KR20090004233A - Apparatus for improving response characteristic of liquid crystal display - Google Patents
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Abstract
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE
Recently, with the development of information technology (IT), the importance of the display as a visual information transmission medium is further emphasized, and in order to preoccupy a major position in the future, it is necessary to satisfy requirements such as low power consumption, thinning, light weight, and high quality.
Liquid crystal display (LCD), a representative display device of a flat panel display device, displays an image by using optical anisotropy of a liquid crystal, and is a cathode ray tube (Cathode) due to thin, small size, low power consumption, and high quality. Ray Tube: It is being developed as a major product of flat panel display that can replace CRT).
In general, a liquid crystal display device is a display device in which image information is individually supplied to pixels arranged in a matrix, and a desired image can be displayed by adjusting light transmittance of the pixels. Accordingly, the liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel in which pixels, which are the smallest unit for implementing an image, are arranged in an active matrix form, and a driving unit for driving the liquid crystal panel. Since the LCD does not emit light by itself, a backlight unit is provided to supply light to the LCD.
Briefly explaining the driving principle of the liquid crystal display, the system supplies the digital video data, the vertical / horizontal synchronization signal and the clock signal to the timing controller. The timing controller generates a gate control signal for controlling a gate driver and a data control signal for controlling a data driver (TFT-LCD source driver IC) by using the signals input from the system. After sampling, the data is rearranged and supplied to the data driver. The liquid crystal pixels on the liquid crystal panel are driven by the gate driver and the data driver to display an image of the video data.
The response speed of a liquid crystal in a liquid crystal display device is an inherent property of physical properties and has been steadily studied in terms of design and circuit as a material for improving this.
1 is a graph showing the response characteristics of the liquid crystal. In general, the greater the voltage difference across the liquid crystal, the faster the response time of the liquid crystal. For example, the response time is 8.0ms when it is changed to 0 → 255 gray level, the response time is 11.7ms when it is changed to 0 → 176 gray level, and the response time is when it is changed to 176 → 240 gray level. The response time is 8.3ms when changing from 8.3ms to 176 → 255 gray levels.
In addition, a method of improving the response speed of the liquid crystal in a circuit, by comparing the gray signal level of the current frame and the gray signal level of the previous frame, by applying a voltage of a difference greater than the voltage difference between them for one frame Overdriving was performed.
2 illustrates one embodiment of the overdriving. That is, FIG. 2 shows an example in which the transition time is 11.7 ms in the case of gray that changes from 0 to 176 gray levels, and the response speed is improved by inserting 218 gray in the middle of the transition time.
Figure 3 shows another example of overdriving according to the prior art. That is, in FIG. 3A, when the gray level is changed from 0 to 176, as shown in the above description, overdriving is performed by applying a voltage having a larger difference for one frame, thereby performing the original transition time (11.7 ms). ) To some extent. Here, it can be seen that the backlight brightness is fixed at the maximum value '1' regardless of the change in the gray level.
In addition, in FIG. 3B, when the gray level changes from 176 to 240, as shown in the above description, overdriving is performed by applying a voltage having a larger difference for one frame, thereby performing the original transition time (8.3 ms). ) To some extent. Here, it can be seen that the backlight brightness is fixed at the maximum value '1' regardless of the change in the gray level.
As described above, in the liquid crystal display according to the related art, overdriving is performed by applying a higher voltage over a predetermined time when the gray level is changed, and at this time, the backlight luminance is maintained as it is. As a result, since the reaction rate is dependent on the response speed of the liquid crystal, it is difficult to cope with the response speed more adaptively.
In addition, there is a problem that artifacts occur when excessively overdriving to speed up the liquid crystal response.
Furthermore, when the gray level is changed to the maximum gray (255 gray) or the minimum gray (0 gray), there is a problem in that the overdriving cannot be performed at all and the response time cannot be shortened.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for improving the response characteristics of a liquid crystal in a manner of appropriately adjusting the brightness of the backlight instead of shifting the gray level as much as possible for overdriving in the liquid crystal display.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for shifting a gray level of digital video data as much as possible on a frame-by-frame basis, and outputting a dimming control signal for adjusting the brightness of a backlight in the frame corresponding to the shifted gray level. An image quality improving unit; A timing controller for outputting control signals for controlling the gate driver and the data driver, sampling the digital video data inputted through the image quality improving unit, and reordering the digital video data to supply the data driver to the data driver; A gate driver supplying a scan signal to a gate line on the liquid crystal panel under the control of the timing controller, and a data driver supplying data to the data line; And an inverter configured to control driving of the backlight unit according to the dimming control signal input from the image quality improvement unit, so that the luminance of the irradiation light is changed to correspond to the degree of transition of the gray level.
The image quality improving unit shifts the highest gray level to the highest gray level within one frame, and shifts the remaining gray levels by the same ratio.
The image quality improving unit may output a dimming control signal for maintaining the gray level of the previous frame as it is in the current frame and adjusting the luminance level when the gray level is shifted to the maximum or minimum gray level.
The maximum or minimum gray level is 255 or 0.
The present invention has the effect of significantly improving the response characteristics of the liquid crystal display by shifting the gray level as much as possible during overdriving and adjusting the brightness of the backlight unit accordingly.
In addition, by performing overdriving using the brightness of the backlight unit, there is an effect that the overdriving can be applied even when changing to the highest or lowest gray.
Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of an apparatus for improving a response characteristic of a liquid crystal display according to the present invention, as shown therein; The image
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When the gray level of any digital video data changes in the current frame compared to the previous frame For example, when the gray level changes from 0 to 176, the gray level is changed from 0 to 176 as shown in FIG. Change it to the maximum level (0 → 255) instead of using it. Instead, the dimming control signal CTL_DIMMING is output to the
In this case, the transition time is 8.0ms, which is much smaller than using the conventional overdriving as shown in FIG.
As another example, when the gray level is changed from 176 to 240, the gray level is not changed from 176 to 240 as shown in FIG. 5B, but is changed to the maximum level (176 to 255). Instead, the dimming control signal CTL_DIMMING is output to the
In this case, the transition time is 6.4 ms, which is much smaller than using the conventional overdriving as shown in FIG.
When changing to 255 gray or 0 gray, the conventional overdriving method is not applicable, but the present invention as described above is applicable. For example, if the gray level changes from 240 (previous frame) to 255 (current frame), the gray level is fixed from 255 (previous frame) to 255 (current frame), but if the brightness of the backlight is changed from 0.96 to 1, 3 ms (CCFL: 3ms, LED: 1ms) or less response time can be obtained.
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Accordingly, the
1 is a graph showing liquid crystal response characteristics in a liquid crystal display.
2 is a waveform diagram showing the principle of overdriving in a conventional liquid crystal display.
3A and 3B are waveform diagrams showing an example of overdriving according to the prior art;
4 is a block diagram of a response characteristic improving apparatus of a liquid crystal display according to the present invention;
5 (a) and 5 (b) are waveform diagrams showing examples of overdriving according to the present invention.
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41: system 42: image quality improvement unit
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45: data driver 46: liquid crystal panel
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