Method of driving a display panel with depolarization
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsSylvain Thiebaud, Jean-Paul Dagois, Philippe Le Roy
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Abstract
The method comprises, in addition to emission periods, depolarization periods during which a predetermined depolarization voltage, which exhibits a polarity opposite to the polarity opposite to the voltage applied during the emission periods, is applied and sustained at the control terminal of said driver circuits of the panel, and a reference depolarization voltage, which is different from the reference emission voltage, is applied to the reference electrodes to which reference terminals of the driver circuits are linked. This method makes it possible to use conventional and inexpensive column control means.
Claims11
Method of driving a display panel which comprises:
- An array of multiple light emitters or optical valves distributed in a plurality of rows,
- an active matrix comprising an array of multiple address electrodes for voltage-mode signal addressing, an array of multiple select electrodes, an array of multiple reference electrodes, an array of multiple driver circuits suitable for controlling each of said emitters or valves, a power supply base electrode common to all multiple driver circuits, and an upper power supply electrode common to all multiple driver circuits;
- wherein said multiple reference electrodes are grouped in at least two groups;
- wherein each driver circuit is provided with:
- a control terminal suitable to be coupled to an address electrode of the multiple address electrodes via a select switch, a reference terminal linked to a reference electrode of the multiple reference electrodes, and a sustain capacitor mounted between said control terminal and said reference terminal;
- a control of said select switch being linked to a select electrode of the multiple select electrodes,
- said method comprising:
- emission periods during which a predetermined emission voltage, which presents a first polarity, is applied and sustained at the control terminal of at least one driver circuit of said panel, and a reference emission voltage is applied to the reference electrodes electrode to which the reference terminal of the least one driver circuit is linked,
- and depolarization periods during which a predetermined depolarization voltage, which presents a second polarity, opposite to the first polarity, is applied and sustained at the control terminal of the at least one driver circuit of said panel, and a reference depolarization voltage is applied to the reference electrode to which the reference terminal of the at least one driver circuit is linked,
- each of said emission or depolarization periods comprising to obtain the predetermined emission voltage or the predetermined depolarization voltage at the control terminal of the at least one driver circuit, an addressing step during which a select signal is applied to the control of the select switch which couples the control terminal of the at least one driver circuit to the address electrode, and an address signal, which is adapted to obtain said predetermined depolarization voltage or said predetermined emission voltage at said control terminal, is applied to the address electrode of the at least one driver circuit, wherein:
- said reference depolarization voltage is different from said reference emission voltage,
- said reference emission voltage and said reference depolarization voltage are chosen such that said address signal presents the same polarity regardless of said emission or depolarization period.
A display panel comprising;
- an array of light emitters or optical valves distributed in a plurality of rows,
- an active matrix comprising an array of multiple address electrodes for voltage-mode signal addressing, an array of multiple select electrodes, an array of multiple reference electrodes, an array of multiple driver circuits suitable for controlling each of said emitters or valves, a power supply base electrode common to all multiple driver circuits, and an upper power supply electrode common to all multiple driver circuits;
- wherein said multiple reference electrodes are grouped in at least two groups;
- where the driver circuit is provided with a control terminal suitable to be coupled to an address electrode of the multiple address electrodes via a select switch, a reference terminal linked to a reference electrode of the multiple reference electrodes, and, a sustain capacitor mounted between said control terminal and said reference terminal,
- a control of said select switch being linked to a select electrode of the multiple select electrodes,
- wherein
- during emission periods a predetermined emission voltage, which presents a first polarity, is applied and sustained at the control terminal of at least one driver circuit of said panel, and a reference emission voltage is applied to the reference electrodes to which the reference terminal of the at least one driver circuit is linked,
- during depolarization periods a predetermined depolarization voltage, which presents a second polarity, opposite to the first polarity, is applied and sustained at the control terminal of the at least one driver circuit of said panel, and a reference depolarization voltage is applied to the reference electrodes to which the reference terminal of the at least one driver circuit is linked,
- each of said emission or depolarization periods comprising, to obtain the predetermined emission voltage or the predetermined depolarization voltage at the control terminal of the at least one driver circuit, an addressing step during which a select signal is applied to the control of the select switch which couples the control terminal of the at least one driver circuit to the address electrode, and an address signal, which is adapted to obtain said predetermined depolarization voltage or said predetermined emission voltage at said control terminal, is applied to this address electrode of the at least one driver circuit, and wherein:
- said reference depolarization voltage is different from said reference emission voltage,
- said reference emission voltage and said reference depolarization voltage are chosen such that said address signal presents the same polarity regardless of said emission or depolarization period.
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