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Driving method for liquid crystal device

US6473117B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 21, 2000
Grant dateOct 29, 2002
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Expiry dateSep 17, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09G2340/16
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An active matrix-type liquid crystal panel is driven for a motion picture display in a succession of frame periods to provide an improved motion picture quality without causing a lowering in luminance or contrast, or a display irregularity over the panel due to a signal transmission delay along the panel electrodes. In the driving method, each frame period is divided into a plurality of sub-frame periods including at least one preceding sub-frame period and a final sub-frame period so that said at least one preceding sub-frame period provides a total period which is shorter than the final sub-frame period; the active elements along the rows of pixels are sequentially selected row by row at respective selection periods in each sub-frame period; and the liquid crystal at each pixel is supplied with a voltage in a selection period of each preceding sub-frame period which is lower than a voltage applied to the liquid crystal at the pixel in the final sub-final period.

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