Liquid crystal display device, and method and circuit for driving for liquid crystal display device

• US 8,421,728 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2010
• Issued: 04/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
• Inventors: Takatori, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Awad, Amr
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bukowski, Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US12/725,125
• Publication Number:
  US 20100171818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,127 Days
• Field of Search: 345 87-104
• US Class Current: 345/94
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0235 Field-sequential colour display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0252 Improving the response speed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/041 Temperature compensation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/16 Determination of a pixel data signal depending on the signal applied in the previous frame
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3655 Details of drivers for counter electrodes, e.g. common electrodes for pixel capacitors or supplementary storage capacitors

Abstract

A liquid crystal display device includes a display section, an image signal drive circuit, a scan signal drive circuit, a common electrode potential control circuit, and a synchronous circuit. The display section has scan electrodes, image signal electrodes, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, a plurality of switching elements for transmitting an image signal to the pixel electrodes, and a common electrode. The common electrode potential control circuit changes an electric potential of the common electrode into a pulse shape, after the scan signal drive circuit has scanned all the scan electrodes and the image signal has been transmitted to the pixel electrodes. Otherwise, the image signal is overdriven. Otherwise, torque for returning to a no-voltage-application state is increased.

Claims

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a liquid crystal display section having a plurality of scan electrodes, a plurality of image signal electrodes which are perpendicular to the scan electrodes, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix with the scan electrodes and the image signal electrodes, a plurality of switching elements for transmitting an image signal to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of common electrodes which are next to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of storage capacitor electrodes;

an image signal drive circuit coupled to the liquid crystal display section;

a scan signal drive circuit coupled to the liquid crystal display section;

a synchronous circuit coupled to the image signal drive circuit and the scan signal drive circuit; and

a common electrode potential control circuit, coupled to the synchronous circuit and the liquid display section, for changing an electric potential of the common electrode into a pulse shape, just after the scan signal drive circuit has scanned all the scan electrodes and the image signal has been transmitted to the pixel electrodes,

wherein electric potentials of the image signal, during an electric charge hold drive, are never an electric potential of the image signal in a stable display state during static drive,

wherein the electric potential of the common electrode just before the scan signal drive circuit starts scanning a first scan electrode of the scan electrodes is different from a peak of the electric potential of the common electrode just after the scan signal drive circuit has scanned all the scan electrodes and the image signal has been transmitted to the pixel electrodes, but before the electric potential of the common electrode is changed into the pulse shape, and

wherein the polarity of the image signal is reversed at a predetermined timing, and of a plurality of electric potentials among which the electric potential of the common electrode changes, one of electric potentials applied for longer time than the other electric potentials is approximately equal to one of a maximum electric potential and a minimum electric potential of all electric potentials applied as the image signal.

2. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a liquid crystal display section having a plurality of scan electrodes, a plurality of image signal electrodes which are perpendicular to the scan electrodes, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix with the scan electrodes and the image signal electrodes, a plurality of switching elements for transmitting an image signal to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of common electrodes which are next to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of storage capacitor electrodes;

an image signal drive circuit coupled to the liquid crystal display section;

a scan signal drive circuit coupled to the liquid crystal display section;

a synchronous circuit coupled to the image signal drive circuit and the scan signal drive circuit; and

a common electrode potential control circuit, coupled to the synchronous circuit and the liquid display section, for changing an electric potential of the common electrode into a pulse shape, just after the scan signal drive circuit has scanned all the scan electrodes and the image signal has been transmitted to the pixel electrodes,

wherein electric potentials of the image signal, during an electric charge hold drive, are never an electric potential of the image signal in a stable display state during static drive,

wherein the electric potential of the common electrode just before the scan signal drive circuit starts scanning a first scan electrode of the scan electrodes is different from a peak of the electric potential of the common electrode just after the scan signal drive circuit has scanned all the scan electrodes and the image signal has been transmitted to the pixel electrodes, but before the electric potential of the common electrode is changed into the pulse shape,

wherein the polarity of the image signal is reversed at a predetermined timing, and of a plurality of electric potentials among which the electric potential of the common electrode changes, one of electric potentials applied for longer time than the other electric potentials is approximately equal to an electric potential middle of a maximum electric potential and a minimum electric potential of all electric potentials applied as the image signal, and

wherein the electric potential of the image signal is determined by performing comparison among hold data of each pixel before writing the image signal, a variation in an electric potential of the pixel electrode, and display data to be newly displayed, the variation in the electric potential of the pixel electrode being in accordance with a variation in the electric potential of the common electrode changed into the pulse shape, a variation in the electric potential of the storage capacitor electrode changed into the pulse shape, or a variation in both the electric potentials of the common electrode and the storage capacitor electrode.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2, wherein

the comparison between the data and the variation in the electric potential is successively performed.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2, wherein

the comparison between the data and the variation in the electric potential is performed by use of a LUT (lookup table, correspondence table) prepared in advance.