Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120013615 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a plasma display device including a plasma display panel that performs gradation display of an image by a sub-field driving method. A protective layer of the plasma display panel includes a base layer formed on a dielectric layer and a plurality of aggregated particles dispersed all over a surface of the base layer. The plasma display device forms an image by a right-eye field in which a right-eye image signal is displayed and a left-eye field in which a left-eye image signal is displayed. The right-eye field and the left-eye field have a plurality of sub-fields. The first sub-field has a minimum luminance weight, the second sub-field has a maximum luminance weight, and the third and subsequent sub-fields have luminance weights decreasing in sequence. | 01-19-2012 |
20120086736 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A plasma display device including a plasma display panel that performs gradation display of an image by a sub-field method. A protective layer of the plasma display panel includes a base layer formed on a dielectric layer and a plurality of aggregated particles dispersed all over a surface of the base layer. The plasma display device forms an image by a right-eye field in which a right-eye image signal is displayed and a left-eye field in which a left-eye image signal is displayed. The right-eye field and the left-eye field have a plurality of sub-fields. In a predetermined gradation or higher, gradation is displayed by at least one or more sub-fields excluding a sub-field arranged in an end of each of the right-eye field and the left-eye field, | 04-12-2012 |
20120200564 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - A high-quality stereoscopic image is displayed by suppressing crosstalk between an image for the right eye and an image for the left eye and stabilizing an address discharge. For this purpose, in the method for driving the plasma display apparatus, an image for the right eye and an image for the left eye are alternately displayed on the plasma display panel by alternately repeating a field for the right eye and a field for the left eye. In each of the field for the right eye and the field for the left eye, the subfield having the smallest luminance weight is placed first, the subfield having the largest luminance weight is placed next, and the other subfields are placed thereafter so as to have luminance weights sequentially decreasing. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200616 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - Crosstalk between right-eye images and left-eye images is suppressed, and high-quality 3D images are displayed. For this purpose, a driving method of a plasma display apparatus is provided. The plasma display apparatus has a plasma display panel and a driver circuit for driving the panel. In this driving method, right-eye images and left-eye images are alternately displayed on the panel by alternately repeating right-eye fields, each of which has a plurality of subfields and displays a right-eye image signal, and left-eye fields, each of which has a plurality of subfields and displays a left-eye image signal. Each subfield has an address period for performing an address operation and a sustain period for performing a sustain operation. In a discharge cell where gradation of a predetermined threshold or higher is displayed, the address operation is prohibited in the subfield disposed last in the field. | 08-09-2012 |
20120249500 | METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - An address period is shortened while degradation of image display quality of a plasma display apparatus is suppressed. For this purpose, in a driving method for a plasma display apparatus including a plasma display panel with a plurality of discharge cells having a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, and a data electrode, and a driver circuit, the following operation is performed. The driver circuit forms one field period by a subfield that displays an interlace signal as an image signal thinned out every one line and a subfield that displays oblique line interpolated data generated by interpolating oblique lines detected by an image signal. In the subfield displaying an image signal, the driver circuit performs two-line simultaneous address operation with application of a scan pulse simultaneously to two adjacent scan electrodes so as to generate an address discharge in a discharge cell. | 10-04-2012 |
20120256978 | METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - An address period is shortened while degradation of image display quality of a plasma display apparatus is suppressed. For this purpose, in a driving method for a plasma display apparatus, the following operation is performed. A field for the right eye and a field for the left eye are alternately displayed on the plasma display panel. In each of the field for the right eye and the field for the left eye, a subfield having a smallest luminance weight occurs first, a subfield having a largest luminance weight occurs next, and the other subfields occur thereafter. In the subfield having the smallest luminance weight and the subfield having the largest luminance weight, one-line address operation for applying a scan pulse to each scan electrode is performed. In the other subfields, two-line simultaneous address operation for applying a scan pulse simultaneously to two adjacent scan electrodes is performed. | 10-11-2012 |
20120281032 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD - In a plasma display apparatus capable of displaying an image for stereoscopic view, the image display quality is enhanced. For this purpose, the plasma display apparatus includes a driver circuit and a timing generation circuit. The driver circuit drives the plasma display panel by alternately repeating a field for the right eye and a field for the left eye. The timing generation circuit generates shutter opening/closing timing signals. The driver circuit applies the sustain pulses equal in number to the luminance weight multiplied by a luminance magnification to each scan electrode and each sustain electrode, in the subfields except the first subfield. In the first subfield, the driver circuit applies the sustain pulses greater in number than the luminance weight multiplied by the luminance magnification to each scan electrode and each sustain electrode. | 11-08-2012 |
