Patent ID: 6362803
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A liquid crystal display comprising a liquid crystal display panel including a signal side substrate having an arrangement of a plurality of signal electrodes, a scanning side substrate disposed opposite to said signal side substrate and having an arrangement of a plurality of scanning electrodes disposed in crossing relationship to said plurality of signal electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer positioned between said signal side substrate and said scanning side substrate so as thereby to define a matrix type array of pixels, and a signal side driving circuit and a scanning side driving circuit for applying driving pulse voltage signals to said plurality of signal electrodes and said plurality of scanning electrodes, respectively, for driving the respective electrodes, and for displaying data on the pixels of said matrix type array, wherein:(i) at the time of displaying data, during a selecting period in which selective scanning is performed for each of said plurality of scanning electrodes, said driving pulse voltage signals applied to said plurality of signal electrodes and/or to said plurality of scanning electrodes is corrected respectively by adding thereto a correction pulse voltage signal having a pulse width subject to an appropriate adjustment for each of said plurality of scanning electrodes and/or for each of said plurality of signal electrodes so as to optimize a level of effective voltage value applied to each pixel of said liquid crystal display panel; (ii) said driving pulse voltage signals include a data voltage signal applied to said plurality of signal electrodes for displaying data, and a selecting voltage signal applied to said plurality of scanning electrodes during said selecting periods therefor for selecting and scanning said plurality of scanning electrodes when data is displayed; and (iii) said correction pulse voltage signal includes a non-selecting voltage signal applied in non-selecting periods to said plurality of scanning electrodes and having a level different from said selecting voltage signal, and said non-selecting voltage signal is applied to said plurality of scanning electrodes for a first prescribed time period in said selecting periods for said scanning electrodes and said first prescribed time period is subjected to said adjustment for each of said plurality of said scanning electrodes.