IP Library Patent Application 12289669
Patent Application
App. No. 12/289,669

Image display device

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12/289,669
Abstract

An image display device having a plurality of pixel, a plurality of signal lines for inputting an image voltage to each of the plurality of pixels, and a pixel selecting unit for selecting from the plurality of pixels a pixel into which the image voltage is to be written, in which each of the pixels has a light emitting device of a current driving-type, a driving transistor connected between a power line and the light emitting device, and a capacitance device having one end connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor, the image voltage is input to the other end of the capacitance device during the writing period, an inclined wave voltage which changes a voltage level thereof according to time is input to the other end of the capacitance device during a light emission period following the writing period.

Claims (45)

1 . An image display device having a plurality of pixels, into each of which an image voltage is input during a writing period and an inclined wave voltage which changes a voltage level thereof according to time is input during a light emission period following the writing period, wherein

each of the pixels has

light emitting means,

a driving transistor for driving the light emitting means, and

a capacitance device having one end connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor,

the image voltage and the inclined wave voltage are input to other end of the capacitance device during the writing period and the light emission period, respectively, and

light emission intensity of the light emitting means while emitting light always changes within the light emission period.

2 . An image display device, having

a plurality of pixels,

a plurality of signal lines for inputting an image voltage to each of the plurality of pixels, and

pixel selecting means for selecting from the plurality of pixels a pixel into which the image voltage is to be written via the plurality of signal lines,

wherein

each of the pixels has

a light emitting device of a current driving-type,

a driving transistor connected between a power line and the light emitting device, and

a capacitance device having one end connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor,

the image voltage is input to other end of the capacitance device during the writing period,

inclined wave voltage which changes a voltage level thereof according to time is input to the other end of the capacitance device during a light emission period following the writing period, and

light emission intensity of the light emitting device while emitting light always changes within the light emission period.

3 . The image display device according to claim 2 , wherein

the pixel selecting means has a plurality of scanning lines,

each of the pixels has a reset transistor connected between the gate electrode of the driving transistor and an electrode of the driving transistor, the electrode being connected to the light emitting device, and

the gate electrode of the reset transistor is connected to a corresponding scanning line among the plurality of scanning lines.

4 . The image display device according to claim 2 , wherein

the pixel selecting means has a plurality of lighting control lines,

each of the pixels has a lighting transistor connected between the driving transistor and the light emitting device,

a gate electrode of each lighting transistor is connected to a corresponding lighting control line among the plurality of lighting control lines.

5 . The image display device according to claim 4 , wherein

the writing period is divided into successive first to third periods,

the reset transistor of each of the pixels remains on during the first period and the second period within the writing period and off during the third period within the writing period and the light emission period,

the lighting transistor of each of the pixels remains on during the light emission period and the first period within the writing period and off during the second period and the third period within the writing period.

6 . The image display device according to claim 2 , further comprising

a plurality of inclined wave voltage input lines for inputting the inclined wave voltage to each of the pixels,

wherein

each of the pixels includes

a first switching transistor for connecting the other end of the capacitance device to a corresponding signal line among the plurality of signal lines during the writing period, and

a second switching transistor for connecting the other end of the capacitance device to a corresponding inclined wave voltage input line among the plurality of inclined wave voltage input lines during the light emission period.

7 . The image display device according to claim 6 , wherein

the pixel selecting means includes a plurality of switch control lines,

the first switching transistor and the second switching transistor differ from each other in an electricity conductive type,

a gate electrode of the first switching transistor of each of the pixels and a gate electrode of the second switching transistor are connected to a corresponding same switch control line among the plurality of switch control lines,

the first switching transistor and the second switching transistor of each of the pixels remain on and off, respectively, during the writing period, and

the first switching transistor and the second switching transistor of each of the pixels remain off and on, respectively, during the light emission period.

8 . The image display device according to claim 1 wherein the light emitting device is an organic light emitting diode device.

9 . The image display device according to claim 2 wherein the light emitting device is an organic light emitting diode device.

Assignments (3)
MERGER Recorded Dec 13, 2011
From: IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027482/0140 →
ATTACHED ARE (1) THE COMPANY SPLIT DOCUMENTS IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION THEREOF AND (2) THE CERTIFICATE OF COMPANY SPLIT DOCUMENT IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION, WHICH TOGETHER CONVEY 50% OWNERSHIP OF THE REGISTERED PATENTS AS LISTED IN THE ATTACHED TO EACH OF THE RECEIVING PARTIES (SEE PAGE 10, EXHIBIT 2-1, SECTION 1 OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE COMPANY SPLIT PLAN.) Recorded Dec 13, 2011
From: HITACHI, DISPLAYS, LTD.
To: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.; IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027615/0589 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2008
From: AKIMOTO, HAJIME; NAKAMURA, NORIHIRO; YATSU, YASUHARU; KAGEYAMA, HIROSHI; KOHNO, TOHRU
To: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 021841/0445 →