast response to on/off signals. The invention can be widely used LCD, LC shutter, LC lens, spatial light modulator, telecommunication device, tunable filter, beam steering device, and electrically driven LC device, among others. | 09-17-2009 |
20090237345 | Liquid Crystal Display Device, Liquid Crystal Display Method, Display Control Device, and Display Control Method - An LCD device includes a display unit including pixels having a multi-pixel structure; first and second driving units that drive scanning and signal lines, respectively; an image acquisition unit, and a control unit. Each of the pixels includes first and second pixels, and first and second pixels of pixels are connected to two corresponding signal lines in a checkerboard manner. The first driving unit is controlled to repeatedly scan a first sub-frame of odd lines and a second sub-frame of even lines, and the second driving unit is controlled in such a manner that the polarity of the first pixel of a pixel differs from that of the second pixel of the pixel, the polarities of the adjacent first pixels differ from each other and those of the adjacent second pixels differ from each other, and a polarity signal is inverted when switching is performed between first and second sub-frames. | 09-24-2009 |
20090243986 | DRIVING METHOD, COMPENSATION PROCESSOR AND DRIVER DEVICE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - The invention relates to a driving method, compensation processor and driver device for liquid crystal display. The driving method includes steps of receiving data signal of a present frame; obtaining an average brightness value of the present frame; comparing the previous frame with the present frame, and when the difference between the average brightness values is larger than or equal to a set threshold, generating at least two back light driver pulse signals of which the duty ratios gradually changing, and outputting them to drive the back lights. The compensation processor includes a data analysis module, a data compensation module, a back light linear filtering module and a pulse generator module. The driver device employs the compensation processor of the present invention. The present invention employs the technical means of generating a plurality of back light driver pulse signals, realizes the gradual changing of the brightness of the back lights, and overcomes the picture flickering problem due to the sudden changing of the brightness of the back lights, thus improving the display effect of the LCD. | 10-01-2009 |
20090243987 | Liquid crystal display device having look up table for adjusting common voltages and driving method thereof - 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. | 10-01-2009 |
20090256792 | Display Device - An object of the present invention is to increase the reliability in the level shift operation in a display device provided with a level shift circuit. The display device according to the present invention is characterized in that the above described level shift circuit comprises: a first thin film transistor having a semiconductor layer formed of a polysilicon layer; a waveform rectifying circuit connected to a second electrode of the above described first thin film transistor; and a constant current source and a switching element connected between the second electrode of the above described first thin film transistor and a reference power source, wherein a bias voltage is inputted into a control electrode of the above described first thin film transistor and an input signal is inputted into a first electrode of the above described first thin film transistor. | 10-15-2009 |
20090267883 | Driving circuit of liquid crystal display - A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display includes: a timing controller to output a gate control signal and a data control signal to control driving of a gate driving unit and a data driving unit and to output digital video data; a pair of gate driving units to be alternately driven by using at least one frame as a period to supply gate signals to gate lines of a liquid crystal panel in-response to the gate control signal; and a data driving unit to supply pixel signals to data lines of the liquid crystal panel in response to the data control signal. Degradation of characteristics of transistors constituting each gate driver can be prevented. | 10-29-2009 |
20090273553 | 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 including data lines and gate lines crossing each other and liquid crystal cells, a timing control signal generating unit, a data drive circuit supplying a data voltage to the data lines, and a gate drive circuit. The timing control signal generating unit generates a first gate timing control signal for controlling a scan direction of the liquid crystal display panel in a sequential direction and a second gate timing control signal for controlling the scan direction in a reverse sequential direction. The gate drive circuit supplies a gate pulse to the gate lines while a shift direction of the gate pulse changes in response to the first and second gate timing control signals. | 11-05-2009 |
20090273554 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE - Provided is an electro-optical device including: pixel electrodes provided in intersections of gate lines and data lines; counter electrodes provided to face the pixel electrodes with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween; and storage capacitors each of which one end is connected to each of the pixel electrodes, wherein, if data line signals supplied to the pixel electrodes via the data lines correspond to writing of a positive polarity with respect to the potential of the counter electrodes, the potential of the other end of each of the storage capacitors is changed to a high potential side after the data line signals are written and, if the data line signals correspond to writing of a negative polarity with respect to the potential of the counter electrodes, the potential of the other end of each of the storage capacitors is held at a constant level before and after the data line signals are written. | 11-05-2009 |
