71results about How to "Prevent image retention" patented technology

An organic light emitting display and a method of erasing an image sticking thereof are provided. In the image sticking erasing method, a panel driving circuit is driven by a logic power voltage during a power-off delay time to discharge pixels.

A pixel structure electrically connected to a scan line and a data line, includes an active device, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a capacitor coupling electrode and a charge releasing device. The active device is electrically connected to the scan line and the data line. The second pixel electrode is electrically isolated from the first pixel electrode. The capacitor coupling electrode is disposed under the second pixel electrode and electrically connected to the data line through the active device. The charge releasing device is electrically connected to the second pixel electrode. The above-described pixel structure is able to effectively solve the image sticking problem. In addition, further provides an active matrix substrate which is able to avoid the image sticking effect.

Provided is a liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate (6); a second substrate (7); a liquid crystal layer (LC); a first alignment film (606) placed on the first substrate; a second alignment film (705) placed on the second substrate; and at least one of: a transparent layer (610) contacting the first alignment film on the other side of the liquid crystal layer and being lower in volume resistivity than the first alignment film; and a transparent layer (710) contacting the second alignment film on the other side of the liquid crystal layer and being lower in volume resistivity than the second alignment film, wherein the transparent layer contains polysiloxane expressed by Chemical Formula 1:

where R1 and R2 each represent an alkyl group or alkoxy group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, or a hydroxyl group, and at least 30% of hydroxyl groups are contained.

To prevent image retention, the pixel circuit includes: a light emitting element; a driving transistor which supplies an electric current according to an applied voltage to the light emitting element; a capacitor part which holds the voltage containing a threshold voltage and a data voltage of the driving transistor; and a switch part which has the voltage containing the threshold voltage and the data voltage held to the capacitor part and applies the voltage to the driving transistor. Further, the switch part has a function which applies a constant voltage to the driving transistor before having the voltage containing the threshold voltage and the data voltage held to the capacitor part.

A method of preventing an image sticking for a liquid crystal display includes alternately providing a high gray-level picture and a low gray-level picture between any two adjacent pictures, wherein the backlight is turned off. Or, in the turning-off process of the liquid crystal display, the high gray-level picture and low gray-level picture are provided alternately to the display panel. Therefore the ion densities of the pixels on the display panel are adjusted to the same or approximately the same to present a uniform image.

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of reducing the probability of image sticking. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates. At least one of the substrates includes an alignment film and a polymer layer on the alignment film. The polymer layer includes monomer units derived from at least two species of polymerizable monomers. The at least two species of polymerizable monomers include at least two species of monomers selected from the group consisting of: specific polyfunctional monomers and specific monofunctional monomers.

An apparatus and a method for eliminating an image sticking of a liquid crystal display (LCD) are provided. The image sticking occurs when the LCD is turned off. The LCD includes a data driver and a number of pixels coupled to a common voltage. The apparatus includes a voltage detector and a voltage switching device. The voltage detector detects a system voltage of the LCD and outputs a control signal according to the system voltage. The voltage switching device is coupled to the voltage detector for selectively providing a data voltage or the common voltage as a driving voltage of the data driver according to the control signal. The voltage switching device is controlled by the control signal to provide the common voltage to the data driver when the system voltage is less than a reference voltage.

Provided are an active matrix substrate including plural pixel electrodes in a single pixel region and a liquid crystal display device (capacitor-coupled pixel division mode) including the same. The liquid crystal display device (capacitor-coupled pixel division mode) hardly causes image-sticking of sub-pixels even during double-speed driving. The active matrix substrate includes: a data signal line (15x); first and second scanning signal lines (16a, 16b); a first transistor (12a) connected to the data signal line (15x) and the first scanning signal line (16a); a second transistor (12b) connected to the second scanning signal line (16b) and a data signal line (15y) neighboring the data signal line (15x); and first and second pixel electrodes (17a, 17b) in a single pixel region (101). The first pixel electrode (17a) is connected to the data signal line (15x) via the first transistor (12a). The second pixel electrode (17b) is capacitor-coupled with the first pixel electrode (17a), and is connected to the data signal line (15y) via the second transistor (12b).

The invention relates to a display element having a plurality of display units laminated to each other, an electronic paper including the same, an electronic terminal apparatus including the same, a display system including the same, and a method of processing an image in a display element, and an object of the invention is to provide a display element capable of obtaining a display image with good display quality and improving user convenience, an electronic paper using the same, an electronic terminal apparatus using the same, and a display system using the same.

A liquid crystal display element 1 includes a G display unit 6g, serving as a first display unit, R and B display units 6r and 6b, serving as second and third display units, that are laminated on the G display unit 6g and have display regions arranged so as to correspond to a display region of the G display unit 6g, and a display control unit 29 that performs a reset process of changing the display region to the same display state on the G display unit 6g and then starts the reset process of the R and B display units 6r and 6b.

