TFT liquid crystal display device having a grayscale voltage generation circuit comprising the lowest power consumption resistive strings
AssigneesHitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Kurihara, Shinichi Iwasaki, Yasuyuki Mishima
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Abstract
The liquid crystal display device includes a resistive string that divides each of voltage ranges between reference voltages to generate multi-level grayscale voltages to be applied to the liquid crystal layer. The resistances between the terminals of the resistive string to which the reference voltages are applied are set to magnitudes almost proportional to voltage differences between the reference voltages. This makes it possible to provide a liquid crystal display device with low power consumption and high picture quality.
Claims11
A liquid crystal display device comprising:
- a liquid crystal display panel on which a plurality of pixels are arranged, each pixel having a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode electrically connected to a source of said thin film transistor;
- a drain driver for outputting to a drain of said thin film transistor a voltage selected from a plurality of grayscale voltages;
- a power supply circuit for supplying a plurality of reference voltages to said drain driver;
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- a gate driver for outputting to a gate of said thin film transistor a voltage that selects said pixel;
- wherein said drain driver has a grayscale voltage generation circuit, which divides each of voltage ranges between said reference voltages into a plurality of voltages by a voltage dividing circuit to generate said plurality of grayscale voltages, said voltage dividing circuit comprising resistors connected in series;
- wherein resistances between said reference voltages of said voltage driving circuit are set to magnitudes substantially proportional to voltage differences between said reference voltages, at least one of a total resistance of said series connected resistors between one pair of adjacent reference voltages being different from a total resistance of said series connected resistors between another pair of adjacent reference voltages.
A liquid crystal display device comprising:
- a liquid crystal display panel on which a plurality of pixels are arranged, each pixel having a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode electrically connected to a source of said thin film transistor;
- a drain driver for outputting to a drain of said thin film transistor a voltage selected from a plurality of grayscale voltages;
- a power supply circuit for supplying a plurality of reference voltages to said drain driver;
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- a gate driver for outputting to a gate of said thin film transistor a voltage that selects said pixel;
- wherein said drain driver has a grayscale voltage generation circuit, which divides each of voltage ranges between said reference voltages into a plurality of voltages by a voltage dividing circuit to generate said plurality of grayscale voltages, said voltage dividing circuit comprising resistors connected in series;
- wherein the resistances of said voltage dividing circuit are so set that the values of Vn(n-1)/Rn agree within a specified variation range for all Rn's, where Vn(n-1) represents a voltage difference between one of the reference voltages Vn and an adjacent reference voltage Vn-1 and Rn represents a synthesized resistance between voltage application terminals of said voltage driving circuit to which said reference voltages Vn and Vn-1 are applied, and at least one synthesized resistance Rn is different from another synthesized resistance Rn.
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