Background technology
LCD is one of at present the most promising flat-panel display device, traditional LCD all is passive demonstration, and promptly transmission-type shows, only just can show adding under the condition of backlight, but the power consumption of backlight is more than the hundred times of the power consumption of liquid crystal own, very power consumption.Along with the development of liquid crystal technology, various liquid crystal materials emerge in an endless stream, and wherein do not need the reflective liquid crystal of backlight to rely on its low-power consumption characteristic to have absolute predominance.A kind of just reflective liquid crystal that adopted of smectic liquid crystal display screen---the reflection display device that need not backlight that the smectic phase liquid crystal is made in China's utility model patent " a kind of display control circuit " (patent No. is ZL200720190955.3).Smectic liquid crystal display screen is with its distinctive film surface characteristic and reflection-type displaying principle, realized a kind of need not backlight, simple in structure, the visual angle is extensive, picture is steady, the display device of real safety and environmental protection, power saving, and it has advantages such as long-term memory function and user's indefatigability, maintains the leading position in the ranks of display.
At present, all be to adopt sequential scanning type of drive line by line that column electrode, the row electrode of display screen are exported a fixed frequency, voltage magnitude, pulse image is carried out in the setting pulse of number to show to this smectic liquid crystal display screen.In implementing, reality can find, though this display image mode is simple, and, it exists image display effect to be subjected to the shortcoming that environment temperature changes to be influenced.
In certain temperature range (being generally-20 ℃ to 70 ℃), the smectic phase liquid crystal is the starchiness of thickness, but the smectic phase liquid crystal molecule of this moment is in a kind of yaw orientation driving condition.In the time of in being in a changeless temperature environment, by apply a fixed frequency, voltage magnitude and pulse anti-phase low frequency or the high-frequency drive pulse to number on column electrode, row electrode, the yaw orientation that just can drive the smectic phase liquid crystal molecule changes.Apply a fixed frequency, voltage magnitude and pulse and can make display screen be the vaporific shading state of corresponding shade of gray, apply a fixed frequency, voltage magnitude and pulse and can make display screen be the no shading pellucidity of corresponding shade of gray the anti-phase high-frequency drive pulse of number to the anti-phase low frequency drive pulse of number.Shade of gray is to be caused by the degree of deflection that Liquid Crystal Molecules Alignment is orientated, the frequency, voltage magnitude and the pulse that change driving pulse can make the oriented degree of deflection of liquid crystal molecule change to number, that is to say, under the constant situation of environment temperature, when display image, as long as frequency, voltage magnitude and the pulse of the pulse that control applies immobilize to number, the display effect of image just can be well controlled.But, the residing environment temperature of display screen is not changeless, the low more deflection of temperature is difficult more, the easy more characteristic of the high more deflection of temperature and the smectic phase liquid crystal has, therefore, when environment temperature changes, originally the frequency that configured, voltage magnitude and pulse just can not make the orientation of smectic phase liquid crystal deflecting element to expection to the anti-phase low frequency drive pulse or the anti-phase high-frequency drive pulse of number, and just display screen can not demonstrate the image display effect of original expection.In other words, identical driving pulse drives the smectic phase liquid crystal molecule under different ambient temperature conditions degree of deflection is different, can cause like this with environment temperature to change and frosted deficiency or the not enough phenomenon of transparency appear in display screen, show to occur exactly in the image that gray scale is lost or contrast descends.