A display apparatus of the present invention is provided with (i) a second memory for storing therein data of one frame for a whole display area of a display section, (ii) a first memory, provided in addition of the second memory, for storing therein data of one frame for a partial display area, (iii) a control section for causing the data respectively read out from the memories, to be respectively written in the display areas to which the data correspond to, and casing the partial display area to move to an predetermined position within a display screen of the display section, when a predetermined time lapses. The display apparatus has an improved display quality by moving the partial display area without affecting an image displayed in an area other than the partial display area.

A plasma display panel includes a first substrate, and a second substrate opposing the first substrate. A plurality of address electrodes are formed on the first substrate along a first direction, and a plurality of barrier ribs are mounted between the first and second substrates and defining a plurality of discharge cells that are formed into a plurality of rows along a second direction which is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. Non-discharge regions are formed between the respective rows of the discharge cells, and a plurality of transverse barrier ribs are formed along the second direction respectively within the non-discharge regions. Each of a plurality of phosphor layers is formed in a respective one of the discharge cells. Display electrodes are formed on the second substrate. At least one end of each of the transverse barrier ribs includes an annular branched segment.

Provided are an active matrix substrate including plural pixel electrodes in a pixel region and a liquid crystal display device (pixel division mode) using the same. Proposed is a configuration of the liquid crystal display device of the capacitor-coupled pixel division mode which hardly causes reduction in display quality due to image-sticking of sub-pixels. The active matrix substrate includes: a data signal line (15x); scanning signal lines (16a and 16b); a transistor (12a) connected to the data signal line (15x) and scanning signal line (16a); a transistor (12b) connected to the data signal line (15x) and scanning signal line (16b); and pixel electrodes (17a and 17b) provided in a pixel region (101), the pixel electrode (17a) being connected to the data signal line (15x) via the transistor (12a), the pixel electrode (17b) being connected to the pixel electrode (17a) via a capacitor and the data signal line (15x) via the transistor (12b), and the transistors (12a and (12b) have identical W/L ratios of channels (each ratio of width W to length L of channel). The present invention can be configured with identical channel sizes without adjusting W/L ratios of channels of the transistors unlike a conventional configuration. Accordingly, deterioration of display quality due to variation in characteristics of transistors can be suppressed.

The present invention directs to a method an device for avoiding image sticking, the method for avoiding image sticking is to adjust a real common electrode voltage by difference between the real common electrode voltage and an ideal common electrode voltage, said difference is obtained by acquiring a real pixel electrode voltage on a panel; the device comprises a difference generation block for generating the difference between the real common electrode and the ideal common electrode voltage and an adjusting block for adjusting the real common electrode voltage, said adjusting block comprises an enabling block for generating a common electrode voltage adjustor enabling signal, a control block for generating a common electrode voltage adjustor control signal, and a common electrode voltage adjustor for adjusting the real common electrode voltage. With the method and device of the present invention, the coupling voltage's influence on a pixel electrode can be eliminated, and image sticking can be alleviated or avoided, and no impact on flicker is generated.

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that prevents a decrease in the voltage holding ratio (VHR) and an increase in the ion density (ID) in the liquid crystal layer, and resolves the problems of display defects, such as white streaks, variations in alignment, and image sticking. Since a liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has a feature of preventing a decrease in the voltage holding ratio (VHR) and an increase in the ion density (ID) in the liquid crystal layer, and suppressing the occurrence of display defects such as image sticking, the liquid crystal display device is particularly useful for active matrix driving liquid crystal display devices with an IPS mode or an FFS mode and can be applied to liquid crystal display devices such as liquid crystal televisions, monitors, cellular phones, and smart phones.

A display method for a color sequential display is disclosed. The display method includes following steps. First, a frame is displayed by four color signals of a red signal, a green signal, a blue signal and a compensation signal. Next, a frame period is divided into eight subframe periods according to a sequence. Next, three of the said four color signals are selected and arranged in a sequence. And then, the selected three color signals are respectively displayed at the first, the second and the third subframe periods according to the sequence and respectively displayed at the fourth, the fifth and the sixth subframe periods according to the same sequence. After that, the unselected color signal of the said four color signals is displayed at the seventh and the eighth subframe periods.

A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal disposed between a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate, a first electrode and second electrode which overlie the first transparent substrate and which are used to drive the liquid crystal, one or more layers overlying the first electrode, and one or more layers overlying the second electrode. The correlation between layers disposed between the first electrode and the liquid crystal agrees with the correlation between layers disposed between the second electrode and the liquid crystal.

A liquid crystal display apparatus includes synchronization signal extracting means for extracting a vertical synchronization signal from a noninterlace signal, first reversal signal generating means for generating a first polarity reversal signal that causes reversal of polarity of a signal voltage every frame for a switching device associated with each of pixels according to the vertical synchronization signal, reversal control signal generating means for generating a reversal control signal according to a result of comparison between frames of the noninterlace signal, second reversal signal generating means for generating a second polarity reversal signal by reversing polarity of the first polarity reversal signal according to the reversal control signal, and switching device driving means for driving each of switching devices according to the second polarity reversal signal.