Patent Grant
9536497
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the technology fields of liquid crystal display, and in particular to a gamma voltage driving circuit, a source driving module, and a liquid crystal panel comprising the source driving module in the liquid crystal display.
2. The Related Arts
Liquid crystal display (LCD) is a flat and thin display device. It is consisted of color or monochrome pixels with a certain amount, which is placed in front of the light source or the reflector. Liquid crystal display has low power consumption, high image quality, small size, and light weight, so it is favored to become the mainstream of display. The existing liquid crystal display is mainly thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display, and the liquid crystal panel is the main component of the liquid crystal display.
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In view of the lack of the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide a Gamma voltage driving circuit, which can reduce the using amount of device, reduce the difficulty of the design of driver IC and the production process, and save the costs.
In order to achieve the above object, the embodiment according to the present invention adopts the following technical solution:
Wherein, in the voltage dividing resistor string, the first to (2n/2−1)-th resistors divide the voltage value between the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage into 2n/2 Gamma voltages; the (2n/2+1)-th to 2n-th resistors divide the voltage value between the second reference voltage and the ground voltage into 2n/2 Gamma voltages.
Wherein, the 2n resistors are equivalent resistance.
Wherein, the driving circuit further comprises a control module, which is used to provide a control signal and a selecting signal for the voltage selecting module; when the voltage selecting module receives a first control signal and the selecting signal, the selecting signal controls the n−1 switching units on the transmission lines of the first to (2n/2−1)-th resistors to be turned on or off, which selects one of Gamma voltages to connect to the output terminal; when the voltage selecting module receives a second control signal and the selecting signal, the selecting signal controls the n−1 switching units on the transmission lines of the (2n/2+1)-th to 2n-th resistors to be turned on or off, which selects one of Gamma voltages to connect to the output terminal.
Wherein, in the reference voltage module, the first reference voltage is connected to the ground through a first voltage dividing resistor and a second voltage dividing resistor which are connected in series, the second reference voltage is connected between the first voltage dividing resistor and the second voltage dividing resistor, the resistance values of the first voltage dividing resistor and the second voltage dividing resistor are equal.
Wherein, the switching units are MOS transistors.
Wherein, n is a value of 10.
The another object of the present invention is to provide a source driving module, which drives a pixel array unit, the pixel array unit comprising a first pixel unit, a second pixel unit, and a third pixel unit, which correspondingly provides with a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode, the source driving module comprising a first Gamma voltage driving circuit, a second Gamma voltage driving circuit, and a third Gamma voltage driving circuit, which respectively provide Gamma voltage for the first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, and the third pixel electrode, wherein, the Gamma voltage driving circuit is the driving circuit mentioned above.
The another object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal panel, comprising:
Comparing with the prior art, the Gamma voltage driving circuit according to the present invention can reduce the using amount of device, reduce the difficulty of the design of driver IC and the production process, and save the costs.
As mentioned above, in order to solve the existing problems of the prior art, the present invention provides a Gamma voltage driving circuit, which comprises: a voltage dividing resistor string, which comprises 2n resistors connected in series sequentially, used to divide a reference voltage into 2n Gamma voltages; wherein, n is an integer not less than 1; a reference voltage module, which provides the reference voltage for the voltage dividing resistor string; a voltage selecting module, which is used to selectively output one of the 2n Gamma voltages.
Wherein, the reference voltage module comprises a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage, the first reference voltage is coupled to one end of the voltage dividing resistor string, the other end of the voltage dividing resistor string is connected to the ground; the second reference voltage is coupled between the 2n/2-th resistor and the (2n/2+1)-th resistor, wherein, the value of the second reference voltage is ½ of that of the first reference voltage; wherein, the voltage selecting module comprises 2n−1 transmission lines, which respectively connects the voltage dividing nodes of the first to (2n/2−1)-th resistors and the (2n/2+1)-th to 2n-th resistors in the voltage dividing resistor string to a output terminal; and each transmission line is provided with n−1 switching units.
In the Gamma voltage driving circuit mentioned above, it provides two reference voltages. Set the first reference voltage as a starting point, the first to (2n/2−1)-th resistors in the voltage dividing resistor string divide the voltage value between the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage into 2n/2 Gamma voltage. Therefore, each transmission line only needs n−1 switching units, which outputs one of the Gamma voltages every time according to the (n−1) bit binary coded method. The (2n/2+1)-th to 2n-th resistors divide the voltage value between the second reference voltage and the ground voltage into 2n/2 Gamma voltages. Therefore, each transmission line only needs n−1 switching units, which outputs one of the Gamma voltages every time according to the (n−1) bit binary coded method. Moreover, in the Gamma voltage driving circuit with higher grayscale precision, the reference voltage needs to be divided into a lot of Gamma voltages. At this time, the two middle Gamma voltages (the voltages of the 2n/2-th and the (2n/2+1)-th resistors) are nearly equal, so that they can share one of the Gamma voltage. In the present invention, it omits the Gamma voltage obtained from the 2n/2-th resistor, instead, it uses the Gamma voltage obtained from the (2n/2+1)-th resistor, which further reduce the amount of the switch units. For the condition that the reference voltage needs to be divided into 2n Gamma voltages, it needs (2n−1)*(n−1) switching units in the driving circuit according to the present invention, while it needs 2n*n switching units in the Gamma voltage driving circuit according to the prior art. The reduced amount of the switching units is 2n+(n−1).
