JPH0568215A - Liquid crystal television receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display the character data of a computer by a television display circuit by using the same clock as picture display in the case that the functions of a television receiver and an electronic computer are provided, and a television picture and the character data of the computer are displayed in common on a liquid crystal display panel. CONSTITUTION:In the case that the functions of the television receiver and the electronic computer are provided, and the television picture and the character data of the computer are displayed in common on the liquid crystal display panel 22, and in addition, the number of the scanning electrodes of the liquid crystal display panel 22 is smaller than the number of the scanning lines of a television video signal, and the television video signal is thinned and displayed, this liquid crystal television receiver is constituted as follows. A selection circuit which selects the television video signal or the computer character data in conformity to the switching designation of a television mode and a computer mode and inputs them to display drive circuits 21,24 is provided, and in the computer mode, the selected computer character data is displayed on the liquid crystal display panel 22 by generating it at the same timing as the television video signal, and executing the same thinning processing as the television video signal.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a liquid crystal television receiver having the functions of a television receiver and an electronic calculator, and displaying both a television image and computer data on a liquid crystal display panel.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a liquid crystal television receiver having the functions of a television receiver and an electronic calculator, and displaying a television image and computer data on a liquid crystal display panel, the television image and the computer data are switched. In the case of displaying, the clock of the television circuit does not need to be synchronized with the clock of the computer when displaying the clock of the television circuit.

However, in a liquid crystal television receiver, when a particularly small liquid crystal display panel is used, the number of scanning electrodes may be set to a normal half (120). When the number of scanning electrodes of the liquid crystal display panel is set to be small in this way, the video signal is thinned out for sampling in accordance with the number of scanning lines of the television video signal.
Therefore, the video signal is sampled once every 2H (H is one horizontal scanning period) by the chip enable signal CE, and once every 2H, a rest is performed.

On the other hand, when a computer character is displayed on the television display circuit, it is not necessary to stop the shift clock once every 2H, and if 25 characters are displayed on one line of one screen, then 1 Backplate period 25
It is sufficient to divide and output 25 character pulses.

[0005]

However, the digital data obtained by A / D converting the television video signal is 1 in 2H.
It is written in the shift register on the segment side during the time chip enable period, latched, and displayed for one backplate period (2H). Therefore, output of the shift clock of the segment side shift register is prohibited once every 2H. Therefore, there is a problem that a clock signal for character display must be generated in addition to the TV video display.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances and has a television receiver and an electronic calculation function, and when a liquid crystal display panel displays both a television image and computer data, an image is displayed on the television display circuit. An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal television receiver capable of displaying character data of a computer by using the same clock as the display.

[0007]

The present invention has the functions of a television receiver and an electronic computer, displays a television image and computer character data on a liquid crystal display panel, and displays the liquid crystal display panel. In a liquid crystal television receiver in which the number of scanning electrodes is less than the number of scanning lines of the television image signal and the television image signal is thinned out and displayed, when displaying character data of a computer, the entire horizontal scanning period of one screen is Instead of displaying the character data by using it, the display of the computer character data is stopped in accordance with the thinning-out process of the television video signal so that the output timings of the television video signal and the computer character data coincide with each other.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, a television tuner 11 selects a radio wave of a designated channel from the television radio waves received by the antenna 10, amplifies it, converts it to an intermediate frequency, and outputs it to the television linear circuit 12. TV linear circuit 1
Reference numeral 2 amplifies the intermediate frequency signal from the tuner 11 and also performs video detection, extracts a video signal and outputs it to the control circuit 13. The control circuit 13 performs display control of a television video signal, calculation of a computer circuit, display control, and the like.
The details will be described later. Further, the television linear circuit 12 outputs the composite video signal including the sync signal to the sync separation circuit 14 and the audio signal to the audio circuit 15. The audio circuit 15 detects and amplifies the audio signal from the television linear circuit 12, and drives the speaker 16.

