Himax Technologies, Inc.

Kuo-Tung Hsu

Wei-Jen Chang

Shwang-Shi Bai

Ming-Yeong Chen

Chi-Hung Liao

Chang-Lung Wu

Huan-Sen Liao

Jen-Chun Peng

A display system includes first and second systems. First system includes first panel, first set of gate driver circuits, and first set of integrated source driver circuits, Second system includes second panel, second set of gate driver circuits, and second set of integrated source driver circuits. First set of integrated source driver circuits are cascaded-connected; the second set of integrated source driver circuits are cascaded-connected; a last one in the first set of integrated source driver circuits is coupled to a first one of the second set of integrated source driver circuits via an auxiliary communication port based on an auxiliary communication protocol; an auxiliary communication signal having frame start, frame resolution information of first system, and a system enable bit of first system is transmitted to second system via auxiliary communication port to synchronize image display operation of first system with image display operation of second system.

Display systems and integrated source driver circuits

The present invention provides a protection circuit and related operation control method to enable the PFM circuit when the operating duration of the PFM circuit is not greater than a first threshold, and disables the PFM circuit when a rest duration of the PFM circuit is not greater than a second threshold. The present invention further provides a protection circuit and related operation control method to avoid starting excessive vertical scanning operations within one frame scanning period by masking one of the gate scanning start signal STV, the gate clock signal CKV and the gate discharge signal OEV. The present invention further provides a protection circuit and related operation control method to disable the gate scanning start signal STV when the number of clock cycles is not equal to a target number of clock cycles, which protects the gate driver from overload.

Power circuit, gate driver and related operation control method for multi-source display system

A method for driving an organic light emitting display (OLED) panel having a plurality of organic light emitting diodes is provided. The organic light emitting diodes are coupled to a plurality of segment lines and a plurality of common lines in a matrix structure. The organic light emitting diodes coupled to the same common lines are divided into a plurality of groups according to colors of the OLED panel. Driving currents are provided to the organic light emitting diodes of the groups according to a plurality of pulse width modulation (PWM) manners. The PWM manners generate waveforms having pulse width corresponding to grayscale in a period, wherein each PWM manner corresponds to different colors of the OLED panel.

Methods for driving an OLED panel

A frame-varying addressing method of a color sequential liquid crystal display is disclosed for display of successive frames. Each of the frames is composed of three subframes, and each of the subframes is composed of a plurality of scan lines. According to the frame-varying addressing method of the invention, the addressing sequence of scan lines for display of any frame or subframe is arranged in the same direction as those for display of its adjacent frames or subframes, and is selected to be different from those for display of its adjacent frames or subframes. Further, the addressing sequence for the frame (subframe) and its adjacent frames (subframes) can be periodically or randomly selected, so as to effectively balance or greatly eliminate the spatial intensity variations due to inconsistent response times at different portions of the panel.

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Tainan, Taiwan

Kuo-Tung Hsu