Display apparatus

• US 5,936,617 A
• Filed: 04/03/1996
• Issued: 08/10/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nakajima, Yoshiharu, Uchino, Katsuhide, Tsubota, Hiroyoshi, Maekawa, Toshikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Lao, Lun-Yi
• Application Number:
  US08/627,004
• Time in Patent Office: 1,224 Days
• Field of Search: 345/55, 345/87, 345/100, 345/92, 345/94, 345/88, 345/99, 345/204, 345/208, 345/213, 345/212, 348/312, 348/791, 348/792, 348/241-242, 348/247, 349/42-48, 349/106, 327/77, 327/52, 327/88, 327/89, 327/90, 327/91, 327/93, 330/252, 330/275
• US Class Current: 345/204
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0297 Special arrangements with multiplexing or demultiplexing of display data in the drivers for data electrodes, in a pre-processing circuitry delivering display data to said drivers or in the matrix panel, e.g. multiplexing plural data signals to one D/A converter or demultiplexing the D/A converter output to multiple columns
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/02 Improving the quality of display appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2011 by amplitude modulation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3611 Control of matrices with row and column drivers

Abstract

The invention provide a display apparatus of a plural pixel simultaneous driving system wherein sample and hold noise included in a video signal is removed before the video signal is supplied to a display panel. A video signal processing circuit operates in response to a timing signal supplied from an external timing signal source, and delays an input video signal supplied thereto from an external video signal source to produce an output video signal. The video signal processing circuit includes a first sample and hold circuit, a second sample and hold circuit and a differential circuit. The first sample and hold circuit repetitively samples and holds the input video signal in response to the timing signal. The second sample and hold circuit repetitively samples and holds a predetermined reference signal in response to the same timing signal. The differential circuit differentially processes the input video signal after it has been sampled and held and the reference signal after it has been sampled and held to produce an output video signal from which sample and hold noise synchronized with the timing signal has been removed.

Claims

1. A display apparatus, comprising:

a display panel including pixels arranged at intersecting points between gate lines and signal lines which extend perpendicularly to each other, and a driving circuit for simultaneously distributing a plurality of video signals to a plurality of said pixels;

a video driver for relatively delaying a plurality of original video signals in accordance with an arrangement pitch of said pixels to obtain the plurality of video signals and supplying the plurality of video signals to said display panel; and

a timing generator for supplying a timing signal to said display panel and said video driver to synchronously control the simultaneous plural pixel driving of said driving circuit and the delaying processing of said video driver;

said video driver including first and second sampling stages, wherein

said first sampling stage including first sample and hold means generates said delayed original video signals in response to the timing signal inputted thereto from said timing generator, and

said second sampling stage includes second sample and hold means for repetitively sampling and holding the delayed original video signals inputted thereto from said first sampling stage in response to the timing signal inputted thereto from said timing generator,

third sample and hold means for repetitively sampling and holding a predetermined reference signal in response to the timing signal, and

a differential means for differentially processing the delayed original video and the reference signal after those signals have been sampled and held to produce video signals from which noise originating from the sampling and holding has been removed.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said third sample and hold means repetitively samples and holds the reference signal of a fixed voltage and intentionally adds noise originating from the sample and holding.

3. The circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said video driver comprises three signal channels.

4. The circuit as claimed in claim 3, wherein each of said channels comprises said first and second sampling stages in succession.

5. The circuit as claimed in claim 3, wherein said three channels each carry a particular color component of a video signal.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first sampling stage includes a fourth sample and hold means for repetitively sampling and holding the original video signals inputted thereto in response to the timing signal inputted thereto from said timing generator, a fifth sample and hold means for repetitively sampling and holding said predetermined reference signal in response to the timing signal, and a second differential means for differentially processing the original video and the reference signal after those signals have been sampled and held to produce video signals from which noise original from the sample and holding has been removed.

7. A driving method for a display apparatus which includes a display panel having pixels arranged at intersecting points between gate lines and signal lines and a driving circuit for simultaneously distributing a plurality of video signals to drive a plurality of said pixels, a video driver including first and second sampling stages for relatively delaying a plurality of video signals in accordance with an arrangement pitch of said pixels to obtain the plurality of video signals and supplying the plurality of video signals to said display panel, said first sampling stage including first sample and hold means and said second sampling stage including second and third sample and hold means, and a timing generator for supplying a timing signal to said display panel and said video driver to synchronously control the simultaneous plural pixel driving of said driving circuit and the delay processing of said video driver, said driving method comprising the steps of:

repetitively sampling and holding, by means of said first sample and hold means in said first sampling stage, the original video signals to generate said delayed original video signals in response to the timing signal inputted from said timing generator;

repetitively sampling and holding, by means of said second sample and hold means in said second sampling stage, the delayed original video signals from said first sampling stage in response to the timing signal inputted from said timing generator;

repetitively sampling and holding, by means of said third sample and hold means in said second sampling stage, a predetermined reference signal simultaneously in response to the timing signal; and

differentially processing the delayed original video signals and the reference signal after those signals have been sampled and held to produce a video signal from which noise originating from the sampling and holding has been removed.

8. The driving method for a display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the reference signal has a fixed voltage and is repetitively sampled and held to intentionally add noise originating from the sampling and holding.

9. The driving method for a display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said step of generating said delayed original video signals further comprises:

repetitively sampling and holding, by means of said first sampling stage, the original video signals in response to the timing signal inputted from said timing generator;

repetitively sampling and holding, by means of said first sampling stage, a predetermined reference signal simultaneously in response to the timing signal; and

differentially processing the original video signals and the reference signal after those signals have been sampled and held to produce a video signal from which noise originating from the sampling and holding has been removed.