Controller of electro-optical device, control method of electro-optical device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus

1. A controller of an electro-optical device which includes a display unit with a plurality of pixels and in which a writing operation of changing the pixel from first gray level to second gray level and a writing operation of changing the pixel from the second gray level to the first gray level are performed by an operation of applying a voltage to the pixel multiple times, the controller comprising:

a number-of-times difference calculating section that calculates a difference between the number of times of application of a first voltage, which is applied to change the pixel to the first gray level, and the number of times of application of a second voltage, which is applied to change the pixel to the second gray level; and

a voltage control section that applies the first voltage or the second voltage to the pixel until the difference becomes a predetermined value when the difference regarding the pixel is not the predetermined value at a predetermined timing and that, when changing a gray level of the pixel, starts a new operation of applying a voltage to the pixel multiple times even in the middle of the writing operation.

2. The controller of an electro-optical device according to claim 1 ,

wherein when the pixel has the first gray level and the difference regarding the pixel is not the predetermined value after the writing operation ends, the voltage control section applies the first voltage to the pixel until the difference becomes the predetermined value.

3. The controller of an electro-optical device according to claim 1 ,

wherein when the pixel has the second gray level and the difference regarding the pixel is not the predetermined value after the writing operation ends, the voltage control section applies the second voltage to the pixel until the difference becomes the predetermined value.

4. The controller of an electro-optical device according to claim 1 ,

wherein when an absolute value of the difference is equal to or larger than a threshold value when a writing operation of setting the pixel to the first gray level starts in the middle of a writing operation of setting the pixel to the second gray level, the voltage control section applies the second voltage until the difference becomes the predetermined value and then starts application of the first voltage.

5. The controller of an electro-optical device according to claim 1 ,

wherein when an absolute value of the difference is equal to or larger than a threshold value when a writing operation of setting the pixel to the second gray level starts in the middle of a writing operation of setting the pixel to the first gray level, the voltage control section applies the first voltage until the difference becomes the predetermined value and then starts application of the second voltage.

6. The controller of an electro-optical device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an application number-of-times determining section that, when changing the gray level of the pixel, determines the number of times of application on the basis of the gray level of the pixel before the change, the gray level of the pixel after the change, and a table in which the number of times of application of a voltage for gray level change from the gray level before the change to the gray level after the change matches the gray level before the change and the gray level after the change.

7. The controller of an electro-optical device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the number of times of application of the first voltage applied to change the pixel to the first gray level is different from the number of times of application of the second voltage applied to change the pixel to the second gray level.

8. A control method of an electro-optical device which includes a display unit with a plurality of pixels and in which a writing operation of changing the pixel from first gray level to second gray level and a writing operation of changing the pixel from the second gray level to the first gray level are performed by an operation of applying a voltage to the pixel multiple times, the control method comprising:

calculating a difference between the number of times of application of a first voltage, which is applied to change the pixel to the first gray level, and the number of times of application of a second voltage, which is applied to change the pixel to the second gray level; and

applying the first voltage or the second voltage to the pixel until the difference becomes a predetermined value when the difference regarding the pixel is not the predetermined value at a predetermined timing and starting a new operation of applying a voltage to the pixel multiple times even in the middle of the writing operation when changing a gray level of the pixel.

9. An electro-optical device which includes a display unit with a plurality of pixels and in which a writing operation of changing the pixel from first gray level to second gray level and a writing operation of changing the pixel from the second gray level to the first gray level are performed by an operation of applying a voltage to the pixel multiple times, the electro-optical device comprising:

a number-of-times difference calculating section that calculates a difference between the number of times of application of a first voltage, which is applied to change the pixel to the first gray level, and the number of times of application of a second voltage, which is applied to change the pixel to the second gray level; and

a voltage control section that applies the first voltage or the second voltage to the pixel until the difference becomes a predetermined value when the difference regarding the pixel is not the predetermined value at a predetermined timing and that, when changing a gray level of the pixel, starts a new operation of applying a voltage to the pixel multiple times even in the middle of the writing operation.

10. An electronic apparatus comprising the electro-optical device according to claim 9 .

11. The controller of an electro-optical device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a buffer storage region, wherein the voltage control section controls the voltage applied to the pixel even if values in the buffer storage region are rewritten.

12. The controller of an electro-optical device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first voltage is a positive voltage and the second voltage is a negative voltage, and the voltage control section applies the first voltage or the second voltage to the pixel to not exceed a difference between a number of times of application of the first voltage and a number of times of application of the second voltage.

13. The controller of an electro-optical device according to claim 1 , wherein a number of times a negative voltage is applied to the pixel to change the pixel from a state where the pixel is black to a state where the pixel is white is different than the number of times a positive voltage is applied to the pixel to change the pixel from a state where the pixel is white to a state where the pixel is black.

14. The controller of an electro-optical device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a remaining number-of-times storage region, wherein the number-of-times difference calculating section writes to the remaining number-of-times storage region a number of times of voltage application to change the gray level of the pixel from a state where the pixel is black to a state wherein the pixel is white or from a state where the pixel is white to a state where the pixel is black, the number-of-times difference calculating section writing updated values to the remaining number-of-times storage region upon application of a voltage to the pixel and overwriting a value in a planned image storage region with a value stored in an image buffer.