On the other hand, the sync separation circuit 14 separates the vertical sync signal φV and the horizontal sync signal φH from the composite video signal and outputs them to the control circuit 13. A computer key input unit 17 and a power supply circuit 18 are further connected to the control circuit 13. This power supply circuit 18 has an operating voltage of A
The upper limit reference voltage VH and the lower limit reference voltage VL for D / D conversion are supplied, and the operating voltage is supplied to other circuits. The control circuit 13 converts an image signal from the television linear circuit 12 into 4-bit digital data D1 to D4 by an A / D conversion circuit provided inside and outputs it to the shift register 19, and also an internal circuit. Generate various timing signals φ1, φ2, φc, φF, φn, SR.

The shift register 19 sequentially reads and shifts the data D1 to D4 according to the clock pulses φ1 and φ2 output from the control circuit 13, and outputs the read data to the latch circuit 20. This latch circuit 20
Latches the data from the shift register 19 in synchronization with the timing signal φn and outputs it to the driver 21. Liquid crystal driving voltages V0, V2, V3 and V5 are supplied from the power supply circuit 18 to the driver 21, and a gradation signal generating clock .phi.c and a frame signal .phi.F are input from the control circuit 13. The driver 21 includes the latch circuit 2
A gradation signal is created according to the data latched at 0, and the segment electrodes Y1 to 150 of the liquid crystal display panel 22 are driven to display. In this case, the drive signal output from the driver 21 is inverted in synchronization with the frame signal φF.

The liquid crystal display panel 22 is shown in FIG.
As shown in (a), 150 dots of signal electrodes and 120 lines of scanning electrodes are provided. Further, the computer data is displayed on the liquid crystal display panel 22 by displaying 5 × 7 dot characters in a 6 × 8 dot character area as shown in FIG. 2B. Therefore, the liquid crystal display panel 22 displays 25 characters in the horizontal direction and 15 characters in the vertical direction.

The control circuit 13 sends shift data SR and shift clock φn to the common side shift register 23. The shift register 23 reads the shift data SR by the shift clock φn, sequentially shifts the shift data SR, and outputs the shift data SR to the driver 24. This driver 2
4, a frame signal .phi.F is further applied from the control circuit 13, and a liquid crystal driving voltage V0 from the power supply circuit 18,
V1, V4 and V5 are supplied. The driver 24 sequentially and selectively drives the scan electrodes X1 to X120 of the liquid crystal display panel 22 according to the shift data from the shift register 23.

Next, the details of the control circuit 13 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4 show the control circuit 13
The details of are divided and shown. In FIGS. 3 and 4, reference numeral 30 denotes a PLL circuit, which is a two-phase reference clock pulse φ.
1, an oscillator 31 for generating φ2, an oscillation output of the oscillator 31, for example, a frequency divider 32 for dividing a clock pulse φ2 to obtain a signal having the same frequency as the horizontal synchronizing signal φH, and a frequency division output of the frequency divider 32. And a horizontal sync signal φH from the sync separation circuit 14 are compared in phase, and a phase comparator 33 that outputs a signal corresponding to the phase difference, and an output signal of the phase comparator 33 is converted into a DC level signal, It comprises a low-pass filter 34 for adjusting the oscillation phase of the oscillator 31. From the frequency divider 32, in addition to the signal synchronized with the horizontal synchronizing signal φH,
A plurality of other frequency-divided outputs are extracted and input to the decoder 41.

The decoder 41 decodes the frequency-divided output of the frequency divider 32, outputs the chip enable signal CE every other horizontal cycle, and outputs various timing signals such as φn, φL, φD, and φh. The horizontal synchronizing clock φh output from the decoder 41 is a pulse signal synchronized with the horizontal synchronizing signal φH, and is input to the 525-ary counter 42 together with the vertical synchronizing signal φv sent from the sync separation circuit 14. The 525-ary counter 42 counts up in accordance with the horizontal synchronizing clock φh, and the vertical synchronizing signal φv
The count value is sent to the decoder 43. This decoder 43 decodes the count output of the 525-ary counter 42 and shifts the shift data SR.
And the frame signal φF.

