Fujitsu Corporation

Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited

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Hitachi, Ltd.

Kyoji Kariya

Toshio Ueda

Shigeo Mikoshiba

Katsuhiro Ishida

Akira Yamamoto

Tomokatsu Kishi

Naoki Matsui

Hirohito Kuriyama

Masaya Tajima

Kosaku Toda

Takashi Sasaki

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Yoshikazu Kanazawa

Keizo Suzuki

Tsutae Shinoda

Masatoshi Shiiki

Tetsuya Sakamoto

Masanori Takeuchi

Kenichi Yamamoto

Takayuki Shimizu

Tomokazu Shiga

Takayuki Ooe

Kazuo Yoshikawa

Shigetoshi Tomio

Akira Otsuka

Ayahito Kojima

Tadatsugu Hirose

Shigeki Kameyama

Keishin Nagaoka

Kiyoshi Igarashi

Yoshimasa Awata

Hiroyuki Wakayama

Kohsaku Toda

Yiwen Zhu

Kazuki Sawa

Jiro Toyama

Hiromi Takaoka

Makiko Yamada

There is provided a plasma display device capable of high luminous efficacy and stable driving for displaying images at various image display load factors. The plasma display device performs the sustain discharge for a light-emission display, and is configured to apply a sustain pulse voltage between a sustain electrode pair in a respective one of the plural discharge cells to generate a sustain discharge in a respective one of the following operating modes selected based upon use of the plasma display device: (a) generating a pre-discharge and then a main discharge; (b) generating a main discharge without a pre-discharge preceding the main discharge; and (c) switching between the mode (a) and the mode (b). The sustain voltage waveforms are used which compensate for an increase in voltage drop due to an increase in discharge current when the image display load factor is excessively increased.

Plasma display device having improved luminous efficacy

A PDP apparatus, the peak luminance of which has been improved with little modification of the existing circuit structure, has been disclosed, in which a thinning process that shortens an address period by hiding part of display lines in a fixed subfield of a low luminance is performed, the saved time is increased by an amount corresponding to that from which the luminance weight (the number of sustain discharge pulses, that is, the length of the sustain discharge period) of the thinned subfield of a low luminance is subtracted, and the remaining time is allocated at the ratio of the luminance weights on completion of the first step in each subfield.

Plasma display apparatus with increased peak luminance

A method of driving a display device assumes a specific pixel on a retina that is formed on the retina based on an input image, and controls light emission of each subframe such that luminance of a specific pixel on the retina becomes substantially equal to luminance of a pixel corresponding to the input image. The display device is driven by constructing one frame with a plurality of subframes, for displaying the input image that moves on a display panel.

Method of driving display device capable of achieving display of images in higher precision without changing conventional specifications of panel

A method of displaying display data on a plasma display panel which displays odd-number lines in a plurality of sub-fields and even-number lines in a plurality of sub-fields includes the steps of checking whether the display data is computer-related data or video data. The method further includes the steps of displaying odd-number lines in a predetermined number of sub-fields during a given vertical scan cycle and even-number lines in the predetermined number of sub-fields during another vertical scan cycle if the display data is video data, and displaying odd-number lines in half the predetermined number of sub-fields and even-number lines in the remaining half of the predetermined number of sub-fields in each vertical scan cycle if the display data is computer-related data.

Driving plasma display panel without visible flickering

A method of displaying a dynamic halftone image on a display panel made of pixels divides each frame of the image into subframes and turns on and off the subframes. The method includes the steps of finding a line of pixels that simultaneously display a specific intensity level in a frame and another specific intensity level in the next frame, counting the number of pixels in the line, selecting corrective pulses, which turn on/off corresponding subframes to enable/disable corresponding intensity levels, according to the counted number and a change in the specific intensity levels between the frames, and adjusting original display signals for the pixels in the line according to the corrective pulses, respectively. The method eliminates halftone disturbance and false color contours from the image even if the moving speed of the image on the display panel is high.

