US 12,254,813 B2
Output buffer circuit, data driver, display device, and semiconductor device
Hiroshi Tsuchi, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd., Yokohama (JP)
Filed by LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd., Yokohama (JP)
Filed on Mar. 14, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/604,531.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-044390 (JP), filed on Mar. 20, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0321169 A1, Sep. 26, 2024
Int. Cl. G09G 3/20 (2006.01); H03K 19/003 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 3/2092 (2013.01) [H03K 19/00361 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0426 (2013.01); G09G 2310/0291 (2013.01); G09G 2310/08 (2013.01); G09G 2330/021 (2013.01); G09G 2330/06 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
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1. An output buffer circuit for outputting an output signal in which a binary input signal is amplified from an output terminal, the output buffer circuit comprising:
a bias part, generating a bias current; and
a buffer part, generating a mirror current of the bias current, receiving the input terminal, and generating the output signal,
wherein the buffer part has:
a first transistor of a first conductivity type, supplying a first power voltage to the output terminal in a case of becoming an ON state in accordance with a voltage of the input signal received by a gate of the first transistor;
a second transistor of a second conductivity type, supplying a second power voltage to the output terminal in a case of becoming the ON state in accordance with the voltage of the input signal received by a gate of the second transistor, the second power voltage being lower than the first power voltage; and
an output control part, transitioning a transistor in an OFF state between the first transistor and the second transistor to the ON state by changing a voltage of the gate of the transistor in the OFF state at a change speed based on a current value of the mirror current when the voltage of the input signal changes,
wherein, in accordance with a voltage change of the input signal, the bias part sets a current value of the bias current to a first current value throughout a predetermined period, and switches the current value of the bias current to a second current value smaller than the first current value in periods other than the predetermined period.