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Scanning-line drive circuit

a technology of drive circuit and scanning line, which is applied in the direction of pulse technique, electrical analogue stores, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of increasing the cost of the device, and achieve the effect of reducing the area of the substrate and reducing the manufacturing cos

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-12-01
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
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[0015]The scanning-line drive circuit according to the present invention requires no start pulse generation circuit. Therefore, the area of a substrate can be reduced, to contribute to a reduction in the manufacturing cost.

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This may be a factor in a cost increase of the device.

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[0070]FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing a configuration of a display device according to the present invention. FIG. 1 shows an overall configuration of a liquid crystal display device as a typical example of the display device. Application of the present invention is not limited to the liquid crystal display device, and the present invention can be widely applied to electro-optical devices including a display device which converts an electrical signal into a light brightness, as exemplified by an electro-luminescence (EL), an organic EL, a plasma display, and an electronic paper, and an imaging device (image sensor) which converts a light intensity into an electrical signal.

[0071]A liquid crystal display device 100 includes a liquid crystal array section 10, a gate-line drive circuit (scanning-line drive circuit) 30, and a source driver 40. A shift register according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is mounted in the gate-line d...

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[0150]In a preferred embodiment 2, the present invention is applied to a shift register in which a signal shift direction is changeable. The gate-line drive circuit 30 configured with such a shift register is capable of bi-directional scanning. Here, an operation for shifting a signal in a direction from the immediately preceding stage to the subsequent stage (in the order of unit shift registers SR1, SR2, SR3, . . . ) is defined as a “forward-direction shift”, and an operation for shifting a signal in a direction from the subsequent stage to the immediately preceding stage (in the order of unit shift registers SRn, SRn−1, SRn−2, . . . ) is defined as a “reverse-direction shift”.

[0151]FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the gate-line drive circuit 30 according to the preferred embodiment 2. This gate-line drive circuit 30 includes the unit shift registers (bi-directional unit shift registers) SR1, SR2, SR3, . . . SRn capable of bi-directional ...

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[0209]The bi-directional unit shift register shown in FIG. 12 can also be driven by using two-phase clock signals. However, in the preferred embodiment 2, the gate-line drive circuit 30 is driven by using the three-phase clock signals CLK1 to CLK3, because at least three-phase clock signals are required for controlling the unit shift register SR1 of the most preceding stage and the unit shift register SRn of the last stage. In this preferred embodiment, proposed is a gate-line drive circuit 30 capable of bi-directional shifting which requires no start pulse and can be operated by using two-phase clock signals.

[0210]FIG. 28 is a block diagram of a gate-line drive circuit according to a preferred embodiment 3. The clock signal generator 31 of this preferred embodiment generates two-phase clock signals CLK, / CLK having different phases, and one of them is inputted to the clock terminal CK of each unit shift register SR. In an example shown in FIG. 28, the clock si...

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Abstract

A gate-line drive circuit is driven by three clock signals of different phases, and includes a plurality of cascade-connected unit shift registers. In a normal operation, activation periods of the three clock signals do not overlap one another. However, the two clock signals of them are simultaneously activated at the beginning of a frame period. A unit shift register of the first stage is adapted to activate an output signal in accordance with the simultaneous activation of the two clock signals.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a scanning-line drive circuit used in an electro-optical device such as an image display device and an imaging device, and particularly to a scanning-line drive circuit configured with only field effect transistors of the same conductivity type.[0003]2. Description of the Background Art[0004]An electro-optical device including a scanning-line drive circuit connected to a scanning line and scanning pixels is widely known. For example, in an image display device (hereinafter, referred to as a “display device”) such as a liquid crystal display device, a gate line (scanning line) is provided for each of pixel lines of a display element (display panel) having a plurality of pixels arranged in lines and columns (in a matrix), and the gate lines are sequentially selected and driven in the cycle of one horizontal period of a display signal, to thereby update a display image. As a gate-line drive...

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IPC IPC(8): H03K5/135
CPCG09G3/3677H03K5/156H03K5/135G09G2300/0871G09G2310/08G11C27/04
Inventor TOBITA, YOUICHI
Owner MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP