Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hisao Okada

Yuji Yamamoto

Toshihiro Yanagi

Kuniaki Tanaka

Takeshi Takarada

Shigeyuki Uehira

Tadatsugu Nishitani

Katumi Miki

Masayuki Takahashi

Sunao Etou

Sunao Eto

Keiichi Tanaka

Toshihiko Yoshida

Tomohiko Yamamoto

Naoto Inoue

Makoto Takeda

Yoshiharu Kanatani

Masaru Tanaka

Takafumi Kawaguchi

Hideki Ichioka

Satoshi Tominaga

Hirofumi Fukuoka

Kouji Fujiwara

Sunao Etoh

Junji Kawanishi

Mitsuyoshi Seo

Mikio Hashimoto

Miki Fukuyama

Hiroaki Ogawa

Tadatsugu Nisitani

Nobuo Tanaka

A testing circuit , provided between an input terminal IN of an LSI and the CSA , includes a switch NSW (a third switch), a capacitor CT which is connected in parallel to the switch NSW, and switches TC (a first switch) and TC (a second switch) which are connected in series across the capacitor CT. With this arrangement, the circuit including the capacitor CT and the CSA can serve as a reverse amplifier circuit and can input a voltage waveform instead of the charges. Therefore, a conventional charge supply circuit is not necessary when the testing of a reading circuit is carried out.

Testing circuit for charge detection circuit, LSI, image sensor, and testing method for the charge detection circuit

In a charge amount detection circuit, one part of circuit elements constituting a low pass filter circuit and one part of circuit elements constituting a voltage amplifier circuit are commonly use. A charge sensitive amplifier is followed by the low pass filter circuit and the voltage amplifier circuit, respectively, in this order. Since the low pass filter circuit is provided so as to share one part of circuit elements of the voltage amplifier circuit, it is possible to suppress the enlargement of the chip size due to the provision of LPF as much as possible so as to suppress the rise of the chip cost as much as possible.

Charge amount detection circuit and two-dimensional image sensor using same

A drive circuit for a display device supplying a plurality of gray-scale voltages to the display device, based on externally supplied digital video signal data, includes: a plurality of gray-scale power supplies, a plurality of drive power supplies, a unit for forming a first part of the plurality of gray-scale voltages using the gray-scale voltage power supplies, and a unit for forming a second part of the plurality of gray-scale voltages using the drive power supplies.

Voltage generating circuit, and common electrode drive circuit, signal line drive circuit and gray-scale voltage generating circuit for display devices

A liquid crystal display in which a reference signal main line, placed so as to connect reference signal lines to each other, is separated into an input main line and an output main line in an insulating state from each other. Then, a voltage application line from a voltage-application circuit for controlling the voltage of a reference signal is connected to the input main line and a voltage feedback line therefrom is connected to the output main line. Thus, it becomes possible to accurately detect minute voltage variations within a reference signal circuit and compensate for them.

Liquid crystal display

Voltage generating circuit, and common electrode drive circuit signal line drive circuit and gray-scale voltage generating circuit for display device

The driving circuit of this invention for a display device displaying a plurality of gray levels in accordance with digital data including a first bit portion and a second bit portion, includes: a voltage dividing circuit for generating a plurality of interpolation voltages between a plurality of gray level voltages supplied externally by dividing the plurality of gray level voltages; a first selection circuit for selecting a first voltage and a second voltage which is different from the first voltage among the plurality of gray level voltages and the plurality of interpolation voltages based on the first bit portion of the digital data; a second selection circuit for selecting one of a plurality of oscillating signals having different duty ratios based on the second bit portion of the digital data; and an output circuit for outputting an oscillating voltage which oscillates between the first voltage and the second voltage selected by the first selection circuit at a duty ratio of the oscillating signal selected by the second selection circuit.

Driving circuit for display device

According to the present invention, a method for driving a display device, including a display panel having a plurality of pixels and a plurality of data lines connected to the respective pixels, is provided. The method includes the steps of: sampling data in a first horizontal interval; storing the data sampled in the first horizontal interval; updating output data based on the stored data in the middle of sampling next data in a second horizontal interval next to the first horizontal interval; and outputting a voltage corresponding to the output data to a corresponding one of the data lines.

