Patent ID: 6982692

Claim:
A method for driving a liquid crystal display having a plurality of gate lines and data lines intersecting each other, a matrix of a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a pixel electrode, a common electrode extended to each pixel, comprising steps of: dividing the plurality of pixels into a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group comprising a plurality of pixels adjacent to each other; applying a common voltage to the common electrode; and applying a data voltage of a positive polarity or a negative polarity with respect to the common voltage alternately to each pixel group per frame, wherein the polarity of the data voltage applied to the pixels in the same pixel group is the same, and a first distance between a first data line for a first pixel electrode of a first pixel group and a second pixel electrode of a second pixel group neighboring the first data line is greater than a second distance between a second data line for the second pixel electrode and a third pixel electrode of the second pixel group neighboring the second data line.