IP Library Granted Patent US 9,972,260
Granted Patent B2
US 9,972,260 · App. 15/261,255 · Granted May 15, 2018

Display device and driving method thereof

Inventors: Toshiki Onishi (Osaka, JP); Iwane Ichiyama (Osaka, JP); Tatsuhiro Inuzuka (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
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Patent No.
US 9,972,260
App. No.
15/261,255
Granted
May 15, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device including a processor that includes a first display mode in which the processor displays the image on the display screen; and a second display mode in which the processor displays the image on the display screen from the image data received by the processor. The display device further includes a calculator that calculates a blanking period between a writing end time point of the internal image data corresponding to a final frame immediately before switching from the first display mode to the second display mode and a writing start time point of the image data corresponding to an initial frame immediately after switching from the first display mode to the second display mode, and an adjuster that adjusts at least one of a vertical retrace period, a horizontal retrace period, and a clock frequency, which correspond to the internal image data, depending on the blanking period.

Claims (29)

1. A display device comprising:

a processor that performs processing on each frame of image data that includes plural frames, the display device displaying an image on a display screen based on the image data processed by the processor, wherein the processor receives the image data, a first control signal indicating a command to stop output of the image data, and a second control signal indicating a command to perform the output of the image data; and

a memory in which the image data received immediately before stop of transmission of the image data is stored as internal image data,

wherein the processor includes:

a first display mode in which the processor displays the image on the display screen from the internal image data after the processor receives the first control signal; and

a second display mode in which the processor displays the image on the display screen from the image data received by the processor after the processor receives the second control signal,

wherein the display device further comprises:

a calculator that calculates a blanking period between a writing end time point of the internal image data corresponding to a final frame immediately before switching from the first display mode to the second display mode and a writing start time point of the image data corresponding to an initial frame immediately after switching from the first display mode to the second display mode; and

an adjuster that adjusts at least one of a vertical retrace period, a horizontal retrace period, and a clock frequency, which correspond to the internal image data, depending on the blanking period.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the adjuster keeps a writing time duration corresponding to the internal image data constant, and adjusts the vertical retrace period corresponding to the internal image data.

3. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the adjuster adjusts at least one of the vertical retrace period, the horizontal retrace period, and the clock frequency such that the vertical retrace period corresponding to the internal image data corresponding to the final frame is shorter than the blanking period.

4. A display device comprising:

a processor that performs processing on each frame of image data that includes plural frames, the display device displaying an image on a display screen based on the image data processed by the processor, wherein the processor receives the image data, a first control signal indicating a command to stop output of the image data, and a second control signal indicating a command to perform the output of the image data; and

a memory in which the image data received immediately before stop of transmission of the image data is stored as internal image data,

wherein the processor includes:

a first display mode in which the processor displays the image on the display screen from the internal image data after the processor receives the first control signal; and

a second display mode in which the processor displays the image on the display screen from the image data received by the processor after the processor receives the second control signal,

wherein the display device further includes:

a calculator that calculates a blanking period between a writing end time point of the internal image data corresponding to a final frame immediately before switching from the first display mode to the second display mode and a writing start time point of the image data corresponding to an initial frame immediately after switching from the first display mode to the second display mode; and

an interpolator that interpolates interpolation image data based on the internal image data in the blanking period when the blanking period is larger than a predetermined period.

5. The display device according to claim 4 , wherein the interpolator further adjusts at least one of the vertical retrace period, the horizontal retrace period, and the clock frequency, which correspond to the interpolation image data, depending on the blanking period.

6. The display device according to claim 5 , wherein the interpolator interpolates the interpolation image data when the blanking period becomes equal to or larger than a half of one frame period of the internal image data.

7. The display device according to claim 5 , wherein the interpolator adjusts at least one of the vertical retrace period, the horizontal retrace period, and the clock frequency such that the vertical retrace period corresponding to the internal image data corresponding to the final frame is shorter than the blanking period.

8. A method for driving a display device including a processor that performs processing on each frame of image data that includes plural frames, the display device displaying an image on a display screen based on the image data processed by the processor, said method comprising:

receiving, with the processor, the image data, a first control signal indicating a command to stop output of the image data, and a second control signal indicating a command to perform the output of the image data; and

storing as internal image data in a memory the image data received immediately before stop of transmission of the image data,

wherein the processor includes: a first display mode in which the processor displays the image on the display screen from the internal image data after the processor receives the first control signal; and a second display mode in which the processor displays the image on the display screen from the image data received by the processor after the processor receives the second control signal,

wherein the processor calculates a blanking period between a writing end time point of the internal image data corresponding to a final frame immediately before switching from the first display mode to the second display mode and a writing start time point of the image data corresponding to an initial frame immediately after switching from the first display mode to the second display mode, and

adjusts at least one of a vertical retrace period, a horizontal retrace period, and a clock frequency, which correspond to the internal image data, depending on the blanking period.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 18, 2023
From: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 064292/0775 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 5, 2017
From: ONISHI, TOSHIKI; ICHIYAMA, IWANE; INUZUKA, TATSUHIRO
To: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 041851/0607 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2014001386 · Mar 11, 2014
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