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| 20080278522 | Display apparatus and display panel driver - Disclosed herewith a liquid crystal display apparatus, which includes a liquid crystal display panel that employs the delta arrangement; a subtractive color processing circuit that carries out a subtractive color processing for input image data, thereby generating subtractive color image data; and data line driving circuit that drives the liquid crystal display panel in response to the subtractive color image data. The subtractive color processing circuit carries out a weighting processing that increases or decreases the subtractive color image data according to a line that includes a sub-pixel to be subjected to a subtractive color processing, then carries out an error diffusion processing for the result of the weighting processing, thereby generating subtractive color image data. The subtractive color processing circuit carries out the weighting processing so as to increase the subtractive color image data corresponding to a line and decrease the subtractive color image data corresponding to another line. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090009453 | Liquid crystal display device and control driver for a liquid crystal display device - A control driver for a liquid crystal display panel includes: an operation circuit, an LUT (Look-up Table), and a linear interpolation D/A converter. The operation circuit performs a certain operation on input image data to generate operation data, and outputs higher order bit data and lower order bit data of the operation data. The LUT includes a V-T (Voltage-Transmittance) characteristic of the liquid crystal display panel, and outputs first output data and second output data as display data based on the higher order bit data and the V-T characteristic. The linear interpolation D/A converter performs an linear interpolation operation and D/A conversion to generate output voltage supplied to the liquid crystal display panel in response to the first output data, the second output data and the lower order bit data. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090021462 | AMPLIFIER OFFSET CANCELING WITHIN DISPLAY PANEL DRIVER - A data driver used for driving a display panel is provided with a grayscale voltage generator circuit generating a plurality of grayscale voltages; and a drive circuitry selecting a selected grayscale voltage from the plurality of grayscale voltages in response to input display data, and outputting a data signal having a voltage level corresponding to the selected grayscale voltage to the display panel. The grayscale voltage generator circuit comprises an amplifier generating a voltage bias; and a voltage generator circuit generating the plurality of grayscale voltages from the voltage bias. The amplifier is designed so that a polarity of an offset voltage of the amplifier is reversible. The polarity of the offset voltage of the amplifier is controlled so that the polarity of the offset voltage of the amplifier used for driving a specific pixel of the display panel in a certain frame period is opposite to that of the offset voltage of the amplifier used for driving the c specific pixel in another frame period. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090109211 | Liquid crystal display, LCD driver, and operating method of LCD driver - In an aspect of the present invention, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel; and an LCD driver. The LCD driver includes: a first memory having a capacity more than a capacity of image data for one frame and configured to receive the image data externally to store therein; a second memory; an overdrive processing circuit configured to compress the image data read out from the first memory to generate a compressed image data, write the generated compressed image data in the second memory, and perform an overdrive process based on the image data of a current frame read out from the first memory and the compressed image data of a previous read out from the second memory to generate a post-process image data; and a data line driving section configured to drive data lines of the LCD panel in response to the post-process image data. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090184983 | Displaying apparatus, displaying panel driver and displaying panel driving method - A display apparatus includes a display panel; and a display panel driver configured to drive signal lines of the display panel. The display panel driver includes: a color reducing circuit configured to be possible to generate a first color reduction image data from a first input image data by executing an error diffusion process by using a first error value, and to generate a second color reduction image data from the first input image data by executing the error diffusion process by using a second error value which is different from the first error value; and a driving section configured to drive a first pixel positioned on a horizontal line of the display panel in response to the first color reduction image data, and drive a second pixel positioned on the horizontal line and adjacent to a the first pixel in a horizontal direction, in response to the second color reduction image data. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090295813 | Integrated circuit design method for improved testability - A display device is provided with a display panel; and a display panel driver driving the display panel in response to externally-provided image data. The display panel driver includes a display memory for storing the image data, and is configured to perform overdrive processing on the image data read from the display memory. The display panel driver includes an overdrive processing control circuit detecting writing of the image data into the display memory to control operation and halt of a circuit used for the overdrive processing. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090322713 | Image processing circuit, and display panel driver and display device mounting the circuit - A display panel driver includes: a compression circuit, when receiving image data of N×M pixels of a target block, generating compressed image data corresponding to the target block by compressing the image data; an image memory storing the compressed image data; a decompression circuit generating decompressed image data by decompressing the compressed image data from the image memory; and a drive circuit driving a display panel in response to the decompressed image data. The compression circuit selects one of a plurality of compression methods based on a correlation between the image data of the N×M pixels, and generates the compressed image data by the selected compression method. The plurality of compression methods includes: a first method calculating a first value corresponding to image data of the N×M pixels and putting the first value in the compressed image data, a second method calculating a second value corresponding to image data of n pixels of the N×M pixels and putting the second value in the compressed image data, and a third method calculating a bit plane reducing data by performing a bit plane reduction process independently on image data of each of the N×M pixels and putting the bit plane reducing data in the compressed image data. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100066769 | Display device, controller driver and driving method for display panel - A display device includes a display panel, an environmental sensor, a correction circuit and a driving circuit. The correction circuit is configured to generate a corrected gray-scale data on the basis of input gray-scale data. The driving circuit is configured to drive the display panel in response to the corrected gray-scale data. The correction circuit generates the corrected gray-scale data by executing a correction using a polynomial in which the input gray-scale data are used as variables. Coefficients of the polynomial are changed in response to an output signal of the environmental sensor. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100164922 | Backlight brightness control for panel display device - A display device is provided with a display panel; a backlight which illuminates the display panel; and a backlight brightness controller controlling a brightness of the backlight so that the brightness of the brightness is variable in the middle of each frame period. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100315406 | Image data transfer to cascade-connected display panel drivers - A display device is provided with a display panel; first to n-th cascade-connected drivers (n being an integer of two or more); a controller transmitting compressed image data to the first driver. The i-th driver of the first to n-th drivers includes a drive circuitry driving the display panel; a first bus adapted to data transfer to the (i+1)-th driver of the first to n-th drivers; a second bus adapted to data transfer to the driver circuitry; and a decompression section receiving the compressed image data from the (i−1)-th driver of the first to n-th drivers or the controller. The decompression section of the i-th driver transfers the received compressed image data to the (i+1)-th driver through the first bus thereof, when the received compressed image data are not associated with the i-th driver. When the received compressed image data are associated with the i-th driver, the decompression section of the i-th driver decompresses the received compressed image data to generate decompressed image data and feeds the decompressed image data to the drive circuitry through the second bus. The drive circuitry drives the display panel in response to the decompressed image data. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110134152 | Apparatus for simultaneously performing gamma correction and contrast enhancement in display device - A display device is provided with a display panel; a correction circuit which performs gamma correction on target image data in response to correction data specifying a gamma curve; and a driver circuit driving the display panel in response to gamma-corrected data received from the correction circuit. The correction circuit is configured to perform approximate gamma correction in accordance with a correction expression in which the target image data is defined as a variable of the correction expression and coefficients of the same are determined on the correction data, and to modify the correction data in response to target image data associated with the target pixel of the gamma correction and the pixel adjacent to the target pixel. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110148844 | Image processing circuit, and display panel driver and display device mounting the circuit - A display panel driver including a compression circuit configured to, when receiving image data of a set of pixels of a target block, generate compressed image data corresponding to the target block by compressing the image data, the number of the set of pixels being equal to or more than four, an image memory configured to store the compressed image data, a decompression circuit configured to generate decompressed image data by decompressing the compressed image data reading from the image memory, and a drive circuit configured to drive a display panel in response to the decompressed image data, wherein the compression circuit selects one of a plurality of compression methods based on a correlation between the image data of the set of pixels of the target block, and generates the compressed image data by using the selected compression method. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110148942 | Display data correction by numerical operation suitable for display panel driver - A display data correction apparatus is provided with: a control circuit responsive to an input gray-level value for initially providing first to N-th control points (N≧3) defined in a coordinate system in which a first coordinate axis is associated with the input gray-level value and a second coordinate axis is associated with an output gray-level value to be calculated for the input gray-level value; and a processing circuit obtaining an output gray-level value by repeating an update operation in which the first to N-th control points are updated. The degree (N−1) Bezier curve is used as an approximated curve of the gamma curve. The output gray-level value is finally obtained as the coordinate value of a specific point in the degree (N−1) Bezier curve along the second coordinate axis, where the specific point has the coordinate value closest to the input gray-level value along the first coordinate axis. | 06-23-2011 |