Method and circuit for driving display device

A driver circuit for driving a capacitive load has a first electrode and a second electrode. The driver circuit includes: a first charging section, connected with the first electrode, for applying a charge to the first electrode during a. first period and receiving a charge from the first electrode during a second period; a second charging section, connected with the second electrode, for receiving a charge from the second electrode during the first period and applying a charge to the second electrode during the second period; a first section for prohibiting a movement of a charge between the first charging section and the first electrode during a third period between the first period and the second period; a second section for prohibiting a movement of a charge between the second charging section and the second electrode during the third period; and a third section for allowing a movement of a charge between the first electrode and the second electrode during a fourth period included in the third period.

Driver circuit

A method for driving a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, a plurality of data lines respectively connected to the pixel electrodes in a plurality of columns, a plurality of gate lines respectively connected to the pixel electrodes in a plurality of rows, and a plurality of switching devices, respectively connected to the pixel electrodes, for connecting and disconnecting the corresponding pixel electrode and the corresponding data line based on a signal sent from the corresponding gate line. The method includes the step of applying a driving voltage having a waveform corresponding to image data used for display to each data line while inverting the driving voltage gate line by gate line and frame by frame, so as to maintain an average value of the driving voltage in each frame within a certain range.

Method and circuit for driving liquid crystal panel

The display driving device of the invention has a display driver for driving a display device by using image data to perform a display. The display driving device includes: a time-series data generating section for arranging division data obtained by dividing the image data in a time-series manner, to generate time-series data; and transmission lines provided between the time-series data generating section and the display driver through which the time-series data is transmitted from the time-series data generating section. When the display area of the display device is divided into a plurality of display areas, a plurality of display drivers are provided.

Method for transferring image data to display drive in a time series

Voltage generating circuit, and common electrode drive circuit, signal

A driving circuit used in a display apparatus includes a plurality of output circuits for selecting two reference gradation voltages among a plurality of different reference gradation voltages based on display data and outputting an interpolation voltage corresponding to the display data using the two reference gradation voltages; and a plurality of supply lines for supplying the plurality of reference gradation voltages. The supply lines including a plurality of voltage supply lines and a plurality of signal supply lines. One of the plurality of voltage supply lines supplies a voltage having a minimum difference from the voltage of a common electrode of the display apparatus and another of the plurality of voltage supply lines supplies a voltage having a maximum difference from the voltage of the common electrode. The two reference gradation voltages selected by each of the output circuits are supplied by one of a plurality of pairs of supply lines. At least one of the pair has a signal supply line and a supply line having a voltage higher than the signal supply line, and another of the pairs has a signal supply line and a voltage supply line having a voltage lower than the signal supply line.

Driving circuit used in display apparatus and liquid crystal display

The driving circuit of this invention for a display device for displaying a plurality of gray levels in accordance with digital data including a first bit portion and a second bit portion includes: a first voltage dividing circuit for dividing a plurality of gray level voltages so as to generate a plurality of first interpolation voltages between the plurality of gray level voltages; a first selection circuit for selecting a first voltage and a second voltage different from the first voltage among the plurality of gray level voltages and the plurality of first interpolation voltages in accordance with the first bit portion of the digital data; a second voltage dividing circuit for dividing the first voltage and the second voltage so as to generate a plurality of second interpolation voltages between the first voltage and the second voltage; and a second selection circuit for selecting one voltage among at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage and the plurality of second interpolation voltages.

Apparatus and method for transferring image data to display driver in a

In a drive circuit for a display apparatus into which a digital video signal is input and in which a plurality of parallel signal electrodes are provided, one of signal voltages having different levels is output in accordance with the digital video signal, or two adjacent ones of said signal voltages are simultaneously output. Alternatively, one of the signal voltages is supplied to a signal electrode in one portion of one output period, and another one of the signal voltages is supplied to the signal electrode in another portion of the output period. The length ratio of the two portions of one output period is appropriately determined according to a digital video signal, whereby an arbitrary voltage corresponding to the video signal data can be applied to the pixel.

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Hisao Okada