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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2007
Sébastien Weitbruch, Kappel, DE;
Cédric Thebault, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Carlos Correa, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Sébastien Weitbruch, Kappel, DE;
Cédric Thebault, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Carlos Correa, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Overheating while enabling a full flexibility in the display usage should be avoided. This object is solved by a method for avoiding the overheating of a driver circuit in a plasma display panel wherein the driver circuit receives serially display data in form of a sequence of sub-field data bits and forwards parallelly the display data in the form of data blocks each consisting of a predefined number of sub-field data bits, the method comprising the steps of counting sub-field data bits the value of which differs from that of a neighboring or preceding sub-field data bit and providing a respective counting signal indicative of heat contributions of sub-field data bits and, if said counting signal is above a pregiven threshold, taking countermeasures for reducing said temperature.