Hitachi Displays, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.

Japan Display Inc.

Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering, Ltd.

Hitachi Tokyo Electronics Co., Ltd.

Toshihiro Satou

Hajime Akimoto

Naruhiko Kasai

Hiroki Awakura

Yoshiro Mikami

Takayuki Ouchi

Yoshiyuki Kaneko

Tsutomu Furuhashi

Hiroshi Kageyama

Michio Tanimoto

Susumu Okikawa

Tsuyoshi Kaneda

Hiroshi Mikino

Mitsuhisa Fujita

Atsushi Onodera

Hiroshi Watanabe

The present invention comprises: a display unit having a plurality of display elements arranged in a matrix; a drive voltage generating circuit for generating a drive voltage for driving the plurality of display elements; a dataline drive circuit for generating a signal voltage according to display data, the signal voltage being for controlling the amount of current in a supply line of the drive voltage; a scanline drive circuit for selecting one or more of the plurality of display elements which is to be driven; and a pixel light emission control circuit for controlling a light emission time period of each display element according to a distance measured along a current path from the drive voltage generating circuit to the display element.

Display apparatus

The present invention comprises: a display unit having a plurality of pixels arranged therein, each pixel including an organic EL element, a switching TFT, and a drive TFT; a data signal drive circuit for receiving image data for each frame period and outputting an image signal based on the image data; a scanning signal drive circuit for outputting a scanning signal for controlling a timing at which the switching element of each of the plurality of pixels receives the image signal; and a current source (a light emission power supply unit and a cathode potential control circuit together) for outputting a current supplied to the light emitting unit of each of the plurality of pixels through its drive element; wherein the current source modulates the value of the output current within each frame period.

Display apparatus and display control method

A display apparatus comprises a self-luminous device display having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a matrix, a drive voltage generation circuit to generate a drive voltage signal for driving light emitting elements, a blanking period control-included data line drive circuit which controls the drive voltage either according to or irrelevantly to the display data, a scan line drive circuit to determine which light emitting elements to drive, and a pixel control circuit to control voltage written to pixels.

Display apparatus having matrix display elements

A self-emission type display device is disclosed. A current comparator circuit () in a data line drive circuit having a current compensating function () detects only the result of size comparison between the current amount due to the degeneration of a self-emission element and a reference value. The reduction of the current amount below the reference value is stored by being added to the least significant bits of a display data storage circuit (). In accordance with the display data read from the storage circuit (), a D/A conversion circuit () generates a write signal voltage.

Self-emission type display device

A display control circuit and a display unit are provided. The display control circuit generates a sweep signal that is at a fixed voltage level for an arbitrary period. The display unit compares the magnitude of a signal voltage that is written by a data line drive circuit in accordance with display data and the magnitude of the sweep signal generated by the display control circuit, and exercises illumination/nonillumination control in accordance with the comparison result.

Display device

In an image display device according to the present invention, means for selecting a pixel to which a display signal current is to be passed has a function of selecting a plurality of pixels simultaneously. Thus, high-precision display can be realized with a number of pixels.

Image display device

An image display apparatus includes a plurality of scanning wires in an image display region for transmitting a scanning signal, a plurality of signal wires intersecting the plurality of scanning wires in the image display region for transmitting a signal voltage, a plurality of current driven electroooptical display elements each arranged in a pixel region surrounded by the wires connected to a common power supply, a plurality of driving elements in the pixel region connected with the electro-optical display elements and a plurality of memory control circuits for holding the signal voltage in response to the scanning signal to control driving of the driving elements based on the held signal voltage. The memory control circuit samples and holds the signal voltage while blocking a bias voltage from being applied to the driving elements, and subsequently applies the driving elements with the held signal voltage as the bias voltage.

Image display apparatus

An image display apparatus includes a display having data holding function, a vertical drive circuit sequentially and selectively scanning matrix form display elements, and a horizontal drive circuit writing a voltage among binary voltage preliminarily assigned depending upon the digital data of the image signal. The horizontal drive circuit and the vertical drive circuit are operated for performing selective scan of respective display element for at least m times in one frame period. The vertical drive circuit is constituted of n number of sequence circuits and logic operation circuits for outputs of the sequence circuits, where n is smaller than m, a period from inputting to the sequence circuit to outputting from the final stage being less than or equal to half of one frame period, and at least one of the sequence circuits being used with selectively inputting a plurality of inputs.

A practical-purpose structure of an active-matrix display device digitally driven with vertical scanning being multiplexed includes a vertical driver having sequential circuits and logic circuits provided on a bit-by-bit basis and arranged for adding sequentially products of outputs of the sequential circuit/logic circuit and a control signal for dividing a horizontal scanning period, and a horizontal driver having line latches provided on a bit-by-bit basis and arranged for adding sequentially products of outputs of the line latches and the control signal for dividing the horizontal scanning period. Enhanced luminance of display, manufacturing at low cost and high image quality can be realized with a reasonable wiring density.

As each of sampling switch elements turns on in response to a scanning signal, a signal voltage from a signal wire is held on and written into a sampling capacitor. At this time, the signal voltage is held on the sampling capacitor on the basis of a common electrode. As the scanning signal transitions from high level to low level, each of the sampling switch elements turns off and changes into a floating state in which the sampling capacitor is electrically insulated from the signal wire and a driving TFT. As the scanning signal changes from high level to low level, each of the driving switches becomes conductive so that the signal voltage held on the sampling capacitor is applied as it is between the source and gate of the driving TFT as a bias voltage to make the driving TFT conductive, causing an organic LED to emit light.

The present invention is characterized in that, in a ball wedge bonding using a fine bonding wire precoated with a thin insulating layer, ultrasonic vibration is applied to a capillary to effect the delivery of the wire smoothly during movement of the capillary to a second bonding point while delivering the wire after ball bonding at a first bonding point.

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