Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090033599 | ACTIVE MATRIX DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An active matrix display apparatus comprising two-dimensional arranged pixel circuits each including a display element connected with a signal line for supplying a current thereto and a scanning line, and further including a drive transistor and a capacitor, one terminal thereof being connected to a control terminal of the drive transistor, wherein a first main conductive terminal of the drive transistor and the other terminal of the capacitor are connected to a lighting power source for supplying a current to the display element, and wherein at the current writing operation, the current supplied to the signal line is conducted to the drive transistor and at the lighting operation, the conductive current is injected into the display element so that before completion of the write operation, a voltage drop by a predetermined value is started to the voltage of the lighting power source and is kept continued for a predetermined period. | 02-05-2009 |
20090102853 | COLOR DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ACTIVE MATRIX APPARATUS - A color display apparatus which has a color display unit in which color pixels are arranged in a matrix, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of column drive circuits which output data signals to a plurality of data lines for every row, has a first dispersion circuit for selecting column drive circuits used as output destinations of analog video signals for every color which are obtained by DA converting digital video signals for every color, a second dispersion circuit for selecting data lines used as output destinations of the data signals from the column drive circuits, and control circuits which control the first and second dispersion circuits so as to sequentially change the drive circuits used as the output destinations of the analog video signals for each color, and the data lines used as the output destinations of the data signals, for every scanning period. | 04-23-2009 |
20090135110 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A display apparatus includes: an image display unit including plural electro-optic elements and plural pixel drive circuits, which elements and circuits being arranged two-dimensionally in row and column directions; a first power supplying line for supplying first potential to the image display unit; plural data lines severally connected to columns of the image display unit for supplying data signals to the pixel circuits; plural scanning lines crossing the data lines; a data line drive circuit for driving the data lines; and a scanning line drive circuit for driving the scanning lines, wherein second potential is supplied to the scanning line drive circuit through a second power supplying line and the display apparatus is provided with elements severally for shifting potential of the scanning lines to first potential of the first electric power supplying line when the second potential is lower than the first potential. | 05-28-2009 |
20100128160 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus including: data lines; scanning lines arranged to cross the data lines; pixel circuits arranged along the data lines and the scanning lines, such that each of the pixel circuits corresponds to each of intersections between the data lines and the scanning lines; image signal lines for transmitting image signal; and switches, each arranged correspondingly to each of the data lines, for connecting each of the data lines to each one of the image signal lines, wherein the data lines are arranged such that adjacent two data lines are close to each other, and are connected simultaneously by the switches to different two of the image signal lines. | 05-27-2010 |
20100328365 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A display apparatus includes: a light emitting element, a source which supplies a current to the light emitting element from a drain; a capacitor one end of which is connected to a gate of the transistor; a gate voltage setting circuit detachably connected to the gate of the transistor, the gate voltage setting circuit setting the gate voltage of the transistor to an initial voltage; and a capacitor terminal voltage setting circuit which is connected to another end of the capacitor, and which sets the voltage of the another end of the capacitor to any of data voltage corresponding to image information and constant reference voltage which does not depend on the image information, wherein a range, in which a current flowing through the light emitting element varies depending on the data voltage, is adjusted by changing one of the initial voltage and the reference voltage. | 12-30-2010 |
20110001689 | ACTIVE MATRIX TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A light emitting element is provided to allow for resetting a shift register while keeping a frame narrow without increasing complexity of a shift register circuit. A display apparatus has a data line, a scanning line, a pixel circuit, a shift register circuit, a first power supply supplying a voltage to the shift register circuit and a second power supply supplying a voltage to the pixel circuit. One end of the scanning line is connected to an output of the shift register circuit, and writing of a data signal from the data line to the pixel circuit can be controlled by a scanning signal from the scanning line. When the first power supply is on, any one of a high-level signal and a low-level signal is input into the shift register circuit for the number of stages of the shift register, and thereafter, the second power supply is turned on. | 01-06-2011 |
20110121738 | LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS - A light-emitting apparatus includes a plurality of light-emitting devices which are connected in series and formed by alternately disposing electrodes and organic layers including a light-emitting material, wherein the electrodes include one electrode and another electrode disposed at an anode end and a cathode end of the light-emitting devices, respectively, and an intermediate electrode disposed between two of the organic layers which serves as a cathode of the light-emitting device disposed on a side of the anode end and as an anode of the light-emitting device disposed on a side of the cathode end; the intermediate electrode is connected to a drive circuit having two current output terminals connected in common; the drive circuit receives data signals concerning two of the plurality of light-emitting devices for which the intermediate electrode serves as the anode and the cathode, respectively; and the drive circuit outputs currents which are different in direction from each other from the two current output terminals in response to the received data signals. | 05-26-2011 |
