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US 9,305,511 · App. 13/962,211 · Granted Apr 5, 2016

Common electrode voltage compensating method, apparatus and timing controller

Inventors: Tao Ma (Beijing, CN); Hengbin Li (Beijing, CN)
Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.; BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
G09G3/3696G09G3/3614G09G3/3655G09G2360/16
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Patent No.
US 9,305,511
App. No.
13/962,211
Granted
Apr 5, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A common electrode voltage compensating method, apparatus and a timing controller, the method comprising making statistics for grey scale data of every pixel for displaying a display picture; calculating a grey scale shifting rate between two adjacent rows of pixels, and obtaining common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters based on the grey scale shifting rate; generating positive/negative polarity information of the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters based on a pixel voltage polarity inversion signal; generating a common electrode voltage compensation control signal based on the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters and the positive/negative polarity thereof. The common electrode voltage compensating method, apparatus and timing controller address the problem of display picture pixels grey scale shifting due to a reversion of the positive/negative polarity of grey scale voltage.

Claims (144)

1. A common electrode voltage compensating method, comprising:

making statistics for grey scale data of every pixel for displaying a display picture;

accumulating the grey scale data of pixels in each row to obtain a summation of the grey scale data for every row of pixels, and calculating a grey scale shifting rate between two adjacent rows of the pixels based on the respective summations of the grey scale data of two adjacent rows of pixels;

obtaining common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters based on the grey scale shifting rate;

generating positive/negative polarity information of the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters based on a pixel voltage polarity inversion signal;

generating a common electrode voltage compensation control signal based on the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters and the positive/negative polarity thereof, to cause a common electrode generating unit to generate a common electrode input voltage having a waveform of a compensation voltage based on the common electrode voltage compensation control signal,

wherein calculating the grey scale shifting rate between two adjacent rows of the pixels based on the respective summations of the grey scale data of two adjacent rows of pixels comprises:

calculating a maximum absolute value N of difference values, each of which is calculated between the respective summations of the grey-scale data for every two rows of pixels, wherein N=(2 n −1)×j, j is column number of the pixels in the display picture and n is colour depth bit number of the display picture;

calculating the difference value (A i+1 −A i ) between the respective summations of the grey scale data of two adjacent rows of pixels, wherein i is row number of the pixels, i=1, 2, 3, 4 . . . ;

deciding whether positive/negative properties of A i+1 and A i are the same; and

determining the grey scale shifting rate between the i th row and the (i+1) th row of pixels is

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2. The common electrode voltage compensating method according to claim 1 , wherein generating positive/negative polarity information of the common electrode voltage compensating signal parameters based on a pixel voltage polarity inversion signal comprises:

when a waveform of the pixel voltage polarity inversion signal is of an upward trend, the polarity of the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters is negative;

when the waveform of the pixel voltage polarity inversion signal is of an downward trend, the polarity of the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters is positive.

3. The common electrode voltage compensating method according to claim 1 , wherein the waveform of the compensation voltage is any one from a triangle waveform, a rectangular waveform, a sine wave waveform and an exponential waveform.

4. A timing controller, comprising:

a data processor, making statistics for grey scale data of every pixel for displaying a display picture;

a compensation data calculator, accumulating the grey scale data of pixels in each row to obtain a summation of the grey scale data for every row of pixels, calculating a grey scale shifting rate between two adjacent rows of pixels based on the respective summations of the grey scale data of two adjacent rows of pixels,

obtaining common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters based on the grey-level shifting rate, and generating positive/negative polarity information of the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters based on a pixel voltage polarity inversion signal; and

a common electrode voltage compensation signal generator, generating a common electrode voltage compensation control signal based on the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters and the positive/negative polarity thereof, to cause a common electrode generating unit to generate a common electrode input voltage having a waveform of a compensation voltage based on the common electrode voltage compensation control signal,

wherein calculating the grey scale shifting rate between two adjacent rows of the pixels based on the respective summations of the grey scale data of two adjacent rows of pixels comprises:

calculating a maximum absolute value N of difference values, each of which is calculated between the respective summations of the grey-scale data for every two rows of pixels, wherein N=(2 n −1)×j, j is column number of the pixels in the display picture and n is colour depth bit number of the display picture;

calculating the difference value (A i+1 −A i ) between the respective summations of the grey scale data of two adjacent rows of pixels, wherein i is row number of the pixels, i=1, 2, 3, 4 . . . ;

deciding whether positive/negative properties of A i+1 and A i are the same; and

determining the grey scale shifting rate between the i th row and the (i+1) th row of pixels is

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5. The timing controller according to claim 4 , wherein the compensation data calculator is configured to:

accumulate the grey scale data of pixels in each row to obtain a summation of the grey scale data for every row of pixels;

calculate the grey scale shifting rate between two adjacent rows of pixels based on the respective summations of the grey scale data of two adjacent rows of pixels.

6. The timing controller according to claim 4 , wherein the compensation data calculator is configured to:

when a waveform of the pixel voltage polarity inversion signal is of an upward trend, determine the polarity of the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters is negative; when the waveform of the pixel voltage polarity inversion signal is of an downward trend, determine the polarity of the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters is positive.

7. The timing controller according to claim 4 , wherein the waveform of the compensation voltage is any one from a triangle waveform, a rectangular waveform, a sine wave waveform and an exponential waveform.

8. A common electrode voltage compensating apparatus, comprising a timing controller and a common electrode voltage generating unit,

the timing controller being configured to make statistics for grey scale data of every pixel for displaying a display picture, accumulate the grey scale data of pixels in each row to obtain a summation of the grey scale data for every row of pixels, calculate a grey scale shifting rate between two adjacent rows of pixels based on a difference of the respective summations of the grey scale data of two adjacent rows of pixels,

obtain common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters based on the grey-level shifting rate, generate positive/negative polarity information of the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters based on a pixel voltage polarity inversion signal, and

generate a common electrode voltage compensation control signal based on the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters and the positive/negative polarity thereof;

the common electrode voltage generating unit being configured to generate a common electrode input voltage having a waveform of a compensation voltage based on the common electrode voltage compensation control signal,

wherein calculating the grey scale shifting rate between two adjacent rows of the pixels based on the respective summations of the grey scale data of two adjacent rows of pixels comprises:

calculating a maximum absolute value N of difference values, each of which is calculated between the respective summations of the grey-scale data for every two rows of pixels, wherein N=(2 n −1)×j, j is column number of the pixels in the display picture and n is colour depth bit number of the display picture;

calculating the difference value (A i+1 −A i ) between the respective summations of the grey scale data of two adjacent rows of pixels, wherein i is row number of the pixels, i=1, 2, 3, 4 . . . ;

deciding whether positive/negative properties of A i+1 and A i are the same; and

determining the grey scale shifting rate between the i th row and the (i+1) th row of pixels is

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9. The common electrode voltage compensating apparatus according to claim 8 , further comprising a voltage output maintaining unit for improving loading capacity of the common electrode input voltage and generating a common electrode output voltage.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 8, 2013
From: MA, TAO; LI, HENGBIN
To: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.; BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 030970/0781 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2012 1 0372009 · Sep 27, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
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