Patent · US Expired

Panel display in which the number of sustaining discharge pulses is adjusted according to the quantity of display data, and a driving method for the panel display

US6104362A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 21, 1999
Grant dateAug 15, 2000
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Expiry dateJul 21, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09G2360/16
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A panel display has a display panel including a plurality of cells to be selectively discharged to an address driver for setting the plurality of cells to states represented by display data. The panel display also has a display glowing driver for enabling the plurality of cells to glow according to the set states. One frame during which one screen is displayed has a plurality of sub-frames and glowing periods within the sub-frames, during which the display cells are enabled to glow by the display glowing driver. The said sub-frames are weighted in order to achieve gray-scale display. The display panel also has a display load calculating circuit for calculating a display load to be imposed on a whole display surface during each sub-frame. In addition, a corrected period calculating circuit calculates a corrected period of a glowing period, during which the display cells are enabled to glow by the display glowing driver according to display loads to be imposed during each sub-frame. This is calculated by the display load calculating circuit so that brightness attained by the display cells during respective sub-frames will be maintained at a given ratio.

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