Liquid crystal panel driving device

• US 8,035,602 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2010
• Issued: 10/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bishop Display Tech LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishi, Kazuyoshi, Date, Yoshito
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisen, Alexander
• Assistant Examiner(s): YEUNG, MATTHEW M
• Application Number:
  US12/817,763
• Publication Number:
  US 20100253669A1
• Time in Patent Office: 481 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/98
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0248 Precharge or discharge of column electrodes before or after applying exact column voltages
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/023 using energy recovery or conservation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2011 by amplitude modulation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3614 Control of polarity reversal in general
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3688 suitable for active matrices only

Abstract

A switching-controlling section turns ON one of a transfer gate for high voltages or a transfer gate for low voltages and subsequently turns ON the other one of the transfer gates according to the outputs from the data latches only when the outputs from data latches are different from each other. Source lines are sequentially connected to a capacitor element for high voltages or a capacitor element for low voltages. For those source lines in which applied voltages change in a previous period and a subsequent period, an electric charge is stored and supplied effectively and power consumption is reduced, whereas for those source lines in which the applied voltages do not change, retained voltages do not vary so power is not consumed when subsequent voltages are applied. Power consumption in a liquid crystal panel driving device is reduced, and the time required for storing and supplying an electric charge is shortened. The circuit scale is also reduced.

Claims

1. A method for driving a liquid crystal display device having a first source line, a second source line and a source line-connecting line, the method comprising:

latching first image data and second image data each for outputting a first voltage and a second voltage to the first source line and the second source line, respectively;

determining whether to connect the first source line to the source line-connecting line based on the latched first image data and third image data, said third image data being for outputting a third voltage to the first source line after outputting the first voltage, and whether to connect the second source line to the source line-connecting line based on the latched second image data and fourth image data, said fourth image data being for outputting a fourth voltage to the second source line after outputting the second voltage; and

connecting the first source line and the second source line to the source line-connecting line after outputting the first voltage and the second voltage to the first source line and the second source line, respectively, when the first source line and the second source line are determined to be connected to the source line-connecting line at the determining step.

2. The liquid crystal panel driving method according to claim 1, wherein the first source line is connected to the source line-connecting line when the voltage difference between the first voltage and the third voltage is equal to or greater than a predetermined difference.