Asahi Glass Company, Limited

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Takeshi Kuwata

Yutaka Nakagawa

Akira Nakazawa

Takanori Ohnishi

Yoshinori Hirai

Temkar N Ruckmongathan

Hidemasa Koh

Makoto Nagai

Hiroshi Hasebe

Hideyuki Nagano

Takashi Yamashita

Kazuyoshi Kawaguchi

Goro Asari

Temkar Ruckmongathan

Hiroyuki Motegi

Masami Ito

Masao Ozeki

Kohji Ikawa

Tatsushi Asakawa

Toru Ohbiki

Satoru Ihara

A liquid crystal display (LCD) is improved. A driving method for a LCD which has a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode so that voltages to be applied to pixels are changed, wherein voltage levels in a selection time in a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) driving method are the same level between two successive column electrodes so as to obtain a color display or a gray scale display which corresponds to an intermediate voltage applied to a pixel.

Gray scale driving method for a birefringent liquid display service

A column electrode driving semiconductor integrated circuit for driving column electrodes in a liquid crystal display device to be driven by a multiple line selection method wherein the liquid crystal display device has a select and output circuit which selects a specified voltage value among voltage values having the member of levels corresponding to the member of simultaneously selected row electrodes, and applies the selected voltage value to each column electrode, wherein a memory unit including a control circuit stores display data and outputs the data on each row electrode in simultaneously selected lines, and an arithmetic circuit unit including an arithmetic processing circuit receives the data outputted from the memory unit and selection data indicating a voltage pattern applied to a selected row electrode and produces by arithmetic processing information of voltages selected by the select and output circuit unit.

Driving device, a column electrode driving semiconductor integrated

Driving method for a liquid crystal display device

A method of driving a liquid crystal display device by selecting simultaneously a plurality of lines in a liquid crystal display element characterized in that display data are temporality stored in memories; the data are read out plural times from the memories, and arithmetic operation are performed to the read-out data to produce signals to be applied to data electrodes, wherein the picture area is divided into a plurality of picture area blocks each including scanning lines the number of which are a multiple of a natural number of simultaneously selected scanning lines; the memories are divided into a plurality of memory blocks each having capacity capable of reading and writing data displayed on the picture area blocks; fames for writing are made in synchronism with frames for reading the data, and a memory block undergoes a predetermined number of times of reading, and then new display data are written into said memory block.

Method of driving a liquid crystal display device and a driving circuit

Method of driving a picture display device

A method of driving an image display device including the steps of: dividing row electrodes of an image display device having a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes into a plurality of subgroups; selecting summarizingly one of the plurality of subgroups; applying voltages based on signals formed by expanding time-sequentially column vectors of an orthogonal matrix on the row electrodes; performing a gray scale display by a frame rate control (FRC) by using a plurality of frames; performing a space modulation shifting a phase of the FRC with a pixel block comprising a plurality of pixels as a unit; and wherein the phase of the space modulation is set such that a ratio of the columns each applying an equally effective voltage on all of the pixels in the column in each frame in displaying an intermediate gray scale level by all of the pixels belonging to the same subgroup is 40% or more on an average of all of the intermediate gray scale levels and all of the frames.

Multiple line simultaneous selection method for a simple matrix LCD

A method of forming column signals for driving a liquid crystal display apparatus having a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes wherein a plurality of the row electrodes are selected as a batch; the column electrodes are applied with voltages based on orthogonal transformation signals which are obtained by transforming picture signals corresponding to the positions of the simultaneously selected row electrodes on a panel by an orthogonal function, and the row electrodes are applied with the voltages based on the orthogonal transformation signals; the formation of column signals from the picture signals corresponding to the positions of the simultaneously selected row electrodes on the panel includes a serial-parallel transforming step of transforming inputted picture signals into those having a predetermined bit length, a writing/reading step of reading the picture signals having a predetermined bit length after the picture signals have once been written in a memory; and an operating step of transforming by the orthogonal function the picture signals readout from the memory into the orthogonal transformation signals, wherein a random access mode is used for writing the picture signals in the writing/reading step, and data on the row electrodes corresponding to the same column electrodes are stored in an L number of adjoining addresses with respect to an L number of simultaneously selected row electrodes.

Method for forming column signals for a liquid crystal display apparatus

A display apparatus in which the light transmittance of a pixel selected by a scanning electrode and a data electrode is changed in correspondence with a difference of voltages applied to the scanning electrode and the data electrode has a display panel having a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of data electrodes, a signified video signal forming device for forming signified video signals by distributing digital video signals in a picture to subpictures having the same number as bits each having a bit significance; an orthogonal function generator for generating orthogonal function signals having substantial orthogonality; an orthogonal transformation signal generator for receiving the signified video signals and the orthogonal function signals to operate and output data signals; a scanning voltage generator for receiving scanning signals to apply scanning voltages to the scanning electrodes of the display panel; and a data voltage generator for receiving data signals to apply data voltages to the data electrodes of the display panel, wherein the scanning voltage generator and the data voltage generator are such ones that the peak value of a driving voltage, in each of the subpictures, applied to the display panel as a voltage difference between the scanning voltage and the data voltage corresponds to a significance value of a bit of the digital video signals.

Display apparatus and a driving method for a display apparatus

A driving method of a matrix type liquid crystal display element including at least J.times.L (J and L are respectively integers of 2 or more) row electrodes and a plural number of column electrodes wherein the J.times.L row electrodes are divided into J row electrode subgroups each including n row electrodes so that the subgroups are selected as each batch to be driven. When voltages are applied to the row electrodes, either a voltage level of +V.sub.r or -V.sub.r (where V.sub.r &gt;0) is applied at a selection time, when a voltage at a non-selection time is 0 (zero). Voltages applied to the column electrodes are selected from (L+1) voltage levels of V.sub.0, V.sub.1, . . . , V.sub.L (where V.sub.0 &lt;V.sub.1 . . . &lt;V.sub.L), and when a two-valued information of the j-th line electrode subgroup (j is an integer of any of 1 through J) in a specified column in the plural column electrodes is expressed by a column vector D.sub.j having L elements (where the elements of the vector D.sub.j include 1 indicating ON and 0 indicating OFF), specific conditions must be satisfied.

Driving method of driving a liquid crystal display element

A display apparatus wherein the light transmittance of a pixel selected by a scanning electrode and a data electrode is changed in response to the difference of voltages applied to the scanning electrode and the data electrode, which comprises a display panel having a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of data electrodes, a scanning voltage generator for applying a scanning voltage to the scanning electrodes of the display panel by receiving a scanning signal, a data voltage generator for applying a data voltage to the data electrodes of the display panel by receiving a data signal, an orthogonal function generator for generating an orthogonal function signal having substantially orthogonality, and a data signal forming circuit for operating the data signal based on a predetermined video signal and the orthogonal function signal generated from the orthogonal function generator, wherein the data signal forming circuit includes a field video signal converter for distributing signals for a single picture to those for a plurality of sub-pictures, and an orthogonal conversion signal generator for effecting orthogonal conversion of an input signal by the orthogonal function signal generated from the orthogonal function generator, the field video signal converter and the orthogonal conversion signal generator being connected in series, and a correction signal generator for generating a correction signal to be included in the data signal so that an effective voltage applied to a pixel in a non-selection time is substantially constant to any pixel.

Display apparatus and a data signal forming method for the display

A driving method for a liquid crystal display element including L row electrodes and K column electrodes in which two kinds of data, data corresponding to a logical '0' and data corresponding to a logical '1', are used to display gray shades. The row electrodes are divided into row electrode subgroups which are selected as a batch. When the row electrode subgroups are selected, they have a positive voltage level with respect to a non-election voltage and a negative voltage level with respect to a selection voltage. A matrix of column vector components in which row voltages are time-sequentially arranged form a display cycle in each of the row electrode subgroups, and such a matrix has orthogonality. Row voltages are dispersively applied in a display cycle in each of the row electrode subgroups. Further, a number of column vector components K is related to a number of row electrodes L such that K is a minimum value satisfying the orthogonality and L is.ltoreq.2.sup.P =K, where K, L and P are integers. A gray shade is then effectuated by displaying a plural number of ON and OFF signs at a specified ratio.

A method of driving a display element wherein a light transmittance of a pixel selected by a row electrode and a column electrode changes in accordance with a difference between voltages applied on the row electrode and the column electrode, is employed which satisfies several conditions.

Method of driving display element and its driving device

A driving method of a liquid crystal display element having plural numbers of scanning electrodes and data electrodes where a J.times.L number (J and L are each integers.gtoreq.2) of scanning electrodes are divided into J subgroups each having L scanning electrodes so that the subgroups are selected and driven as a batch. The subgroups are selected while the following conditions are satisfied: (1) in L=k.multidot.N.multidot.T/.tau., a value satisfying k=10-250 is determined, where L is the number of row electrodes selected, N is the total number of row electrodes, T is a selection time of a single scanning electrode and .tau. is an average response time of a liquid crystal display element; (2) in a selection time, a voltage is applied to the scanning electrodes in a positive or negative direction with respect to an intermediate voltage, and in a non-selection time, the intermediate voltage is applied to the same, (3) for a selection voltage matrix, an orthogonal matrix A having L rows and elements of +1 and -1 which correspond respectively to a positive voltage and a negative voltage, is selected, and (4) in a selection time of the scanning electrode subgroups, application of the voltage is so made that elements of a column vector in the selection voltage matrix correspond to the amplitudes of the voltage to the scanning electrodes forming the scanning electrode subgroups.

An image display device having an electro-optical medium interposed between a pair of electrode substrates composing a matrix electrode, a driving circuit for driving the electro-optical medium by selectively applying a voltage on the matrix electrode and a reference voltage generator for supplying the driving circuit with a predetermined driving voltage. A noise compensating circuit is interposed between the driving circuit and the reference voltage generator, the noise compensating circuit detecting a noise in a voltage supplied from the reference voltage generator to the electro-optical medium at a predetermined noise detecting position, forming a noise compensating voltage having a first polarity reverse to a second polarity of the noise by using the noise, and supplying the noise compensating voltage to the driving circuit.

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Takeshi Kuwata