Therefore, design that a kind of to make technical scheme that smectic liquid crystal display screen can the steady display image under the situation of variation of ambient temperature be the current problem that solves of needing.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of temperature self-adaptation drive method for smectic state liquid crystal display screen, this method can be regulated the voltage magnitude of driving pulse and/or pulse to number according to the variation of environment temperature, thereby makes image realize steady display under different temperature.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has adopted following technical scheme:
A kind of temperature self-adaptation drive method for smectic state liquid crystal display screen, this smectic liquid crystal display screen comprises first base layer and second base layer, between first base layer and second base layer, be provided with a mixolimnion that forms by smectic phase liquid crystal and additives mixed, be provided with first conductive electrode layer at first base layer towards a side of mixolimnion, be provided with second conductive electrode layer at second base layer towards a side of mixolimnion, first conductive electrode layer is made up of M strip line electrode that is arranged in parallel, second conductive electrode layer is made up of N strip row electrode that is arranged in parallel, N strip row electrode of the M of first conductive electrode layer strip line electrode and second conductive electrode layer is perpendicular, this first conductive electrode layer and second conductive electrode layer form the pixel array of one M * N, it is characterized in that the method comprising the steps of:
Temperature by the current environment of living in of this smectic liquid crystal display screen of temperature sensor measurement, determine and regulate the voltage magnitude of driving pulse and/or pulse according to the temperature range at the temperature place that records number, then the column electrode current to be driven on this smectic liquid crystal display screen and row electrode are applied driving pulse after the adjusting, to carry out the demonstration of image, wherein :-20 ℃ to 70 ℃ temperature range is divided into a plurality of temperature ranges, and each temperature range is to having a voltage magnitude and a pulse to number; Temperature is high more, voltage magnitude is more little, pulse is few more to number, temperature is low more, voltage magnitude is big more, pulse is many more to number, can both easily deflect under the driving to the driving pulse of number adjusting so that the smectic phase liquid crystal molecule is in each temperature range according to pairing voltage magnitude of temperature range and/or pulse, thereby image reaches the display effect of expection.
The number of described temperature range greater than 1 less than 256.
Described temperature range is that five equilibrium or the described temperature range of non-five equilibrium obtain.
Described driving pulse is low-frequency high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing and/or high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing; The frequency of this low-frequency high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing is more than or equal to 1Hz and smaller or equal to 100Hz, and its voltage magnitude is more than or equal to 30v and smaller or equal to 150v, and its pulse is more than or equal to 1 and smaller or equal to 500 to number; The frequency of this high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing is more than or equal to 1kHz and smaller or equal to 50kHz, and its voltage magnitude is more than or equal to 30v and smaller or equal to 150v, and its pulse is more than or equal to 1 and smaller or equal to 1000 to number.
The present invention has advantage: the inventive method has the characteristic of temperature self-adaptation, when environment temperature changes, the present invention can regulate the voltage magnitude of driving pulse and/or pulse to number according to the variation of environment temperature, the deflection that the smectic phase liquid crystal molecule can be expected under the driving of the driving pulse after the adjusting, thus make image can reach the display effect of expection.The present invention can make smectic liquid crystal display screen stably show under different environment temperatures, and the display effect of image is not subjected to the influence of environment temperature.
Embodiment
Describe the present invention below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.
Temperature self-adaptation drive method of the present invention designs at smectic liquid crystal display screen.As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, this smectic liquid crystal display screen 1 comprises that the material of first base layer 11 and second base layer, 12, the first base layers 11 and second base layer 12 is chosen as glass or plastics.Between first base layer 11 and second base layer 12, be provided with a mixolimnion 13 that forms by smectic phase liquid crystal and additives mixed, promptly mix with additive molecule 1 32 by the smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 shown in Fig. 5.This smectic phase liquid crystal is category-A smectic phase liquid crystal (Smectic-A) organic compound, as with silica-based compound, four cyano four octyl group biphenyl, tetraacethyl ester in last of the ten Heavenly stems four cyano biphenyl etc.Additive is the compound of band conductive characteristic, contains the compound of conductive ion as cetyltriethylammonium bromide etc.Be coated with first conductive electrode layer 14 at first base layer 11 towards a side of mixolimnion 13, be coated with second conductive electrode layer 15 at second base layer 12 towards a side of mixolimnion 13, as shown in Figure 2, first conductive electrode layer 14 is made up of M strip shaped electric poles 141 that is arranged in parallel, a strip shaped electric poles 141 is a column electrode, in this application, a column electrode is counted as delegation, second conductive electrode layer 15 is made up of N strip shaped electric poles 151 that is arranged in parallel, a strip shaped electric poles 151 is a row electrode, in this application, a row electrode is counted as row, N strip shaped electric poles 151 of the M of first conductive electrode layer 14 strip shaped electric poles 141 and second conductive electrode layer 15 is perpendicular, this first conductive electrode layer 14 and second conductive electrode layer 15 form the pixel-matrix array structure of one M * N, a column electrode and a row electrode form a pixel, pixel 2 for example shown in Figure 2.That is to say, display screen be M capable * N row standard, have that M is capable, N row, delegation is to there being N pixel, promptly there are N data in delegation.These two conductive electrode layers 14 and 15 and middle mixolimnion 13 formed a capacitance structure that area is very big.First conductive electrode layer 14 and second conductive electrode layer 15 are transparent, and it can be ITO (tin indium oxide) etc., and can use auxiliary metal electrode as required, as aluminium, copper, silver etc.
