Patent ID: 8077133

Claim:
A driving circuit that, in accordance with display data, outputs a gradation potential corresponding to the display data from an output terminal, the driving circuit comprising: a gradation-setting unit that, on the basis of a reference potential, sets a plurality of respectively different gradation potentials at a plurality of nodes; a plurality of amplifiers provided one-to-one at the plurality of nodes; a potential selection unit provided corresponding to the output terminal, the potential selection unit, in a data-writing period, selecting an objective gradation potential that corresponds to the display data from among the plurality of gradation potentials and outputting the objective gradation potential from the amplifier to the output terminal; and a control unit that controls such that, in a first period of the data-writing period, a first node of the plurality of nodes, which is set to the objective gradation potential, and at least one second node of the plurality of nodes neighboring the first node are short-circuited, and a second line, between the at least one second node and the output terminal, is connected in parallel with a first line that is between the first node and the output terminal, and in a second period subsequent to the first period, the short-circuit between the first node and the at least one second node is released and the second line is not connected in parallel with the first line, and the control unit effects a transition from the first period to the second period at a time at which the output terminal reaches a gradation potential corresponding to a third node of the plurality of nodes, wherein the third node is one of the first node and the at least one second node.