20090278778 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE - Provided is an electro-optical device including: a display unit including a plurality of display areas in which pixels are arranged; common electrodes provided in correspondence with the plurality of display areas; pixel electrodes provided in correspondence with the pixels and facing the common electrodes with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween; a driving control unit which controls writing of an image signal to the pixel electrode in each of the plurality of display areas; and a voltage applying control unit which controls applying of a predetermined voltage to the common electrode in each of the plurality of display areas; wherein the driving control unit is configured to stop the writing of the image signal to the pixel electrode during a predetermined period in a period close to at least one of a start time point or an end time point of the applying of the predetermined voltage, when the predetermined voltage is applied to the common electrode of the display area adjacent to one display area by the voltage applying control unit during a period in which the image signal is written to the pixel electrode in one of the plurality of display areas. | 11-12-2009 |
20090284456 | Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same - A liquid crystal display (LCD) capable of improving display quality and a method of driving the same are provided. The LCD comprises an LCD panel including a plurality of data lines and gate lines and liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix at crossings of the gate lines and the data lines, a driving circuit for supplying a data voltage to the data lines and for supplying a scan pulse to the gate lines, a timing controller for generating a gate start pulse for indicating a start horizontal line in which scanning starts in a one frame period where one screen is displayed, a control clock generator for counting the number of frames using the gate start pulse and for generating a control clock whenever an accumulated count value becomes a multiple of a predetermined value, and a common voltage generating circuit for generating control data of a specific bit based on the control clock and for generating a common voltage whose level varies in stages per predetermined interval using the control data to supply the common voltage to the LCD panel. | 11-19-2009 |
20090295702 | LCD DRIVE METHOD - The present invention discloses an LCD drive method, which uses a signal of at least one segment electrode of a multiplex drive element as a common-electrode signal and uses the voltage difference of the above-mentioned segment electrode and the signal of another segment electrode to present images, whereby the multiplex drive element can function as a static drive element. Via the present invention, the multiplex drive element, which can be mass-produced in low costs, can replace the high-cost customized static drive element. Therefore, the present invention can be used as a solution for the static drive LCD and reduce the costs thereof. | 12-03-2009 |
20090295703 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of pixels and each of the pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel individually load a source voltage according to a first gate pulse and a second gate pulse, respectively. The second sub-pixel includes a first storage capacitor and a first compensation capacitor. The first compensation capacitor charges or discharges to a predetermined voltage before performing charge neutralization with the first storage capacitor according to a second gate pulse. | 12-03-2009 |
20090322664 | System and method for optimizing LCD displays - A method and system for determining the Vcom for a liquid crystal display by using a light diffusing unit. | 12-31-2009 |
20090322665 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT, METHOD OF DRIVING THE ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC PAPER UTILIZING THE ELEMENT - A method of driving a liquid crystal display element includes: applying a scan signal voltage to N scan electrodes simultaneously selected from among a plurality of scan electrodes formed in parallel on an inner surface of one of a pair of substrates between which a cholesteric liquid crystal selectively reflecting light having a predetermined wavelength is enclosed for a selection time T and applying a reset voltage for resetting the liquid crystal to a plurality of data electrodes formed on an inner surface of the other of the pair of substrates so as to intersect the plurality of scan electrodes when viewed in the normal direction of a substrate surface. The reset voltage is applied in synchronism with the application of the scan signal voltage. The step is repeated while shifting the N simultaneously selected scan electrodes sequentially to perform a display reset for putting the liquid crystal in a homeotropic state by applying the reset voltage to each pixel on each of the scan electrodes N times consecutively. The display reset is performed using such a selection time T and a simultaneously selected electrode count N that the product T×N satisfies T×N>τ where τ represents a response time required for the liquid crystal to change from a planar state to the homeotropic state. | 12-31-2009 |