Further, in FIG. 4, 44 is an A / D conversion circuit, and the A / D conversion circuit 44 has a television linear circuit 12
The video signal is input from the power supply circuit 18, and the upper limit reference voltage VH and the lower limit reference voltage VL are supplied from the power supply circuit 18. Further, the chip enable signal CE and the clock pulse φ1 are input to the A / D conversion circuit 44. A / above
The D conversion circuit 44 samples the above-mentioned video signal by the clock pulse φ 1 while being designated by the chip enable signal CE, converts it into 4-bit digital data, and outputs it to the latch circuit 45. This latch circuit 45
Latches the digital data from the A / D conversion circuit 44 in synchronization with the clock pulse φ2 and inputs it to the input terminals A1 to A4 of the selection circuit 46.

Further, in FIG. 3, reference numeral 51 denotes a ROM provided in the computer circuit section, which stores various control programs, and the stored contents are read out based on the address designated by the address designating circuit 52. The ROM 51 controls the address of the arithmetic RAM 53 according to the address designation from the address designation circuit 52, outputs various operation commands to the operation decoder 54, and further outputs its own next address to the address designation circuit 52.

The operation decoder 54 is an RO
The various instructions from M51 are decoded, the operation instruction is given to the addressing circuit 52, the read / write signal R / W is given to the arithmetic RAM 53, the addition / subtraction instruction is given to the arithmetic circuit 55, and the key input unit 17
A sampling signal or the like is output to the timing decoder 56 and a timing signal is applied to the timing decoder 56. The clock pulse φD is input from the decoder 41 to the timing decode 56. This clock pulse φ D is
It is a basic operation clock for the circuit section, and is a frequency-divided version of the clock pulse φ 2.

The timing decoder 56 decodes the signals from the decoder 41 and the operation decoder 54 to generate various timing signals. On the other hand, the data read from the arithmetic RAM 53 is the data bus D
It is sent to the arithmetic circuit 55 via B. This data bus D
An address designation circuit 52 and a key input unit 17 are connected to B. The arithmetic circuit 55 performs an arithmetic operation on the data from the arithmetic RAM 53 and the input data from the key input unit 17, and outputs the arithmetic result to the arithmetic RAM 53.

Therefore, the data output from the calculation RAM 53 or the key input unit 17 to the data bus DB is
Display RAM 59 sent to selectors 57 and 58
Input terminals I1 to I4 and I5 to I8. Further, the data from the selector 57 is input to the address terminals A1 to A5 of the display RAM 59, and the address terminal A6 is inputted.
The data from the selector 58 is input to A9. The display RAM 59 has a capacity capable of storing display data for one screen, that is, display character data of 15 rows and 25 columns, and the stored data is input to the address terminals A1 to A8 of the character generator 60. To be done. Further, the address terminal A of this character generator 60
The count data of the raster counter 61 is input to 9 to A11. The raster counter 61 is an octal counter for designating the raster address of each character, counts up by the shift clock φn, and is set by the shift data SR.

The carry output of the raster counter 61 is sent to the 15-ary row counter 62. The row counter 62 counts up by the carry output of the raster counter 61 and is reset by the shift data SR, and the count data is the selector 58.
Sent to.

Reference numeral 63 is a 25-ary column counter, which counts up by the character clock φL and is reset by / CE (symbol / indicates the inversion of the signal CE) which is the inversion of the chip enable signal CE. , The count data is sent to the selector 57. The selectors 57 and 58 switch inputs according to a command from the operation decoder 54, and a display RAM 59.
In the write mode, the input on the data bus DB side is selected, and in the read mode, the input on the column counter 63 side and the row counter 52 side is selected and output to the display RAM 59. The display RAM 59 and the character generator 60 are activated when the chip enable signal CE1 is given from the operation decoder 54, and the read mode or the write mode is designated by the read / write R / W.

The character generator 60 generates 6-bit character data according to the address input from the display RAM 59 and the raster counter 61, and outputs it to the parallel / serial converter 64. This parallel /
The serial converter 64 latches 6-bit input data in synchronization with the character clock φL, and outputs it bit by bit in synchronization with the clock pulse φ1. This parallel /
The bit data output from the serial converter 64 is read by the flip-flop 65 in synchronization with the clock pulse φ2 and sent to the input terminals B1 to B4 of the selection circuit 46.

