Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof

• US 10,969,640 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2017
• Issued: 04/06/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HKC Corporation Limited (Shenzhen Huike Investment Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: HKC Corporation Limited (Shenzhen Huike Investment Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: He, Huailiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nitin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bogale, Amen W.
• Application Number:
  US16/641,551
• Publication Number:
  US 20200209695A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,211 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133528 Polarisers
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133707 Structures for producing distorted electric fields, e.g. bumps, protrusions, recesses, slits in pixel electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136286 Wiring, e.g. gate line, drain line
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/121 common or background
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/123 pixel
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0447 for multi-domain technique to improve the viewing angle in a liquid crystal display, such as multi-vertical alignment [MVA]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0252 Improving the response speed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/041 Temperature compensation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3614 Control of polarity reversal in general
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

A liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The drive circuit of the liquid crystal display device outputs a drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode of a pixel. When a transmittance of the sub-pixel is changed from a first transmittance to a second transmittance higher than the first transmittance in a first frame period, the drive voltage is higher than a first target drive voltage corresponding to the second transmittance in a front half period of the first frame period, the drive voltage is equal to the first target drive voltage in a rear half period of the first frame period, and the drive voltage is equal to the first target drive voltage in other frame periods after the first frame period.

Claims

1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising:

a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels and a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate comprises a first electrode, the second substrate comprises a second electrode;

at least one protrusion disposed on the first electrode or the second electrode; and

a drive circuit electrically connected to the display panel and outputting a drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to one of the sub-pixels;

wherein, when a transmittance of the sub-pixel is changed from a first transmittance to a second transmittance higher than the first transmittance in a first frame period, the drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel is higher than a first target drive voltage corresponding to the second transmittance in a front half period of the first frame period, the drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel is equal to the first target drive voltage in a rear half period of the first frame period, and the drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel is equal to the first target drive voltage in other frame periods after the first frame period,

wherein when the transmittance of the sub-pixel is changed from the first transmittance to a third transmittance higher than the second transmittance in a second frame period, the drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel is higher than a second target drive voltage corresponding to the third transmittance in a front half period of the second frame period, the drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel is equal to the second target drive voltage in a rear half period of the second frame period, and the drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel is equal to the second target drive voltage in other frame periods after the second frame period,

wherein when the transmittance of the sub-pixel is changed from the first transmittance to a fourth transmittance higher than the third transmittance in a third frame period, the drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel is lower than or equal to a third target drive voltage corresponding to the fourth transmittance in a front half period of the third frame period, the drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel is higher than the third target drive voltage in a rear half period of the third frame period, and the drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel is equal to the third target drive voltage in other frame periods after the third frame period.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the drive circuit comprises a temperature compensation unit, and the temperature compensation unit decreases a voltage value of the drive voltage in the first frame period when a temperature of the display panel rises.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the drive circuit comprises a temperature compensation unit, and the temperature compensation unit decreases a voltage value of the drive voltage in the second frame period when a temperature of the display panel rises.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the first substrate further comprises a first alignment film and a second alignment film, the first alignment film is disposed on the first electrode and the protrusion, and the second alignment film is disposed on the second electrode and the protrusion.

5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the display panel further comprises a first polarizer and a second polarizer, the first polarizer is disposed on a surface of the first substrate away from the liquid crystal layer, and the second polarizer is disposed on a surface of the second substrate away from the liquid crystal layer.

6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the protrusion functions as a local restriction mechanism to restrict arrangement directions of a plurality of liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the sub-pixel to make long axes of the liquid crystal molecules become substantial vertical when no externally applied voltage is present, make the long axes of the liquid crystal molecules become substantial parallel when a predetermined voltage is externally applied, and make directions of the long axes of most of the liquid crystal molecules become tilted when a voltage lower than the predetermined voltage is externally applied.

7. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein a polarity of the drive voltage reverses once according to every frame period.

8. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the first electrode is a pixel electrode of the sub-pixel, and the second electrode is a common electrode.

9. A driving method of a liquid crystal display device, wherein the liquid crystal display panel comprises a display panel, at least one protrusion and a drive circuit, the display panel comprises a plurality of sub-pixels and a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate comprises a first electrode, the second substrate comprises a second electrode, the protrusion is disposed on the first electrode or the second electrode, the drive circuit is electrically connected to the display panel and outputs a drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to one of the sub-pixels, and the driving method comprises:

when a transmittance of the sub-pixel is changed from a first transmittance to a second transmittance higher than the first transmittance in a first frame period, applying the drive voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel, wherein the drive voltage is higher than a first target drive voltage corresponding to the second transmittance in a front half period of the first frame period, the drive voltage is equal to the first target drive voltage in a rear half period of the first frame period, and the drive voltage is equal to the first target drive voltage in other frame periods after the first frame period,

when the transmittance of the sub-pixel is changed from the first transmittance to a third transmittance higher than the second transmittance in a second frame period, applying the drive voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel, wherein the drive voltage is higher than a second target drive voltage corresponding to the third transmittance in a front half period of the second frame period, the drive voltage is equal to the second target drive voltage in a rear half period of the second frame period, and the drive voltage is equal to the second target drive voltage in other frame periods after the second frame period,

when the transmittance of the sub-pixel is changed from the first transmittance to a fourth transmittance higher than the third transmittance in a third frame period, applying the drive voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode corresponding to the sub-pixel, wherein the drive voltage is lower than or equal to a third target drive voltage corresponding to the fourth transmittance in a front half period of the third frame period, the drive voltage is higher than the third target drive voltage in a rear half period of the third frame period, and the drive voltage is equal to the third target drive voltage in other frame periods after the third frame period.

10. The driving method according to claim 9, wherein the drive circuit comprises a temperature compensation unit, and the driving method further comprises:

decreasing a voltage value of the drive voltage in the first frame period when a temperature of the display panel rises.

11. The driving method according to claim 9, wherein the drive circuit comprises a temperature compensation unit, and the driving method further comprises:

decreasing a voltage value of the drive voltage in the second frame period when a temperature of the display panel rises.

12. The driving method according to claim 9, wherein the first substrate further comprises a first alignment film and a second alignment film, the first alignment film is disposed on the first electrode and the protrusion, and the second alignment film is disposed on the second electrode and the protrusion.

13. The driving method according to claim 9, wherein the display panel further comprises a first polarizer and a second polarizer, the first polarizer is disposed on a surface of the first substrate away from the liquid crystal layer, and the second polarizer is disposed on a surface of the second substrate away from the liquid crystal layer.

14. The driving method according to claim 9, wherein the protrusion functions as a local restriction mechanism to restrict arrangement directions of a plurality of liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the sub-pixel to make long axes of the liquid crystal molecules become substantial vertical when no externally applied voltage is present, make the long axes of the liquid crystal molecules become substantial parallel when a predetermined voltage is externally applied, and make directions of the long axes of most of the liquid crystal molecules become tilted when a voltage lower than the predetermined voltage is externally applied.

15. The driving method according to claim 9, wherein a polarity of the drive voltage reverses once according to every frame period.