IP Library Granted Patent US 8,144,104
Granted Patent B2
US 8,144,104 · App. 12/571,670 · Granted Mar 27, 2012

Electro-optical device

Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,144,104
App. No.
12/571,670
Granted
Mar 27, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A scanning line driving circuit includes: each stage shifts and outputs in sequence a start pulse; and logic circuits provided corresponding to the scanning lines and operating to determine the logical product of a signal outputted from the shift register of the stage corresponding to the scanning line and an enable signal supplied differently every group, the enable signal corresponding to the group becomes, in a horizontal scanning period in which the image data writing is carried out for the scanning lines belonging to the group, an active level in a horizontal effective scanning period and an inactive level in a horizontal return line period; and in a horizontal scanning period in which the image data writing is not carried out for the scanning lines belonging to the group, an inactive level in the horizontal effective scanning period and an active level in the horizontal return line period.

Claims (14)

1. An electro-optical device comprising:

pixel respectively provided corresponding to the intersections of a scanning lines and a data line and having gray scale according to a data signal supplied to the data line when the scanning line has been selected;

a scanning line driving circuit which selects the scanning line; and

a data line driving circuit which supplies a data signal according to the gray scale of the pixel to the data line when the scanning line has been selected for image data writing, and supplies a data signal making the pixel a black color to the data line when the scanning line is selected for black insertion writing,

wherein the scanning line driving circuit includes:

a shift register having the number of stages according to a plurality of scanning lines, where each stage shifts and outputs in sequence a start pulse having a predetermined width in accordance with the period of a clock signal; and

logic circuits provided corresponding to the scanning lines and operating to determine the logical product of a signal outputted from the shift register of the stage corresponding to the scanning line and an enable signal supplied differently to every group which a given number of adjacent scanning lines have been grouped together, and then supply it as a scanning signal representing the selection of the scanning line,

the enable signal corresponding to the group becomes,

in a horizontal scanning period in which the image data writing is carried out for the scanning lines belonging to the group, an active level in a horizontal effective scanning period and an inactive level in a horizontal return line period; and

in a horizontal scanning period in which the image data writing is not carried out for the scanning lines belonging to the group, an inactive level in the horizontal effective scanning period and an active level in the horizontal return line period,

a data line driving circuit which supplies the data signal according to the gray scale of the pixel to the data line in the horizontal scanning period, and supplies a data signal making the pixel a black color to the data line in the horizontal return line period.

2. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , wherein the data line driving circuit changes and supplies the voltage of the data signal into positive polarity and negative polarity every horizontal scanning period on the basis of a given electric potential, when viewed in one column of pixels sharing the data line.

3. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , wherein a frame period is set to be the odd number times of the period of the clock signal, and the horizontal scanning period is set to be the period of the clock signal.

4. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , wherein the data line driving circuit makes the data signal in the image data writing have the same polarity as the data signal in the black insertion writing before the image data writing.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 11, 2016
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: INTELLECTUALS HIGH-TECH KFT
Reel/Frame 039300/0295 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 11, 2016
From: INTELLECTUALS HIGH-TECH KFT
To: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 039301/0043 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 1, 2009
From: MATSUURA, YOSHIYUKI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023316/0816 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-264286 · Oct 10, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
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