Patent ID: 8169395
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: G09G,G11C

Abstract:
1. An apparatus of driving an LCD device comprising: a display panel to display images; a gate driver to drive gate lines of the display panel, wherein the gate driver includes a shift register comprised of a plurality of stages cascaded with one another; a timing controller to control the gate driver by generating clock pulses, having the different phases from one another, and a start control pulse, wherein the start control pulse is added to a second clock pulse among the clock pulses and is synchronized with a third or fourth clock pulse among the clock pulses; and a start pulse generator to generate a start pulse using the start control pulse and the clock pulse synchronized with the start control pulse, and to supply the generated start pulse to a first stage of the gate driver, wherein the start pulse generator is formed in the gate driver; and a reset signal generator to generate a reset signal using the start control pulse and the clock pulse synchronized with the start control pulse, wherein reset signal generator is formed in the gate driver, wherein the gate driver further comprises at least one dummy stage cascaded with the final stage of the shift register, wherein the reset signal is supplied to the dummy stage.