Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080278468 | Electro-optical device, driving circuit and driving method of the same, and electronic apparatus - A driving circuit of an electro-optical device wherein one field is divided into p (p is an integer that is equal to or more than two) groups and each group is divided into two sub-fields. The p groups each are set to have the length of a time period that is equal to one another. The 2p sub-fields that constitute the one field are set to different lengths of time periods in such a manner that a boundary between two sub-fields of each group is shifted by a predetermined interval compared to the boundary between the two sub-fields of the preceding group. The different gray scale values are expressed by turning on a single sub-field or n (n is an integral number that is equal to two or more and that is equal to or less than 2p) sub-fields that are adjacent to each other. | 11-13-2008 |
20080284717 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC MACHINE - An electro-optical device includes a liquid crystal drive unit that divides on a temporal axis one field into subfields and that, during the subfields, applies either an on-voltage or an off-voltage to picture elements of a liquid crystal display in accordance with gradation of the picture elements during the one field. A light source control unit sequentially switches the three light sources, and switches at least two of the three light sources at a switching period that is shorter than a time duration required to exhibit, in the picture elements during the one field, gradation of each color corresponding to each of the at least two of the three light sources. | 11-20-2008 |
20090002295 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL APPARATUS, METHOD OF DRIVING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - One field is divided into p (p is an integer of 2 or more) groups and each of the divided groups is divided into two subfields. The p groups have the same time period. The sub-fields forming one field have time periods that are different from each other. A plurality of scanning lines are divided into at least first and second groups. A field start timing of pixels corresponding to the scanning lines of the first group is set to be different from a field start timing of pixels corresponding to scanning lines of the second group by at least the time period of the groups. | 01-01-2009 |
20090015525 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Light having a color component that corresponds to a present field is irradiated on a plurality of pixels for a time duration that starts during the scan period of the present field and that ends during the scan period of a next field that is subsequent to the present field. The light is irradiates so that the light having the color component that corresponds to the present field is not mixed with light having a color component that corresponds to a previous field that is previous to the present field and with light having a color component that corresponds to the next field | 01-15-2009 |
20090079769 | DRIVING METHOD, DRIVING CIRCUIT, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes a data converting section that converts display data that is to be supplied to pixel units. The data converting section converting on the basis of a predetermined conversion rule for each of a plurality of fields. The plurality of fields corresponds to respective light emission time periods of the plurality of light beams and following one after another in a successive manner on a time axis. The predetermined conversion rule converts data for a preceding field of one color to achieve a value in a successive field of a different color, such that the value approaches a desired value for at least one of brightness and color obtained when an image is displayed in the display area during the successive field. | 03-26-2009 |
20090195561 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A driving circuit of an electro-optical device includes a scanning line driving circuit and a data line driving circuit. When a writing scanning line is selected, the data line driving circuit supplies a data signal of an on or off voltage allocated to a sub-field corresponding to the selection in terms of a gray scale of the pixel corresponding to the selected one of the writing scanning lines and one of the data lines. Among the plurality of sub-fields, the length of a time period of the shortest sub-field is set shorter than the length of a time period required to select, by the scanning line driving circuit, the plurality of writing scanning lines. | 08-06-2009 |
20100013802 | DRIVER AND METHOD FOR DRIVING ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A driver subfield-drives an electro-optical device that includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixels, one of the plurality of pixels corresponding intersection point where one of the plurality of scanning lines and one of the plurality of data lines intersect each other. The driver includes a scan signal supplying unit that supplies the one of the scanning line with a scan signal to select the one of the scanning line, and a video signal supplying unit that supplies the one of the data line with a plurality of video data signals which includes a first video data signal and a second video data signal. An i-th selection period in which the one of the scanning line is selected is divided into a plurality of subfields which includes a first subfield and a second subfield. The first video data signal is supplied in the first subfield, and the second video data signal is supplied in the second subfield. | 01-21-2010 |
20100207966 | DRIVING METHOD FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A driving method for a liquid crystal display apparatus, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a pixel electrode and a counter electrode, and that controls a transmitted light in the liquid crystal layer by dividing a single frame period into multiple subfield periods and applying an on/off binary data signal between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in each subfield period. When a counter electrode potential applied to the counter electrode is used as a reference and a voltage higher than the reference is taken as a positive-polarity voltage and a voltage lower than the reference is taken as a negative-polarity voltage, the data signal is converted to the positive-polarity voltage and negative-polarity voltage alternately and cyclically every a cyclical period having subfield period or every several subfield periods. Further, the length of half the cyclical period is no less than 1.6 ms. | 08-19-2010 |
