Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Plural physical display element control system – Display elements arranged in matrix
Reexamination Certificate
2002-07-12
2004-08-17
Shankar, Vijay (Department: 2673)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Plural physical display element control system
Display elements arranged in matrix
C345S100000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06778158
ABSTRACT:
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 91110098, filed May 15, 2002.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
1. Field of Invention
The present invention generally relates to a display, and more particularly, to a pre-charging display apparatus.
2. Description of Related Art
The movie was the earliest dynamic image that human beings could see. Afterwards, with the invention of the cathode ray tube (CRT), the commercial television successfully derived from the CRT and became an essential electronic appliance for every family. Accompanying the development of these technologies, the CRT applications further extended to the desktop monitors in the computer industry, so that the CRT has prevailed for several decades. However, each type of display made by the CRT faces the same radiation problem, and due to the structural limitation of the internal electron gun, the size of the display is quite big, making it take up a big space. Therefore, it is not easy to make it thinner and lighter.
Due to the problems mentioned above, researchers have developed the so-called flat panel display, comprising the liquid crystal display (LCD), the field emission display (FED), the organic light emitting diode (OLED), and the plasma display panel (PDP). Wherein, the LCD is the most notable technique among them, it equips the characteristics of the thinner, lighter, small size, medium size and large size, it also complies with the techniques of modern and new era portable mobile wireless communication and networks.
To avoid liquid crystal decomposition and to assure operation life time, an AC drive is used to drive the LCD. The base drive method comprises the static drive method and the dynamic drive method. The static drive method is applied in the field of small scale fixed graph display such as the game apparatus and toy. The dynamic drive method is mainly applied in other fields.
The dynamic drive method comprises two major categories, one is the simple matrix drive method and the other one is the active matrix drive method. The simple matrix drive method is generally used in the twisted nematic (TN) LCD and the super twisted nematic (STN) LCD. The active matrix drive method is generally used in the thin film transistor (TFT) LCD. The matrix drive method uses one of the column electrode and the row electrode as a scanning signal electrode, and use the other one as a data signal electrode. The matrix drive method generally uses a one line at a time scanning method, and its characteristic is (n×m) pixels are controlled by (n+m) (where n and m are the positive integers) electrodes.
Many drive methods had been proposed for the active matrix LCD. One of the conventional drive methods is a method for pre-charging the data line proposed by Sony Japan Corporation in 1995 (U.S. Pat. No. 005,764,207). The method performs a pre-charging operation onto the data line first, and subsequently improves the charging speed onto the pixels. However, this method has to add the pre-charging signal and the pre-charging control signal, so that the power consumption of the LCD panel is increased.
Another conventional drive method issued by A. Erthart and others in 1997 applies the charge sharing theory used on the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) circuit to the design of the LCD drive circuit. In this method, when the dot inversion or the column inversion are adopted in the LCD panel, since the signal polarity on the contiguous data lines are inverse with each other, the charging and discharging operation have to be repeatedly applied onto the data lines to write the data with inverse polarity into the same row in the duration of one frame time. Therefore, the power of the parasitic capacitance originally stored in the data line is wasted. In order to re-utilize the power of this portion, A. Erthart and others proposed coupling all data lines having the inverse polarity together, or jointly coupling all data lines to an external capacitor, and with the charge sharing theory subsequently applied on it, the data line can be pre-charged in advance to almost half of the inverse polarity voltage level, so that the external drive circuit only has to charge the other half that is not charged yet. Therefore, when the polarity on the data line reverses, almost half of the power consumption of the drive circuit can be saved (when the power consumption of the back light panel is not considered).
In order to save the power consumption of the LCD panel, one of the drive methods used is called the Vcom swing drive method, in which the common voltage provided by the external voltage source swings within a certain amplitude rather than sustains at a constant value. This drive method adopts the drive method of the frame inversion or line inversion (also known as row inversion) to write data in. Generally speaking, in order to improve the image quality, the line inversion is preferably adopted, and the low temperature Poly-Si (LTPS) panel mainly adopts this type of the drive method. To have better understanding of it, please refer to
FIG. 1
, a sketch map of a conventional display apparatus
10
. The display apparatus
10
comprises 4 scanning lines (SL
1
-SL
4
)
102
, 5 data lines (DL
1
-DL
5
)
104
, 16 pixels
106
, a vertical drive circuit
108
, a signal drive circuit
110
, 5 switches
112
, a horizontal drive circuit
114
, a common capacitor Ccom
116
, and a common resistor Rcom
118
. As shown in
FIG. 1
, the data lines (DL
1
-DL
4
)
104
comprise a plurality of data line parasitic resistors
120
and a plurality of data line parasitic capacitors
122
, and each of the pixels
106
comprises a transistor
124
and a storage capacitor plus liquid crystal capacitor
126
. The function of each part of the display apparatus
10
is described in detail hereinafter.
The scanning lines (SL
1
-SL
4
)
102
are arranged in row. The data lines (DL
1
-DL
5
)
104
are arranged in columns and intercrossed with the scanning lines (SL
1
-SL
4
)
102
. Each of the pixels
106
is arranged on the intersection of each of the scanning lines
102
and each of the data lines
104
. The vertical drive circuit
108
jointly couples to the scanning lines (SL
1
-SL
4
)
102
to provide a plurality of continuous row selection pulses for each of the scan lines
102
. The signal drive circuit
110
generates the video signals (Video). The switches
112
jointly couple to the signal drive circuit
110
and the data lines (DL
1
-DL
5
)
104
. When the switches
112
are ON, the video signals (Video) are transmitted to the data lines (DL
1
-DL
5
)
104
. The horizontal drive circuit
114
jointly couples to the switches
112
to generate a plurality of continuous sampling pulses to control the ON/OFF of the switches
112
. The common capacitor Ccom
116
has two electrodes, one electrode is jointly coupled to the pixels
106
, and the other electrode is jointly coupled to the ground. The common resistor Rcom
118
has two electrodes, one electrode is jointly coupled to the pixels
106
and the common capacitor Ccom
116
, and the other electrode is jointly coupled to the common voltage Vcom. Moreover, the common voltage Vcom is provided by a voltage source.
FIG. 2
schematically shows a timing diagram of the video signal Video, the data line voltage DL, the real common voltage Vcom, and the common voltage Vcom of a conventional display apparatus
10
.
FIG. 2
is described herein accompanying FIG.
1
. Since the resistor capacitance load (composed of the common resistor Rcom
118
and the common capacitor Ccom
116
) on the common line of the matrix panel (or the inverse electrode of the color filter panel) is very big when seen from the input terminal of the common voltage Vcom, when the voltage polarity of the common voltage Vcom reverses, the rising time delay or the falling time delay on the real common voltage Vcom happen on a common line of the matrix panel (or the inverse electrode of the color filter panel). Moreover, there are also some concerns about insufficient charg
Au Optronics Corporation
Jiang Chyun IP Office
Patel Nitin
Shankar Vijay
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