According to the Gamma voltage driving circuit mentioned above, it can reduce the using amount of device, reduce the difficulty of the design of driver IC and the production process, and save the costs.
The embodiment of the present invention is further illustrated accompanying with the drawings as follows.
The present embodiment takes n=10 as example to illustrate. It should be noted that the technical solution of the present invention is not limited thereto.
Referring to
In the present embodiment, the relationship of Vref2=½Vref1 is achieved through the two voltage dividing resistors 101 and 102. The first reference voltage Vref1 is connected to the first voltage dividing resistor 101, the second voltage dividing resistor 102 is connected with the first voltage dividing resistor 101 in series, the other end of the second voltage dividing resistor 102 is connected to the ground, the second reference voltage Vref2 is connected between the first voltage dividing resistor 101 and the second voltage dividing resistor 102, and the resistance value of the first voltage dividing resistor 101 and the second voltage dividing resistor 102 are equal, so that Vref2=½Vref1.
In the present embodiment, the 1024 resistors in the voltage dividing resistor string 20 are equivalent resistance. The switching units 301 connected on the transmission line are MOS transistors.
In the Gamma voltage driving circuit mentioned above, in the voltage dividing resistor string 20, set the first reference voltage Vref1 as a starting point, the first to 512-th resistors divide the voltage value between Vref1˜Vref2 into 512 Gamma voltage; the 513-th to 1024-th resistors divide the voltage value between Vref2˜V0 (V0 refers to ground voltage) into 512 Gamma voltage.
The Gamma voltage driving circuit according to the present embodiment further comprises a control module (not shown), which is used to provide a control signal and a selecting signal for the voltage selecting module 30. The control signal connects the selecting signal to the switching units between the first to the 512-th resistors or the switching units between the 513-th to the 1024-th resistors. The selecting signal controls the switching units to be turned on or off to select one of the Gamma voltages.
When the voltage selecting module 30 receives a first control signal, the selecting signal connects to the switching units 301 on the transmission lines of the first to 512-th resistors and controls the switching units 301 to be turned on or off, which selects one of the Gamma voltages formed from the first to 512-th resistors to connect to the output terminal; when the voltage selecting module 30 receives a second control signal, the selecting signal connects to the switching units 301 on the transmission lines of the 513-th to 1024-th resistors and controls the switching units 301 to be turned on or off, which selects one of the Gamma voltages formed from the 513-th to 1024-th resistors to connect to the output terminal.
On the transmission lines corresponding to the first to 512-th resistors, each switching unit has two states of turning on and off. All combinations of the switching units constitute 512 9 bit binary code, which exactly corresponds to 512 Gamma voltages V1˜V512 sequentially. When the selecting signal corresponds to one binary code, it outputs a corresponding Gamma voltage. Similarly, on the transmission lines corresponding to the 513-th to 1024-th resistors, each switching unit has two states of turning on and off. All combinations of the switching units constitute 512 9 bit binary code, which exactly corresponds to 512 Gamma voltages V513˜V1024 sequentially. When the selecting signal corresponds to one binary code, it outputs a corresponding Gamma voltage. It should be noted that, if the selecting signal corresponds to the V512, the control module connects to the corresponding transmission line of the 513-th resistor and outputs the V513 to the output terminal.
As mentioned above, in the condition of dividing the reference voltage into 1024 Gamma voltages, the driving circuit according to the present embodiment uses 1023 transmission lines. Each transmission line provides with 9 MOS transistors, which totally need 9207 MOS transistors. However, the Gamma voltage driving circuit according to the prior art needs 10240 MOS transistors, which reduces 1033 MOS transistors. According to the Gamma voltage driving circuit with higher grayscale precision, that is, n is a higher value, the technical solution according to the present invention has a greater advantage.
The present embodiment further provides a source driving module, which drives a pixel array unit, the pixel array unit comprising a first pixel unit, a second pixel unit, and a third pixel unit (corresponding to the color of red, green, and blue), which correspondingly provides with a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode, the source driving module comprising a first Gamma voltage driving circuit, a second Gamma voltage driving circuit, and a third Gamma voltage driving circuit, which respectively provide Gamma voltage for the first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, and the third pixel electrode, wherein, the Gamma voltage driving circuit is the driving circuit mentioned above.
The present embodiment further provides a liquid crystal panel, comprising:
In summary, the Gamma voltage driving circuit according to the present invention can reduce the using amount of device, reduce the difficulty of the design of driver IC and the production process, and save the costs.
It needs to notice that, in this article, the relational terms such as first and second is only used to distinguish one entity or operating another entity or an operation, it is not necessary to require or imply that there exists any such relationship or sequence between the entity and operation. Besides, the terms “comprise,” “include,” or any other variation are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, thereby making that comprising a series of process, method, materials or apparatus of element not only comprise those elements, but also comprise other elements not expressly listed, or also comprise such inherent elements of process, method, materials or apparatus. In the absence of more restrictive conditions, limiting the elements by the statement “comprises a . . . ”, it doesn't exclude that it also exists other identical elements in comprising the process, method, materials or apparatus of element.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described. It should be noted that, for those having ordinary skills in the art, any deduction or modification according to the present invention is considered encompassed in the scope of protection defined by the claims of the present invention.
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| WO2015/081578 | 6/11/2015 | WO | A |
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