Patent ID: 8803784

Claim:
A scanning signal line drive circuit capable of driving a plurality of scanning signal lines provided on a display unit of a display device, the scanning signal line drive circuit comprising: a plurality of shift registers each including a plurality of stages, and configured to sequentially shift a pulse supplied to a first stage based on a plurality of clock signals supplied to each stage to drive the scanning signal lines; and clock signal main lines including a plurality of signal lines configured to respectively transmit the clock signals, and provided on an opposite side of the display unit with respect to the shift registers, wherein the plurality of shift registers is disposed on one side of the display unit, the plurality of shift registers includes an odd-numbered stage shift register constituted only by odd-numbered stages and an even-numbered stage shift register constituted only by even-numbered stages, and each stage of one of the shift registers is configured to receive a part of the clock signals from the clock signal main line, and a remaining part of the clock signals from both an adjacently provided preceding stage and an adjacently provided succeeding stage of another one of the shift registers.