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Method to control a matrix display screen and device for implementation of said method
Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et Aux Énergies Alternatives
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Filing: 1989-02-14
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Granted: 1991-07-16
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Expires: 2009-02-14
Abstract
Abstract Method for controlling a matrix display screen enabling its contrast to be adjusted as regards a liquid crystals screen and its luminosity as regards a fluorescent micropoints screen, said method consisting of periodically applying line conductors addressing signals V1 having for a certain period a value Vmax into an absolute value to be applied to column conductors of control signals. Addressing signals are applied to the line conductors, the durations of said signals having a value Vmax and are partially recovered for two consecutive lines.
Inventors
- 👤 Jean-Frederic Clerc
- 👤 Denis Sarrasin
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 05:55
CPC Classifications
G; G09; G09G; G09G3/00; G09G3/20; G09G3/22; G09G3/34; G09G3/36; G09G3/3611; G09G2310/00; G09G2310/02; G09G2310/0202; G09G2310/0205
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
83 words
A matrix display screen of the multiplexed type comprising: line conductors and column conductors, an electrooptic material located between line conductors and column conductors, means for applying control signals to the column conductors, means for applying sequentially to the line conductors addressing signals having a value Vmax as an absolute value during a certain period, the periods when addressing signals have a value Vmax being partially overlapped for two consecutive lines in order to improve the contrast or the luminosity of the screen.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
83 words
A matrix display screen of the multiplexed type comprising: line conductors and column conductors, an electrooptic material located between line conductors and column conductors, means for applying control signals to the column conductors, means for applying sequentially to the line conductors addressing signals having a value Vmax as an absolute value during a certain period, the periods when addressing signals have a value Vmax being partially overlapped for two consecutive lines in order to improve the contrast or the luminosity of the screen.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
25 words
A matrix display screen of the multiplexed type according to claim 1, wherein the period is adjustable, when the addressing signals have a value Vmax.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
202 words
A matrix display screen of the multiplexed type according to claim 1 in which said means for applying addressing signals to the line conductors comprise: an addressing circuit A1 connected by connections to line conductors Li, i being an odd whole number so that 1≦i≦M, M, being the number of line conductors, an addressing circuit A2 connected by connections to line conductors Lp, p being an even whole number so that 2≦p≦M each addressing circuit comprising: a clock circuit delivering clock signals onto an output, an interlocking circuit connected by a first input and a second input, respectively, to the outputs of the clock circuits of each addressing circuit, and delivering rectangular signal onto an output, a control circuit connected by an input to the output of the interlocking circuit and by another input to the output of the clock circuit, said control circuit delivering addressing signals onto the line conductors connected to it; and wherein said addressing signals having a Vmax value, as an absolute value, during the period fixed by said rectangular signal, and further wherein periods within which addressing signals delivered by addressing circuits A1, A2 have a Vmax value is partially overlapped for two consecutive lines Lp, Li.
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