Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Teruyuki Fujii

Yasuhiro Shin

A static key interface circuit has an input terminal coupled to N key switches, where N is an integer greater than one. The N key switches are biased at different potentials, which are supplied to the input terminal when the key switches are closed. A multilevel detector in the key interface circuit detects the potential of the input terminal and generates corresponding result data. A dynamic key interface circuit has an input terminal coupled to P rows of N key switches each and scans the P rows in turn, using a similar multilevel detector. The multilevel detector increases the number of key switches connectable to a single input terminal by a factor of N.

Key interface circuit with reduced number of input terminals

Disclosed herein is an LCD driver circuit comprising a plurality of cascade-connected LCD drivers. The LCD driver circuit can be activated to make a latch pulse signal input thereto active on the trailing edge thereof and operated even if a corresponding clock pulse signal is input in confronting relationship during a period in which the latch pulse signal is being input. Each of the LCD drivers has a latch pulse control circuit for selecting either one of a first latch pulse signal and a second latch pulse signal generated corresponding to the first latch pulse signal in accordance with an enable signal input at the time the LCD drivers are cascaded, thereby controlling an enable latch circuit and a shift register.

LCD driver circuit

A cascaded driver circuit has two or more stages connected to a common serial data signal line and a common clock pulse signal line. Each stage has a counter circuit for dividing the frequency of the clock pulse signal and an enable latch circuit for latching an enable signal, received from the preceding stage, in response to the divided clock pulses. A data latching circuit in each stage latches serial data in response to the clock pulse signal, starting when the enable signal is latched and stopping when a first number of bits of serial data have been latched. An enable output circuit in each stage sends an enable signal to the next stage when the data latching circuit has latched a second number of bits, the second number being at least two less than the first number.

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Tokyo, Japan

Teruyuki Fujii