20110051006 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided is a video processing circuit which designates an applied voltage, which is to be applied to a liquid crystal element of each pixel, based on a video signal, including: a first boundary detection portion which analyzes a video signal of a current frame and detects a boundary between a pixel, to which an applied voltage near a maximum grayscale is applied, and a pixel, to which an applied voltage near a minimum grayscale is applied, based on the video signal; a second boundary detection portion which analyzes a video signal of a frame preceding the current frame and detects a boundary between the pixel, to which the applied voltage near the maximum grayscale is applied, and the pixel, to which the applied voltage near the minimum grayscale is applied, based on the video signal; and a correction portion which corrects the applied voltage to a voltage which provides an initial tilt angle to a liquid crystal molecule in a case where the applied voltage designated with the video signal of a pixel adjacent to a portion changed from the boundary detected by the second boundary detection portion among the boundaries detected by the first boundary detection portion is lower than the voltage which provides the initial tilt angle to the liquid crystal molecule. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051007 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONICS DEVICE - A video processing circuit for specifying an applied voltage that is applied to a liquid crystal included in each pixel on the basis of a video signal, the video processing circuit includes a correction unit configured to, if the applied voltage specified by the video signal is a voltage of a level lower than a voltage level that is sufficient to an extent that can provide liquid crystal molecules with initial inclination angles, perform correction so that the applied voltage has a voltage level that is sufficient to an extent that can provide the liquid crystal molecules with initial inclination angles. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058111 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes: pixel that corresponds to intersection of scanning line and data line and that each change the transmittance or reflectance of a liquid crystal element by means of a pair of electrodes; a scanning line driving circuit that selects scanning line and applies a selection voltage to the selected scanning line; and a data line driving circuit that applies writing voltages through the data line to the pixel that corresponds to the selected scanning line, wherein the scanning line driving circuit applies the selection voltage to the selected scanning line for video signal writing periods and setting periods that start before the video signal writing periods, respectively, the data line driving circuit supplies, to the pixel, data signals with voltages corresponding to video signals for the video signal writing periods and supplies, to the pixel, a setting signal with a predetermined voltage for the setting periods, and each of the setting periods is shorter than a response time required for the transmittance or reflectance of each of the liquid crystal element to change from 0% to 100% or a response time required for the transmittance or reflectance of each of the liquid crystal element to change from 100% to 0%. | 03-10-2011 |
20110109815 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND METHOD, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The video processing circuit includes a boundary detection unit that detects a specific boundary, which is a part of a boundary of a first pixel for which an applied voltage designated by the video signal is less than a first voltage, and a second pixel for which the applied voltage is more than a second voltage larger than the first voltage, the specific boundary being determined by tilt azimuth of the liquid crystal, and a replacement unit that replaces an applied voltage to a liquid crystal element corresponding to the first pixel with a predetermined voltage from the applied voltage designated by the input video signal when the applied voltage designated by the video signal is less than a third voltage smaller than the first voltage with respect to the first pixel adjacent to the specific boundary. | 05-12-2011 |
20110176071 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A video processing includes: a boundary detecting section which respectively detects, in a current frame and a previous frame, a boundary between a first pixel in which the applied voltage designated by the video signal is lower than a first voltage and a second pixel in which the applied voltage is equal to or higher than a second voltage which is higher than the first voltage; and a correcting section which corrects the voltage applied to the liquid crystal element corresponding to at least one of the first pixel and the second pixel in positions between which a portion which moves from the boundary of the previous frame by one pixel is interposed, within the boundary of the current frame, to correct the input video signal in a direction where a transverse electric field generated in the first pixel and the second pixel is reduced. | 07-21-2011 |
20110181795 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A video processing circuit for a liquid crystal panel is disclosed. The video processing circuit includes: a risk boundary detecting unit configured to detect a risk boundary that is a portion of boundaries each between a first pixel whose applied voltage that is specified by an input video signal is below a first voltage and a second pixel whose applied voltage exceeds a second voltage higher than the first voltage, the risk boundary being determined by a tilt azimuth of the liquid crystal; an identification unit configured to identify a first pixel that is surrounded by the risk boundary at least two edges, in first pixels adjacent to the boundaries; and a replacement unit configured to replace, a voltage to be applied to a liquid crystal element corresponding to the first pixel, the voltage being specified by the input video signal, with a predetermined third voltage. | 07-28-2011 |
