A method to drive bi-stable liquid crystal displays and related drivers and displays using same are disclosed. The method and driver use additional high impedance states of the outputs to save power while addressing bi-stable and multi-stable liquid crystal displays. The invention implements high impedance states at the driver outputs, allowing non-addressed sections of the display to electrically “float” and by doing so reduces the required power to drive the display. Other advantages include improved visual effect of an update, such as reduced flash during the update, simpler operation, and better yields due to a larger operating window.

A display panel and driving method, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display region and a border region. The display region includes a plurality of data lines extending along a first direction. The border region includes a data output circuit, having an output end electrically connected to a data line. The data output circuit includes at least one gating circuit group and 2L first-gating circuits, where L is a positive integer, and L≥1. One gating circuit group is electrically connected to M data lines, and one first-gating circuit is electrically connected to N data lines, where M=N≥2, and M and N are positive integers, respectively. Each gating circuit group includes a plurality of second-gating circuits, and each second-gating circuit is electrically connected to P data lines, where N>P≥1, and P is a positive integer.

Methods of driving a display matrix and matrix waveforms for driving said display matrix between color states are provided. Additionally, reflective displays incorporating a waveform generator to generate a waveform to drive the display from a first color state to a second color state are also provided. The reflective displays can include a display matrix having a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes; a plurality of display elements with an actuator to modify a color of the display element upon actuation; a fixed voltage source; and a waveform generator for determining an amount of time to apply the fixed voltage to each display element to drive the display element from a first color state to a second color state. The reflective display can be based on moving colored inks into and out of the viewable area of each display element to control the color.

A display panel and driving method, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display region and a border region. The display region includes a plurality of data lines extending along a first direction. The border region includes a data output circuit, having an output end electrically connected to a data line. The data output circuit includes at least one demultiplexer and 2L first-demultiplexers, where L is a positive integer, and L1. Each demultiplexer group includes a plurality of second-demultiplexers. The plurality of second-demultiplexers share a group of clock signal buses, wherein a portion of the plurality of second-demultiplexers are connected with a portion of the group of clock signal buses, and a remaining portion of the plurality of second-demultiplexers are connected with a remaining portion of the group of clock signal buses.

A touch display control circuit, a control method, and an electronic device are provided. The touch display control circuit is configured to drive STN-LCD screens, TN-LCD screens and CSTN-LCD screens. The touch display control circuit includes a display driving circuit and a touch detection circuit. The display driving circuit includes a signal transmission line, multiple groups of signal selection circuits and a reference voltage generation circuit. The signal transmission line is configured to transmit a gate signal and a common signal. The signal selection circuit is configured to select a preset control voltage based on display control timing or touch control timing. The reference voltage generation circuit is configured to provide the preset control voltage. The touch detection circuit is connected to the signal selection circuit and is configured to perform touch detection based on the touch control timing.

A gray scale control system for a liquid crystal display (LCD) positioned in a vehicle may include a microcontroller unit, a filter, and a switching network. The microcontroller unit may include a PWM port that is configured to supply a PWM signal to a LCD segment of the LCD. The filter may be operable to adjust voltage applied to the LCD segment. The switching network may include a switch device that is connected to the filter. The switching network is operable by the microcontroller unit to electrically couple and decouple the filter between the PWM port and the LCD segment by way of the switch device.

A display panel driving and scanning system includes a timing controller to divide one frame period into first to third time periods. In the first time period, an image processing device calculates an overdriving signal for a current frame based on the current frame and a previous frame. In the second time period, the image processing device outputs the current frame, and a source driver charges the capacitors of the pixels in the liquid crystal display panel based on the current frame. In the third time period, the timing controller drives a backlight driving circuit to turn on a backlight source of the liquid crystal display panel for displaying the current frame.

A liquid crystal display apparatus including a gate driving circuit disposed on a liquid crystal display is provided. The apparatus further includes a data driving chip, disposed on the liquid crystal display panel, to apply data driving signals to data lines. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of stages connected to one another in parallel. The odd-numbered stages of the stages each apply gate driving signals to odd-numbered gate lines of the gate lines, in response to a first clock signal and the even-numbered stages of the stages each apply the gate driving signals to even-numbered gate lines of the gate lines, in response to a second clock signal having an opposite phase from a phase of the first clock signal.

A digital-to-analog conversion circuit includes: a decoder that, if set to a first selection state, selects two different reference voltages from a reference voltage group on the basis of a digital data signal and outputs the two reference voltages as first and second selection voltages, and if set to a second selection state, selects two reference voltages from the reference voltage group in a manner allowing redundancy and outputs the two reference voltages as the first and second selection voltages; and an amplifier circuit that amplifies and outputs a voltage obtained by averaging a combination of the first and second selection voltages with weighting factors set in advance.

A driving controller of a display device, the controller including a segment divider configured to divide the image signal into a plurality of segments and define a predetermined number of adjacent segments among the plurality of segments as a segment block, an image signal adder configured to add up a gray scale value of the image signal of each of the predetermined number of adjacent segments and output the added-up gray scale values, an average gray scale calculator configured to receive the added-up gray scale values and output an average gray scale value, a correction circuit configured to output corrected added-up gray scale values obtained by adding a weight value to each of the added-up gray scale values on the basis of the average gray scale value, and a driving frequency determiner configured to determine the driving frequency of the display device on the basis of the corrected added-up gray scale values.