Hooking up LCD screens reclaimed from old camcorders to Arduino

Question

Has anyone had any luck using LCD screens reclaimed from old electronics with Arduino, such as camcorders etc?

My 8 yr old has an old sony handycam (dcr-trv103) in bits and now wants to use the LCD screen with the arduino. I'm not even sure how I would go about this. Any tips? How do I figure out 'what does what' in terms of the inputs? How would I drive this thing / what do I need to do to send visual images to it via an Arduino?

Here's the front and back panels of the LCD screen, and their hookups.

The Screen

Screen hookup

I'm assuming this is the backlight

backlight hookup

Note: someone identified this as a duplicate of another question about reusing a cellphone LCD screen. This question is specifically about reusing an older camcorder LCD screen. Also that other question has very little answers. I found the answers below useful and educational. Thanks all.

Answer 1

This is likely a type of TTL LCD interface. But it is nearly impossible to describe more as there are so many variations both in hardware and in timing. Likely a steady stream of Red Green & Blue binary data way faster than an Arduino Uno could possibly manage is required to create an image. For the necessary processing power, you would have to utilize one of the top end Arduino boards. Even then, software to create the steady stream of binary data for this particular LCD is still required. Also, there are hardly no standards beyond saying the LCD is a TTL or LVDS. Which means hours spent on developing software for this LCD will likely only work for this LCD.

It would be far easier to just buy an LCD and interface board known to work together. If you are using an Arduino Uno, there is not much processing power beyond saying "I want a circle here" or "I want a line there". Fortunately, there are such COTS parts available. Here is a tutorial describing such a device connected to an Arduino Uno.