DISPLAY SYSTEM, DRIVER AND METHOD THEREOF FOR VOLTAGE OFFSET ADJUSTMENT

• US 20190325808A1
• Filed: 04/20/2018
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2018
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corporation (Novatek Microelectronics Corp Limited)
• Original Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corporation (Novatek Microelectronics Corp Limited)
• Inventors: Liang, Keko-Chun, Cheng, Jhih-Siou, Cheng, Wen-Hsin
• Application Number:
  US15/957,910
• Publication Number:
  US 20190325808A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/027 Details of drivers for data electrodes, the drivers handling digital grey scale data, e.g. use of D/A converters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0291 Details of output amplifiers or buffers arranged for use in a driving circuit
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0294 Details of sampling or holding circuits arranged for use in a driver for data electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0204 Compensation of DC component across the pixels in flat panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0233 Improving the luminance or brightness uniformity across the screen
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2092 Details of a display terminals using a flat panel, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto suitable for both CRT and flat panel G09G5/003; specific for a CRT G09G1/165
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2096 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a flat panel suitable for both CRT and flat panel G09G5/006; specific for a CRT G09G1/167

Abstract

A driver of a display panel comprises an operational amplifier and a bias control circuit. The operational amplifier outputs an output signal to drive the display panel according to a bias voltage. The bias control circuit is coupled to the operational amplifier and is configured to output the bias voltage to the operational amplifier, wherein the bias control circuit generates the bias voltage according to a random bit stream. The bias voltage is changed according to signal levels of the random bit stream, and a systematic voltage offset of the operational amplifier is adjusted according to the bias voltage. A method adapted to a driver of a display panel, and a display system are also introduced.

Claims

1. A driver of a display panel, the driver comprising:

an operational amplifier, outputting an output signal to drive the display panel according to a bias voltage; and

a bias control circuit, coupled to the operational amplifier and outputting the bias voltage to the operational amplifier, wherein the bias control circuit generates the bias voltage according to a random bit stream.

2. The driver of claim 1, further comprising:

a digital-to-analog converter, coupled to the operational amplifier and converting a digital signal to an analog signal, wherein the digital signal is transmitted from an image processing circuit to the digital-to-analog converter.

3. The driver of claim 2, wherein the operational amplifier comprises an inverting terminal, a non-inverting terminal and an output terminal, the non-inverting terminal of the digital-to-analog converter receives the analog signal, and the inverting terminal of the digital-to-analog converter is coupled to the output terminal of the digital-to-analog converter.

4. The driver of claim 1, wherein a systematic voltage offset of the operational amplifier is adjusted according to the bias voltage.

5. The driver of claim 1, wherein the bias voltage is changed according to signal levels of the random bit stream.

6. The driver of claim 5, wherein the bias control circuit comprises:

a current source, supplying a current according to the level of the random bit stream; and

a transistor, coupled to the current source, providing the bias voltage according to the current.

7. The driver of claim 1, wherein the operational amplifier comprises a differential difference amplifier, the differential difference amplifier comprises a first transistor, a second transistor and a third transistor,

wherein a control terminal of the first transistor is coupled to one of the inverting terminal and the non-inverting terminal of the operational amplifier, a control terminal of the second transistor is coupled to another one of the inverting terminal and the non-inverting terminal of the operational amplifier, and a control terminal of the third transistor is coupled to the bias control circuit to receive the bias voltage.

8. A method adapted to a driver of a display panel, the method comprising:

providing a random bit stream;

generating a bias voltage according to the random bit stream, wherein the bias voltage is configured to bias an operational amplifier; and

outputting an output signal according to the bias voltage, wherein the output signal is configured to drive the display panel.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

converting a digital signal to an analog signal, wherein the digital signal is obtained from an image processing circuit; and

providing the analog signal to a non-inverting terminal of the operational amplifier.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein a systematic voltage offset of the operational amplifier is adjusted according to the bias voltage.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the bias voltage is changed according to signal levels of the random bit stream.

12. A display system, comprising:

a display panel, configured to display image data according to an output signal; and

a driver, coupled the display panel, wherein the driver comprises;

an operational amplifier, outputting the output signal to drive the display panel according to a bias voltage; and

a bias control circuit, coupled to the operational amplifier and outputting the bias voltage to the operational amplifier, wherein the bias control circuit generates the bias voltage according to a random bit stream.

13. The display system of claim 12, further comprising:

an image processing circuit, coupled to the driver and outputting a digital signal to the driver,

wherein the driver further comprises a digital-to-analog converter, coupled to the operational amplifier and converting the digital signal which is received from the image processing circuit to an analog signal.

14. The display system of claim 13, wherein the operational amplifier comprises an inverting terminal, a non-inverting terminal and an output terminal, the non-inverting terminal of the digital-to-analog converter receives the analog signal, and the inverting terminal of the digital-to-analog converter is coupled to the output terminal of the digital-to-analog converter.

15. The display system of claim 12, wherein a systematic voltage offset of the operational amplifier is adjusted according to the bias voltage.

16. The display system of claim 12, wherein the bias voltage is changed according to signal levels of the random bit stream.

17. The display system of claim 12, wherein the bias control circuit comprises:

a current source, supplying a current according to the level of the random bit stream; and

a transistor, coupled to the current source, providing the bias voltage according to the current.

18. The display system of claim 12, wherein the operational amplifier comprises a differential difference amplifier, the differential difference amplifier comprises a first transistor, a second transistor and a third transistor,

wherein a control terminal of the first transistor is coupled to one of the inverting terminal and the non-inverting terminal of the operational amplifier, a control terminal of the second transistor is coupled to another one of the inverting terminal and the non-inverting terminal of the operational amplifier, and a control terminal of the third transistor is coupled to the bias control circuit to receive the bias voltage.