# US 9,520,095 B2 · Display driving circuit, driving method thereof and display apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,520,095 B2 - Document ID: US9520095B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/743,168 - Filed: 2015-06-18 - Published: 2016-08-18 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2015-02-15 - Assignees: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.; Beijing Boe Display Technology Co., Ltd. - Applicants: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.; Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Jieqiong Wang - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9520095B2 ## CPC - G09G 3/3614: {Control of polarity reversal in general} - G09G 3/3677: {suitable for active matrices only} - G09G 3/3688: {suitable for active matrices only} - G09G 2310/08: Details of timing specific for flat panels, other than clock recovery - G09G 2330/021: Power management, e.g. power saving - G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00) ## Abstract The present disclosure provides a display driving circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display apparatus, to solve the issue regarding power consumption of the display driver due to multiple reversal of the data voltage. The driving method comprises: firstly, determining pre-input data signals that are respectively input by a data line to each pixel unit of a column of pixel units corresponding to the data line when inputting a Nth image frame; next, determining, according to magnitudes or polarities of the pre-input data signals, a scanning order for the gate lines; then, scanning the gate lines according to the scanning order; and then, inputting the pre-input data signals to corresponding pixel units by the data lines. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A driving method for a display driving circuit, wherein the method is used for driving a display panel for displaying, and the display panel comprises an array of pixel units formed by crossing a plurality of rows of gate lines and a plurality of columns of data lines, the method comprising: determining pre-input data signals that are respectively input by a data line to each pixel unit of a column of pixel units corresponding to the data line when inputting a Nth image frame, wherein N≧1; determining, according to magnitudes or polarities of the pre-input data signals, a scanning order for the gate lines, such that an absolute value of a signal difference between the pre-input data signals that are input to two pixel units of the column of pixel units on two gate lines consecutively driven in the scanning order is greater than or equal to zero and less than or equal to a preset threshold; scanning the gate lines according to the scanning order, so as to open each row of pixel units according to the scanning order; and inputting the pre-input data signals to corresponding pixel units by the data lines to achieve an image display, wherein the pre-input data signals comprise pre-input data voltages. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The driving method of claim 1, wherein the pre-input data signals further comprises: pre-input grayscales. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The driving method of claim 1, wherein when the pre-input data signals are the pre-input data voltages, the preset threshold is a voltage-difference threshold, which equals to 1V. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The driving method of claim 3, wherein the step of determining, according to magnitudes or polarities of the pre-input data signals, a scanning order for the gate lines comprises: arranging the pre-input data voltages in an ascending or descending order according to values and polarities of the pre-input data voltages; arranging a scanning order for gate lines on which at least two pixel units of the column of pixel units reside according to the arranged order for the pre-input data voltages. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The driving method of claim 3, wherein the step of determining, according to magnitudes or polarities of the pre-input data signals, a scanning order for the gate lines comprises: arranging the pre-input data voltages in a negative-to-positive or positive-to-negative order according to polarities of the pre-input data voltages; arranging a scanning order for gate lines on which at least two pixel units of the column of pixel units reside according to the arranged order for the pre-input data voltages. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The driving method of claim 2, wherein when the pre-input data signals are the pre-input grayscales, the preset threshold is a grayscale-difference threshold, which equals to 10. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The driving method of claim 6, wherein the step of determining, according to magnitudes or polarities of the pre-input data signals, a scanning order for the gate lines comprises: arranging the pre-input grayscales in an ascending or descending order according to magnitudes of the pre-input grayscales; arranging a scanning order for gate lines on which at least two pixel units of the column of pixel units reside according to the arranged order for the pre-input grayscales. ### Claim 8 (depends on 5) The driving method of claim 5, wherein the polarities of the pre-input data voltages for pixel units in a same row are identical; and the polarities of the pre-input data voltages for pixel units in adjacent rows are opposite. ### Claim 9 (depends on 5) The driving method of claim 5, wherein the polarity of the pre-input data voltage for each pixel unit is opposite to that for its adjacent pixel units. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The driving method of claim 1, wherein when a signal difference between the pre-input data signals that are input to two pixel units of the column of pixel units on two gate lines consecutively driven in the scanning order is equal to a preset threshold and the preset threshold is zero, the step of determining, according to magnitudes or polarities of the pre-input data signals, a scanning order for the gate lines comprises: the scanning order for the gate lines on which pixel units with identical pre-input data signals reside is the same as a wiring order for such gate lines. ### Claim 11 A display driving circuit for driving a display panel for displaying, wherein the display panel comprises an array of pixel units formed by crossing a plurality of rows of gate lines and a plurality of columns of data lines, the display driving circuit comprising: a signal determining means for determining pre-input data signals that are respectively input by a data line to each pixel unit of a column of pixel units corresponding to the data line when inputting a Nth image frame, wherein N≧1; a timing controller, which is connected to the signal determining means, for determining, according to magnitudes or polarities of the pre-input data signals, a scanning order for the gate lines, such that an absolute value of a signal difference between the pre-input data signals that are input to two pixel units of the column of pixel units on two gate lines consecutively driven in the scanning order is greater than or equal to zero and less than or equal to a preset threshold; a gate driver, which is connected to the timing controller and the gate lines respectively, for scanning the gate lines according to the scanning order, so as to open each row of pixel units according to the scanning order; and a source driver, which is connected to the timing controller and the data lines respectively, for inputting the pre-input data signals to corresponding pixel units by the data lines to achieve an image display, wherein the pre-input data signals comprise pre-input data voltages. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) A display apparatus, comprising the display driving circuit in claim 11.