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Akihito Akai, Yokohama JP

Akihito Akai, Yokohama JP

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20080218500DISPLAY DRIVER - A liquid crystal display device includes, in one of an even row and an odd row of a liquid crystal panel, a switch for short-circuiting, for example, an even signal line and an odd signal line adjacent on the left side to the even signal line, and a switch for short-circuiting the even signal line and an odd signal line adjacent on the right side to the even signal line provided at an output part of the signal-line driver. By controlling these switches, enlarged display equivalent to the bilinear processing is realized in a horizontal direction. By scanning two scanning lines simultaneously, simple enlarged display is realized in a vertical direction on the panel. Further, by stopping supply of a steady current to an operational amplifier applying data voltage to the even signal line, enlarged display at a low cost and at low power consumption is realized.09-11-2008
20080272999DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DRIVER AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - In a display device and a display driver, when a grayscale of a display image is equal to or lower than a specific grayscale value obtained from a histogram of the display image, a display grayscale is extended with a linear function. On the other hand, when a grayscale of a display image is equal to or higher than the specific grayscale value, histogram equalization of a part higher than the specific grayscale value is performed, and the display grayscale is extended with a non-linear function obtained from the histogram equalization.11-06-2008
20080316167DISPLAY DRIVER - A display driver driving a display panel according to inputted display data comprises: a first circuit changing brightness of a display image by conversion of the display data based on a first reference value and a second reference value, the first reference value being a display data value at a first position in an upper part of a histogram of the inputted display data, and the second reference value being a display data value at a second position in a lower portion of the histogram; a second circuit changing brightness of a illuminating device illuminating the display panel based on the first reference value; and a control circuit performing a processing of making the brightness of the display image high by the first circuit and a processing of making the brightness of the illuminating device low by the second circuit in correlation with the brightness of the display image.12-25-2008
20090015532DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING CIRCUIT THEREOF - In a display device such as a liquid crystal display, a processing for compressing a range of display data (grayscale) to a low grayscale side (a grayscale range where response is fast) except for a high grayscale side (a grayscale range where response is slow) at a predetermined compression ratio to conduct display according to response characteristic of transition between grayscales and a temperature state and a processing for increasing a light amount of a backlight to compensate for luminance change due to the compression are performed, for example, in a liquid crystal panel of TN liquid crystal. Thereby, response can be made fast even at a low temperature time.01-15-2009
20090184985DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING - A display driving circuit to supply a gray scale voltage corresponding to display data to a display panel, the display driving circuit including: a generation circuit to divide a reference voltage to generate a plurality of levels of the gray scale voltages; an interface circuit; a selection circuit to select the gray scale voltage corresponding to the display data from the plurality of levels of voltages; a first register to store a setting value that adjusts the amplitude of a gamma characteristic curve from outside via the interface circuit; and a second register to store a setting value that adjusts the gradient of the gamma characteristic curve from outside via the interface circuit; and a third register to store a setting value for micro adjusting the gamma characteristic curve from outside via the interface circuit; wherein the first, second and third registers are assigned different addresses.07-23-2009
20090289965LIQUID CRYSTAL DRIVING DEVICE - A liquid crystal driving device is provided, which can reduce the problem of contrast lowering of the liquid crystal display screen due to the decrease of the driving current of LED, by the control which is performed in order to cope with the decrease of the maximum rated current of LED as a light source of the backlight at a high temperature. The liquid crystal driving device includes a liquid crystal driving circuit, a backlight control unit, and display data expansion circuits. The liquid crystal driving circuit generates a liquid crystal driving signal to be supplied to a liquid crystal display panel in response to display data. The backlight control unit reduces driving current of the light emitting diode as a light source of the backlight module to illuminate the liquid crystal display panel, in response to the temperature rise of the liquid crystal display panel. The display data expansion circuit, in response to the temperature rise of the liquid crystal display panel, performs the data expansion of the display data, and compensates the contrast lowering of the liquid crystal display panel due to the dimming of the backlight module with the temperature rise of the liquid crystal display panel.11-26-2009
20090303264LIQUID CRYSTAL DRIVING DEVICE - A liquid crystal driving device includes a liquid crystal controller and specific color expansion circuits. The liquid crystal controller generates a liquid crystal drive signal to be supplied to a liquid crystal display panel in response to display data. The specific color expansion circuits generate an image output signal from a low-intensity image input signal corresponding to a specific color by intensifying a gradation using a specified factor. The specific color expansion circuits generate an image output signal from a high-intensity image input signal corresponding to a specific color by intensifying a gradation using another small factor. The image output signal is appropriately intensified by the specific color expansion circuits and is supplied as display data to the liquid crystal controller.12-10-2009
20100013818ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND OPERATING METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The present invention is directed to reduce power consumption in a standby operation period as a period of holding display in a no-power state. An electronic paper display has an electronic paper display panel, a display driver/controller, a battery, and a booster power source circuit. The display panel can display data by writing display data and, after that, can hold the display in a no-power state. The booster power source circuit generates a boosted power source voltage by an operation of boosting power source voltage from the battery, and the display driver/controller executes the writing of the displayed data to the display panel by using the boosted power source voltage. In the following standby operation period in which the display panel holds the display in the no-power state, the boosting operation of the booster power source circuit is stopped.01-21-2010
20100165011DISPLAY DRIVER AND DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD - In a display driver, one scanning period is divided into a period P and a subsequent period D. In the period P, a pre-charge voltage equal to an original data voltage is applied in a time-sharing manner to data lines in one block, and in the period D after the period P, the original data voltage is applied again.07-01-2010
20110148953DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING - A display driver having a first mode where a number of colors to be displayed is smaller than a predetermined number and a second mode where a number of colors to be displayed is equal to or larger than the predetermined number. A generation circuit generates gray scale voltages having a plurality of levels for positive polarity and negative polarity. In the first mode, the generation circuit decreases a current flowing into an internal circuit which generates a gray scale voltage of an intermediate level other than two gray scale voltages of a lowest and a highest level, in comparison to a current flowing in the second mode. In the first mode, the selection circuit selects a gray scale voltage in accordance with the display data, from the two gray scale voltages of the lowest and the highest level gray scale voltage which are generated from the generation circuit.06-23-2011

Patent applications by Akihito Akai, Yokohama JP