Liquid crystal display device

• US 9,594,281 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2013
• Issued: 03/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Miyake, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Chien, Lucy
• Application Number:
  US14/080,034
• Publication Number:
  US 20140152932A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,216 Days
• Field of Search: 349/39
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134372 for fringe field switching [FFS] where the common electrode is not patterned
• 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 3/3614 Control of polarity reversal in general
• 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 preventing flicker. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels each having a transistor, a liquid crystal element to which a first signal and a second signal having opposite polarities are alternately applied through the transistor, and a capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode. The liquid crystal element includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode partly overlapping with each other with an insulating film interposed therebetween, and a liquid crystal layer over the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The first electrode of the capacitor is electrically connected to the pixel electrode. The potential of the second electrode changes between a first potential and a second potential having different levels after the first signal is applied until the second signal is applied, whereby a change in the voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer is reduced.

Claims

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a pixel comprising;

a transistor;

a liquid crystal element including a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer over the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein a first signal and a second signal having opposite polarities are alternately supplied to the pixel electrode through the transistor, and wherein a fixed potential is supplied to the common electrode; and

a capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode,

wherein the pixel electrode and the common electrode partly overlap with each other with an insulating film interposed therebetween,

wherein the first electrode is electrically connected to the pixel electrode, and

wherein the second electrode is connected to a wiring to which a potential which changes between a first potential and a second potential is applied.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the transistor includes an oxide semiconductor film.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2, wherein the oxide semiconductor film comprises indium, gallium, and zinc.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein, as the potential, a potential with triangle waveform is applied to the wiring.

5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the first signal and the second signal are configured to be used for one of frame inversion driving, source line inversion driving, gate line inversion driving, or dot inversion driving.

6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the potential changes after the first signal is supplied until the second signal is supplied so that a change in a voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer is reduced.

13. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1,

wherein the first signal has a potential higher than the fixed potential, and

wherein the second signal has a potential lower than the fixed potential.

7. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels each comprising;

a transistor;

a liquid crystal element including a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer over the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein a first signal and a second signal having opposite polarities are alternately supplied to the pixel electrode through the transistor, and wherein a fixed potential is supplied to the common electrode; and

a first capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode; and

a circuit applying a potential to the second electrode, the potential configured to change between a first potential and a second potential after the first signal is supplied until the second signal is supplied,

wherein the pixel electrode and the common electrode partly overlap with each other with an insulating film interposed therebetween, and

wherein the first electrode is electrically connected to the pixel electrode.

8. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 7, wherein the transistor includes an oxide semiconductor film.

9. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 8, wherein the oxide semiconductor film comprises indium, gallium, and zinc.

10. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 7, wherein, as the potential, a potential with triangle waveform is applied to the second electrode.

11. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 7, wherein the first signal and the second signal are configured to be used for one of frame inversion driving, source line inversion driving, gate line inversion driving, or dot inversion driving.

12. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 7, wherein the circuit comprises:

a first switch;

a second switch;

a first resistor;

a second resistor;

a second capacitor;

an amplifier, and

an inverter,

wherein the first switch is configured to be controlled by a signal supplied to a terminal,

wherein the terminal is electrically connected to an input terminal of the inverter,

wherein the second switch is configured to be controlled by a signal at an output terminal of the inverter,

wherein one of terminals of the first switch is electrically connected to one of terminals of the first resistor,

wherein one of terminals of the second switch is electrically connected to one of terminals of the second resistor,

wherein the other of the terminals of the first resistor, the other of the terminals of the second resistor, one electrode of the second capacitor, and a non-inverting input terminal of the amplifier is electrically connected to one another, and

wherein an inverting input terminal of the amplifier, an output terminal of the amplifier, and an output terminal of the circuit is electrically connected to one another.

14. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 7,

wherein the first signal has a potential higher than the fixed potential, and

wherein the second signal has a potential lower than the fixed potential.