20110205207 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A video processing circuit, includes: a boundary detection section adapted to detect a boundary between a first pixel having an applied voltage, which is designated by the video signal input and is lower than a first voltage, and a second pixel having an applied voltage, which is designated by the video signal input and is one of equal to and higher than a second voltage higher than the first voltage, in a present frame and in a previous frame, which is one frame earlier than the present frame, respectively; and a correction section adapted to correct the video signal adapted to designate the applied voltages to the liquid crystal elements corresponding to the first pixel and the second pixel abutting on a moving section in the boundary of the present frame moving one pixel from the boundary in the previous frame so as to reduce a lateral electrical field caused by the first pixel and the second pixel. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205208 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A video processing circuit used in a liquid crystal panel, includes: a first boundary detector that analyzes a video signal of a present frame to detect a boundary between a first pixel and a second pixel; a second boundary detector that analyzes a video signal of a frame one frame before the present frame to detect a boundary between the first pixel and the second pixel; a correction portion that corrects an applied voltage to a liquid crystal device corresponding to a second pixel which is adjacent to a portion of the boundary detected by the first boundary detector, which is changed from the boundary detected by the second boundary detector from the applied voltage specified by the video signal of the present frame to a voltage equal to or higher than the first voltage and lower than the second voltage. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205439 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A video processing circuit for a liquid crystal panel, includes: a boundary detecting unit which detects a boundary between a first pixel whose applied voltage specified by an input video signal is below a first voltage and a second pixel whose applied voltage is equal to or higher than a second voltage which is higher than the first voltage; and a correction unit which corrects, for at least two second pixels one of which is adjacent to the boundary detected by the boundary detecting unit on the opposite side of the first pixel and which are successive in a direction opposite to the boundary, an applied voltage to liquid crystal elements corresponding to the second pixels from the applied voltage specified by the video signal to a voltage which is equal to or higher than the first voltage and below the second voltage. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205440 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A video processing circuit used in a liquid crystal panel, includes: a first boundary detector that analyzes a video signal of a present frame to detect a boundary between a first pixel and a second pixel; a second boundary detector that analyzes a video signal of a frame one frame before the present frame to detect a boundary between the first pixel and the second pixel; a third boundary detector that detects a risk boundary that is determined by a tilt azimuth of the liquid crystal; and a correction portion that corrects an applied voltage to a liquid crystal device corresponding to a first pixel from the applied voltage to a liquid crystal device corresponding to the first pixel to a third voltage or higher, when the applied voltage specified by the video signal input to the first pixel is lower than the third voltage. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205452 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A video processing circuit replaces an applied voltage designated by the video signal and applied to a first pixel with a predetermined third voltage, in the case that the applied voltage is lower than the third voltage, the first pixel is abutted on a predetermined application boundary, and the first pixel is surrounded by a risk boundary determined in accordance with a tilt azimuth direction of the liquid crystal on at least two sides. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205479 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A video processing circuit used in a liquid crystal panel, includes: a boundary detector that detects a portion of a boundary between a first pixel whose applied voltage specified by an input video signal is lower than a first voltage and a second pixel whose applied voltage is higher than a second voltage higher than the first voltage, as a risk boundary that is determined by a tilt azimuth of the liquid crystal; and a correction portion that corrects an applied voltage to a liquid crystal device corresponding to a second pixel which is adjacent to the risk boundary from the applied voltage specified by the video signal to a voltage equal to or lower than the second voltage and higher than the first voltage. | 08-25-2011 |
20120147272 | METHOD OF PROCESSING VIDEO, VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A video processing circuit detects a risk boundary that is a part of a boundary between a dark pixel and a bright pixel, and is determined in accordance with the tilt azimuth of liquid crystal molecules from a boundary changed over the previous frame to the current frame and, for at least one side of dark pixels and bright pixels brought into contact with the detected risk boundary, corrects a video signal designating the application voltage of a liquid crystal element corresponding to the pixel of the frame brought into contact with the risk boundary out of a plurality of frames from the current frame to k frames (here, k is a natural number) following the current frame such that a lateral direction electric field generated between the dark pixel and the bright pixel decreases. | 06-14-2012 |
