Patent ID: 7184010

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate including first, second, third, fourth side edge portions; a second substrate; a liquid crystal composition which is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes which are formed above the first substrate; switching elements which supply video signals to the pixel electrodes; video signal lines which extend between the first and fourth side edge portions and supply video signals to the switching elements; scanning signal lines which extend between the second and third side edge portions supply scanning signals for controlling the switching elements; a first driving circuit which outputs the video signals; and second and third driving circuits which output the scanning signals; wherein the first, second and third driving circuits are disposed along the first side edge portion, a first scanning signal line extends from the second driving circuit to the second side edge portion, a second scanning signal line extends from the third driving circuit to the third side edge portion, in a first mode of operation, the second driving circuit starts sequentially outputting scanning signals to a first half of the scanning signal lines from a scanning signal line closest to the fourth side edge portion to a scanning signal line closest to the first side edge portion before the third driving circuit sequentially outputs scanning signals to a second half of the scanning signal lines from a scanning signal line closest to the fourth side edge portion to a scanning signal line closest to the first side edge portion, in a second mode of operation, the third driving circuit starts sequentially outputting scanning signals to the second half of the scanning signal lines from the scanning signal line closest to the first side edge portion to the scanning signal line closest to the fourth side edge portion before the second driving circuit sequentially outputs scanning signals to the first half of the scanning signal lines from the scanning signal line closest to the first side edge portion to the scanning signal line closest to the fourth side edge portion, and the first mode and the second mode of the second and third driving circuit is controlled by an instruction data.