The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for controlling a display module, and a display device. The apparatus for controlling the display module includes a voltage sampling circuit and a data processing circuit. The voltage sampling circuit may acquire a data voltage and a common voltage and transmit the acquired data voltage and common voltage to the data processing circuit. The data processing circuit may determine, based on the data voltage and the common voltage, whether liquid crystal molecules are deflected abnormally, and control a main control circuit to restart if the liquid crystal molecules are deflected abnormally.

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a controller. The controller is configured to control voltages between the common electrode and pixel electrodes in first periods included in one frame period and control an operation of a light source in second periods included in the one frame period. The controller controls, in a first first period of the first periods included in the one frame period, the voltages between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes to write, following an immediately preceding one frame period, a video component of a same color as a color of a video component written by applying voltages between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes in a last first period of the first periods included in the immediately preceding one frame period.

The present disclosure relates to a touch driver circuit capable of reducing the distortion of a common voltage modulation signal caused by line resistance. The touch driver circuit may include a touch power integrated circuit configured to generate a reference gamma voltage set to output the reference gamma voltage set through a gamma transmission path during a display period, and generate a touch driving voltage to output the touch driving voltage through the gamma transmission path during a touch period, and a source-readout integrated circuit configured to drive a source driving circuit block using the reference gamma voltage set during the display period, and generate a common voltage modulation signal using the touch driving voltage to drive a readout circuit block using the generated common voltage modulation signal during the touch period.

There is provided a voltage supply circuit, in which a signal output end of a power management integrated circuit, a signal input end of a transmission branch, and a signal input end of a voltage reduction branch are coupled to a first node; a signal output end of transmission branch and a signal output end of the voltage reduction branch are coupled to a second node; the power management integrated circuit supplies an initial voltage to the first node; the transmission branch is coupled to a control signal terminal, and switch between a conducting state and a cutoff state in response to control of a control signal, and write the initial voltage into the second node in the conducting state; and the voltage reduction branch performs voltage reduction on the initial voltage at the first node to obtain a reduced voltage to be written into the second node.

A driving method and a display device are disclosed. The driving method drives the display panel according to a common voltage look-up table, and the common voltage look-up table is generated by a method including: driving a preset area for display with a preset area gray-scale value; shooting the preset area and obtaining a brightness and a flicker value corresponding to the preset area; adjusting the common voltage value multiple times, and recording the common voltage value when the corresponding flicker value is the minimum as the optimal common voltage value; adjusting the preset area gray-scale value multiple times, and recording a plurality of optimal common voltage values corresponding to the adjusted preset area gray-scale values; and generating the common voltage look-up table according to the multiple preset area gray-scale values and the corresponding optimal common voltage values.

A voltage control circuit provides a common voltage to a common electrode of a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes pixel units, each of which is coupled to the common electrode. The circuit includes an operational amplifier in a negative feedback configuration. The operational amplifier includes: an input stage, a gain stage and an output stage including a second NMOS transistor and a second PMOS transistor. A gate of the second NMOS transistor receives a first control signal, and a drain and a source of the second NMOS transistor are respectively coupled to a gate of a first PMOS transistor and a second reference voltage. A gate of the second PMOS transistor receives a second control signal, and a drain and a source of the second PMOS transistor is respectively coupled to a gate of a first NMOS transistor and a third reference voltage.

A display device is provided and includes a first substrate; a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of detection electrodes, the second substrate being located between the detection electrodes and the liquid crystal layer; a shield electrode apart from the detection electrodes in a plane view, the second substrate being located between the shield electrode and the liquid crystal layer; and a resistive layer overlapping the detection electrodes and the shield electrode, the detection electrodes and the shield electrode located between the resistive layer and the second substrate.

A display device includes: a first pixel transistor couples one electrode of holding capacitance to a first signal line; a second pixel transistor couples another electrode of the holding capacitance to a second signal line; a third pixel transistor couples the other electrode of the holding capacitance to a GND potential; and a driver that supplies a negative potential to the second signal line when the first signal line is supplied with a positive potential, supplies the GND potential to the second signal line when the first signal line is supplied with the GND potential, and supplies the positive potential to the second signal line when the first signal line is supplied with the negative potential. The first and second pixel transistors are on during a writing period and off during a holding period. The third pixel transistor is off during the writing period and on during the holding period.

The ambient illuminance and light geometry detection system includes a computing process including receiving a hinge angle between two displays of a foldable computing device, illuminance values from illuminance sensors of the displays, and screen activity of each of the displays of the foldable computing device, determining foldable computing device posture information based at least in part on the hinge angle and the screen activity of each of the displays, determining a user facing display of the foldable computing device based at least in part on the device posture information and the screen activity of the displays, assigning differential weights to an illuminance value received from an illuminance sensor of the user facing display compared to an illuminance value received from an illuminance sensor of the non-user facing display and generating an aggregate weighted average illuminance by applying the differential weights to the illuminance values of each of the displays.

The flicker performance manager disclosed herein implements a method including measuring a liquid crystal (LC) common voltage (VCOM) over a predetermined period of operation an LCD panel having a plurality of LCs, determining a shift in the VCOM (VCOM shift) over the predetermined period based at least in part on the measured VCO, storing the VCOM shift as a function of time in a table of an embedded controller, receiving a power-on signal for the LCD panel and adjusting a VCOM reference level applied to the LCs based at least in part on the stored values of the VCOM shift.