This application is a National Phase of PCT Patent Application No. PCT/CN2015/088963 having International filing date of Sep. 6, 2015, which claims the benefit of priority of Chinese Patent Application No. 201510510802.1 filed on Aug. 19, 2015. The contents of the above applications are all incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein in their entirety.
Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to display device technology, and more particularly to a source driving circuit.
Description of Prior Art
The first latch 13 of each data channel sequentially is electrically connected to the output buffer 16 through the level converter 14 and the DAC 15. The output buffer 16 of the first data channel D1 is, respectively, electrically connected to an output terminal of the second data channel D2 and an output terminal of the first data channel D1. The output buffer 16 of the second data channel D2 is, respectively, electrically connected to the output terminal of the second data channel D2 and the output terminal of the first data channel D1.
With the development of technology, three or four data are orderly outputted by an identical data channel in order to raise the data transfer rate. As shown in
Therefore, it is necessary to provide a source driving circuit to solve the existing problems in the prior art.
An object of the present invention is to provide a source driving circuit to solve a technical problem of the conventional source driving circuit in which its power consumption is larger when multiple gray-scale data are outputted by an identical data channel.
To solve the foregoing problems, a source driving circuit is provided according to an embodiment of the present invention, the source driving circuit comprises:
In the above source driving circuit, the energy-consumption value is an overall average value of differences between gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels in pixel units for all rows in the display panel.
In the above source driving circuit, the energy-consumption value acquisition unit is specifically configured for calculating the average value of the differences between the gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels in the pixel units for each row by sequentially using display sequences to obtain the average value of the differences between the gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels for the whole display panel.
In the above source driving circuit, the source driving circuit further comprises a latch module which includes a plurality of latches corresponding to the data lines, and the latches are configured for storing the raw image data; an output terminal of the latch on one data line of per pair of the data lines is connected to an output terminal of a latch on a remaining data line of the pair of the data lines.
In the above source driving circuit, the source driving circuit further comprises a level conversion module which includes a plurality of level converters corresponding to the data lines, and the level converters are configured to raise a voltage of the stored raw image data.
In the above source driving circuit, the digital-to-analog conversion module is further configured for converting the raw image data, of which the voltage has been raised by the level conversion module, into a gray-scale image data.
In the above source driving circuit, pixels with the same color in the pixel units for each row simultaneously receive their corresponding gray-scale values.
In the above source driving circuit, the pixel unit comprises a red pixel, a green pixel, a blue pixel, and a white pixel.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, a source driving circuit comprises:
In the above source driving circuit, the optimization module comprises:
In the above source driving circuit, the energy-consumption value is an overall average value of differences between gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels in pixel units for all rows in the display panel.
In the above source driving circuit, the energy-consumption value acquisition unit is specifically configured for calculating the average value of the differences between the gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels in the pixel units for each row by sequentially using display sequences to obtain the average value of the differences between the gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels for the whole display panel.
In the above source driving circuit, the buffer module comprises a plurality of output buffers corresponding to the data lines, and an output terminal of an output buffer on one of per pair of the data lines is connected to an output terminal of an output buffer on a remaining one of the pair of the data lines.
In the above source driving circuit, the source driving circuit further comprises a latch module which includes a plurality of latches corresponding to the data lines, and the latches are configured for storing the raw image data; an output terminal of the latch on one data line of per pair of the data lines is connected to an output terminal of a latch on the remaining data line of the pair of the data lines.
In the above source driving circuit, the source driving circuit further comprises a level conversion module which includes a plurality of level converters corresponding to the data lines, and the level converters are configured to raise a voltage of the stored raw image data.
In the above source driving circuit, the digital-to-analog conversion module is further configured for converting the raw image data, of which the voltage has been raised by the level conversion module, into a gray-scale image data.
In the above source driving circuit, pixels with the same color in the pixel units for each row simultaneously receive their corresponding gray-scale values.
In the above source driving circuit, the pixel unit comprises a red pixel, a green pixel, a blue pixel, and a white pixel.
The source driving circuit of the present invention can reduce power consumption of the display panel and thereby lower production costs by means of optimizing the output sequence of the gray-scale values of the conventional driving circuit.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be detailed in the following in combination with the accompanying drawings. The drawings are drawn schematically, and do not limit the protection scope thereof, and the same reference numbers are used to indicate the same or similar components throughout the drawings. Spatially relative terms, such as “above”, “beneath”, “front”, “behind”, “left”, “right”, “inner”, “outer”, and the like may be used herein for reference to describe one element's relationship to another element(s) as illustrated in the figures, rather than its restrictions.
Refer to
In a display panel which the source driving circuit of the present invention is applied to, the display panel comprises a plurality of data lines for inputting data signals; a plurality of scan lines for inputting scan signals; and a plurality of pixel units formed by defining the data lines and the scanning lines. The pixel unit comprises pixels that have three colors. For example, the pixel unit may include a red pixel, a green pixel, a blue pixel, and it may also include a white pixel.
The source driving circuit, shown in
The source driving circuit is inputted with raw image data. The digital-to-analog conversion module 51 is configured for converting the raw image data into gray-scale image data, which includes inputted gray-scale values (gray-scale voltages) of all pixels. That is, the digital raw image data is converted into an analog gray-scale voltage.
