IP Library Granted Patent US 7,508,363
Granted Patent B2
US 7,508,363 · App. 10/956,048 · Granted Mar 24, 2009

Data driver circuit for display device and drive method thereof

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Patent No.
US 7,508,363
App. No.
10/956,048
Granted
Mar 24, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

The data driver circuit for display device comprising an expansion hold circuit, that expands and holds a plurality of serially inputted digital image signals in parallel a first current driver circuit that is connected to the expansion hold circuit and comprises a plurality of current drivers for generating gradation currents corresponding with the digital image signals; a first switching circuit constituted by a plurality of switch groups connected to respective outputs of the plurality of current drivers; and a switching control circuit that switches at least the plurality of current drivers by controlling the first switching circuit and controls at least one of an order of expansion in the expansion hold circuit of the digital image signals, the direction thereof or number of rotations.

Claims (20)

1. A drive method for a matrix display device in which a plurality of control electrodes provided at predetermined intervals, a plurality of data electrodes provided at predetermined intervals, and respective pixel circuits at points of intersection between the control electrodes and data electrodes are arranged, comprising:

dividing a frame cycle into at least four subframe cycles;

writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of a first color and non-light-emission voltage values to the pixel circuits that emit light of a second and a third color in a first subframe cycle;

writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of the second color and non-light-emission voltage values to the pixel circuits that emit light of the first and the third color in a second subframe cycle;

writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of the third color and non-light-emission voltage values to the pixel circuits that emit light of the first and the second color in a third subframe cycle; and

writing non-light-emission voltage values to the pixel circuits that emit light of the first, the second and the third color in a fourth subframe cycle,

wherein the respective time periods of the first, the second, the third, and the fourth subframe cycles are the same,

wherein the step of writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of the first color is performed by selecting a first input switch, a second output switch, and a third output switch,

wherein the step of writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of the second color is performed by selecting a second input switch, a first output switch, and the third output switch, and

wherein the step of writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of the third color is performed by selecting a third input switch, the first output switch and the second output switch.

2. A drive method for a matrix display device in which a plurality of control electrodes provided at predetermined intervals, a plurality of data electrodes provided at predetermined intervals, and respective pixel circuits at points of intersection between the control electrodes and data electrodes are arranged, comprising:

dividing a frame cycle into at least four subframe cycles;

writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of a first color and non-light-emission voltage values to the pixel circuits that emit light of a second and a third color in a first subframe cycle;

writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of the second color and non-light-emission voltage values to the pixel circuits that emit light of the first and the third color in a second subframe cycle;

writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of the third color and non-light-emission voltage values to the pixel circuits that emit light of the first and the second color in a third subframe cycle; and

writing non-light-emission voltage values to the pixel circuits that emit light of the first, the second and the third color in a fourth subframe cycle,

wherein the respective time periods of the first, the second, the third, and the fourth subframe cycles differ from each other,

wherein the step of writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of the first color is performed by selecting a first input switch, a second output switch, and a third output switch,

wherein the step of writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of the second color is performed by selecting a second input switch, a first output switch, and the third output switch, and

wherein the step of writing a predetermined image signal to the pixel circuits that emit light of the third color is performed by selecting a third input switch, the first output switch and the second output switch.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 11, 2010
From: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
To: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 025346/0840 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 4, 2004
From: HASHIMOTO, YOSHIHARU
To: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 015338/0970 →