20120293508 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SHUTTER GLASS FOR PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In a plasma display apparatus capable of displaying an image for stereoscopic view, the image display quality is enhanced. For this purpose, the plasma display apparatus includes a driver circuit and a timing generation circuit. The driver circuit drives the plasma display panel in a manner such that a field for the right eye and a field for the left eye are alternately repeated, each field is formed of an all-cell initializing subfield and a selective initializing subfield, and the top subfield of each field is the all-cell initializing subfield. The timing generation circuit generates shutter opening/closing timing signals. The timing generation circuit generates the shutter opening/closing timing signals such that both timing signal for opening/closing the right eye shutter and timing signal for opening/closing the left eye shutter are set to OFF in the all-cell initializing period of the fields for the right eye and for the left eye. | 11-22-2012 |
20120320015 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - In a plasma display apparatus usable as a 3D image display apparatus, crosstalk is reduced to the user who views a 3D image displayed on the plasma display panel through a pair of shutter glasses. For this purpose, in a plasma display system, in each of fields for the right eye and fields for the left eye, luminance weights are set such that the first subfield in the one field has the heaviest luminance weight and those thereafter have luminance weights sequentially decreasing. A pair of shutter glasses is controlled in the following manner. The right eye shutter opens before the sustain period of the subfield where an address operation is performed first in the field for the right eye. The left eye shutter opens before the sustain period of the subfield where an address operation is performed first in the field for the left eye. | 12-20-2012 |
20120320030 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - In display of a 3D image on a plasma display panel, the plasma display apparatus achieves excellent image display quality while reducing crosstalk. For this purpose, the plasma display apparatus includes a driver circuit and a control signal generation circuit. The driver circuit sets a subfield where an all-cell initializing operation is performed in the initializing period as the top subfield of one field. The control signal generation circuit sets both of the timing signal for the right eye and the timing signal for the left eye to OFF in the initializing period of the top subfield. The one field includes an auxiliary subfield where no address operation is performed in the discharge cells applied with a phosphor having a long afterglow time, and an identical address operation with that in the top subfield is performed in the discharge cells applied with a phosphor having a short afterglow time. | 12-20-2012 |
20120327053 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM, DRIVE METHOD FOR PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SHUTTER GLASSES FOR PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - Sharp contrast is achieved while the driving time in displaying a 3D image on a plasma display panel is shorted. For this purpose, an all-cell initializing subfield for applying up-ramp waveform voltage and down-ramp waveform voltage to a scan electrode in the initializing period is set as the first subfield of one field. The plasma display panel is driven by one of 3D drive and 2D drive. A gradient of at least one of the up-ramp waveform voltage and the down-ramp waveform voltage in the all-cell initializing period during the 3D drive is set to be steeper than a gradient of the one waveform voltage in the all-cell initializing period during the 2D drive. A shutter opening/closing timing signal is generated so that both of a right-eye timing signal and a left-eye timing signal are in the OFF state in the all-cell initializing period during the 3D drive. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327070 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SHUTTER GLASSES FOR PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In display of a 3D image on a plasma display panel, the plasma display apparatus achieves an excellent contrast with reduced crosstalk. For this purpose, the plasma display apparatus includes a driver circuit and a control signal generation circuit. The driver circuit drives the plasma display panel in a manner such that a subfield where an all-cell initializing operation is performed in the initializing period and a sustain discharge is caused in all the discharge cells in the sustain period is set as the first subfield of one field. The control signal generation circuit generates shutter opening/closing timing signals that include a timing signal for the right eye and a timing signal for the left eye. The control signal generation circuit sets both of the timing signal for the right eye and the timing signal for the left eye to OFF in the period of the first subfield. | 12-27-2012 |
20130002628 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - In a plasma display apparatus displaying a stereoscopic image, crosstalk is reduced and an address discharge is caused stably. For this purpose, in the plasma display apparatus displaying a stereoscopic image, each field has a plurality of subfields, each having a sustain period where an up-ramp waveform voltage is applied to the scan electrodes after all the sustain pulses are generated. The luminance weights of the respective subfields are set such that the subfield having the lightest luminance weight is generated first in each field, the subfield having the heaviest luminance weight is generated second, and the third subfield and those thereafter have luminance weights sequentially decreasing. The up-ramp waveform voltage in the sustain period of the first subfield in each field is generated so as to have a gradient gentler than that of the up-ramp waveform voltage in the sustain periods of the subfields generated second and thereafter. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002733 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING METHOD, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - A plasma display apparatus usable as a 3D image display apparatus can reduce the crosstalk for a user who views a 3D image displayed on a plasma display panel through shutter glasses. For this purpose, the plasma display apparatus displays the 3D image on the plasma display panel having a plurality of pixels each of which is formed of a plurality of discharge cells by alternately repeating a right-eye field and a left-eye field. The plasma display apparatus adds a predetermined gradation value to an image signal to be displayed in a certain field when the number of pixels where the gradation equal to or higher than a high gradation threshold is displayed in the field immediately before a certain field and the gradation equal to or lower than a low gradation threshold is displayed in the certain field is equal to or larger than a number-of-pixels threshold. | 01-03-2013 |
