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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1994
Toyoshi Kawada, Atsugi, JP;
Tetsuya Kobayashi, Hadano, JP;
Hisashi Yamaguchi, Atsugi, JP;
Tetsuo Aoki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroyuki Miyata, Akashi, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A method and a system for driving an electro-luminescence display panel of a matrix type has a compensation pulse applied to all the cells prior to or in the front of a pedestal pulse on every frame cycle. The level of the compensation pulse is higher than the pedestal pulse but low enough not to light the cells by itself. The duration of the compensation pulse is long enough to saturate charge polarization in the EL material of the cell, as a dielectric, at the applied voltage. Therefore, brightness of the lighted cell is kept constant regardless of the number of lighted cells on the same data electrode. Each of two power-receiving terminals of push-pull scan drivers is connected to a pulse generator respectively. One of the two power-receiving terminals may be floated from the pulse generator while data pulse is applied to the data electrodes. This configuration prevents damage of the CMOS drivers by latch-up caused therein, as well as reducing power consumption produced by charging current of the data pulses into non-lighted cells.