Display Device And Method For Driving The Same

• US 20110175874A1
• Filed: 01/14/2011
• Published: 07/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hayakawa, Masahiko, Wakimoto, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US13/006,689
• Publication Number:
  US 20110175874A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/207
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/029 by monitoring one or more pixels in the display panel, e.g. by monitoring a fixed reference pixel
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/141 the light conveying information used for selecting or modulating the light emitting or modulating element
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/144 the light being ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3406 Control of illumination source illumination devices structurally associated with liquid crystal cells G02F1/1336
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

A liquid crystal display device includes an optical sensor provided near an end portion of a liquid crystal display panel, a pixel provided in a display region of the liquid crystal panel, and a monitoring pixel. The optical sensor detects illuminance of light delivered from the liquid crystal display panel side. The pixel for which a transistor whose off-state current is low and the monitoring pixel are supplied with a potential to display a still image, at least light transmitted through a liquid crystal layer of the monitoring pixel is detected by the optical sensor, and the pixel in the display region of the liquid crystal display panel and the monitoring pixel are supplied again with a potential when a rate of change in illuminance reaches a predetermined value, so that the still image is kept being displayed.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a liquid crystal display panel;

a display control circuit electrically connected to a driver circuit of the liquid crystal display panel;

a monitoring pixel in the liquid crystal display panel; and

an optical sensor electrically connected to the display control circuit, the optical sensor configured to detect an illuminance of the monitoring pixel.

2. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the optical sensor is configured to detect a light reflected by the monitoring pixel.

3. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the optical sensor has peak sensitivity to light in a visible-light wavelength range.

4. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the monitoring pixel is provided outside a display region of the liquid crystal display panel.

5. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising a light guide plate, wherein the optical sensor is configured to detect a light through the light guide plate.

6. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the monitoring pixel comprises a transistor comprising a semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor.

7. An electronic device comprising the display device according to claim 1.

8. A display device comprising:

a liquid crystal display panel;

a display control circuit electrically connected to a driver circuit of the liquid crystal display panel;

a backlight portion electrically connected to the display control circuit;

a monitoring pixel in the liquid crystal display panel; and

an optical sensor electrically connected to the display control circuit, the optical sensor configured to detect a light transmitted through the monitoring pixel.

9. The display device according to claim 8, further comprising a second monitoring pixel in the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the optical sensor is configured to configured to detect a light reflected by the second monitoring pixel.

10. The display device according to claim 9, further comprising a second optical sensor configured to detect a light from an outside of the liquid crystal display panel.

11. The display device according to claim 8,

wherein the optical sensor has peak sensitivity to light in a visible-light wavelength range.

12. The display device according to claim 8,

wherein the monitoring pixel is provided outside a display region of the liquid crystal display panel.

13. The display device according to claim 8, further comprising a light guide plate, wherein the optical sensor is configured to detect a light through the light guide plate.

14. The display device according to claim 8,

wherein the monitoring pixel comprises a transistor comprising a semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor.

15. An electronic device comprising the display device according to claim 8.

16. A method for driving a display device, comprising the steps of:

supplying a first potential to a pixel in a display region of a liquid crystal display panel for displaying a first still image;

supplying a second potential to a monitoring pixel in the liquid crystal display panel for displaying a second still image;

detecting at least a light transmitted through a liquid crystal layer of the monitoring pixel from a backlight by an optical sensor; and

supplying a third potential to the pixel in the display region of the liquid crystal display panel and a fourth potential to the monitoring pixel when a rate of change in illuminance of the light detected by the optical sensor reaches a value, so that the first still image and the second still image are kept being displayed.

17. The method for driving a display device according to claim 16,

wherein the third potential supplied to the pixel is gradually increased.

18. A method for driving a display device, comprising the steps of:

supplying a first potential to a pixel in a display region of a liquid crystal display panel for displaying a first still image;

supplying a second potential to a monitoring pixel in the liquid crystal display panel for displaying a second still image;

detecting a first light from an outside of the liquid crystal display panel by a first optical sensor;

detecting at least a second light transmitted through a liquid crystal layer of the monitoring pixel and reflected by an inside portion of the liquid crystal display panel by a second optical sensor; and

calculating a rate of change in illuminance of a reflected light due to a reduction in a pixel potential of the liquid crystal display panel from a difference between a rate of change in illuminance of the first light detected by the first optical sensor and a rate of change in illuminance of the second light detected by the second optical sensor; and

supplying a third potential to the pixel in the display region of the liquid crystal display panel and a fourth potential to the monitoring pixel when the rate of change in illuminance of the reflected light due to the reduction in the pixel potential of the liquid crystal display panel reaches a value, so that the first still image and the second still image are kept being displayed.

19. The method for driving a display device according to claim 18,

wherein the second optical sensor detects the second light transmitted through a liquid crystal layer of a second monitoring pixel and reflected by an electrode of the liquid crystal display panel.

20. The method for driving a display device according to claim 18,

wherein the third potential supplied to the pixel is gradually increased.

21. The method for driving a display device according to claim 18,

wherein the second optical sensor detects a third light transmitted through a second monitoring pixel when a backlight operates for displaying the first still image and the second still image, and

wherein the third potential is supplied to the pixel in the display region of the liquid crystal display panel and the fourth potential is supplied to the monitoring pixel when a rate of change in illuminance of the third light reaches a value, so that the first still image and the second still image are kept being displayed.