Patent ID: 8193999

Claim:
A display device comprising: a plurality of display panels which each have a plurality of pixels provided in correspondence with intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines and a driving circuit supplying image data to the data lines; and a control circuit which controls the driving circuits of the plurality of display panels, wherein panel characteristics of the plurality of display panels are different from each other and one of the plurality of display panels is set to a non-display state, wherein the display panel set to the non-display state employs a transverse electric field driving method of driving the liquid crystal molecules by a transverse electric field, wherein the control circuit includes a precharge circuit supplying a common precharge voltage to the data lines of each of the display panels, and wherein the precharge voltage is set so as to have a voltage value corresponding to the panel characteristic of the display panel set to the non-display state and employing the transverse electric field driving method, wherein the precharge voltage is set to a central voltage of an amplitude of an image data voltage in the display panel set to the non-display state.