Patent ID: 9542899
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G09G

Claim:
1. A method of driving a display panel, the method comprising: applying gate signals to a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction, wherein the display panel comprises the plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a plurality of pixels defined by the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines, the plurality of pixels comprising common electrode contact pixels in which a common electrode is in contact with a gate electrode that extends from the plurality of gate lines; and applying data signals having a first polarity and data signals having a second polarity, inverse to the first polarity, to the common electrode contact pixels, wherein the data signals having the first polarity are applied to a same number of the common electrode contact pixels as the data signals having the second polarity are applied to, and wherein the applying of the data signals of the first and second polarities comprises repeatedly applying the data signals to the pixels, of the plurality of pixels, disposed in the second direction in the following order: the data signals having the first polarity, the data signals having the second polarity, the data signals having the first polarity, the data signals having the first polarity, the data signals having the second polarity, the data signals having the first polarity, the data signals having the second polarity, and the data signals having the second polarity.