Patent ID: 7629955

Claim:
An active matrix display apparatus, comprising: an active matrix display panel comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix in a row direction and a column direction, each pixel being constituted by a plurality of subpixels; and a drive circuit for applying a voltage to each of the subpixels so that a polarity of the voltage is inverted at a predetermined period in a row direction and inverted alternately in a column direction, wherein the plurality of subpixels are arranged in the row direction at a period different from half of the predetermined period of polarity inversion of the voltage in the row direction, wherein subpixel arrangement in a row is shifted from subpixel arrangement in an adjacent row by half of the period of subpixel arrangement, and wherein said drive circuit applies the voltage to the subpixels at a period of polarity inversion of voltage such that a common period of subpixel arrangement and polarity inversion of voltage in the row direction includes a period of an odd number of recurring units of subpixel arrangement and a period of an even number of recurring units of polarity inversion of voltage.