IP Library Granted Patent US 7,508,371
Granted Patent B2
US 7,508,371 · App. 10/899,084 · Granted Mar 24, 2009

Liquid crystal display device

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Patent No.
US 7,508,371
App. No.
10/899,084
Granted
Mar 24, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

In order to reduce the scale of drive ICs and to prevent uneven display in signal line selective drive, in this liquid crystal display device, for each group in which one video output line corresponds to N signal lines, the signal line is switched and connected to the video output line via an analog switch ASW. Thus, the number of the video output lines is reduced to 1/N. Moreover, as to an Lth scan line, for each of the groups, a signal line to which a video signal having its polarity inverted between an L-1th scan line and the Lth scan line is supplied is selected first and a signal line to which a video signal having its polarity not inverted is supplied is selected later. Thus, a video signal in which a polarity is not inverted and no potential change occurs is supplied to the signal line later.

Claims (7)

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a pixel display including pixels at respective intersections of a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of signal lines;

drive ICs configured to supply video signals through video output lines, each video output line corresponding to a group of N signal lines, where N is an integer not less than 3;

switching circuits, each of which connects a signal line selected from the group of N signal lines to a corresponding video output line for each group, wherein a first signal line in the group of N signal lines to which a video signal having its polarity inverted between an L-1th scan line (L is an integer not less than 2) and an Lth scan line, and a second signal line in the group of N signal lines to which a video signal having its polarity not inverted between an L-1th scan line and an Lth scan line are supplied, the first signal line having its polarity inverted between the L-1th scan line and the Lth scan line alternating with the second signal line having its polarity not inverted between the L-1th scan line and the Lth scan line; and

a control circuit configured to select first the first signal line to which the video signal having its polarity inverted between the L-1th scan line and the Lth scan line is supplied and to select second the second signal line to which the video signal having its polarity not inverted is supplied, for each of the groups in writing video signals into respective pixels in the Lth scan line via the signal lines.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the control circuit controls a selection order of a plurality of signal lines to be selected first in each group as well as a selection order of a plurality of signal lines to be selected later in such a manner that write conditions of the respective pixels are distributed evenly across an entire display screen, the write conditions being related to presence of polarity inversion of a video signal between the L-1th line and the Lth line as to each of the signal lines and presence of polarity inversion of a video signal between a signal line selected to be an S-1th (S is an integer not less than 1) and a signal line selected to be an Sth.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the control circuit change the selection order of signal lines selected first in each group as well as the selection order of signal lines selected later, for each of frames with a fixed interval therebetween.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 24, 2025
From: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
To: MAGNOLIA WHITE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 072209/0001 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 2, 2025
From: JAPAN DISPLAY EAST INC.; JAPAN DISPLAY CENTRAL INC.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
Reel/Frame 071787/0434 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 8, 2012
From: TOSHIBA MATSUSHITA DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
To: TOSHIBA MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 028339/0273 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 8, 2012
From: TOSHIBA MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY CENTRAL INC.
Reel/Frame 028339/0316 →