As shown in Figure 4, the present invention includes following steps:
Temperature by this smectic liquid crystal display screen 1 current environment of living in of temperature sensor measurement (time interval real-time or that set is interior), determine and regulate the voltage magnitude of driving pulse and/or pulse according to the temperature range at the temperature place that records number, then the column electrode current to be driven on this smectic liquid crystal display screen 1 and row electrode are applied driving pulse after the adjusting, to carry out the demonstration of image, wherein :-20 ℃ to 70 ℃ temperature range is divided into a plurality of temperature ranges, and each temperature range is to having a voltage magnitude and a pulse to number; Temperature is high more, voltage magnitude is more little, pulse is few more to number, temperature is low more, voltage magnitude is big more, pulse is many more to number, can both easily deflect under the driving to the driving pulse of number adjusting so that smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 is in each temperature range according to pairing voltage magnitude of temperature range and/or pulse, thereby image reaches the display effect of expection.In other words, environment temperature is low more, and smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 deflects just difficult more, at this moment just needs more external energy could drive smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 and deflects, the voltage magnitude of the driving pulse that just applies will increase, and pulse will increase number; Environment temperature is high more, smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 deflects just easy more, at this moment just do not need too many external energy to drive, only needing a little external energy just can drive smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 deflects, the voltage magnitude of the driving pulse that just applies reduces, and pulse reduces number.
In the practical application, the number of this temperature range is greater than 1 less than a round values of 256, and to be five equilibrium or non-five equilibrium-20 ℃ obtain to 70 ℃ temperature range this temperature range.In this application, temperature sensor is a prior art.
The driving pulse that row-column electrode applied on the display screen be can be low-frequency high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing and/or high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing.For example, when display screen is carried out the initialization cls, to the after-applied low-frequency high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing of row-column electrode elder generation, the high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing of display screen.Again for example, if the original state of display screen is vaporific lucifuge state, when then display screen shows piece image, to display screen row-column electrode applied is the high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing.When practical application, the frequency of this low-frequency high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing is more than or equal to 1Hz and smaller or equal to 100Hz, and its voltage magnitude is more than or equal to 30v and smaller or equal to 150v, and its pulse is more than or equal to 1 and smaller or equal to 500 to number; The frequency of this high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing is more than or equal to 1kHz and smaller or equal to 50kHz, and its voltage magnitude is more than or equal to 30v and smaller or equal to 150v, and its pulse is more than or equal to 1 and smaller or equal to 1000 to number.
