Patent ID: 6747616
Filing Date: 2004-06-08
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A display panel driving method for driving a display panel having a plurality of pixel cells arranged in matrix in accordance with a video signal, said method comprising:performing, in each of a plurality of divisional display periods of a unit display period in said video signal, a pixel data writing process for setting each of said pixel cells to either a light emitting cell or a non-light emitting cell in accordance with pixel data corresponding to said video signal to write the pixel data, and a light emission sustain process for causing only said light emitting cells to emit light a number of light emissions allocated thereto corresponding to a weighting factor applied to each of said divisional display periods; obtaining a luminance distribution of said video signal every display line on said display panel; and changing said number of light emissions allocated to said divisional display period every display line in accordance with said luminance distribution.