Patent ID: 7173592

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a panel comprising gate lines in a form of rows, signal lines in a form of columns, pixels arranged in a form of a matrix at intersections of the gate lines and the signal lines, and n (n is an integer of 2 or more) video lines for supplying video signals separated in n systems in predetermined phase relation; a vertical driving circuit connected to each of the gate lines, for sequentially selecting rows of the pixels; a sampling switch group disposed so as to correspond to each of the signal lines, and connected between each of said n video lines and the signal lines with n signal lines as a unit; a horizontal driving circuit operating on the basis of a clock signal having a predetermined cycle, for sequentially generating sampling pulses of which sampling pulses supplied to switches connected to an identical video line among switches of said sampling switch group do not overlap each other and sampling pulses supplied to adjacent switches overlap each other, and sequentially driving the switches, whereby the video signals are sequentially written to pixels of a selected row; and a clock generating circuit for generating a first clock signal serving as a basis for operation of said horizontal driving circuit, and also generating a second clock signal having twice a cycle of the first clock signal and twice a pulse width of the first clock signal; wherein said horizontal driving circuit comprises: a shift register for performing shift operation in synchronism with said first clock signal and sequentially outputting shift pulses from respective shift stages; and an extracting switch group for extracting said second clock signal in response to said shift pulses sequentially outputted from said shift register, and sequentially generating said sampling pulses.