In the reality, when image is shown, can adopt the existing type of drive of sequential scanning line by line (can be referring to Chinese invention patent " driving circuit for smectic state LCD display ", the patent No. is ZL200710304409.2) or other turntable driving modes.No matter adopt which kind of turntable driving mode, show that with display screen piece image is an example under vaporific lucifuge original state, the concrete steps of output driving pulse are on each row electrode 151 of the column electrode 141 of first conductive electrode layer 14 and second conductive electrode layer 15: in a Preset Time, on a column electrode 141 of first conductive electrode layer 14, load a high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing (Fig. 3 B shows an example of high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing), on the remaining row electrode 141 of first conductive electrode layer 14, load 0V voltage, simultaneously, on each the row electrode 151 on second conductive electrode layer 15, load a high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing, wherein: according to the image of smectic liquid crystal display screen needs demonstration, need the high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing frequency of loading on this column electrode 141 of the high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing that loads on the row electrode 151 on second conductive electrode layer 15 of driven pixel correspondence and first conductive electrode layer 14 identical on these column electrode 141 positions of first conductive electrode layer 14, voltage magnitude is identical, phase place is opposite, does not need the high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing frequency of loading on this column electrode 141 of the high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing that loads on the row electrode 151 on second conductive electrode layer 15 of driven pixel correspondence and first conductive electrode layer 14 identical on these column electrode 141 positions of first conductive electrode layer 14, voltage magnitude is identical, phase place is identical.The pulse of this high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing is determined according to the temperature range of the current environment temperature correspondence of living in of display screen number and/or voltage magnitude.The voltage magnitude of this high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing is less than threshold voltage magnitude (U
Threshold), and the voltage magnitude of this high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing of twice is greater than threshold voltage magnitude.For example, for the waveform shown in Fig. 3 B, then be U
m<U
Threshold, and 2U
m>U
Threshold
For example, pulse shown in Fig. 3 B is for regulating the pulse of determining according to environment temperature, the pixel that x column electrode and y row electrode are constituted need be driven, and the pixel that x column electrode and y+1 row electrode are constituted does not need to be driven, so, on x column electrode, load the pulse shown in Fig. 3 B, the pulse of pulse inversion position shown in loading and Fig. 3 B on y row electrode loads on y+1 row electrode and the synchronous pulse of pulse shown in Fig. 3 B (promptly with the pulse together of pulsion phase shown in Fig. 3 B).
Because x column electrode is opposite with impulse phase on y the row electrode, the pulse voltage amplitude that obtains after the superimposed pulses on x column electrode and y the row electrode is 2U
m, and 2U
m>U
ThresholdSo,, the arrangement form of the smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 that x column electrode and y row electrode pair are answered changes, and the pixel that x column electrode and y row electrode are constituted is driven.Specifically, when a pair of frequency identical, voltage magnitude is identical, the high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing that phase place is opposite is loaded into x column electrode respectively, (this frequency control to the high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing can make smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 that the high-frequency range of regularly arranged form takes place on y the row electrode, its pulse is determined according to the temperature range of the current environment temperature correspondence of living in of display screen number and/or voltage magnitude), and behind this positive negative pulse stuffing effect one Preset Time, the smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 that x column electrode is corresponding with the pixel place that y row electrode constituted becomes regularly arranged form, as shown in Figure 6, at this moment, the long optical axis of smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 is perpendicular to the conductive electrode layer plane, the ray refraction of each smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 of incident does not produce acute variation, light can freely see through x column electrode and y the pixel that the row electrode is constituted, therefore, x column electrode and y the pixel that the row electrode is constituted are crossed in the complete transmission of light, on macroscopic view, the pixel that x column electrode and y row electrode are constituted is the bright state of a kind of full impregnated by vaporific shading state-transition.
