Liquid crystal display having common voltage initialization circuit and method for manufacturing same

1. A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display (LCD), the method comprising:

providing an LCD panel comprising a common voltage initialization circuit;

testing and inspecting the LCD panel for defects of the LCD panel, and thereby obtaining a preferred common voltage for the LCD panel; and

mounting a driving integrated circuit on the LCD panel, the driving integrated circuit being connected to the common voltage initialization circuit,

wherein the process of testing the LCD panel is performed by a testing device comprising an image generator, a sensor, and a testing machine, and the testing and inspecting of the LCD panel comprises:

generating flicker test image signals by the image generator;

providing the flicker test image signals to the LCD panel via the testing machine;

looking for defects of the LCD panel when images with different gray-scales are displayed on the LCD panel;

inspecting images displayed on the LCD panel and generating a flicker signal according to a degree of flicker of the LCD panel, by the sensor;

providing the flicker signal to the image generator;

adjusting the common voltage provided to the LCD panel by the image generator according to the flicker signal in order to achieve the preferred common voltage;

providing parameters representing the preferred common voltage to the testing machine; and

writing the parameters to the common voltage initialization circuit of the LCD panel by the testing machine.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the preferred common voltage is achieved when the flicker of the LCD panel is lowest.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the common voltage initialization circuit comprises a first voltage division resistor, a second voltage division resistor, a first buffer circuit, a second buffer circuit, a first input terminal, and a second input terminal, the first input terminal being connected to the first buffer circuit and to ground via the first voltage division resistor, and the second input terminal being connected to the second buffer circuit and to ground via the second voltage division resistor.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein writing the parameters of the preferred common voltage to the common voltage initialization circuit comprises providing a high voltage representing a binary data “1” to the first input terminal 1 of the common voltage initialization circuit and providing a low voltage representing a binary data “0” to the second input terminal of the common voltage initialization circuit by the testing machine.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the first input terminal and the second input terminal of the common voltage initialization circuit are connected to ground.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising attaching a flexible printed circuit board on the LCD panel.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising cutting off a plurality of test lines on the LCD panel before mounting the driving integrated circuit on the LCD panel.

8. A method comprising:

providing an LCD panel comprising a common voltage initialization circuit, and a testing device comprising an image generator, a sensor, and a testing machine;

generating flicker test image signals by the image generator and providing the flicker test image signals to the LCD panel via the testing machine;

looking for defects of the LCD panel when images with different gray-scales are displayed on the LCD panel;

inspecting images displayed on the LCD panel and generating a flicker signal according to a degree of flicker of the LCD panel, by the sensor;

providing the flicker signal to the image generator and adjusting a common voltage provided to the LCD panel by the image generator according to the flicker signal in order to achieve a preferred common voltage; and

writing parameters of the preferred common voltage to the common voltage initialization circuit by the testing machine;

wherein the common voltage initialization circuit comprises a first voltage division resistor, a second voltage division resistor, a first buffer circuit, a second buffer circuit, a first input terminal, and a second input terminal, the first input terminal being connected to the first buffer circuit and to ground via the first voltage division resistor, and the second input terminal being connected to the second buffer circuit and to ground via the second voltage division resistor;

wherein the writing the parameters of the preferred common voltage to the common voltage initialization circuit by the testing machine comprises:

providing a high voltage representing a binary data 1 to the first input terminal 1 of the common voltage initialization circuit by the testing machine; and

providing a low voltage representing a binary data 0 to the second input terminal of the common voltage initialization circuit by the testing machine.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

mounting a driving integrated circuit on the LCD panel, the driving integrated circuit being connected to the common voltage initialization circuit.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the preferred common voltage is achieved when the flicker of the LCD panel is lowest.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the first input terminal and the second input terminal of the common voltage initialization circuit are connected to ground.