20100007593 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT DRIVEN IN A LONGITUDINAL-ELECTRIC-FIELD MODE - A LCD unit includes a drive unit that drives a LC layer in at least a part of a unit pixel by applying thereto a longitudinal electric field. The drive unit drives the at least a part of the unit pixel in an image period by applying thereto an image voltage corresponding to an image, and in a preliminary period preceding to the image period by applying a preliminary voltage equal to or higher than a threshold voltage that allows LC molecules in the LC layer to start change of orientation of the LC molecules. | 01-14-2010 |
20100033415 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display includes; a liquid crystal panel, and a DC-DC converter which receives an input voltage to generate an analog drive voltage and a gate-on voltage used to operate the liquid crystal panel, wherein the DC-DC converter includes a pulse width modulation circuit which modulates a pulse width of the analog drive voltage and the gate-on voltage, a boost converter which boosts the input voltage to output the analog drive voltage, and a charge pump which boosts one of the input voltage and the analog drive voltage to output the gate-on voltage, wherein when a high voltage stress test is performed, the DC-DC converter outputs the analog drive voltage boosted to a voltage level higher than a voltage level of the analog drive voltage during a normal operation, and outputs the gate-on voltage having a voltage level substantially equal to a voltage level of the gate-on voltage during the normal operation. | 02-11-2010 |
20100045585 | METHOD FOR ELIMINATING DEFICIENT IMAGE ON LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A method for eliminating deficient image on a liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided. The method is used for eliminating the deficient image generated during the shutdown period in a normally white LCD. The method comprises the following steps. First, when a power indication signal changes from a first state to a second state, a black frame is displayed in a first period of time. At the end of the first period, a white frame is displayed in a second period of time. At the end of the second period, the supply of a negative scan voltage is stopped and a white frame is displayed in a third period of time. At the end of the third period, the power is turned off. | 02-25-2010 |
20100053055 | Electronic Device for Enhancing Image Quality of a Liquid Crystal Display Monitor and Related Method and Liquid Crystal Display Monitor - An electronic device for enhancing image quality of an LCD monitor is utilized for comparing a voltage level of an output indication signal and a voltage level of a residue power when a start indication signal indicates a scan line signal output circuit from an ON state transformation to an OFF state, to output a comparison result to the scan line signal output circuit, so as to prolong time of the scan line signal output circuit driving a panel of the LCD monitor. | 03-04-2010 |
20100053056 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a gate driver, a data driver, a display panel, a power supply and a common voltage line. The gate driver outputs a gate signal, and the data driver outputs a data signal. The display panel includes a display area displaying images in response to the gate signal and the data signal, and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The power supply generates a common voltage and supplies the common voltage to the display panel. The common voltage line is disposed in the peripheral area surrounding the display area. and the common voltage line has two ends adjacent to the power supply. One of the two ends, which is disposed farther away from the gate driver, is connected to the power supply to receive the common voltage. Accordingly, the common voltage is differentially applied according to a length of the common voltage line. | 03-04-2010 |
20100066657 | Liquid crystal display - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display capable of reducing a side effect during local LED dimming to reduce power consumption and improve display quality. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of liquid crystal cells formed respectively in a plurality of pixel areas defined by intersections of a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines, a data driver for supplying data voltages to the data lines, a gate driver for supplying scan signals to the gate lines, a timing controller for controlling the data driver and gate driver and outputting a plurality of dimming signals based on an average picture level (APL) detected based on video data supplied to the liquid crystal panel, and a light emitting diode (LED) backlight unit for partitioning the liquid crystal panel into a plurality of areas and supplying appropriate pulse width modulation (PWM) control signals based on the dimming signals to a plurality of LED arrays installed to correspond respectively to the partitioned areas, to supply light to the liquid crystal panel. | 03-18-2010 |
20100085293 | METHOD OF DRIVING DATA, DATA DRIVE CIRCUIT FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE DATA DRIVE CIRCUIT - The present invention discloses a data driving method, the method including receiving data corresponding to a plurality of pixels. Received data are converted into data voltages of an analog type to be output to a plurality of data lines. One of a first data voltage and a last data voltage of the data voltages is output to a dummy data line adjacent to the data lines. | 04-08-2010 |
20100134399 | METHOD OF DRIVING A GATE LINE, GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT - A method of driving a gate line includes: charging one of a scan start signal and a carry signal provided from a previous stage to a first node of a present stage; outputting a gate signal through a gate node of the present stage by pulling up a high level of a first clock signal at the first node to boost up a voltage potential of the first node; discharging the voltage potential of the first node and a voltage potential of the gate node to hold the first node and the gate node at a first power voltage as the first clock signal is shifted to a low level; and receiving a voltage potential signal of a second node of the previous stage, the second node holding a gate signal outputted from the previous stage, to reduce a ripple generated at the first node. | 06-03-2010 |
