US 12,106,730 B2
Ladder resistor circuit having correction resistors, and a corresponding display driver and display device
Kenichi Shiibayashi, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to LAPIS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Yokohama (JP)
Filed by LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd., Yokohama (JP)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/167,231.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-020260 (JP), filed on Feb. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0260476 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
Int. Cl. G09G 3/36 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 3/3696 (2013.01) [G09G 2310/027 (2013.01); G09G 2310/0291 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0276 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
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1. ) A ladder resistor circuit, comprising:
a ladder resistor that includes first to k-th (k is an integer of 2 or greater) resistors connected in series and that outputs a plurality of voltages obtained by dividing a voltage between a first potential and a second potential differing from the first potential by receiving the first potential at one end of the first resistor directly connected to a first node and the second potential at one end of the k-th resistor directly connected to a second node;
a first correction resistor having one end directly connected to the first node;
a second correction resistor having one end directly connected to the second node and another end directly connected to another end of the first correction resistor; and
an amplifier that receives, at an input terminal thereof, a potential of a connection point between the first correction resistor and the second correction resistor, and that has an output terminal thereof connected to a connection point between an r-th (r is an integer of at least 2 but less than k) resistor and an (r+1)-th resistor among the first to k-th resistors;
wherein the first correction resistor and the second correction resistor respectively have resistance values set such that a ratio of the resistance values equals a ratio of a series total resistance value of the first to r-th resistors to a series total resistance value of the (r+1)-th to k-th resistors, among the first to k-th resistors; and
wherein the r-th resistor and the (r+1)-th resistor are connected to a same node.