The selection circuit 46 is a mode signal TV / CA for switching and designating a mode signal given from the operation decoder 54, that is, a television mode and a computer mode.
Input data is selected by L. That is, the selection circuit 4
6 is a latch circuit 4 when the TV mode is designated
5 selects the TV video signal sent via 5 and flip-flop 6 if the computer mode is specified.
The character data sent via D5 to D1 to D4
Output as.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. When the television mode is designated by the key input unit 17, a control command is output from the ROM 51 in FIG. 3 based on the key input and a television mode designation signal is output from the operation decoder 54. The television mode designation signal is sent to the selection circuit 46, which switches the selection circuit 46 to select the input terminals A1 to A4.

On the other hand, the tuner 11 in FIG. 1 receives the television radio wave of the designated channel, converts it into an intermediate frequency, and outputs it to the television linear circuit 12. The television linear circuit 12 amplifies the intermediate frequency signal from the tuner 11 and then detects the video signal to extract the video signal, and the control circuit 1
Output to 3. The control circuit 13 converts the television video signal into a 4-bit digital signal in synchronization with the clock pulse φ1 by the A / D conversion circuit 44. In this case, A
Since the / D conversion circuit 44 operates only during the period specified by the chip enable signal CE, the / D conversion circuit 44 converts the video signal into a digital signal every other horizontal cycle and outputs the digital signal to the latch circuit 45.

The latch circuit 45 is the A / D conversion circuit 4
The digital signal sent from 4 is clock pulse φ2
Latched in synchronism with and output to the selection circuit 46. At this time, the selection circuit 46 causes the input terminals A1 to A4 as described above.
The side is selected. Therefore, the video signal output from the A / D conversion circuit 44 via the latch circuit 45 is selected by the selection circuit 46 and sent to the shift register 19 as data D1 to D4. This shift register 19
Are clock pulses φ1 and φ2 for the data D1 to D4.
To read and shift sequentially. When one line of data is read into the shift register 19, the data is latched by the latch circuit 20 in synchronization with the shift clock φn from the control circuit 13. In this case, since the clock pulse φn is output every other horizontal cycle, the data written in the shift register 19 is latched by the latch circuit 20 at one line intervals.

The driver 21 is then driven based on the data latched by the latch circuit 20 and the clock pulse φc.
Creates a gradation signal, and the signal electrode Y of the liquid crystal display panel 22
Display drive of 1 to Y150. On the other hand, the common side shift register 23 sequentially shifts the shift data SR output from the control circuit 13 in synchronization with the clock pulse φn and outputs the shift data SR to the driver 24. The dust driver 24 sequentially and selectively drives the scan electrodes X1 to X120 of the liquid crystal display panel 22 based on the shift data from the shift register 23. The signal electrodes and scanning electrodes of the liquid crystal display panel 22 are driven as described above, and a television image is displayed on the screen.

When the liquid crystal display panel 22 is used as a computer display unit, the key input unit 17 is used to specify the computer mode. When this computer mode is designated, the operation decoder 54 outputs a computer mode designation signal to the selection circuit 46, and the selection circuit 4
6 is switched to the input terminals B1 to B4 side.

On the other hand, in the PLL circuit 30, the oscillator 31 generates two-phase clock pulses φ1 and φ2 as shown in (1) of FIG. This clock pulse φ 1,
One of the φ2, for example, the clock pulse φ2 is frequency-divided by the frequency divider 32 and sent to the decoder 41.

The decoder 41 has a clock pulse φD, a horizontal synchronizing clock φh, and (1) to (4) in FIG.
The character clock φL, the chip enable signal CE, and the shift clock φn are generated as shown in FIG. The character clock .phi.L is output once every six clock pulses .phi.2 are output, and its time width is one cycle of the clock pulse .phi.2. Further, the chip enable signal CE is output every other horizontal scanning cycle, and while 150 clock pulses φ1 are output,
It is held at a high level. Therefore, 25 character clocks φL are output while the chip enable signal CE is at the high level. Further, the shift clock .phi.n is output at a rate of one out of two with respect to the horizontal synchronizing signal .phi.H as described above.

