Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080272999 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DRIVER AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - In a display device and a display driver, when a grayscale of a display image is equal to or lower than a specific grayscale value obtained from a histogram of the display image, a display grayscale is extended with a linear function. On the other hand, when a grayscale of a display image is equal to or higher than the specific grayscale value, histogram equalization of a part higher than the specific grayscale value is performed, and the display grayscale is extended with a non-linear function obtained from the histogram equalization. | 11-06-2008 |
20090046046 | Display device - An image processing unit ( | 02-19-2009 |
20090058844 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE - A scan driver selects first four rows of pixels at a time and then sequentially selects second four rows of pixels for each row in double gate driving. A data driver supplies a tone voltage corresponding to black data to the first four row of pixels at a time and then sequentially supplies a tone voltage corresponding to display data to the second four rows of pixels. | 03-05-2009 |
20090146938 | Display device - In RGB time division drives, there is capacitor coupling due to the effects of fluctuation in the drain lines, and thus, the image quality deteriorates (lateral smearing), so that the display brightness becomes different from the desired display brightness due to delay in the convergence of the fluctuation of the common potential, and thus, it is a goal to prevent the image quality from deteriorating (lateral smearing). | 06-11-2009 |
20090207182 | Display Device - The deterioration (darkness) of image quality due to a reduction in the brightness of a single color as a result of the conversion from RGB pixels to RGBW pixels is prevented and a reduction in the power is achieved. A processing portion for conversion from RGB to RGBW | 08-20-2009 |
20100053224 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - The characteristics of a filter are controlled based on index information relating to the power consumption of an address driver that drives address electrodes for selecting light emission or no light emission of display cells based on display data, and filtering is performed on the display data in the arrangement sequence of display cells for a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the address electrodes extend on a display screen, thereby controlling the characteristics of the filter so as to suppress high-frequency components in the display data when the power consumption of the address driver is large to reduce the number of changes in the potentials of the address electrodes, enabling reduction of the power consumption of the address driver while suppressing image quality deterioration. | 03-04-2010 |
20100128022 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT OF DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - Provided are a power supply circuit and a display device which are capable of enhancing power efficiency even when applied to a display panel whose current consumption varies. The power supply circuit boosts and outputs an input voltage using a booster chopper circuit. A frequency control circuit changes a frequency of a clock signal, which controls a switch of the chopper circuit, in accordance with a load of the power supply circuit. The frequency control circuit divides an operation of the display device into a display effective period at a high load and a vertical retrace period at a low load, based on a vertical synchronizing signal and a horizontal synchronizing signal. The frequency control circuit sets the frequency of the clock signal in a high-load period to be higher than that in a low-load period. | 05-27-2010 |
20100265242 | POWER CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING SAME - A power circuit includes a coil that charges an electric charge of an input voltage, a switch device that controls charging and discharging of the coil, a diode that rectifies the flow of the electric charge from the coil, a capacitor that stabilizes an output voltage when the switch device is turned on, and a driving circuit that controls ON and OFF states of the switch device. The power circuit alternately switches the ON and OFF states of the switch device to control charging and discharging of the coil and the capacitor, and generates and supplies an output voltage higher than the input voltage, and the driving circuit controls the off-period of the switch device according to the on-period of the switch device and the voltage ratio of the output voltage and the input voltage while changing the repetition period of the ON and OFF states of the switch device. | 10-21-2010 |
20100302217 | GATE SIGNAL LINE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A gate signal line driving circuit which suppresses noises in a gate signal and a display device which uses the gate signal line driving circuit are provided. A first basic circuit provided to a gate signal line driving circuit includes a HIGH voltage applying switching element which applies a HIGH voltage to gate signal lines in response to a signal HIGH period, and a LOW voltage applying switching circuit which applies a LOW voltage to the gate signal lines in response to a signal LOW period. In response to a signal HIGH period, a switch of the LOW voltage applying switching circuit of the first basic circuit is turned off based on a signal applied to a switch of the HIGH voltage applying switching element of a second basic circuit which assumes a signal HIGH period earlier than the first basic circuit. | 12-02-2010 |