Because x column electrode is identical with impulse phase on y+1 the row electrode, the pulse voltage amplitude that obtains after the superimposed pulses on x column electrode and y+1 the row electrode is 0, and 0<U
ThresholdSo, the arrangement form of the smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 that x column electrode is corresponding with the pixel place that y+1 row electrode constituted does not change, the pixel that x column electrode and y+1 row electrode are constituted is not driven, the vaporific shading state of (display screen init state) when keeping display image not.The microscopic pattern of the vaporific shading state during the display screen init state as shown in Figure 5, smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 is out of order arrangement form.Particularly, when a pair of frequency identical, voltage magnitude is identical, (Fig. 3 A shows an example of low-frequency high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing to the low-frequency high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing that phase place is opposite, this frequency control to the low-frequency high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing can make the smectic phase liquid crystal molecule that the low-frequency range of out of order arrangement form takes place, its pulse is determined according to the temperature range of the current environment temperature correspondence of living in of display screen number and/or voltage magnitude) be loaded into first respectively, second conductive electrode layer 14, on 15, and behind this positive negative pulse stuffing effect first setting-up time, smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 in the mixolimnion 13 just twists, and forms out of order arrangement form shown in Figure 5.Because each of smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 (promptly passed through the long optical axis difference of each liquid crystal to diversity owing to incident ray, the anaclasis angle difference of each liquid crystal, thereby the refractive index difference of each liquid crystal), make the ray refraction of each smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 of incident exist very big difference, promptly in the mixolimnion 13 of this meagre thickness, optical index is producing violent variation, thereby strong scattering has taken place in light, present astigmatic effect, on macroscopic view, smectic liquid crystal display screen presents a kind of as the vaporific shading state as the acute-matte.And, though each row electrode all has pulse to load,, except x column electrode load pulses, because other column electrodes all connect 0V voltage, therefore, it is U that all pixels on other column electrode positions all are in amplitude
mPulse action under, these pixels can not be driven.
In the present invention, threshold voltage is smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 to be driven the magnitude of voltage that arrangement form changes takes place, and it is to determine according to the composition of mixolimnion 13 and thickness, is generally more than the 50V.In addition, in the present invention, a direct impulse in the low-frequency high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing adds a negative-going pulse, and to be called as a pulse right, and in the same manner, a direct impulse in the high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing adds a negative-going pulse and is called as a pulse to (for example shown in Fig. 3 A and Fig. 3 B).Corresponding time span can be calculated according to the frequency and the pulse that load the low-frequency high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing to number, in the same manner, corresponding time span can be calculated to number according to the frequency and the pulse that load the high-frequency and high-voltage positive negative pulse stuffing.
In the reality, according to showing needs, also can be mixed with a certain amount of dichroic dye in the mixolimnion 13, like this, smectic liquid crystal display screen 1 just can switch between the bright and coloured shading of full impregnated.For the smectic liquid crystal display screen 1 that has mixed dichroic dye, the smectic liquid crystal display screen identical (its image Display Realization principle is similar to the smectic liquid crystal display screen of above-mentioned unmixed dichroic dye) of its driving method and above-mentioned unmixed dichroic dye here repeats no more.In addition, can make the arrangement form of smectic phase liquid crystal molecule 131 that the part distortion take place by pulse voltage amplitude size, frequency and the time that control is applied on two conductive electrode layers 14 and 15, produce astigmatic effect in various degree, at the multiple progressive state that shows as the different gray scales rank between vaporific and bright two states of full impregnated on the macroscopic view, as translucent etc.
The present invention has advantage: the inventive method has the characteristic of temperature self-adaptation, when environment temperature changes, the present invention can regulate the voltage magnitude of driving pulse and/or pulse to number according to the variation of environment temperature, the deflection that the smectic phase liquid crystal molecule can be expected under the driving of the driving pulse after the adjusting, thus make image can reach the display effect of expection.The present invention can make smectic liquid crystal display screen stably show under different environment temperatures, and the display effect of image is not subjected to the influence of environment temperature.
The above is preferred embodiment of the present invention and the know-why used thereof; for a person skilled in the art; under the situation that does not deviate from the spirit and scope of the present invention; any based on conspicuous changes such as the equivalent transformation on the technical solution of the present invention basis, simple replacements, all belong within the protection domain of the present invention.