The horizontal synchronizing clock φh is 525
It is sent to the advance counter 42 and counted. The 525-ary counter 42 is reset by the vertical synchronizing signal φv, counts the horizontal synchronizing clock φh, and outputs the count data to the decoder 43. The decoder 43 decodes the count output of the 525-ary counter 42 and generates the shift data SR and the frame signal φF. The shift data SR is generated at the start timing of the effective vertical scanning period as shown in (3) to (5) of FIG. 5 and is at the high level for 2H. Further, the frame signal φ F is a vertical synchronization signal φ F as shown in (5) of FIG.
The high level and the low level are alternately inverted every time v is given.

The shift clock φn output from the decoder 41 is sent to the raster counter 61 as a count clock. This raster counter 61
Is reset by the shift data SR as shown in (4) of FIG. 6, and thereafter, when the shift data SR returns to the low level, the counting operation is started by the shift clock φn. The count data of this raster counter 61 is
It is sent to the character generator 60 as an address.

When the raster counter 61 counts up to "7" and then counts the next shift clock φn, it outputs a carry signal to the row counter 62 and the count value returns to "0". After being reset by the shift data SR, the row counter 62 counts the carry signal of the raster counter 61 and outputs the count value to the selector 58 as a row address. Further, as shown in (2) of FIG. 5, the column counter 63 is released from reset while counting the character clock φL while the chip enable signal CE is output, and the count data is used as the column address in the selector 57. Output to. The selectors 57 and 58 perform a switching operation according to a command from the operation decoder 54, and display RAM
The 59 write address or read address is designated.

That is, when the operation data is input from the key input unit 17, this input data is sent to the operation RAM 53 via the operation circuit 55 and written in a predetermined area. The arithmetic circuit 55 performs arithmetic processing based on the data written in the arithmetic RAM 53. Then, the key input data or the calculation result data written in the calculation RAM 53 is stored in the data bus DB after that.
Is sent to the display RAM 59 via. At this time, a write address for the display RAM 59 is created in the calculation RAM 53 under the control of the ROM 51 and sent to the selectors 57 and 58.

Further, a write command is output from the operation decoder 54 and sent to the display RAM 59. When a write command is given to the display RAM 59, the selectors 57 and 58 select the data bus DB side, and the arithmetic R
Address data sent from AM53 is used for display RA
Output to M59. As a result, in the display RAM 59,
The calculation data stored in the calculation RAM 53 is written at the designated address. In the display RAM 59, a read mode is designated by an instruction from the operation decoder 54 after the above data is written.

When a read command is given to the display RAM 59, the selectors 57 and 58 are switched to the column counter 63 and row counter 62 sides. As a result, the data written in the display RAM 59 is the row counter 62 and the column counter 63.
It is read according to the address data output from and is sent to character generator 60. In this case, eight shift clocks φn are output while the row counter 62 designates a row as shown in (4) of FIG. 6, but as shown in (3) of FIG. In each backplate period, which is an output cycle of the clock φn, 25 character clocks φL are output in synchronization with the chip enable signal CE. The column counter 63 counts the character clock φL and sequentially designates the column address of the display RAM 59. Therefore, while the row counter 62 designates a row, the column counter 63 makes eight rounds, and the display RAM 59
One line of the character is designated eight times and read out to the character generator 60.

For the character data read from the display RAM 59, the character generator 60 outputs data for one line of the corresponding character, that is, data (6 bits) designated by the count output of the raster counter 61. Output to the parallel / serial converter 64. The parallel / serial converter 64 latches the 6-bit character data input as shown in (1) of FIG. 5 in synchronization with the character clock .phi.L, and thereafter, in synchronization with the clock pulse .phi.1 at the output terminal SO. More serially output one bit at a time.