20100164850 | Liquid Display Panel Driving Method - A liquid display panel driving method to drive a plurality of pixels of a liquid display panel in a frame period comprising a plurality of data input intervals is provided. Each pixel comprises first and second capacitors coupled to a first and second common electrode respectively. The liquid display panel driving method comprises the steps of: keeping the second common electrode at the same voltage level; modifying the voltage of the first common electrode of each pixel along a row of scan line to perform a first pre-charge before the data input interval; turning on the pixels to make each pixel receive the data voltage from the data lines during the data input interval; and turning off the pixels and modifying the voltage of the first common electrode to further set the voltage of each of the pixels to a target level after the data input interval. | 07-01-2010 |
20100214204 | LCD WITH COMMON VOLTAGE DRIVING CIRCUITS - An LCD with power consumption reduction and a method of driving the same. In one embodiment, the LCD has a plurality of pixels spatially arranged in the form of a matrix having N pixel rows, each pixel row defined between two neighboring scanning lines G | 08-26-2010 |
20110187633 | DISPLAY CAPABLE OF RESTRAINING RIPPLE OF COMMON VOLTAGE - A display including a display panel and a compensation circuit is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of common lines for transmitting a common voltage; a plurality of scan lines; a plurality of data lines disposed substantially perpendicular to the scan lines; a plurality of pixels arranged in an array and each electrically connected to the corresponding data line, scan line, and common line; and a sensing line crossing over at least one first data line among the data lines. A parasitic capacitor is formed between the first data line and the sensing line. The compensation circuit is electrically connected to the sensing line and the common lines. The compensation circuit generates a compensation signal for the common lines according to a coupling signal induced by the parasitic capacitor between the first data line and the sensing line so as to restrain ripple of the common voltage. | 08-04-2011 |
20110310000 | DRIVING CIRCUIT INCLUDING SHIFT REGISTER AND FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A driving circuit for a flat panel display device includes a generation unit for generating n-phase form generation clocks; and a plurality of shift register stages for sequentially generating a plurality gate signals to a plurality of gate lines using the n-phase form generation clocks, one of the shift register stage including first and second output terminals for outputting first and second switching signals, respectively, using an output signal of one of the preceding shift register stages and an output signal of one of the subsequent shift register stages; a first transistor connected to the first output terminal for receiving one of the n-phase form generation clocks; and a second transistor connected to the second output terminal and the first transistor, wherein each gate line is connected to a node between the first and second transistors. | 12-22-2011 |
20120068916 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Provided is an active matrix substrate for use in a liquid crystal display device in which two scan signal lines ( | 03-22-2012 |
20120319935 | DISPLAY DEVICE - An objective of the present invention is to provide a display device which operates with low power consumption and is highly flexible with respect to design of image display. | 12-20-2012 |
20130027287 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a gate driver which sequentially outputs a gate signal at a high state in response to a gate control signal and a data driver which converts image data into a data signal in response to a data control signal. The display apparatus further includes a display panel which includes a plurality of gate lines which sequentially receive the gate signal, a plurality of data lines which receive the data signal and a plurality of pixels connected to the gate and data lines and which receive the data signal in response to the gate signal to display an image. The polarity of the data signal is inverted after the gate signal transitions to a low state. | 01-31-2013 |
20130057461 | TANGENT ANGLE CIRCUIT IN AN LCD DRIVING SYSTEM AND LCD DRIVING SYSTEM - A tangent angle circuit is connected to a plurality of scan line driving circuits and comprises: a charging module integrated on a control board to receive input of a direct current (DC) driving voltage and output a cut-in voltage to charge the scan line driving circuits; and a plurality of discharging modules integrated on the scan line driving circuits respectively to control the corresponding scan line driving circuits to discharge. In the present invention, by distributing the discharging modules on each of the scan line driving circuits respectively, the burden of load discharged charges on the discharging modules is reduced to avoid occurrence of an overhigh temperature; and the discharging modules are spatially separated, which is further favorable for reducing the temperature, releasing the space of the control board and reducing the area of the control board. | 03-07-2013 |
