The present disclosure relates to an LED driving technology. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to increase the fineness of the gray scale without increasing a frequency of a clock by combining a plurality of driving current sources to generate a driving current supplied to one driving line.

A display apparatus includes a display panel including: a pixel array in which pixels including a plurality of light-emitting elements are arranged in a plurality of row lines and sub-pixel circuits provided for each of the plurality of light-emitting elements and providing a driving current to the light-emitting elements. The display apparatus also includes a drive unit is configured to: set image data voltages to the sub-pixel circuits of the display panel in a row line order during a data setting period for each row line; and drive the sub-pixel circuits to provide the driving current to the light-emitting elements of the pixel array in the row line order based on a sweep signal sweeping from a first voltage to a second voltage and the set image data voltages during a light-emitting period for each row line.

In one embodiment, a computing system may determine a target grayscale value associated with a target image to be represented by a plurality of subframes. The system may determine grayscale ranges based on the target grayscale value. Each grayscale range may correspond to a combination of zero or more subframes of the plurality of subframes. The system may select dot subsets from a dithering mask based on the grayscale ranges. Each of the dot subsets may correspond to a grayscale range. The system may generate the subframes based on (1) the selected dot subsets and (2) respective combinations of zero or more subframes. The subframes may have a smaller number of bits per color than the target frame. The system may display the subframes sequentially in time domain on a display to represent the target image.

A control method is provided for suppressing a flicker phenomenon even if frame periods vary in length. The control method controls an emission period and an extinction period of a frame period, which is a period in which one image continues to be displayed. When a signal indicating start of a frame period is detected, as the frame period, n subframe periods that configure the frame period, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 2, are sequentially started from the first subframe period, after a predetermined period of time has elapsed since the detection of the signal. All of the n subframe periods are controlled to have a substantially same length determined in advance and to have a substantially same ratio between the emission period and the extinction period, determined in advance, the ratio being referred to as a duty ratio.

A circuit device includes a scan line drive circuit that drives a plurality of scan lines of an electro-optical element. A field for constituting one image includes a plurality of subfields. The scan line drive circuit selects once a scan line group to be selected among the plurality of scan lines, in a subfield included in the plurality of subfields. The scan line group includes a scan line connected to a pixel circuit to which an i-th bit is written in a subfield, and a scan line connected to a pixel circuit to which a j-th bit is written in a subfield.

The present disclosure discloses a driving method, a driving circuit, and a display device. The driving method includes: acquiring driving data that includes N-bit data; dividing the N-bit data into M groups of sub-bit data in sequence, wherein each group of the sub-bit data includes (N/M)-bit data, M is a positive divisor of N, and M is not 1 or N; and driving, by adopting a corresponding driving voltage and corresponding driving time, a corresponding light-emitting unit to emit light, according to each group of the sub-bit data.

A display device, which fixes the magnitude of a driving current flowing through light-emitting devices in a low luminance region and controls an application period of the driving current, includes: light-emitting devices; a processor for controlling the light-emitting devices on the basis of a gray level required for the light-emitting devices in each unit frame; and a timing controller which divides the unit frame into a plurality of sub-frames and generates a scan signal corresponding to each sub-frame. The processor: when the gray level is greater than or equal to a preset value, determines a luminance value of the light-emitting devices on the basis of the gray level and turns on the light-emitting devices with the determined luminance value in all of the plurality of sub-frames; when the gray level is less than the preset value, determines a light-emitting period of the light-emitting devices on the basis of the gray level and divides, on the basis of the light-emitting period, the plurality of sub-frames into a first and a second sub-frame group; turns on the light-emitting devices with a preset luminance value in all sub-frames belonging to the first sub-frame group; and turns off the light-emitting devices in sub-frames belonging to the second sub-frame group or turns on the light-emitting devices with a luminance value less than the preset luminance value.

A light-emitting diode (LED) display driver is operable to drive LEDs of an LED display and has a display interval with sub-periods and a blank time, each sub-period having multiple segments. The LED display driver includes: a data input; LED channel outputs adapted to be coupled to LEDs to drive the LEDs; and blank time distribution circuitry coupled between the data input and the LED channel outputs. The blank time distribution circuitry operable to distribute the blank time as blank time portions added to at least some of the sub-periods. Each blank time portion is smaller than a duration of each sub-period.

A display device includes: first and second substrates with a liquid crystal therebetween; pixel electrodes and a common electrode provided to the first or second substrate; a light source including first to third light sources; and an image processor generating a signal to be provided to each pixel based on an input image signal. A frame period includes a first subframe period in which the first light source is on, a second subframe period in which the second light source is on, a third subframe period in which the third light source is on, and a fourth subframe period in which one or more of the first to third light sources are on. The image processor divides a gradation value into two values smaller than the gradation value, allocates one of the two values to the fourth subframe period, and allocates the other value to the other first subframe period.

A display driver for driving a display device including a pixel array is provided. The display driver includes a plurality of driving channels. The driving channels is configured to output driving signals in a pulse width modulation manner to drive the pixel array to illuminate in a first frame period which is being divided into a plurality of subframe periods. A first driving channel of the plurality of driving channels outputs a first driving signal in a first subframe period combination. A second driving channel of the plurality of driving channels outputs a second driving signal in a second subframe period combination different than the first subframe period combination. Each of the first subframe period combination and the second subframe period combination comprises at least one subframe period of the first frame period.