Display control drive device and display system

1. A display system comprising:

a display panel; and

a display control drive device,

wherein the display panel comprises:

pixels that are arranged in the form of a matrix;

external terminals through which three color drive signals to be applied to the pixels are received;

first lines which extend in a first direction and over which the three color drive signals received through the external terminals are applied to the pixels;

selection switching elements which are interposed between the external terminals and a predetermined number of the first lines and which selectively apply one of the three color signals, which are received through the external terminals, to any of the predetermined number of the first lines,

wherein the display control drive device comprises:

a display memory which is adapted to store display data of one frame for the display panel, the display data comprising a plurality of data, each of which includes three color data, the display memory being adapted to read out ones of the plurality of data corresponding to one line for the display panel, sequentially in each horizontal period;

output terminals coupled to the plurality of external terminals of the display panel, respectively;

an output circuit coupled between outputs of the display memory and the output terminals to provide the output terminals, respectively, with three color drive signals based on the three color data corresponding to the ones of the plurality of data read out from the display memory so that three color drive signals are provided to one output terminal in time-sharing manner;

a timing controller which provides control signals each indicating an output period of a corresponding one of the three color drive signals, respectively, the control signals being provided to the selection switching elements in the display panel,

wherein the timing controller includes:

a control signal producing circuit providing the control signals;

a time setting register which is adapted to store a value determining a pulse width of the control signals; and

a position setting register which is adapted to store a value determining a rising edge of the control signals, and

wherein the control signal producing circuit provides selection switching elements with the control signals so that the control signals each selectively apply one of the three color signals to the pixels in time divisional manner.

2. A display system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the pixels in the display panel each include a red pixel, a green pixel, and a blue pixel, and

wherein the three color drive signals from the display control drive device to the display panel include a red signal, a green signal, and a blue signal.

3. A display system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the display control drive device, which reads display data sequentially from the display memory, produces a plurality of primary color signals which are applied to pixel locations in the display panel, and transmits the primary color signals through the output terminals in a time-sharing manner,

wherein a frame period that is a scanning period during which one screen image to be displayed on the display panel is scanned is changed based on the size of an image to be displayed on the display panel, and an output time taken to transmit each of the primary color signals is varied depending on the frame period,

wherein when the image size is small, the frame period is longer than that of when the image size is large, and the primary color signals are transmitted by taking a longer time, and

wherein the control signal producing circuit controls a driving current flowing into an output amplifier according to the output time taken to transmit each of the primary color signals, so that when the output time is long, the driving current will be decreased, and when the output time is short, the driving current will be increased.

4. A display control driver coupled to a dot-matrix color display device comprising:

a display memory which is adapted to store display data of one frame for the dot-matrix color display device, the display data comprising a plurality of data, each of which includes three color data;

output terminals to be coupled to input terminals of the dot-matrix color display device, respectively;

an output circuit coupled between outputs of the display memory and the output terminals to provide the output terminals, respectively, with a plurality of three color drive signals based on the three color data corresponding to ones of a plurality of data read out from the display memory so that three color drive signals are provided to one output terminal in time-sharing manner;

a timing controller which provides control signals each indicating an output period of a corresponding one of the three color drive signals, respectively, the timing controller including:

a control signal producing circuit;

a charging time setting register coupled to the control signal producing circuit which is adapted to store a value determining a pulse width of the control signals; and

a rising position setting register coupled to the control signal producing circuit, which is adapted to store a value determining a rising edge of the control signals,

wherein the control signal producing circuit provides the dot-matrix color display device with the control signals to drive ones of three color pixels of the dot-matrix color display device.

5. A display control drive device according to claim 4 , wherein the three color data include red data, green data, and blue data, and

wherein the three color drive signals include a red color drive signal, a green color drive signal, and a blue color drive signal.