Apparatus and method for controlling automatic adjustment of power supply of display panel driving system

• US 6,803,892 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2003
• Issued: 10/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Hong, Chang-wan, Roh, Chung-wook Ro
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Wilson
• Application Number:
  US10/388,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20030218431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 578 Days
• Field of Search: 345/73-77, 345/87-89, 315/169--16, 348/189-191
• US Class Current: 345/87
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/288 using AC panels

Abstract

An apparatus and method for controlling automatic adjustment of a power supply of a display panel driving system. According to the apparatus and method, a voltage of the power supply of the display panel driving system is automatically adjusted in order to have the best possible image quality. According to the apparatus and method, since the PDP driving power supply is not manually adjusted using the variable resistors as in the related art, but is automatically adjusted. The apparatus manufacturing process is simple, and deviation caused by the automatic adjustment of the power supply is decreased compared with the manual adjustment of the related art, by automatically adjusting the PDP driving voltage affecting to the contrast deviation and brightness deviation of the PDP image in the PDP driving power supply circuit so as to maintain the best possible image quality.

Claims

1. An apparatus for controlling automatic adjustment of a power supply of a driving system for a display panel, comprising:

a look-up table that stores power supply control data for controlling a display panel driving power supply corresponding to image information sensed by a sensor from an image signal output by the display panel;

a control circuit that converts the sensed image information into digital data, reads from the look-up table power supply control data corresponding to values of the digital data of the image information, and generates a power supply control signal corresponding to the power supply control data; and

a power supply adjusting circuit which automatically varies a voltage supplied to a display panel driving circuit according to the power supply control signal.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the image information is contrast information.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the image information is brightness information.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display panel is a plasma display panel.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the power supply control signal is a pulse-width modified signal.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display panel driving power supply includes:

a driving voltage of a sustain circuit;

a diving voltage of a reset circuit of a scan electrode driving board;

a driving voltage of a bias circuit of a common electrode diving board;

a voltage of a scan circuit; and

a voltage of an address circuit.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the power supply adjusting circuit includes:

a voltage sensing circuit that senses a diving voltage outputted from a power supply circuit;

a subtractor circuit that generates a difference signal between a voltage sensed in the voltage sensing circuit and a voltage of the power supply control signal; and

a flyback circuit that receives the difference signal, generates a pulse-width modified flyback switching control signal, and feeds back the flyback switching control signal to the power supply circuit.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the power supply adjusting circuit further includes a buffer circuit amplifying the power supply control signal so that the power supply control signal applied to the subtractor circuit is a signal amplified in the buffer circuit.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the power supply adjusting circuit further includes a buffer circuit amplifying the power supply control signal, and a low pass filter circuit that passes through only a low-frequency signal of an output signal of the buffer circuit, so that the power supply control signal applied to the subtractor circuit is a signal output to the low pass filter circuit.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein two resistors of the voltage sensing circuit are serially coupled between a ground line and an output terminal of the power supply circuit, and a point coupling the two resistors is set as an output terminal of the voltage sensing circuit.

11. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the subtractor circuit includes an OP-AMP circuit, and the subtractor circuit is noise-filtered according to respective values of a resistor and a capacitor included in the OP-AMP circuit.

21. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the power supply adjusting circuit includes:

a voltage sensing circuit that senses a driving voltage outputted from a power supply circuit; and

a subtractor circuit that generates a difference signal between a voltage sensed in the voltage sensing circuit and a voltage of the power supply control signal; and

a first control signal generated from the difference signal, inputted to the power supply circuit.

12. A method for controlling a power supply of a display panel driving system, comprising:

(a) sensing image information from an image signal output from a display panel by a sensor;

(b) reading power supply control data corresponding to the sensed image information from a look-up table;

(c) generating a pulse-width modified power supply control signal from the read power supply control data; and

(d) controlling a display panel driving power supply according to the pulse-width modified power supply control signal.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said (d) includes:

generating a voltage difference signal between a voltage of the pulse-width modified power supply control signal and the sensed driving voltage; and

generating a pulse-width modified flyback switching signal from the difference signal to control the display panel driving power supply circuit.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the image information is contrast information.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the image information is brightness information.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the display panel is a plasma display panel.

22. The method of claim 12, wherein said (d) includes:

generating a voltage difference signal between a voltage of the pulse-width modified power supply control signal and the sensed driving voltage; and

generating a first control signal from the difference signal and inputting said first control signal to the display panel driving power supply circuit.

17. A computer-readable medium configured to execute instructions for controlling a power supply of a driving system for a display panel, said instructions comprising:

sensing image information from an image signal output from a display panel by a sensor;

reading power supply control data corresponding to the sensed image information from a look-up table;

generating a pulse-width modified power supply control signal from the read power supply control data; and

controlling a display panel driving power supply according to the pulse-width modified power supply control signal.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein said generating comprises:

generating a voltage difference signal between a voltage of the pulse-width modified power supply control signal and the sensed driving voltage; and

generating a pulse-width modified flyback switching signal from the difference signal to control the display panel driving power supply circuit.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the image information is at least one of contrast information and brightness information.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the display panel is a plasma display panel.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein said generating comprises:

generating a voltage difference signal between a voltage of the pulse-width modified power supply control signal and the sensed driving voltage; and

generating a first control signal from the difference signal and inputting said first control signal to the display panel driving power supply circuit.