IP Library Granted Patent US 6,980,193
Granted Patent B2
US 6,980,193 · App. 10/245,414 · Granted Dec 27, 2005

Gray scale driving method of liquid crystal display panel

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Patent No.
US 6,980,193
App. No.
10/245,414
Granted
Dec 27, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a simple matrix liquid crystal panel in which the number of changes in waveform on a column electrode is suppressed without degrading a display quality even when the number of gray scales is increased, and a consumption power can be reduced. Pulse width modulation is performed with a sum total of a plurality of pulses selected in a plurality of frames, and the number of changes in column electrode for displaying a half tone pixel data on a pixel is set as 1 during the plurality of frames. Further, an occurrence order of dividing frames in an odd row is made different from that in an even row and interlaced scanning is conducted. Thus, the consumption power is greatly reduced as compared with the case of conventional pulse width modulation.

Claims (6)

1. A liquid crystal display panel driving method of driving a liquid crystal display panel in which a liquid crystal layer is held between a row electrode group and a column electrode group to provide pixels in matrix in accordance with a given image data, the method comprising:

performing pulse width modulation with a sum total of a plurality of pulses selected in a plurality of frames,

wherein an occurrence order of the plurality frames in an odd row into which a pattern of the pulse width modulation is divided is different from that in an even row.

2. A liquid crystal display panel driving method according to claim 1 , wherein the odd row and the even row are separately scanned.

3. A liquid crystal display panel driving method according to claim 2 ; wherein the driving method of driving the liquid crystal display panel in which the liquid crystal layer is held between the row electrode group and the column electrode group to provide the pixels in matrix in accordance with the given image data is one selected from the group consisting of a voltage averaging method, an SA method, and an MLA method.

4. A liquid crystal display panel driving method according to claim 1 ; wherein the driving method of driving the liquid crystal display panel in which the liquid crystal layer is held between the row electrode group and the column electrode group to provide the pixels in matrix in accordance with the given image data is one selected from the group consisting of a voltage averaging method, an SA method, and an MLA method.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 10, 2016
From: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
To: SII SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 038058/0892 →