Patent ID: 7602361

Claim:
A driving circuit of an electro-optical device for driving pixels arranged to correspond to intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, the driving circuit comprising: a scanning-line driving circuit that selects a first scanning line of the plurality of scanning lines and supplies a selection signal to the first scanning line during a first effective horizontal scan period of the first horizontal scan period, and that supplies a scan signal to the first scanning line during all or a part of a horizontal flyback period after the first horizontal scan period; and a data-line driving circuit and processing circuit that, during the first effective horizontal scan period, supply the pixels corresponding to the intersections with the selected scanning line with an image signal corresponding to a brightness to be displayed and that, during a first part of the horizontal flyback period, supply the pixels with an image signal for displaying at, or nearly at, a minimum brightness, and during a second part of the horizontal flyback period, supply a data line with a precharge signal for displaying at a gray level, the gray level being an intermediate brightness between white and black, the second part of the horizontal flyback period beginning at an end of a first selection signal and ending at a beginning of a second selection signal, no selection signal being supplied by the scanning-line driving circuit while the precharge signal is supplied.