Liquid-crystal display device and driving method thereof

• US 5,818,407 A
• Filed: 09/21/1995
• Issued: 10/06/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Maeda, Hiroshi, Gohara, Yoshihiro, Takeda, Etsuya, Hori, Seiichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Dennis-Doon
• Application Number:
  US08/531,857
• Time in Patent Office: 1,111 Days
• Field of Search: 345/92, 345/93, 345/87, 349/42, 349/43, 349/44, 349/46, 349/47, 349/48, 349/73, 349/139
• US Class Current: 345/92
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134345 Subdivided pixels, e.g. for grey scale or redundancy
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136213 Storage capacitors associated with the pixel electrode
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0876 Supplementary capacities in pixels having special driving circuits and electrodes instead of being connected to common electrode or ground; Use of additional capacitively coupled compensation electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0219 Reducing feedthrough effects in active matrix panels, i.e. voltage changes on the scan electrode influencing the pixel voltage due to capacitive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0247 Flicker reduction other than flicker reduction circuits used for single beam cathode-ray tubes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/028 by changing the viewing angle properties, e.g. widening the viewing angle, adapting the viewing angle to the view direction
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3659 the addressing of the pixel involving the control of two or more scan electrodes or two or more data electrodes, e.g. pixel voltage dependant on signal of two data electrodes

Abstract

The structure of pixel electrode constituting a pixel element of a liquid-crystal display device employing the capacitively coupling driving method and driving method for the device are described. The field of view angle at the main viewing direction is increased and the grayscale graduation reversal is eliminated through a procedure of sequentially increasing or decreasing, at each scanning busline, the value of compensating potential at a time when a potential being applied to the gate terminal of the switching element shifts from ON potential to OFF potential, to be applied on an adjacent scanning busline to which the storage capacitance is formed, by setting each of the values of storage capacitance ratio and parasitic capacitance ratio different through making each of the values of storage capacitance and parasitic capacitance formed between the plural pixel electrodes and respective switching elements within one pixel element different to each other.

Claims

1. A liquid-crystal display device comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes in each of pixel elements placed in matrix arrangement and a plurality of switching elements for switching each of said plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein

gate terminal, source terminal and drain terminal of said switching element are connected with scanning busline, data busline and pixel electrode, respectively,

each of said plurality of pixel electrodes is provided with storage capacitance of different value by overlapping a part of respective electrodes with a part of scanning busline via the insulation layer,

liquid-crystal material is held between said pixel electrode and a counter electrode,

values of storage capacitance ratio Cs/(Cs+Cgd+Cl) and parasitic capacitance ratio Cgd/(Cs+Cgd+Cl) are set different between each of said plurality of pixel electrodes within a pixel element;

where, Cs is storage capacitance value, Cgd is parasitic capacitance value formed between gate terminal and drain terminal of each switching element, Cl is pixel element capacitance value formed between respective pixel electrode and counter electrode.

5. A liquid-crystal display device according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein ratio between storage capacitance Cs and parasitic capacitance Cgd, Cgd/Cs, is the same with respect to all of plural pixel element units.

2. A liquid-crystal display device comprising one pixel electrode and one switching element for switching said pixel electrode in each of pixel elements placed in matrix arrangement, wherein

gate terminal, source terminal and drain terminal of said switching element are connected with scanning busline, data busline and pixel electrode, respectively,

storage capacitance Cs is formed by overlapping a part of respective electrodes with a part of scanning busline via an insulation layer,

liquid-crystal material is held between said pixel element and a counter electrode

parasitic capacitance Cgd is formed between gate terminal and drain terminal of the switching element,

pixel element capacitance Cl is formed between said pixel electrode and said counter electrode,

each of values of storage capacitance ratio Cs/(Cs+Cgd +Cl) and parasitic capacitance ratio Cgd/(Cs+Cgd+Cl) is set different so that the adjacent pixel elements have different values of storage capacitance and parasitic capacitance to each other with a certain regularity in rows or columns of said matrix arrangement by making said storage capacitance of the pixel electrode and the parasitic capacitance of said pixel elements placed in matrix arrangement to have different values alternately between the adjacent rows or columns of said matrix arrangement.

3. A method for driving a liquid-crystal display device comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes in each of pixel elements placed in matrix arrangement and a plurality of switching elements for switching each of said plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein

gate terminal, source terminal and drain terminal of said switching element are connected with scanning busline, data busline and pixel electrode, respectively,

each of said plurality of pixel electrodes is provided with storage capacitance of different value by overlapping a part of respective electrodes with a part of scanning busline via the insulation layer,

liquid-crystal material is held between said pixel electrode and a counter electrode,

values of storage capacitance ratio Cs/(Cs+Cgd+Cl) and parasitic capacitance ratio Cgd/(Cs+Cgd+Cl) are set different between each of said plurality of pixel electrodes within a pixel element;

where, Cs is storage capacitance value, Cgd is parasitic capacitance value formed between gate terminal and drain terminal of each switching element, Cl is pixel element capacitance value formed between respective pixel electrode and counter electrode, and

compensating potential value to be applied on an adjacent scanning busline to which said storage capacitance is formed, at a time when a potential being applied to the gate terminal of said switching element shifts from ON potential to OFF potential, is increased or decreased sequentially at each scanning busline.

6. A method for driving a liquid-crystal display device according to claim 3 or claim 4, wherein ratio between storage capacitance Cs and parasitic capacitance Cgd, Cgd/Cs, is the same with respect to all of plural pixel element units.

4. A method for driving a liquid-crystal display device comprising one pixel electrode and one switching element for switching said pixel electrode in each of pixel elements placed in matrix arrangement, wherein

gate terminal, source terminal and drain terminal of said switching element are connected with scanning busline, data busline and pixel electrode, respectively,

storage capacitance Cs is formed by overlapping a part of respective electrodes with a part of scanning busline via an insulation layer,

liquid-crystal material is held between said pixel element and a counter electrode,

parasitic capacitance Cgd is formed between gate terminal and drain terminal of the switching element,

pixel element capacitance Cl is formed between said pixel electrode and said counter electrode,

each of values of storage capacitance ratio Cs/(Cs+Cgd +Cl) and parasitic capacitance ratio Cgd/(Cs+Cgd+Cl) is set different so that the adjacent pixel elements have different values of storage capacitance and parasitic capacitance to each other with a certain regularity in rows or columns of said matrix arrangement by making said storage capacitance of the pixel electrode and the parasitic capacitance of said pixel elements placed in matrix arrangement to have different values alternately between the adjacent rows or columns of said matrix arrangement, and

compensating potential value to be applied on an adjacent scanning busline to which said storage capacitance is formed, at a time when a potential being applied to the gate terminal of said switching element shifts from ON potential to OFF potential, is increased or decreased sequentially at each scanning busline.