20120127064 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a display apparatus that can select either an “outdoor visibility mode” or a “wide viewing angle mode” or either a “power saving mode” or a “wide viewing angle mode” depending on a user scene; that can also select intermediate states between the two modes; and provide high displayed image quality. An organic electroluminescent display apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of pixels, an organic electroluminescent element, a data line driver, a pixel circuit, and a gate line driver, in which each pixel includes two organic electroluminescent elements that emit light of the same color, an element with high light-collecting property is disposed over a light emission side of only one of the two organic electroluminescent elements, and units that make a difference in lighting times or drive currents between the two organic electroluminescent elements are included. | 05-24-2012 |
20120133682 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a display apparatus comprising light-emitting elements having colors cyclically aligned, pixel circuits and a processing circuit, the light-emitting elements each having two light-emitting regions aligned in the column direction so as to invert the positions of the two light-emitting regions in accordance with a cycle of the colors, and the two light-emitting regions having different optical characteristics and emitting light alternately over two consecutive frame periods so that the light-emitting regions which emit light in each frame period have the same optical characteristics. | 05-31-2012 |
20120133683 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY APPARATUS - An organic EL display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels, organic EL devices, a data line driver, a pixel circuit, and a gate line driver. Each pixel has three or more organic EL device groups, each organic EL device group consisting of two organic EL devices emitting light of the same color; and emits light of three or more colors. The two organic EL devices are a first organic EL device having a light condensing element arranged on the light emitting surface side and a second organic EL device not having a light condensing element arranged on the light emitting surface side. Each pixel has a luminance difference forming unit for varying the luminance ratio of each color in the first organic EL device and the luminance ratio of each color in the second organic EL device. | 05-31-2012 |
20120147064 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes light emitting elements, wherein when an input gray-scale signal is lower than a certain gray-scale level, a light emitting element is caused to emit light upon receiving a first brightness signal higher than a brightness given based on the input gray-scale signal and a second brightness signal lower than the brightness given based on the input gray-scale signal during a former and a latter half of a light-emission period, and wherein when the input gray-scale signal is higher than the certain gray-scale level, the light emitting element is caused to emit light upon receiving the third brightness signal corresponding to the brightness given based on the input gray-scale signal during the former and the latter half of the light-emission period. | 06-14-2012 |
20130155038 | DISPLAYING APPARATUS - A displaying apparatus having a finer-pitch circuit constitution is provided without deteriorating a displaying quality and increasing each pixel size. In the displaying apparatus which can suppress a characteristic variation of a driving transistor included in each pixel circuit by using a control circuit, the control circuit is arranged on an outer side of a region in which the plurality of pixel circuits are arranged, and there are a second capacitor in which an input data signal is supplied to one end thereof, a first voltage follower circuit of which an input is connected to the other end of the second capacitor and of which an output is connectable to a data line, and a second voltage follower circuit of which an input is connected to the data line and of which an output is connectable to the other end of the second capacitor. | 06-20-2013 |
20130278586 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS - There are provided for each column of pixels, a detecting unit which detects a voltage between a gate and a source of a drive transistor when a predetermined current is fed to the drive transistor and a unit which adds a data voltage to the voltage supplied by the detecting unit and supplies a sum to a data line. | 10-24-2013 |
20130278587 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVING APPARATUS FOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A driving apparatus for light-emitting devices includes transistors, data lines connected to gates of the transistors, feedback lines connected to a source or a drain of the transistors that supply a current to the light-emitting devices, a voltage amplifier that includes an input terminal connected to the feedback line and an output terminal connected to the data line, and a data generation circuit connected to the input terminal of the voltage amplifier through a capacitor. The voltage amplifier converts a change in voltage of the feedback line generated by a current flowing from the transistors to the capacitor into a change in voltage of the data line in a direction in which the transistors connected to the data line turn off. | 10-24-2013 |
20140253752 | IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DRIVING IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND DRIVING METHOD FOR IMAGING SYSTEM - An imaging apparatus includes: pixels ( | 09-11-2014 |