20100328281 | DRIVER CIRCUIT CONTROLLING THRESHOLD VOLTAGE SHIFT OF TRANSISTOR - Each shift register includes a first element controlled by a first potential node to supply a first driving voltage to an output terminal, a second element controlled by a second potential node to supply a second driving voltage lower than the first driving voltage to the output terminal, and a third element for controlling the first potential node and the second potential node so as to have opposite potential levels. Voltages are applied to the third element so that a state of A>B and A>C and a state of AB and AC, or a state of AC and a state of A>B and A12-30-2010 | |
20110007061 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A gate signal line drive circuit and a display device which realize the suppression of a threshold voltage of an element which is used for a long time are provided. With respect to elements to which a HIGH voltage is applied for a long time, a plurality of elements are connected parallel to each other and are controlled such that at least any one of the plurality of elements is driven by a switching element, and a period during which the element is not driven is set longer than a frame display period. | 01-13-2011 |
20110050553 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device employing a dot inversion drive method includes a pixel array, a data driver circuit, a short circuit, and a scanning circuit. The short circuit is disposed for respective outputs of the data driver circuit, and includes a switching element for connecting each of the outputs to a precharge voltage different from an output voltage. The short circuit includes the switching element disposed in one of a first switching group and a second switching group; the switching element of one of the first switching group and the second switching group is connected to respective pairs of pixel column units including an odd-numbered pixel column and an even-numbered pixel column which are adjacent to each other; and the pairs of pixel column units which are adjacent to each other are each connected to the switching element disposed in respective switching groups different from each other. | 03-03-2011 |
20120249613 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A processing portion for conversion from RGB to RGBW includes a W generating circuit, a sub-pixel rendering circuit, a W intensity calculating portion which transmits a W intensity setting value to a W generating circuit, and a low power backlight control circuit which expands data on the basis of the RGBW pixels generated by the sub-pixel rendering portion and lowers the backlight in accordance with the amount by which the data is expanded. The inputted RGB data is used as the RGBW data with the W intensity calculated by the W intensity calculating portion. A backlight control signal is generated based on the amount of data expansion in the sub-pixel rendering portion. Deterioration (darkness) of image quality due to a reduction in the brightness of a single color as a result of the conversion from RGB pixels to RGBW pixels is prevented and a reduction in the power is achieved. | 10-04-2012 |
20130044146 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DRIVER AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - In a display device and a display driver, when a grayscale of a display image is equal to or lower than a specific grayscale value obtained from a histogram of the display image, a display grayscale is extended with a linear function. On the other hand, when a grayscale of a display image is equal to or higher than the specific grayscale value, histogram equalization of a part higher than the specific grayscale value is performed, and the display grayscale is extended with a non-linear function obtained from the histogram equalization. | 02-21-2013 |
20130120480 | DISPLAY DRIVER - In a display driver, a first backlight control unit using a histogram and a second backlight control unit using an optical sensor can be used in combination. The display driver includes a PWM generating unit setting a control signal value consisting of a product of a luminance rate of X % and a luminance rate of Y % as a luminance rate of a control signal for controlling a backlight with respect to maximum backlight luminance when a luminance rate of a control signal obtained by first backlight control with respect to the maximum backlight luminance is X % and a luminance rate of a control signal obtained by second backlight control with respect to the maximum backlight luminance is Y %. | 05-16-2013 |
20130285890 | DISPLAY DEVICE - An image processing unit ( | 10-31-2013 |
20140247291 | DISPLAY DRIVER - In a display driver, a first backlight control unit using a histogram and a second backlight control unit using an optical sensor can be used in combination. The display driver includes a PWM generating unit setting a control signal value consisting of a product of a luminance rate of X % and a luminance rate of Y % as a luminance rate of a control signal for controlling a backlight with respect to maximum backlight luminance when a luminance rate of a control signal obtained by first backlight control with respect to the maximum backlight luminance is X % and a luminance rate of a control signal obtained by second backlight control with respect to the maximum backlight luminance is Y %. | 09-04-2014 |
20140375615 | GATE SIGNAL LINE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A gate signal line driving circuit which suppresses noises in a gate signal and a display device which uses the gate signal line driving circuit are provided. A first basic circuit provided to a gate signal line driving circuit includes a HIGH voltage applying switching element which applies a HIGH voltage to gate signal lines in response to a signal HIGH period, and a LOW voltage applying switching circuit which applies a LOW voltage to the gate signal lines in response to a signal LOW period. In response to a signal HIGH period, a switch of the LOW voltage applying switching circuit of the first basic circuit is turned off based on a signal applied to a switch of the HIGH voltage applying switching element of a second basic circuit which assumes a signal HIGH period earlier than the first basic circuit. | 12-25-2014 |