Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kiyohisa Matsui

Norio Yasunishi

Koki Taniguchi

Yutaka Ishii

Hajime Washio

Kunihiko Yamamoto

Toshihiro Nakamura

Toshihiro Ohba

Junji Tanaka

Yoshiki Sano

Hiromasa Asada

A driving method for a liquid crystal display is provided with the steps of (a) applying a row select voltage to each of the row electrodes simultaneously, the row select voltage corresponding to an element of an orthogonal matrix and being either +1 or -1 ; (b) conducting an exclusive-or operation with respect to each element of a row select vector and a display vector, the row select vector indicating the row select voltages by vector notation and the display vector indicating a display data by the vector notation, and conducting a summation of each exclusive-or operation; (c) applying to the column electrode a voltage of a level which varies depending on the summation so as to simultaneously drive the plurality of rows; and (d) in a case where all the display data correspond to ON display or OFF display in the step (c), assigning the row select voltage, applied to either the selected row electrode having the lowest select voltage among driving voltages within one frame period for the ON display or the selected row electrode having the highest select voltage among the driving voltages within one frame period for the OFF display, to a virtual row electrode outside a display area, and applying a virtual display data to the virtual row electrode.

Driving method for a liquid crystal display

A driving device for a display apparatus having excellent contrast and a high display quality without crosstalk and display irregularities, and a driving method for the same are provided. In the driving device, scanning signals and data signals having a plurality of periodical inactive portions in one frame are applied to respective display dots. In the inactive term, a fixed voltage is applied to each of the display dots. The signal applied to the display dot is divided into small terms by the inactive portions, resulting in more high frequency components in a voltage signal applied to the display dot. As a result, the frequency components of a driving signal applied to the display dot are averaged. Further, a complete orthogonal function having 2.sup.r base function series is used, and a desired display data is completely reproduced on the display apparatus by an arithmetic process assuming auxiliary data in accordance with the number of the scanning electrodes.

Driving device for a display panel and a driving method of the same

A sample/hold apparatus includes at least one sample/hold circuit. The at least one sample/hold circuit has a resistor connected to an input bus at one end thereof, a sampling gate connected to the other end of the resistor at one end thereof for opening and closing in response to a sampling signal supplied thereto, and a first capacitor connected to the other end of the sampling gate at one end thereof for holding analog data supplied from the input bus through the resistor and the sampling gate.

Apparatus for sampling and holding analog data for a liquid crystal

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Kiyohisa Matsui