20130016194 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND SHUTTER SPECTACLESAANM Shiozaki; YuyaAACI OsakaAACO JPAAGP Shiozaki; Yuya Osaka JP - The shutter glasses normally control a right-eye shutter and left-eye shutter even if a control signal to be received is temporarily missed. The image display section displays an image by alternately repeating a right-eye field and a left-eye field, and transmits first control signals synchronously with the right-eye field and left-eye field. The shutter glasses receive the first control signals, and have a right-eye shutter and left-eye shutter for transmitting and blocking visible light. The shutter glasses include a shutter control circuit that stores first timing information for a plurality of fields based on the received first control signals for the plurality of fields and generates second control signals based on the stored first timing information for the plurality of fields. The shutter glasses control the transmission and blocking of visible light at the right-eye shutter and left-eye shutter using the second control signals. | 01-17-2013 |
20130176294 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In the plasma display apparatus, accidental discharge is prevented from occurring in a second discharge cell. For this purpose, in driving a plasma display panel having first data electrodes and second data electrodes that are arranged in parallel with the first data electrodes in a region outside the region where the plurality of first data electrodes are arranged, first voltage is set to be higher than second voltage in at least one subfield. Here, it is assumed that the first voltage is the voltage derived by subtracting the voltage applied to the first data electrodes from the voltage applied to the second data electrodes when down-ramp waveform voltage is applied to scan electrodes in the initializing period, and the second voltage is the voltage derived by subtracting the low-voltage-side voltage of the address pulse applied to the first electrodes from the voltage applied to the second data electrodes in the address period. | 07-11-2013 |
20130222358 | PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD - Image display quality in the plasma display apparatus can be enhanced by allowing a stable address operation. For this purpose, the plasma display apparatus includes a scan electrode driver circuit. The scan electrode driver circuit generates driving voltages to be used in a subfield method and applies the driving voltages to scan electrodes. At the end of each sustain period, the scan electrode driver circuit performs the following operation. The scan electrodes are applied with a first ramp waveform voltage that rises from a base electric potential to a first electric potential. Subsequently, the electric potential of the scan electrodes is set to a second electric potential equal to or lower than the first electric potential. Subsequently, the scan electrodes are applied with a second ramp waveform voltage that rises from the second electric potential to a third electric potential higher than the first electric potential. | 08-29-2013 |
20130241972 | METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In a plasma display apparatus, contrast is enhanced and a stable address discharge is caused. For this purpose, one of a forced initializing operation and a selective initializing operation is performed in initializing periods. A specified-cell initializing subfield and a selective initializing subfield are set in one field. In the specified-cell initializing subfield, the forced initializing operation is performed on specified discharge cells and the selective initializing operation is performed on the other discharge cells. In the selective initializing subfield, the selective initializing operation is performed on all the discharge cells. In the selective initializing period, a down-ramp waveform voltage is applied to the scan electrodes and a positive voltage is applied to the data electrodes. In the selective initializing subfield, based on the load calculated in the address period of the immediately preceding subfield, the minimum voltage of the down-ramp waveform voltage is controlled. | 09-19-2013 |
20130278649 | DRIVING METHOD FOR PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL, AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In the plasma display apparatus, address discharge is caused stably. For this purpose, one of a forced initializing operation and a selective initializing operation is performed in the initializing period. Then, one field includes a specific-cell initializing subfield having an initializing period in which a forced initializing operation is performed in a specific discharge cell and a selective initializing operation is performed in the other discharge cells. In the address period of the specific-cell initializing subfield, the period in which a scan pulse and an address pulse are simultaneously applied to a discharge cell having undergone the selective initializing operation in the initializing period of the specific-cell initializing subfield is made longer than the period in which a scan pulse and an address pulse are simultaneously applied to a discharge cell having undergone the forced initializing operation in the initializing period of the specific-cell initializing subfield. | 10-24-2013 |
20130307832 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A stable address operation is performed also when a plasma display panel having a high definition and large screen is driven. For this purpose, a driving method of a plasma display panel is provided. The panel is driven by forming one field using a plurality of subfields each of which has an address period and a sustain period in which sustain pulses varying from a base potential to a voltage at which a sustain discharge is caused in the discharge cell having undergone the address discharge are applied to the display electrode pairs. In the driving method, after generation of the final sustain pulse in the sustain period, an up-ramp waveform voltage which increases from the base potential to a predetermined voltage is applied to the scan electrodes. The predetermined voltage is set lower than the voltage of the sustain pulses. | 11-21-2013 |
20140085242 | IMAGE-DISPLAY-DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Discharge for detecting the position coordinates of an electronic pen is caused stably, and the position coordinates are detected accurately. For this purpose, in a driving method of an image display device, an image display subfield, a y-coordinate detection subfield, and an x-coordinate detection subfield are set in one field. In the y-coordinate detection subfield, a y-coordinate detection voltage of positive voltage is applied to data electrodes and y-coordinate detection pulses of negative polarity are sequentially applied to the scan electrodes. In the x-coordinate detection subfield, an x-coordinate detection voltage of negative voltage is applied to scan electrodes and x-coordinate detection pulses of positive polarity are sequentially applied to data electrodes. | 03-27-2014 |