The optimization module 52 is configured for obtaining an optimal output sequence of the gray-scale values in pixel units for each row in the display panel and outputting the gray-scale values of each pixel in pixel units corresponding to data lines by following the order of the optimal output sequence to form a first image data.
The buffer module 53 is configured for enhancing a load driving capability of the first image data outputted by the optimization module 52, and then the first image data is inputted into the pixels.
This embodiment can obtain an optimal output sequence of three or four gray-scale values for each output of the source driving circuit, e.g. getting a best ascending or descending order, by adding the optimization module, so that differences of voltages outputted by the source driving chip can be minimized and thereby reducing the power consumption of the display panel.
Preferably, as shown in
The gray-scale acquisition unit 61 is configured for acquiring the gray-scale values of each pixel in the pixel units for each row corresponding to the data lines.
The display sequence arrangement unit 62 is configured for arranging display sequences of the pixel units corresponding to each data line by following a descending or ascending order of the grayscale values acquired by the gray-scale acquisition unit to obtain a plurality of display sequences.
The energy-consumption value acquisition unit 63 is configured for sequentially using each display sequence from the display sequence arrangement unit to calculate a value of the whole energy consumption of the display panel, so as to obtain a plurality of energy-consumption values. Accordingly, the display sequence which has a minimum energy-consumption value is set as the optimal output sequence.
Preferably, the energy-consumption value is an overall average value of differences between gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels on the whole display panel.
Preferably, the energy-consumption value acquisition unit 63 is specifically configured for calculating an average value of differences between gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels in pixel units for each row by sequentially using display sequences to obtain the average value of the differences between the gray-scale values of the two adjacent pixels for the whole display panel.
In conjunction with
Following the turning on and the turning off of the switches sequentially of the channels 41, 42, 43, and 44 in the display panel 30, the four data RGBW are sequentially outputted along with the switches, namely, a green gray-scale data, a blue gray-scale data, a red gray-scale data, and a white gray-scale data are sequentially outputted.
For an example of two data lines, the gray-scale data acquisition unit 61 obtains respectively the corresponding gray-scale values of the pixels 31-34 on the data line 45 and the corresponding gray-scale values of the pixels 35-38 on the data line; for instance, a red gray-scale value of 255, a green gray-scale value of 0, and a blue gray-scale value of 255 are outputted on the data line 45 while a red gray-scale value of 125, a green gray-scale value of 75, and a blue gray-scale value of 200 are outputted on the data line 46. Next, the display sequence arrangement unit 62 sorts out a display sequence according to the grayscale values in descending or ascending order, and the display sequence for an output on the data line 45 is the green gray-scale value of 0 first, subsequently the blue gray-scale value of 255, and finally the red gray-scale value of 255; and the corresponding pixel unit on the data line 45 follows the GBR display sequence to perform the output operation; the display sequence for an output on the data line 46 is the green gray-scale value of 75 first, subsequently the red gray-scale value of 125, and finally the blue gray-scale value of 200; and the corresponding pixel unit on the data line 46 follows the GRB display sequence to perform the output operation, and thereby two display sequences of GBR and GRB are obtained.
The energy-consumption value acquisition unit 63 calculates respectively an energy-consumption value for the display sequence of GBR and GRB, specific details are as follows.
First, according to the display sequence of GBR, differences between gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels in pixel units for each row are calculated, and then an average value of the differences between the gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels in the pixel units for all rows is calculated. The average value is referred to as an energy-consumption value.
Next, according to the display sequence of GRB, differences between gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels in pixel units for each row are calculated, and then an average value of the differences between the gray-scale values of two adjacent pixels in the pixel units for all rows is calculated. The average value is referred to as an energy-consumption value.
These two energy-consumption values described above are compared, and the display sequence corresponding to a minimum energy-consumption value is set as an output sequence for all the data lines.
For example, after the energy-consumption values have been calculated, the display sequence of GRB has a minimum energy-consumption value. Therefore, the gray-scale values on all the data lines are outputted by following the order of the display sequence of GRB.
Preferably, the buffer module 53 includes a plurality of output buffers corresponding to the data lines. For example, in
By adding the optimization module, an optimal ascending or descending sequence is obtained after the three or four gray-scale values of each output of the source driving circuit have been compared, so that differences of voltages of the source driving chip can be minimized and thereby reducing the power consumption of the display panel.
Refer to
The difference between the second embodiment and the previous embodiment is that the source driving circuit further comprises a latch module 54 and a level conversion module 55.
The latch module 54 includes a plurality of latches corresponding to the data lines, and the latches are configured for storing the raw image data. An output terminal of a latch on one data line of per pair of the data lines is connected to an output terminal of a latch on a remaining data line of the pair of the data lines.
The level conversion module 55 includes a plurality of level converters corresponding to the data lines, and the level converters are configured to raise a voltage of the stored raw image data.
Furthermore, the digital-to-analog conversion module 51 is further configured to convert the raw image data, of which the voltage has been raised by the level conversion module, into a gray-scale image data.
The source driving circuit of the present invention can reduce power consumption of a display panel and thereby lower production costs by means of optimizing an output sequence of gray-scale values of a conventional driving circuit.
In summary, while the present invention has been described with the aforementioned preferred embodiments, it is preferable that the descriptions relating to the above embodiments should be construed as exemplary rather than as limiting of the present invention. One of ordinary skill in the art can make a variety of modifications and variations without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims.
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