Patent ID: 8253670
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a display panel which includes a plurality of video signal lines, a plurality of scanning signal lines, and pixels, each pixel including a switching element and a pixel electrode and forming a pixel capacitance by the pixel electrode, a liquid crystal material, and a common electrode, the display panel having a display region which is constituted by arranging a plurality of pixels in an extending direction of the video signal lines and an extending direction of the scanning signal lines respectively, the display panel being formed of a pair of substrates, both the pixel electrodes and the common electrodes of the pixels being formed on one substrate and operated based on In-Plane Switching method; a first drive circuit which inputs a video signal to the plurality of video signal lines; a second drive circuit which inputs a scanning signal sequentially to the plurality of scanning signal lines; and a common voltage control circuit which controls a potential of a common voltage inputted to the common electrodes, and wherein the common electrodes are formed in a strip shape without slits between two scanning signal lines which are arranged close to each other with one pixel row sandwiched therebetween, the plurality of video signal lines is arranged such that one video signal line is allocated to two neighboring pixel electrodes with respect to the plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a row in the extending direction of the scanning signal lines, the plurality of scanning signal lines is arranged such that two scanning signal lines are arranged between two neighboring pixel electrodes arranged in the extending direction of the video signal lines and, at the same time, two scanning signal lines are arranged to sandwich the plurality of pixel electrodes with respect to the plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a row in the extending direction of the scanning signal lines, the plurality of pixels which is arranged in a row in the extending direction of the scanning signal lines is configured such that the pixel which connects the switching element thereof to the first scanning signal line out of two scanning signal lines which are arranged to sandwich the pixel electrodes of the plurality of pixels, and the pixel which connects the switching element thereof to the second scanning signal line out of two scanning signal lines are alternately arranged, two neighboring pixels which sandwich one video signal line therebetween are configured such that the switching element of each pixel is connected to one video signal line and, at the same time, a position of the pixel which connects the switching element thereof to the first scanning signal line out of two scanning signal lines and a position of the pixel which connects the switching element thereof to the second scanning signal line out of two scanning signal lines are inverted for every pair of two pixels arranged in the extending direction of the video signal lines, the common voltage control circuit alternately changes over the potential of the common voltage between a first potential and a second potential higher than the first potential each time the scanning signal line to which the scanning signal is inputted from the second drive circuit is changed, and inputs the common voltage into the common electrodes, and the first drive circuit is configured such that when the common voltage of the first potential is inputted to the common electrode, a video signal of a potential equal to or higher than the first potential is inputted to the first drive circuit, and when the common voltage of the second potential is inputted to the common electrode, a video signal of a potential equal to or lower than the second potential is inputted to the first drive circuit.