The dot data serially output from the parallel / serial converter 64 is clock pulse φ.
It is read by the flip-flop 65 in synchronism with 2, and sent to the input terminals B1 to B4 of the selection circuit 46. At this time, since the selection circuit 46 selects the input terminals B1 to B4 as described above, the 1-bit dot data sent from the flip-flop 65 is converted into the 4-bit data D1 to D4.
Output as. Therefore, the data D1 to D4 are "1111" according to the data stored in the flip-flop 65.
Alternatively, it becomes “0000” and is sent to the shift register 19. Thereafter, similarly, the data D1 to D4 output from the selection circuit 46 are sequentially written in the shift register 19. The data written in the shift register 19 is latched in the latch circuit 20 in the same manner as in the above-mentioned television mode, and a grayscale signal of white or black is created based on the latched data, so that the liquid crystal display panel 22 displays. Signal electrode Y
1 to 150 are display driven.

Although the computer data has two gradations of white and black, in the case of a television video signal, as shown in (3) of FIG. 5, one backplate period X1, X2, ... By counting, a gradation signal having a pulse width of 0 to 15 is created. Further, the common side shift register 23 also reads the shift data SR from the control circuit 13 in synchronization with the shift clock .phi.n and shifts sequentially, as in the television mode. The shift register 23 sequentially shifts the shift data SR at intervals of 2H by the shift clock .phi.n, so that the driver 24 sequentially and selectively drives the scan electrodes X1 to X120 of the liquid crystal display panel 22 with a time width of 2H.

As described above, the computer data is also created as the data D1 to D4 at the same timing as the television image signal, and sent from the selection circuit 46 to the shift register 19.
As a result, the display drive circuit can display the computer data on the liquid crystal display panel 22 using the same timing signal as the television video signal.

[0041]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
It has the functions of a television receiver and an electronic computer, displays a television image and computer character data on the liquid crystal display panel, and the number of scanning electrodes of the liquid crystal display panel is less than the number of scanning lines of the television image signal. When displaying character data of a computer in a liquid crystal television receiver in which video signals are thinned out and displayed, 1
Instead of displaying the character data using the entire horizontal scanning period of the screen, the display of the character data is paused according to the thinning-out process of the TV video signal so that the output timings of the TV video signal and the computer character data match. Therefore, the character data of the computer can be displayed on the television display circuit by using the same clock as the image display, and the circuit configuration can be simplified.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a character configuration and a screen configuration when displaying computer data.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing details of a control circuit (a part) in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing details of a control circuit (another part) in FIG. 1.

FIG. 5 is a timing chart for explaining the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a timing chart for explaining the operation of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

13 ... Control circuit, 17 ... Key input part, 19, 23 ... Shift register, 20 ... Latch circuit, 21, 24 ... Driver, 22 ... Liquid crystal display panel, 30 ... PLL circuit, 41 ...
Decoder, 42 ... 525 Binary counter, 43 ... Decoder, 4
4 ... A / D conversion circuit, 45 ... Latch circuit, 46 ... Selection circuit, 51 ... ROM, 52 ... Row counter, 53 ... Arithmetic R
AM, 54 ... Operation decoder, 55 ... Arithmetic circuit, 56 ... Timing decoder, 57, 58 ... Selector, 59 ... Display RAM, 60 ... Character generator, 61 ... Raster counter, 62 ... Row counter, 63 ...
Column counter, 64 ... Parallel / serial converter, 65 ...
flip flop.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A television receiver and an electronic computer function are provided, a television image and computer character data are displayed on a liquid crystal display panel, and the number of scanning electrodes of the liquid crystal display panel is a scanning line of a television video signal. In a liquid crystal television receiver that is less than the number and is designed to display a thinned television image signal, a display drive circuit for driving the liquid crystal display panel and a television image signal or computer character data according to the switching designation between the television mode and the computer mode. A selection circuit for selecting and inputting to the display drive circuit,
A liquid crystal television receiver comprising: means for generating the computer character data at the same timing as the television video signal, performing the same thinning-out processing as the television video signal, and displaying the same on the liquid crystal display panel.