20130083244 | VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A video processing circuit detects a risk boundary, which a portion of the boundary between a dark pixel and a bright pixel in an image represented by a video signal Vid-in, and is determined by a tilt azimuth of liquid crystal molecules, from the boundary, and corrects a video signal corresponding to at least one of the dark pixel and the bright pixel which is contiguous to the detected risk boundary in at least one field of a plurality of fields constituting one frame such that a period in which the risk boundary is present in one frame period is shortened. | 04-04-2013 |
20130169703 | DRIVER UNIT FOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device is configured so that one frame is divided into two fields and a pixel of a liquid crystal panel is driven. The liquid crystal display device performs overdrive when a gray-scale level to be supplied to the pixel is different between a previous frame and a current frame. The liquid crystal display writes a voltage corresponding to the gray-scale level of the pixel with a positive voltage in a first field, and writes a voltage corresponding to the gray-scale level to be supplied to the pixel with a negative voltage in a second field. When performing overdrive, the liquid crystal display device performs overdrive in both of the first field and the second field. Also, when performing overdrive, the liquid crystal display device corrects the gray-scale level to be supplied to the pixel. | 07-04-2013 |
20130194249 | VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A video processing circuit includes a boundary detection unit which detects a boundary between a first pixel in which an application voltage which is designated by a video signal Vid-in is lower than a first voltage and a second pixel which exceeds a second voltage in which the application voltage is higher than the first voltage in a normally black mode; and a correction unit which corrects a video signal in which an application voltage to a liquid crystal element corresponding to the first pixel which comes into contact with a boundary detected by the boundary detection unit is designated to be a video signal in which a correction voltage which is higher than the application voltage is designated in a part of period of one frame period, and a correction voltage which is lower than the application voltage is designated in other periods of the one frame period. | 08-01-2013 |
20130241914 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device which is used in a liquid crystal apparatus, includes a detection portion that detects a boundary between a first pixel to which a first voltage lower than a first reference voltage is applied and a second pixel to which a second voltage higher than a second reference voltage is applied on the basis of signals for controlling voltages applied to a plurality of pixels, and a correction portion that corrects the first voltage correlated with the first pixel to a third voltage which is higher than the first voltage and lower than the second voltage correlated with the second pixel. | 09-19-2013 |
20130241968 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device using a liquid crystal device having a plurality of pixels includes a storage unit that stores a signal which controls a level of transmittance in a plurality of pixels, a detection unit that, based on the signal that is stored in the storage unit, detects a first pixel associated with a second value which indicates higher transmittance than a first value, and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel and associated with a fourth value which indicates the higher transmittance than a third value; and a correction unit that corrects the second value so that a difference of the transmittance indicated by the second value and the fourth value decreases. The third value indicates the higher transmittance than the first value, and the fourth value indicates a higher transmittance than the second value. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242194 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device which is used in a liquid crystal apparatus, includes a detection portion that detects a boundary between a first pixel correlated with a first signal for applying a first voltage lower than a first reference voltage and a second pixel correlated with a second signal for applying a second voltage higher than a second reference voltage on the basis of signals for controlling voltages applied to pixels, and a correction portion that corrects a signal correlated with M pixels including the first pixel to a third signal for applying a third voltage which is higher than the first voltage and lower than the second voltage in a correction period, wherein the correction portion varies M in the correction period. | 09-19-2013 |
20130257844 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device of a liquid crystal apparatus detects a boundary between a first pixel to which a first voltage lower than a first reference voltage is applied and a second pixel to which a second voltage higher than a second reference voltage is applied on the basis of a signal for controlling a voltage applied to pixels, corrects a signal correlated with M pixels including the first pixel to a third voltage which is higher than the first voltage and lower than the second voltage, outputs the third voltage as an applied voltage to the M pixels in a first period, outputs the first voltage as an applied voltage to the M pixels in a second period, and outputs the third voltage as an applied voltage to the M pixels in a third period. | 10-03-2013 |
20140267452 | DISPLAY CONTROL CIRCUIT, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A signal generation circuit of an electro-optical device includes a generation unit that generates correction data corresponding to each pixel circuit based on input image data, a specification unit that, when a value which denotes a difference of two pieces of correction data corresponding to two pixel circuits adjacent to each other is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, specifies the two pixel circuits as boundary pixel circuits, an updating unit that generates updated correction data by modifying each value of a predetermined number of pieces of correction data corresponding to a predetermined number of pixel circuits including at least one of the boundary pixel circuits so as to be a value between two values indicated by the two pieces of correction data corresponding to the boundary pixel circuits. | 09-18-2014 |