IP Library Granted Patent US 8,059,079
Granted Patent B2
US 8,059,079 · App. 12/001,704 · Granted Nov 15, 2011

Liquid crystal display with periodical changed voltage difference between data voltage and common voltage and driving method thereof

Assignees: Innocom Technology (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd.; Chimei Innolux Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,059,079
App. No.
12/001,704
Granted
Nov 15, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An exemplary liquid crystal display ( 20 ) includes a plurality of pixel units ( 240 ) each including a pixel electrode ( 26 ) and a common electrode ( 22 ), a data driving circuit ( 33 ) providing a plurality of data voltages to each pixel electrode, a common voltage generating circuit ( 34 ) providing a common voltage to each common electrode, and a gamma voltage generating circuit ( 35 ) providing gamma voltages to the data driving circuit. The plurality of pixel units are arranged in a matrix. The voltage difference between the data voltage and the common voltage in each pixel unit is a sum of a main voltage and an auxiliary voltage with periodical change. An absolute value of the main voltage is constant. An absolute value of the auxiliary voltage is less than the absolute value of the main voltage. A sum of the auxiliary voltage is zero in a minimum period.

Claims (16)

1. A liquid crystal display, comprising:

a plurality of pixel units arranged in a matrix, each pixel unit comprising a pixel electrode and a common electrode;

a data driving circuit configured for providing a plurality of data voltages to each pixel electrode;

a common voltage generating circuit configured for providing a common voltage to each common electrode; and

a gamma voltage generating circuit configured for providing gamma voltages to the data driving circuit;

wherein a voltage difference between the data voltage and the common voltage in each pixel unit is a sum of a main voltage and an auxiliary voltage with periodical change;

an absolute value of the main voltage is constant;

an absolute value of the auxiliary voltage is less than the absolute value of the main voltage;

the common voltage in each pixel unit is a sum of a main common voltage and the auxiliary voltage;

the main voltage is a voltage difference between the main common voltage and the data voltage; and

a sum of the auxiliary voltage is zero in a minimum period formed by frame N−2, frame N−1, frame N, and frame N+1;

wherein an absolute value of the auxiliary voltage is less than the absolute value of the main voltage; wherein in frame N−2, a value of the data voltage is Vdata 1 , a value of the main common voltage is Vcom, a value of the auxiliary voltage is 0, where Vdata 1 >0, Vcom>0, Vdata 1 <Vcom; in frame N−1, the value of the data voltage is Vdata 2 , the value of the main common voltage is Vcom, the value of the auxiliary voltage is −Va, where Vdata 2 >Vcom, Vdata 2 −Vcom=Vcom−Vdata 1 , 0<Va<Vdata 2 −Vcom; in frame N, the value of the data voltage is Vdata 1 , the value of the main common voltage is Vcom, the value of the auxiliary voltage is 0; in frame N+1, the value of the data voltage is Vdata 2 , the value of the main common voltage is Vcom, the value of the auxiliary voltage is Va.

2. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the common voltage generating circuit comprises a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a third input terminal, an output terminal, an operational amplifier, a first transistor, a second transistor, a first resistor, a second resistor, a third resistor, a fourth resistor, and a variable resistor; the first input terminal is configured for receiving a direct current voltage, the second input terminal is configured for receiving a first control signal and the third input terminal is configured for receiving a second control signal, the output terminal is configured for outputting the common voltage; the first resistor, the second resistor, the variable resistor, the third resistor, and the fourth resistor are connected in series between the first input terminal and ground; a gate electrode of the first transistor is connected to the second input terminal, a drain electrode of the first transistor is connected to a node between the variable resistor and the third resistor; a source electrode of the first transistor is connected to a node between the third resistor and the fourth resistor, a gate electrode of the second transistor is connected to the third input terminal, a drain electrode of the second transistor is connected to a node between the third resistor and the fourth resistor, a source electrode of the second transistor is connected to ground; a non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier is connected to a node between the first resistor and the second resistor, an inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier is connected to an output terminal of the operational amplifier, the output terminal is connected to the output terminal of the operational amplifier.

3. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a resistance of the third resistor is equal to that of the fourth resistor.

4. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the first input terminal is connected to ground via a capacitor, and the non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier is connected to ground via a capacitor.

5. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the first control signal and the second control signal periodical change, a minimum period is four frames and the four frames are frame N−2, frame N−1, frame N, and frame N+1; the first control signal is a high level voltage and the second control signal is a low level voltage in frame N−2, the first control signal is a high level voltage and the second control signal is a high level voltage in frame N−1, the first control signal is a low level voltage and the second control signal is a high level voltage in frame N, the first control signal is a low level voltage and the second control signal is a low level voltage in frame N+1.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 7, 2014
From: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION
To: INNOLUX CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032621/0718 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 22, 2011
From: INNOLUX DISPLAY CORP.
To: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 026952/0555 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 11, 2007
From: TUNG, CHIEN-FAN; HUANG, SHUN-MING
To: INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.; INNOLUX DISPLAY CORP.
Reel/Frame 020296/0396 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 95146237 A · Dec 11, 2006 · national
Continuity (1)
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