IP Library Granted Patent US 8,159,439
Granted Patent B2
US 8,159,439 · App. 12/241,523 · Granted Apr 17, 2012

Data driving circuit including a first operator that generates a flag signal based on a load signal and a reset signal and a second operator that generates a horizontal scanning identical signal, display apparatus comprising the same and control method thereof

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Patent No.
US 8,159,439
App. No.
12/241,523
Granted
Apr 17, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A data driving circuit receiving an image signal and applying a data signal based on the image signal to a display panel, the data driving circuit includes a signal generator that generates a horizontal scanning identical signal based on the image signal and a load signal instructing an output of the data signal to the display panel; a signal amplifier that alternately converts a polarity of an offset compensation value from positive to negative and amplifies the image signal based on the offset compensation value; and a controller that counts pulses of the horizontal scanning identical signal and controls the signal amplifier to retain the converted polarity of the offset compensation value until a counted reaches a predetermined reference value.

Claims (19)

1. A data driving circuit receiving an image signal and applying a data signal based on the image signal to a display panel, the data driving circuit comprising:

a signal generator that generates a horizontal scanning identical signal based on the image signal and a load signal instructing an output of the data signal to the display panel, wherein the image signal comprises a reset signal indicating the start of the image signal, and the signal generator comprises a first operator that generates a flag signal based on the load signal and the reset signal and a second operator that generates the horizontal scanning identical signal based on the flag signal and the reset signal, wherein the flag signal rises at a rising edge of the load signal and falls at a falling edge of the reset signal;

a signal amplifier that alternately converts a polarity of an offset compensation value from positive to negative and amplifies the image signal based on the offset compensation value; and

a controller that counts pulses of the horizontal scanning identical signal and controls the signal amplifier to retain the converted polarity of the offset compensation value until a counted value reaches a predetermined reference value.

2. The data driving circuit of claim 1 , wherein the signal amplifier alternately converts a polarity of the offset compensation value based on a vertical synchronization start signal input thereto and the control of the controller, and wherein the controller disables the vertical synchronization start signal until the counted value reaches the reference value.

3. The data driving circuit of claim 1 , wherein the horizontal scanning identical signal has a larger amplitude than an amplitude of the reset signal.

4. The data driving circuit of claim 1 , wherein the image signal is transmitted through a low-voltage differential signaling interface or a mini-low-voltage differential signaling interface.

5. A display apparatus that has a display panel, the display apparatus comprising:

an image controller that outputs a received image signal, a load signal informing output of a data signal based on the received image signal to the display panel and a vertical synchronization start signal;

a data driving circuit that includes a signal generator that generates a horizontal scanning identical signal based on the image signal and the load signal instructing an output of the data signal to the display panel, wherein the image signal comprises a reset signal indicating the start of the image signal, and the signal generator comprises a first operator that generates a flag signal based on the load signal and the reset signal and a second operator that generates the horizontal scanning identical signal based on the flag signal and the reset signal, wherein the flag signal rises at a rising edge of the load signal and falls at a falling edge of the reset signal, a signal amplifier that alternately converts a polarity of an offset compensation value from positive to negative, amplifies the image signal based on the offset compensation value and outputs the amplified data signal to the display panel, and a controller that counts pulses of the horizontal scanning identical signal and controls the signal amplifier to retain the converted polarity of the offset compensation value until a counted value reaches a predetermined reference value.

6. The display apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the image signal is transmitted through a low-voltage differential signaling interface or a mini-low-voltage differential signaling interface.

7. The display apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the image controller generates a plurality of vertical synchronization start signals during one frame.

8. A control method of a display apparatus comprises a display panel, a signal amplifier alternately converting a polarity of an offset compensation value from positive to negative, amplifying a data signal based on the offset compensation value and outputting the amplified data signal to the display panel, the method comprising:

generating a horizontal scanning identical signal based on a received image signal and a load signal, wherein the image signal comprises a reset signal indicating the start of one pixel row, and

the generating the horizontal scanning identical signal comprises generating a flag signal based on the load signal and the reset signal and generating the horizontal scanning identical signal based on the flag signal and the reset signal, wherein the flag signal rises at a rising edge of the load signal and falls at a falling edge of the reset signal;

counting pulses of the horizontal scanning identical signal after converting the polarity of the offset compensation value;

retaining the converted polarity of the offset compensation value until a counted value reaches a predetermined reference value.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the signal amplifier alternately converts a polarity of the offset compensation value based on a vertical synchronization start signal input, and the retaining the converted polarity of the offset compensation value comprises disabling the vertical synchronization start signal until the count value reaches the reference value.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the image signal is transmitted through a low-voltage differential signaling interface or a mini-low-voltage differential signaling interface.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 17, 2012
From: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
To: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 029045/0860 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 1, 2008
From: LEE, JAE-HAN; LEE, CHANG-SOO
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021613/0252 →