20130100006 | DISPLAY PANEL AND GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT THEREOF - A display panel and its gate driving circuit are provided. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of shift registers. Each of the shift registers includes a first scan signal generator for generating a first scan signal, a second scan signal generator for generating a second scan signal, a first control unit for generating a first control signal, and a second control unit for generating a second control signal. Here, the first control signal and the second control signal are shared by the first scan signal generator and the second scan signal generator. Based on the above, the abatement of signal intensity of the first scan signal and the second scan signal caused by circuit sharing can be precluded, and a chip area occupied by each of the shift registers can be reduced. | 04-25-2013 |
20130234920 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of preventing a type of screen burn-in phenomenon caused by fluctuations in DC component of a liquid crystal drive voltage, which occurs when the refresh rate is switched. A control device can perform quadruple speed drive and double speed drive of a liquid crystal panel in an inversion drive method. A common electrode is supplied with a common voltage set in advance based on a midpoint potential in inversion drive of voltages set for a pixel electrode in the quadruple speed drive. In both of the quadruple speed drive and the double speed drive switched from the quadruple speed drive, a width of a scanning pulse (P | 09-12-2013 |
20140104151 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device which has higher definition and reduced power consumption while its image quality is maintained is provided. A switching transistor of an active matrix liquid crystal display device is formed using a transistor having an extremely low off-state current to reduce the area of a capacitor; the capacitance value of parasitic capacitance formed by the left end of a pixel electrode and a first source line is made to be approximately the same as that of parasitic capacitance formed by the right end of the pixel electrode and a second source line; and video signals having one polarity are input to the first source line, and video signals having the other polarity are input to the second source line. | 04-17-2014 |
20140145922 | LCD PANEL DRIVING METHOD AND DRIVING CIRCUIT - The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel driving method and a driving circuit. The method includes sending the scanning waveform to the LCD panel after the scanning waveform includes a chamfered section by control of a chamfer circuit to drive the LCD panel. The scanning waveform includes at least two chamfered sections having different slopes in each scanning period of the scanning waveform. | 05-29-2014 |
20140145923 | CHAMFER CIRCUIT IN DRIVING SYSTEM OF LCD PANEL AND UNIFORMITY REGULATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present disclosure provides a chamfer circuit in a driving system of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a uniformity regulating system and method. The chamfer circuit comprises a discharging resistor. The discharging resistor is an adjustable resistor, a resistance of the adjustable resistor is adjustable. In the present disclosure, a slope of a chamfered section is changed by regulating the resistance of the discharging resistor to change uniformity of the LCD panel. In this way, the discharging resistance is regulated without replacing the discharging resistor, and the uniformity of the LCD panel is regulated in accordance with each piece of the LCD panel. | 05-29-2014 |
20140247205 | INVERTER FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - An inverter of driving a light source for a display device is provided. The inverter includes a temperature sensor sensing a temperature and generating an output voltage based on the sensed temperature, a buffer generating an output signal having a state depending on the output voltage of the temperature sensor, an oscillator generating an oscillating signal having a frequency depending on the state of the output signal of the buffer, and an inverter performing a switching operation in response to the oscillating signal from the oscillator. Therefore, the inverter increases the voltage applied to the light source when the temperature near the light source is lower than a predetermined temperature since the frequency of the oscillating signal is increased. | 09-04-2014 |
20140313115 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY PANEL DRIVER - A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel having gate lines and source lines, a GIP circuit which drives the gate lines and a source driver IC | 10-23-2014 |
20140375536 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display driving circuit is configured to select one of application of a pair of pixel driving signals to a pair of output terminals and charge sharing between the pair of output terminals by using charges discharged from a display panel. | 12-25-2014 |
20150138058 | Switched-Mode Power Supply Capable of Catching Radiated Electromagnetic Interference and Using its Energy - A switched-mode power supply (SMPS) capable of catching radiated electromagnetic interference (EMI) and using its energy is provided. The SMPS includes a specific component, an antenna, a rectifier, and an energy storage capacitor or a rechargeable battery. The specific component generates radiated EMI. The antenna is disposed on or embedded in the specific component, in which the frequency range of the antenna corresponds to the frequency band of the radiated EMI generated by the specific component. The rectifier is electrically connected with a terminal of the antenna. The energy storage capacitor or the rechargeable battery is electrically connected with the rectifier. The invention may simplify the design of circuits for suppressing radiated EMI to reduce cost, and achieve the purpose of power saving by recycling and reuse dissipated energy. | 05-21-2015 |