Patent ID: 6995741

Claim:
A driving circuit which drives an electro-optical device having scan lines, data lines and pixel electrodes which are specified by the scan lines and the data lines, the driving circuit performs: a scan line-inversion-driving in which a voltage level of a counter electrode in a scanning period is set to a voltage level different from a voltage level in a preceding scanning period, the counter electrode facing a pixel electrode with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween; a driving in an Mth scanning period in which the voltage level of the counter electrode is set to one of first and second voltage levels; a driving in a virtual scanning period coming next to the Mth scanning period, in which the voltage level of the counter electrode is set to one of the first and second voltage levels different from the voltage level to which the voltage level of the counter electrode has been set in the Mth scanning period; and a driving in a first scanning period coming next to the virtual scanning period, in which the voltage level of the counter electrode is set to the voltage level to which the voltage level of the counter electrode has been set in the Mth scanning period.