Method of and apparatus for displaying halftone images

A halftone display method utilizes an activation sequence, having a plurality of luminance blocks predefined in each frame or field to display an image and having redundancy, that enables one gray-scale level to be expressed by any one of a plurality of combinations of subframes (luminance blocks). When determining luminance blocks for use to display gray scale of an arbitrary first pixel, the luminance blocks to be used for the first pixel are selected in accordance with a predetermined rule, based on how the luminance blocks are used for a second pixel located in close proximity to the first pixel. In this way, by actively utilizing the redundancy of the activation sequence, the occurrence of moving-image false contours (false color contours) in video can be minimized, and also a motion compensation equalizing pulse method can be effectively applied to further improve the image display quality.

Halftone display method and display apparatus for reducing halftone disturbances occurring in moving image portions

In a plasma display apparatus with power consumption control, a control method is provided that eliminates unnaturalness of images during power control and that holds power consumption to within a target value regardless of the type of image pattern displayed. Differences between power consumption P,and target value P,are summed to calculate power consumption sum value P,, and if P,is negative, brightness set value MCBC is set to its maximum value MCBC,. If P,is positive, the value calculated by the equation &ldquo;MCBC,&minus;P,&times;MCBC,/P,&rdquo; is set as the MCBC.

Method and apparatus for controlling power consumption of display unit, display system equipped with the same, and storage medium with program stored therein for implementing the same

An intraframe time-division multiplexing type display device prevents prominent image defects, such as flicker, and affords a high-quality image display. A single frame of an image is displayed while changing a gray-scale level thereof by means of a number of sub-frames, each sub-frame comprising at least an address period and a sustained discharge period; further, the sub-frames have respective, mutually different sustained discharge periods. A gray-scale level adjustment unit arbitrarily sets the selection sequence of each of the number of sub-frames within an individual frame that is to be in a sustained discharge state.

Intraframe time-division multiplexing type display device and a method of displaying gray-scales in an intraframe time-division multiplexing type display device

A PDP driving method for more reliably lighting cells that should be lit has been disclosed. The pulse duration of a scanning pulse can be varied depending on a scan line. The pulse duration of a scanning pulse to be applied to a scan line, to which numerous cells each having a high probability of becoming a flickering missing point because a priming effect is unavailable or small are connected, is made longer than that of a scanning pulse to be applied to the other scan lines. When a cell connected to the same address line and to an immediately preceding scan line or a scan line preceding the immediately preceding scan line is unlit, the pulse duration of a scanning pulse to be applied to a cell concerned is made longer. When a whole panel is noted, a scanning pulse having a long pulse duration is applied at least to the first scan bus line. If possible, the scanning pulse having a long pulse duration is applied to the second and third scan lines. As for the other scan lines, since they are influenced by display data, it is judged on the basis of display data to be displayed during the next cycle prior to the next cycle if each cell has a high probability of an addressing discharge failure.

Plasma display having variable scan line pulses to reduce flickering

A method displays a halftone image on a display unit by using a frame division technique that divides each frame of the halftone image into subframes each having a specific sustain discharge period to provide a specific intensity level. The method differs the position of the halftone image on the display unit from subframe to subframe in each frame. The method is capable of displaying dynamic halftone images without intensity level disturbance, smears, or false color contours.

A triple-electrode planar display capable of achieving further power saving has been disclosed. A drive unit is dedicated to a planar display having a display panel in which cells being arranged in the form of a matrix and having a memory function and discharge glow function are formed, in which one of each pair of electrodes on the same substrate which are responsible for discharge glow is a common electrode connected in common. The drive unit includes a common electrode drive circuit for applying an alternating voltage to the common electrode, and a power save circuit that when the common electrode is changed from a high potential to a low potential, restores and accumulates power applied to the common electrode, and that when the common electrode is changed from the high potential to the low potential, applies accumulated power to the common electrode. The power save circuit includes a restoration channel that includes a capacitive element and inductance element and that restores power, and an application channel that includes an inductance element and that applies accumulated power to the common electrode.

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Kyoji Kariya