Patent ID: 6674422
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A method for driving an electro-optical panel that includes an electro-optical material, whose transmittance-applied-voltage characteristic has a linear portion and a non-linear portion, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, switching devices provided correspondingly to intersections between the scanning lines and the data lines, and pixel electrodes provided correspondingly thereto, the method comprising the steps of:determining, according to a value of a predetermined bit of image data to be displayed, which of the linear portion and the non-linear portion of the transmittance characteristic the image data corresponds to; supplying a first voltage to a parasitic capacitance of each of the data lines; charging a quantity of electric charge, on which &ggr;-correction is performed, into the parasitic capacitance of each of the data lines corresponding to a data value of the image data when it is determined that the image data corresponds to the non-linear portion; and charging a quantity of electric charge, on which &ggr;-correction is not performed, into the parasitic capacitance of each of the data lines corresponding to the data value of the image data when it is determined that the image data corresponds to the linear portion.