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Image display device

A technology for image display devices and gate drive circuits, which is applied in the direction of static indicators, digital memory information, instruments, etc., can solve the problem of increasing the scale of gate line circuits, increasing the frame size of image display panels, and the difficulty in realizing gate Line scan switching function and other issues

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-01-16
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
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[0013] As can be seen from the above, in the circuit structure shown in FIG. 2 of Patent Document 1, it is difficult to realize the scan switching function of the gate line. Even if these functions are assumed to be realized, the threshold voltage of the a-SiTFT element must be additionally compensated. (Vth) shifted circuit, resulting in a corresponding increase in the size of the gate line circuit
[0014] If the circuit scale of the gate driving circuit is increased in this way, the gate driving circuit is arranged around the image display panel, and the frame size of the image display panel increases.

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[0040] The feature of this embodiment is that by arranging the first gate driving circuit which scans the gate lines in one direction on the substrate, furthermore, on the same substrate, the second gate driving circuit which scans the gate lines in one direction is placed on the same substrate. The pole driving circuit is configured to scan the gate lines along a different scanning direction from that of the first gate driving circuit, that is, to perform bidirectional scanning. Hereinafter, this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

[0041] FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of a liquid crystal display device according to this embodiment. In FIG. 1 , a pixel array 1 and first and second gate driver circuits 2 and 3 are formed on a glass substrate among TFT substrates that constitute one substrate of a liquid crystal panel. Furthermore, the first and second gate drive circuits 2 and 3 are configured using a-SiT...

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[0078] This embodiment is that a power switching circuit is added to the image display device of the first embodiment. The power supply switching circuit switches the above-mentioned power supply voltage according to an external signal, so as to apply voltage for the first and second gate driving circuits to one gate driving circuit controlled to be in an active state in the first and second gate driving circuits. The supply voltage of the power circuit. On the other hand, the power switching circuit fixes all or part of its power supply to the gate drive circuit GND or other fixed voltage VSS for another gate drive circuit that is controlled not to operate, based on the above-mentioned external signal. Hereinafter, the present embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.

[0079] FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a liquid crystal display device according to this embodiment. The difference from FIG. 1 is that, as already described, ...

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[0087] FIG. 9 is a circuit diagram showing the configuration of the image display device of the present embodiment. The device of FIG. 9 is characterized in that the shift register circuit in the image display device of FIG. 1 described in the first embodiment is replaced with the shift register circuit shown in FIG. 2 of Patent Document 1.

[0088] Therefore, in the device of FIG. 9 , in order to reset the gate output of the last-stage shift register SRCn, the number of stages of each shift register of the first and second gate drive circuits 2 and 3 is changed from n stages to ( n+1) level (increase 1 level). That is, in each gate drive circuit 2, 3, only the output terminal OUT of the shift register SRCn+1 of the (n+1)th stage is connected only to the reset terminal CT of the shift register SRCn of the final stage. Furthermore, in the device shown in FIG. 9 , two dummy gate lines G0 and Gn+1 are arranged in the pixel array 1, and the two dummy gate lines G0 and Gn+1 are fi...

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A first gate driver circuit scans gate lines in one direction, and has its gate pulse output stages capable of having high impedance in response to an external signal. A second gate driver circuit scans gate lines in one but different direction from the first gate driver circuit, and has its gate pulse output stages capable of having high impedance in response to the external signal. When one of the first and second gate driver circuits is operating under the control of the external signal, the respective gate pulse output stages of the other gate driver circuit have high impedance. Consequently, a plurality of shifting techniques such as a scan direction switching function of gate lines in an image display device including a-Si gate driver circuits can be implemented.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a technology for driving an image display device incorporating a gate drive circuit (hereinafter referred to as a-Si gate drive circuit) composed of amorphous silicon TFT (a-SiTFT). Background technique [0002] FIG. 2 of Patent Document 1 shows, as a block diagram, a configuration example of a gate driver IC composed of a shift register for driving gate lines of a liquid crystal panel or an organic EL display panel. The shift register is again composed of a-SiTFT. In this circuit structure, the output of the (n-1)th stage shift register is used as the input of the nth stage shift register, and in order to reset the output of the nth stage shift register, the (n+1)th stage is used ) stage shift register output. [0003] [Patent Document 1] JP-A-2004-246358 [0004] [Patent Document 2] JP-A-11-265162 [0005] [Patent Document 3] JP-A-11-133930 [0006] [Patent Document 4] JP-A-2000-75830 [0007] [Patent Document 5...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G09G3/36G09G3/32G09G3/20G02F1/133
CPCG09G3/3677G09G2310/0283G09G3/20G09G3/30G09G3/36G11C19/00
Inventor 森成一郎
Owner MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP