Source driver, electro-optical device, and electronic instrument
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorKatsuhiko Maki
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Abstract
A source driver that drives a plurality of source lines of an electro-optical device includes a grayscale voltage generation circuit that outputs first and second grayscale voltages corresponding to grayscale data, and a source line driver circuit that drives a source line among the plurality of source lines based on the first and second grayscale voltages. The source line driver circuit includes a flip-around sample/hold circuit that outputs an output grayscale voltage between the first and second grayscale voltages to the source line.
Claims19
A source driver that drives a plurality of source lines of an electro-optical device, the source driver comprising:
- a grayscale voltage generation circuit that outputs grayscale voltages;
- a DAC that selects a grayscale voltage corresponding to grayscale data among the grayscale voltages generated by the grayscale voltage generation circuit;
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- a source line driver circuit that drives a source line among the plurality of source lines based on the grayscale voltage from the DAC,
- the source line driver circuit including:
- a flip-around sample/hold circuit that receives a first grayscale voltage and a second grayscale voltage output by the DAC as inputs and outputs an output grayscale voltage,
- the flip-around sample/hold circuit outputting a voltage between the first grayscale voltage and the second grayscale voltage,
- when the output grayscale voltage is closer to a highest-potential voltage output to the source line than a lowest-potential voltage output to the source line, the DAC outputting the first grayscale voltage and the second grayscale voltage in a descending order of potential;
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- when the output grayscale voltage is closer to the lowest-potential voltage than the highest-potential voltage, the DAC outputting the first grayscale voltage and the second grayscale voltage in an ascending order of potential.
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