Electricity: power supply or regulation systems – Output level responsive – Using a three or more terminal semiconductive device as the...
Reexamination Certificate
2000-10-19
2002-04-02
Berhane, Adolf Deneke (Department: 2838)
Electricity: power supply or regulation systems
Output level responsive
Using a three or more terminal semiconductive device as the...
Reexamination Certificate
active
06366065
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a voltage supplying device, and a semiconductor device, an electro-optical device and an electronic instrument using the voltage supplying device.
2. Description of Related Art
In recent years, there are devices requiring a highly accurate voltage supply, for example, a liquid crystal display.
In an active matrix type of liquid crystal display or a simple matrix type of liquid crystal display, the number of grayscales (or colors) of a liquid crystal panel is highly improved, and a voltage to be applied is developed to be more precise.
In order to increase the number of grayscales of a liquid crystal panel, a thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal device which is an active matrix type of liquid crystal display uses three colors of RGB (red, green and blue) which includes data signals constituted of 6-bit data (64 grayscales, ca. 260,000 colors) or 8-bit data (256 grayscales, ca. 16,770,000 colors), for example.
With the increase in the number of grayscales, a technique of setting a voltage level more precisely is required.
According to the characteristics in relationship between the applied voltage and the panel transmittance of a liquid crystal panel, the rate of change in panel transmittance with respect to the applied voltage is large where the transmittance is in the middle level around 50%, and is decreased when the panel transmittance approaches 100% or 0%. Therefore, in the region where the panel transmittance is in the middle level, a slight deviation in the applied voltage has a great influence on a gray level. In order to suppress the change in panel transmittance, a voltage to be applied to liquid crystal is required to be supplied more precisely.
The maximum permissible level in dispersion of a voltage to be applied to liquid crystal is ±5 mV for 64 grayscales and ±1 to ±2 mV for 256 grayscales, for example, and more precise voltage is required to be applied to liquid crystal when the number of grayscales is increased. Although the dispersion in the threshold voltage VTH of an ordinary IC chip is allowed to range from several tens mV to several hundreds mV, a liquid crystal display with the increased number of grayscales has a severer maximum permissible level. It can be predicted that further increase in the number of grayscales in future requires more precise setting method for a voltage to be applied to liquid crystal.
Consequently, there are conventionally various method of generating grayscale voltages in a driving circuit of a liquid crystal panel, such as a voltage selecting method, a time sharing method, or a digital-analog conversion method.
FIG. 4
shows a conventional voltage supplying device of the method using a digital-analogue conversion device (hereinafter referred to as a DAC method).
A voltage follower circuit
72
, into which an output from a DAC
70
is entered, functions as an impedance converter, and in the case of a voltage follower circuit
72
in an ideal state, a voltage of a node
201
entered into a non-inverse input terminal becomes equal to a voltage of a node
202
entered into an inverse input terminal. However, conventionally in the voltage follower circuit
72
not compensated by an offset canceling circuit, an offset is formed between the input and the output due to dispersion in performance of respective transistors, so as to form a difference in voltage between the node
201
and the node
202
.
FIG. 4
shows a voltage supplying device for solving the problem. The output from the DAC
70
is supplied to the non-inverse input terminal
201
of the voltage follower circuit
72
, and the output of the voltage follower circuit
72
is returned to the inverse input terminal
202
. In the course of the circuit connecting the output line and the non-inverse input terminal
201
, a switching element Q
10
, a capacitance C
10
and a switching element Q
12
are connected in series. On the negative feedback line connected to the inverse input terminal
202
, only a switching element Q
1
is present. The switching element Q
10
is connected in parallel to the capacitance C
10
and the switching element Q
11
.
In a first period, the switching element Q
11
is of f, and the switching element Q
10
and the switching element Q
12
are on, whereby an offset voltage between the input and the output of the voltage follower circuit
72
is charged in the capacitance C
10
. In a second period, the switching element Q
11
is on, and the switching element Q
10
and the switching element Q
12
are off, whereby a charge of offset canceling charged in the capacitance C
10
is superposed and returned to the inverse input terminal
202
of the voltage follower circuit
72
.
According to the foregoing manner, the offset is cancelled out by applying a reverse voltage corresponding to the offset in such a manner that the capacitance C
10
for offset canceling is provided on the circuit connecting the output line and the non-inverse input terminal
201
of the voltage follower circuit
72
.
In the data driver of the conventional DAC method shown in
FIG. 4
, the capacitance C
10
as the offset canceling circuit is necessarily housed in the chip. However, it requires a large area since the capacitance C
10
having a sufficiently larger capacity than the input capacity of the voltage follower circuit
72
. When the offset canceling capacity is too small, it is regarded as a noise in the input capacity of the voltage follower circuit
72
, and thus the noise is superposed on the output voltage.
Furthermore, in order to charge the offset voltage in the offset canceling capacitance C
10
, a period of time of from 3 to 5 &mgr;s is generally required.
In the active matrix type of liquid crystal display of these kinds, the horizontal scanning period (select period) is necessarily set at a short period when high definition display is conducted by increasing the number of pixels in one line. For example, the select period becomes as short as from 8 to 12 &mgr;m in high definition display of SXGA.
In this case, it becomes difficult to assure a period of time for offset canceling when the period for charging the capacitance C
10
for offset canceling occupies the select period.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention has been developed taking the problems into consideration, and an objective thereof is to provide a voltage supplying device that can promptly and precisely provide a required charging voltage without an offset canceling circuit, and a semiconductor device, an electro-optical device and an electronic instrument using the same.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a voltage supplying device which supplies a voltage to a load capacitance to finish charging the load capacitance with a predetermined voltage within a predetermined charging period. The voltage supplying device comprises: a voltage supplying source; an impedance conversion circuit which performs impedance conversion for a voltage from the voltage supplying source and outputs the converted voltage; a first switching element connected between the impedance conversion circuit and the load capacitance; a bypass line for bypassing the impedance conversion circuit and the first switching element and supplying a voltage from the voltage supplying source to the load capacitance; and a second switching element provided on the bypass line. The first switching element is turned on and the second switching element is turned off in the first period of the charging period, and the first switching element is turned off and the second switching element is turned on in the second period of the charging period which follows after the first period.
According to this aspect of the present invention, the output voltage from the impedance conversion circuit is supplied to the load capacitance through the first switching element in the first period of the charging period. If an offset is present between the input and output voltages of the impedance conversion circuit, the load c
Berhane Adolf Deneke
Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.
Seiko Epson Corporation
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