Patent ID: 6229516
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A circuit for driving an active matrix display including a plurality of pixels having switching elements, a plurality of first and second scanning lines and a plurality of first and second data lines, wherein the second data lines are located under the first data lines as a whole, the first and second data lines are coupled to the pixels via the switching elements and are disconnected from each other, and the first and the second scanning lines are respectively connected to the switching elements connected to the first and the second data lines, the circuit comprising:a signal supplier for supplying scanning signals to one of the first scanning lines and one of the second scanning lines; anda data supplier for simultaneously supplying image data to the first and second data lines,wherein the scanning signals are respectively applied from uppermost lines of the first and the second scanning lines to lowermost lines of the first and the second scanning lines in sequence, and the scanning signal for the uppermost scanning line of the second scanning lines is applied immediately after the application of the scanning signal to the lowermost scanning lines of the first scanning line is finished.